Can we please break the filibuster and pass HR1? The return of Jim Crow is getting ridiculous...
(brief summary of a lot of the nonsense happening in Georgia lately)
https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2021/talking-socialism-catching-up-with-aoc/
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Some on the Left have looked at Biden’s record and his differences with the Bernie wing of the party, and they conclude that no progress is going to come out of the Biden administration. What’s your view? Well, I think it’s a really privileged critique. We’re gonna have to focus on solidarity with one another, developing our senses for good faith critique and bad faith critique. Because bad faith critique can destroy everything that we have built so swiftly. And we know this because it has in the past, and it’s taken us so many decades to get to this point. We do not have the time or the luxury to entertain bad faith actors in our movement. But also we have to value our solidarity with one another. For anyone who brings that up, we really have to ask ourselves, what is the message that you are sending to your Black and brown and undocumented members of your community, to your friends, when you say nothing has changed? Perhaps not enough has changed. And this is not a semantic argument. Just the other night, we in collective struggle were able to stop the deportations of critical members of our community. And that would not have happened in a Trump administration. They were just on the belt ready to go. And you just cannot say that nothing will change. We can make the argument that not enough is changing fast enough. And these really are not nitpicking questions of semantics, because this is how the language that we use communicates to individuals who is included and who do you consider a person. When you say “nothing has changed,” you are calling the people who are now protected from deportation “no one.” And we cannot allow for that in our movement. That’s not a movement that I want to be a part of. And I know that’s not the movement that we are a part of. We’re so susceptible to cynicism. And that cynicism, that weaponization of cynicism, is what has and what continues to threaten to tear down everything that we have spent so much time building up. We’re allowed to win too, by the way. |
AOC gave a solid interview with DSA recently but this bit was the stand-out for me, which shouldn't surprise those of you who have been paying attention to this thread. This is one of the main points I've been trying to hammer home for months now to others on the Progressive Left. Maybe it will land when coming from one of the key figures of the Progressive Left. We can't give into this cynical "nothing has changed" mindset, and we cannot tolerate bad faith critiques, even if they come from people who are ideologically aligned with us.
In a bit of good news, New York City passed legislation limiting qualified immunity for city cops. The limit doesn't apply to federal cases or correctional officers, but it's a start. May it be the first of many to come across the country.
According to AOC, other progressives, and infrastructure experts, Biden's infrastructure plan is woefully underfunded at 2.25 trillion over 8 years, they believe it should be approaching something like 10 trillion over 10 years to do any actual good for the long term of the country
This is something the Progressives have to find a way to fight or this opportunity for long term benefit for the US will be lost
Matt Gaetz wingman/partner in crime is already in custody its only a matter of time before he joins him in jail looks like they have more then enough evidence to arrest him soon.
Trump rips off his brain dead supporters who worship him as the messiah :D
From what I see, the Republican voters are almost completely made up of poor and uneducated people from the rural US, states and classes that Trump hurt the most. It's like they vote to eat shit because immigrants and many non-whites will have to eat shit too.
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| Jumpin said: Trump rips off his brain dead supporters who worship him as the messiah :D
From what I see, the Republican voters are almost completely made up of poor and uneducated people from the rural US, states and classes that Trump hurt the most. It's like they vote to eat shit because immigrants and many non-whites will have to eat shit too. |
I mean, you're generally not supposed to say that but the lack of education is really the only reason I can think for having an entire party that regularly votes against their own interests just to 'stick it to the libs'.
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| Jumpin said: Trump rips off his brain dead supporters who worship him as the messiah :D From what I see, the Republican voters are almost completely made up of poor and uneducated people from the rural US, states and classes that Trump hurt the most. It's like they vote to eat shit because immigrants and many non-whites will have to eat shit too. |
TDR details a more tragic story resulting from this scam:
Absolute bloodsucker.
Automatic withdraws every week for whatever you contribute without stating up front that this is occurring, man I really would like to know how Trump supporters will absolve him of this one. Oh well, I guess they can say that it was his campaign and not him but anyone who has seen how Trump do business knows he loves to micromanage. I doubt this was done without his approval but it doesn't seem to shake his base.
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