Mikhail Gorbaechev
@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social
Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
Pinned
I'm back.
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Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell
February 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell
No right-wing populists definitely blame Jews for this
That is not what right-wing populists say! They blame various out groups for lots of things, but "wealth inequality" is not one of them because they don't care about that, it is not what's driving them, and it is not what they are claiming to solve. That's your issue. People can have other concerns.
We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.
February 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
No right-wing populists definitely blame Jews for this
lol ok Kate have fun with this
February 15, 2026 at 7:52 PM
lol ok Kate have fun with this
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For me this is very simple.
There is widespread, longstanding practice of using "Zionists" as coded slur for Jews, or "Jews I don't like" (regardless how they define themselves).
That is sufficient reason to refrain from broad-brush language such as "Zionism=Racism" or "Zionists not welcome".
There is widespread, longstanding practice of using "Zionists" as coded slur for Jews, or "Jews I don't like" (regardless how they define themselves).
That is sufficient reason to refrain from broad-brush language such as "Zionism=Racism" or "Zionists not welcome".
Here is an explanation on why Jewish Greens (who obviously don't speak for every single Jewish person in the party, etc) are so opposed to the Zionism is Racism motion brought to the #GreenParty's spring conference.
jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/02/12/w...
jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/02/12/w...
Why Jewish Greens are urging party members to vote against MOTION A105: ZIONISM IS RACISM - Jewish Greens
Jewish Greens oppose motion at party conference unintentionally antisemitic
jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk
February 14, 2026 at 3:57 PM
For me this is very simple.
There is widespread, longstanding practice of using "Zionists" as coded slur for Jews, or "Jews I don't like" (regardless how they define themselves).
That is sufficient reason to refrain from broad-brush language such as "Zionism=Racism" or "Zionists not welcome".
There is widespread, longstanding practice of using "Zionists" as coded slur for Jews, or "Jews I don't like" (regardless how they define themselves).
That is sufficient reason to refrain from broad-brush language such as "Zionism=Racism" or "Zionists not welcome".
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Huge pop when she says about "a lot of what we talk about when we talk about a class based internationalist perspective, also means ending the hypocrisy towards the global south."
February 15, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Huge pop when she says about "a lot of what we talk about when we talk about a class based internationalist perspective, also means ending the hypocrisy towards the global south."
This is not an area where AOC agrees with JD Vance and Josh Hawley what the fuck are you talking about
"The Ascent of populist movements is telling us that governments have have strayed too far from being responsive to the working class"
This is probably the only area where AOC agrees with JD Vance and Josh Hawley.
This is probably the only area where AOC agrees with JD Vance and Josh Hawley.
February 15, 2026 at 7:31 PM
This is not an area where AOC agrees with JD Vance and Josh Hawley what the fuck are you talking about
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America’s elites are self-loathing and insecure cosmopolitans who love to see their views reflected in someone who codes as more “authentic” then them, many such cases.
There is a Kinda Guy that is absolutely gaga for Gruff-Aesthetic White Guy Who Says Kinda Lefty Things. Their love for this is *not* strategic or instrumental to some end, such a person is an object of intrinsic attraction to them, and a strong one at that. They will rationalise anything for this.
I also am baffled that people are assuming this super checkered barely known guy will be super progressive as though we're not living in a post Fetterman universe.
February 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM
America’s elites are self-loathing and insecure cosmopolitans who love to see their views reflected in someone who codes as more “authentic” then them, many such cases.
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from a measurement POV, the party trust Q has little direct bearing on issue positions/policy preferences. party trust can be low for a variety of non-ideological reasons, like past history of leadership or message clarity. Dems have work to do, but this Q doesn’t tell us what
February 15, 2026 at 5:07 PM
from a measurement POV, the party trust Q has little direct bearing on issue positions/policy preferences. party trust can be low for a variety of non-ideological reasons, like past history of leadership or message clarity. Dems have work to do, but this Q doesn’t tell us what
There are fundamentally two Americas: the Union and the Confederacy. Our current struggle is about which we choose to be.
The answer is they don’t like the US, they like the Confederacy. Explicit, codified, unashamed racism ruled by oligarchic elites. Strict social codes and mores that buttress the entire thing who themselves were built on misremembered imagined histories.
February 15, 2026 at 5:20 PM
There are fundamentally two Americas: the Union and the Confederacy. Our current struggle is about which we choose to be.
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i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
February 15, 2026 at 1:49 AM
i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
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"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
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No one hates American culture more than the people who endlessly bemoan its loss. I love being American!
February 15, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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they‘re rabid dogs
Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 4:48 AM
they‘re rabid dogs
Actually they're doing all this so they can get up tomorrow and order Jose from Guatemala around.
Your average rural 50 y/o farmer or horse trainer isn’t on Bluesky seeking the opinions of enlightened liberals.
They’re watching football and 70’s/80’s reruns on TV and getting shitfaced so they can face another day of manual labor tomorrow.
They’re watching football and 70’s/80’s reruns on TV and getting shitfaced so they can face another day of manual labor tomorrow.
February 15, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Actually they're doing all this so they can get up tomorrow and order Jose from Guatemala around.
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Damn, I don’t think you could write something more contemptuous and inaccurate about farming in America if you tried. Have you been to a farm recently? That shits all automated and they’re heavily subsidized by the Feds. You’re making up a subsistence farmer to get mad at. Weird stuff.
Your average rural 50 y/o farmer or horse trainer isn’t on Bluesky seeking the opinions of enlightened liberals.
They’re watching football and 70’s/80’s reruns on TV and getting shitfaced so they can face another day of manual labor tomorrow.
They’re watching football and 70’s/80’s reruns on TV and getting shitfaced so they can face another day of manual labor tomorrow.
February 15, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Damn, I don’t think you could write something more contemptuous and inaccurate about farming in America if you tried. Have you been to a farm recently? That shits all automated and they’re heavily subsidized by the Feds. You’re making up a subsistence farmer to get mad at. Weird stuff.
The one reason I'm somewhat worried about an AOC presidential run is that the levels of Gender that would result are possibly cataclysmic.
“AOC needs to publicly commit to hard military action in Taiwan and the fact she has refused to do so shows she’s fundamentally unserious” that’s crazy man anyway quick question what is the policy of strategic uncertainty again and who else is guilty of it
February 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
The one reason I'm somewhat worried about an AOC presidential run is that the levels of Gender that would result are possibly cataclysmic.
RE: Taiwan, I think "We should just give them 100 nukes and submarines to match and then tell them we aren't going to be kinetically involved" is honestly a pretty compelling idea.
February 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
RE: Taiwan, I think "We should just give them 100 nukes and submarines to match and then tell them we aren't going to be kinetically involved" is honestly a pretty compelling idea.
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strongly supported Karen Bass when she first ran for Mayor, and I strongly regret doing so.
I really hope LA votes for more effective governance this time with @cd4losangeles.bsky.social instead of doubling down on incompetence.
I really hope LA votes for more effective governance this time with @cd4losangeles.bsky.social instead of doubling down on incompetence.
The City of LA is about to give back millions of dollars of previously won money for active transportation projects because it can’t build things in any reasonable amount of time.
February 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM
strongly supported Karen Bass when she first ran for Mayor, and I strongly regret doing so.
I really hope LA votes for more effective governance this time with @cd4losangeles.bsky.social instead of doubling down on incompetence.
I really hope LA votes for more effective governance this time with @cd4losangeles.bsky.social instead of doubling down on incompetence.
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There’s a really specific emotion that I think this guy is experiencing that is a simultaneous sense of rage mixed with a sudden awareness of the power of neighborly love
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 7:44 PM
There’s a really specific emotion that I think this guy is experiencing that is a simultaneous sense of rage mixed with a sudden awareness of the power of neighborly love
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Many people have said this before, but this is the sort of thing that in the ancient world would have gotten you cursed by the gods for five generations
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Many people have said this before, but this is the sort of thing that in the ancient world would have gotten you cursed by the gods for five generations
this man's gonna be a Republican in two years
AOC's foreign policy has long held a strand of liberal interventionism, probably more JFK than Obama
Video: @acyn.bsky.social via X (@Acyn)
Video: @acyn.bsky.social via X (@Acyn)
February 15, 2026 at 2:36 AM
this man's gonna be a Republican in two years
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
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Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
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I am really struggling to see what the problem is here and I think it might be that there’s a subset of people who are dangerously naive about how messy of a business international relations is. There isn’t one weird trick to make it not like that, and so many ways it can get worse.
February 15, 2026 at 1:49 AM
I am really struggling to see what the problem is here and I think it might be that there’s a subset of people who are dangerously naive about how messy of a business international relations is. There isn’t one weird trick to make it not like that, and so many ways it can get worse.