Caleb is Understanding Elections
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Howdy! I write about elections from a socialist perspective. https://understandingelections.substack.com/
An insidious memo to drop before COP30, just pages and pages of capitalist techno-utopianism. Of course, this is the same Bill Gates who prioritized the IP rights of vaccine manufacturers at the height of Covid www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-pa...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
An insidious memo to drop before COP30, just pages and pages of capitalist techno-utopianism. Of course, this is the same Bill Gates who prioritized the IP rights of vaccine manufacturers at the height of Covid www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-pa...
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If VP Harris had given a shit 9 months ago, maybe she'd have won.
People who refused to support VP Harris stop acting like you give a shit about what’s happening now challenge.
June 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If VP Harris had given a shit 9 months ago, maybe she'd have won.
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blueanon is going so great
June 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
blueanon is going so great
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Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered
Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered
WASHINGTON—After being confronted about social media posts that blamed the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers on the far left, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) stressed Tuesday that he would have said the same ...
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June 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered
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Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...
June 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...
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I bet The Kids won't believe this was real
June 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I bet The Kids won't believe this was real
Building strong, militant unions where we work and where we live is what socialists should be doing above all else. inthesetimes.com/article/rent...
Striking Tenants Withhold Rent for 247 Days and Win
A victory in Kansas City suggests that the tactics of organized labor can work for tenants.
inthesetimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Building strong, militant unions where we work and where we live is what socialists should be doing above all else. inthesetimes.com/article/rent...
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This isn't all of the story, but a surprisingly big part of the "fear" of Mamdani isn't actually that he'll institute full communism, it's that people's friends-and-influence groups will be demoted from their positions of authority
June 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This isn't all of the story, but a surprisingly big part of the "fear" of Mamdani isn't actually that he'll institute full communism, it's that people's friends-and-influence groups will be demoted from their positions of authority
Like with Jeremy Corbyn in 2017, the ruling class' lackeys waited way too long to derail Zohran Mamdani and are now panicking.
June 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Like with Jeremy Corbyn in 2017, the ruling class' lackeys waited way too long to derail Zohran Mamdani and are now panicking.
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If you rank Zohran 1st you’re voting to make every New York Times Opinion writer insane for several years.
June 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If you rank Zohran 1st you’re voting to make every New York Times Opinion writer insane for several years.
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GUY WHO, IF PRESSED, TURNS OUT IS DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO YOUR CAUSE: are you sure *those* tactics help your cause
June 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
GUY WHO, IF PRESSED, TURNS OUT IS DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO YOUR CAUSE: are you sure *those* tactics help your cause
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CBC News link: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
March 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
CBC News link: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
That it's happened so consistently across the EU and anglosphere reinforces that this is a structural problem, and therefore not something that can be fixed by getting the "correct" politicians or party into office.
center-left parties around the world rn are like well... drifting right and providing a watered down version of the politics people are voting for hasn't worked for the last fifty years... but it might work for us
March 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
That it's happened so consistently across the EU and anglosphere reinforces that this is a structural problem, and therefore not something that can be fixed by getting the "correct" politicians or party into office.
And had Bernie somehow won, it would have been steeper and sooner.
March 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
And had Bernie somehow won, it would have been steeper and sooner.
For Dems, a solely anti-Trump platform is their only move.
In the modern era, conservative parties in the industrialized west have a much easier time running on a strong vision. Liberal/social democratic parties win not based on vision, but on the political exhaustion of the conservatives in power.
In the modern era, conservative parties in the industrialized west have a much easier time running on a strong vision. Liberal/social democratic parties win not based on vision, but on the political exhaustion of the conservatives in power.
March 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
For Dems, a solely anti-Trump platform is their only move.
In the modern era, conservative parties in the industrialized west have a much easier time running on a strong vision. Liberal/social democratic parties win not based on vision, but on the political exhaustion of the conservatives in power.
In the modern era, conservative parties in the industrialized west have a much easier time running on a strong vision. Liberal/social democratic parties win not based on vision, but on the political exhaustion of the conservatives in power.
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lol holy shit i'm reading the wiki for Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) starring Ronald Reagan and look how close a chimp came to altering the history of the entire goddamn planet
March 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
lol holy shit i'm reading the wiki for Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) starring Ronald Reagan and look how close a chimp came to altering the history of the entire goddamn planet
Me explaining the Sykes–Picot Agreement to my 9-year-old nephew:
March 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Me explaining the Sykes–Picot Agreement to my 9-year-old nephew:
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I know its penny ante at this point but doesn't the president own vineyards? anyway feels right that 250 years after thomas jefferson first tried and failed to make cab franc take stateside a new stamp act plus war on terroir means you'll drink that swill and fucking like it
March 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I know its penny ante at this point but doesn't the president own vineyards? anyway feels right that 250 years after thomas jefferson first tried and failed to make cab franc take stateside a new stamp act plus war on terroir means you'll drink that swill and fucking like it
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Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
March 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
Time to bring back a timeless sign:
March 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Time to bring back a timeless sign:
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Sitting Andrew and Tristan Tate as guests of honor at a public event after they flew out of the country they were facing human trafficking charges in is rape culture in action
March 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Sitting Andrew and Tristan Tate as guests of honor at a public event after they flew out of the country they were facing human trafficking charges in is rape culture in action
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
Lots of socialists critique @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social for not being left enough. But as long as the critics adhere to electoralism, they inevitably slide back into the very object of their critique: understandingelections.substack.com/p/another-so...
Another Socialist Almost Leaves the Electoral Trap
In Current Affairs, Managing Editor Lily Sánchez makes the case to “Move Beyond Bernie Sanders” in her article of the same name.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Lots of socialists critique @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social for not being left enough. But as long as the critics adhere to electoralism, they inevitably slide back into the very object of their critique: understandingelections.substack.com/p/another-so...
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getting my skull split open at the farmer's market by a penzeys-branded stanley mug because a fifty-year old resist lib decoded secret messages from an account claiming to be a "rogue faa employee" that said anyone in a bernie sanders sweater is a kgb spy
March 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
getting my skull split open at the farmer's market by a penzeys-branded stanley mug because a fifty-year old resist lib decoded secret messages from an account claiming to be a "rogue faa employee" that said anyone in a bernie sanders sweater is a kgb spy