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38.9% of voters in Rhode Island did in 2016, and 41.6% in 2024.

This is the problem with using the electoral college maps as some sort of morality guide. You (general you) ignore the good people in “red” states and the shitty ones in “blue” states.

bigots collectively crashed out at the chance of losing power and tore the country apart. that's what happened. you don't gotta accept a little nibble of the blame for that to relate to mfs.

even the looniest tumblr woke war paled in comparison to the 2000s conservative family values push. the notion that internet blue hairs got anywhere close to the right wing culture war dominance of the 70s, 80s, 00s... is not just ahistorical but strategic misinfo. stop the fuck sayin it.

i don't like how many people accepted the 'we got here cause cancel culture went too far' reading on the last decade. that's right wing recruitment rhetoric. there was/is 10x more power in complaining about being criticized than doing the criticism.

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

As ICE continues to terrorize our communities, kidnapping our neighbors, 9 cyclists came together this morning at 6am to buyout 5 vendors and donate the food to a local shelter. They went home safe, hungry ppl were fed, this is #BikeChi ✊🏽

approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

The general public does not have a detailed understand of court procedures. They will see this headline and think it means something.

Journalists can do better than this.

It is possible that the court will hear this case!

But the petition was filed months ago and was widely reported on at the time. It has now been set for conference.

This is not breaking news that should have the public panicking; it is a procedural inevitability.

This is bizarre framing.

SCOTUS “officially considering taking up a case” is just an incendiary way to say, “someone filed a cert petition in this case.”

The court “officially considers” every cert petition. Most of them are denied. 1/

it's probably more productive to stick to the big picture: a class of armed foot soldiers is being hastily trained and deployed to kidnap people off the streets

the question of whether 6 mph is fast (a: it is to some, not to others) is immaterial to the question of what we're gonna do about that

the minute you get sucked into an argument about what unfit losers ICE agents are is the same minute you reveal you've swallowed the propaganda that physical dominance is the rightful basis of social power

Lmfao Home Depot is only in red states? Don’t let the folks in LA hear him say that

Screenshot of lyrics for “Washington On Your Side” from the musical Hamilton Our poorest citizens, our farmers, live ration to ration As Wall Street robs 'em blind in search of chips to cash in This prick is asking for someone to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on his vacuous mask

It’s a mangled lyric from Hamilton

this is part and parcel with my annoyance that the only unions which matter to a certain kind of commenter are the teamsters and the UAW, even though the NEA, the AFSCME and the SEIU are all larger than either

Feel like some of the defensiveness wrt Platner is due to how long our election cycles run (and ever creeping longer) - where a year out from an election (and several months out from the primary) feels like too little time to find a new candidate

With tears in their eyes? While shaking his hand?

Rich white men arguing for low taxes and now safety net versus working class white men arguing for higher taxes and a stronger safety net for white men just as god intended. And at the end of the day of respectful disagreement we'd all get a beer together and bask in our whiteness.

Look I am just saying that if we simply threw women, Black folks, immigrants, LGBTQ people, Muslims and other minorities under the bus we could go back to discussing the class-based white people politics that I, a white male pundit, am most comfortable discussing. Is that so hard?

And not just even caring about healthcare beyond the cost of it - to these guys the government banning certain types of healthcare is a distraction

Honestly we need to talk a lot more about these ‘fiscally left, socially conservative type’ guys
And how saying stuff like “no war but the class war” gives them cover to call themselves leftists despite being reprehensible people when talking about anything other than taxes/min wage/healthcare

the margins are alot narrower on voting than people who want to say all rural people deserve hate want to acknowledge.
you'll also notice many metropolitan areas don't end up going blue by giant margins either

I think people get so excited when a white, straight, cis, military, redneck-looking dude say he’s a leftist that *instantly* nothing else matters & they assume he’ll automatically win.

Just because he said he was a communist on Reddit doesn’t make him the reincarnation of Eugene Debs.

The reality is a lot of people who support decent class policies have racist backgrounds and it makes me wonder how the "it's not race, it's class" progressive and leftist discourse may be part of the problem. Anyways, racial justice work needs to be central to class politics.

Good 🧵

And ignoring the issues of anyone other than white men or brushing them off as distractions or luxury concerns is a problem.

And all of these factors being ignored in favor of “well *I* wouldn’t get a Nazi tattoo” is so annoying and tedious

And white supremacy doesn’t just stop existing in states that are 95% white - it just means you won’t see the racism so overtly
And a guy saying the right things about economic inequality can still be racist! And sexist! And transphobic! Because white men are not the only people in the working class

The amount of people who reacted to the Platner news by saying “well I’m a white man/have friends who are, and I/they never had a Nazi phase” is a little bit frustrating

Like, great? You managed to avoid being/knowing a shitty person. Doesn’t make the internet radicalization pipelines not exist