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I'm sure it'll be fine
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
no one who's ever been stressed about paying next month's rent has to ask these questions, as the answers are fairly obvious
also, “politics is bottom/top not left/right” might work as a slogan but is shit as analysis. who is the bottom? who is the top? who constitutes an “elite” and who belongs to “the people?” these are important questions that have to be answered.
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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I have not stopped thinking about this video since I watched it
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."

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November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."

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November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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and the lifetime achievement award for Most Salient Political Song of the 21st Century goes to... [opening envelope, frowning deeply, triple-checking] ...'reeko' by nofx"
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Thom Yorke shut the fuck up challenge istg
October 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
if I'm following lib logic here: not okay to protest Kamala while she's VP because that helps Trump, and it's not okay to protest after the election because Trump is in power, not her. I'm curious about the secret time window when it's okay to protest a VP or ex-VP for their role in a genocide?
October 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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it's only fascism once it happens to white people until then it's a topic of debate requiring mature compromise and sober acknowledgement of political realities
August 22, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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I’m not sure I’ve seen a recent Dem (besides Biden himself) with such terrible political instincts for the current moment.
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Liberals scrambling to justify why the us should have hegemony after killing like 60 million people since ww2
September 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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What does the Venn Diagram of people saying Charlie Kirk was an exemplar of productive civil discourse and people who had meltdowns about ChapoTrapHouse and the dirtbag left look like?
September 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Being a US Democrat
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
August 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Imagine saying this about like Hitler or Pol Pot
August 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
really can't stand the way this smug, chin-stroking dork talks about an ongoing genocide. "mmmm, gee, it shocks the conscience but it is profoundly complicated...mm" bloodless, inhumane ghoul.
"How do you think the next administration should handle our relationship with Israel? Do you think it should change based on what Netanyahu has done the last several years? "

"Netanyahu can't be the only voice or kind of the only compass for what should happen in the US-Israel relationship."
August 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Reporter Afeef Nessouli spent months in Gaza. He witnessed a famine of Israel's making.

Read the full story: interc.pt/46k3eY5

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What Our Reporter Saw In Gaza: A Famine of Israel’s Making
YouTube video by The Intercept
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July 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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We need a global labor strike. Now.
July 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
perfect summation of the "discourse" in the '20s
July 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Given how much Americans love to fantasize about home invasions so they can kill the invader, you'd think they'd get it!
July 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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all the footage of eulogies for IDF soldiers is their wife being like “he loved blowing up houses. The last time I saw him he said he couldn’t wait to get back to Gaza so he could kill more children. He wrote me a letter that said ‘what I’m doing is genocide and I find it fun.’”
July 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
July 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
quick question, who overthrew Pol Pot
if it weren't for those dastardly capitalists I'm sure Pol Pot would have been a normal cool guy
I actually think many people realize that it's global capitalism and imperialism that played a huge factor in the killing fields (including the obvious one currently) and that they will gladly bring them back to defend capital which is kinda why they're willing to struggle to move past this system.
July 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
one sliver lining about Trump being in office: liberals now feel they have permission to full-throatedly speak out about the genocide
June 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Uh, Republicans control the house and senate, do you expect Democrats can just wave a magic wand and not praise ICE and advise people to help them
These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE.

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June 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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“Fund the police” was a whole applause line for the people best situated to prevent this.
LAPD is now joining the fray. They are firing rounds of less lethals
June 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
how is it that *Theo Von and Macklemore* are better on this issue than you are lol
For those who need to know.. let me fill in the blanks
May 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM