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Soccer coach. Filmmaker. And leftist black man. 🖤✊🏾
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Note: You live in an oligarchy.
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To talk about actual history:

If Hegseth is looking to return to some past moment, 1990 in fact doesn't seem "to be as good a place to start as any"

wapo.st/42gUEXk
Analysis | Hegseth wants to return the military to 1990 — a dark time in its history
The early 1990s saw the U.S. Navy rocked by the Tailhook sexual assault scandal, exposing a dark underside of military culture.
wapo.st
September 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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I do not understand why they cannot get the headlines right.

Just follow the gop playbook!

“Repubs control it all! The shutdown is on them!”

As nauseum.

Don’t lead with the nuance.
September 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I wrote about that exact dynamic in 2019 during his first impeachment! It is exhausting to have this conversation this many times!

“It is the legacy of white suffrage to ensure its own primacy, even—or especially—at the expense of representative government itself.”
Are White Voters Ready for Impeachment? - Dame Magazine
During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump demonstrated in nearly every conceivable way that he was unequal to the task of serving as President of the United States. But white people voted for him anyway....
www.damemagazine.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM