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"According to political sociologist Yagil Levy, since the Second Intifada, βthe army has not given soldiers written rules of engagement,β leaving much open to the interpretation of soldiers in the field and their commanders."
No ROE for the last 20 years. Whoever they want to kill, they can.
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When someone's commitment to highlighting "privilege" serves to derail political critiques of racism & imperialism... you see how "privilege" is an idea weaponized by liberals to split the Left.
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Biden sucks. Democrats should be pushing to oust him.
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Using privilege as a personal attack in political spaces ends up driving people out of political spaces.
If you're trying to build a coalition to win elections... that's bad politics.
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"You're opinion sucks because you are privileged!"
How's somebody supposed to respond to that?
List the hardships in their life that then get weaponized against them?
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Political ideas should be more akin to science (an idea is right or wrong based on testable hypothesises) than they are to debates of religious matters (citing religious tombs).
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If you make your political space about assigning rank of opinions based on the privilege level of the person with opinions... the only position worth having is the position of "privilege referee".
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Participating in politics requires a certain amount of privilege.
Invalidating opinions based on privilege makes politics more of a... something than a coalition building exercise.
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I disagree with this argument.
But there's a parallel argument that Democrats haven't used the power they have to change the direction of things.
So, voting Democrat is enabling things advancing on the wrong track.
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It's almost like the Democratic Party is bad at politics.
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This headline is dishonest. After being punched in the face by a cop for trying to comfort her father as their family's house burned down, she was also charged with a felony.
www.foxla.com/news/woman-t...
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If you're going to argue there's a moral reason to vote against Trump, deciding Biden committing genocide is "no big deal" muddles the anti-Trump message.
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Israel should not exist.
This happens to states that behave badly. Other states decide to get rid of them.
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AOC & Ayanna Pressley beat incumbents in US House primaries.
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Who among the Democratic Party potential POTUS & VP candidates has won an uphill election? How recently?
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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate."
news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...
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Over 50% odds Biden replaced.
30% chance Biden wins, if he remains the nominee.
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Bidenβs lead in *New York* is single digits. And heβs a still doing historically poorly with black and young voters.
www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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What odds (%) does a Biden-Harris ticket win the November 5, 2024 election?
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Confirmed by the US Senate 54-41 with "yes" votes coming from Republicans plus Manchin & Sinema. All "no" votes from Democrats.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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Replacement tickets:
* Beshear-Josh Shapiro
* Sherrod B-Lauren Underwood
* Castro-AOC
* Haaland-Cooper
* Kamala-EWarren (or Tony Evers)
* Huntsman-Castro
* L Kelly-M Kelly
* Napolitano-Tlaib
* Pressley-Peltola
* Pritzker-Abrams
* Joe Tate-Haaland
* Warnock-Lujan Grisham
* Whitmer-Wes Moore
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Arizona being Trump +4 seems about right to me.
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She said on the phone he is asleep because of a specific drug the medical team administered.
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Biden supporters are arguing Kamala Harris isn't qualified to be POTUS?
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Trying to get a drugged patient to sign a consent form in sight of the waiting room (where family is waiting for people finished with surgery)... that's a bad look.
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Today, Karam shocked us with his words,"This must be a dream.Tomorrow,I'll wake up, go to school, and play soccer with my friends."Could nine months of war truly feel like a dream?How do I explain to him that his school has been bombed, and all his friends but one have been lost? gofund.me/6d3bce17
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Imagine being almost 200,000 people dead and getting upset about βFrom the River to the Seaβ being genocidal
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Kamala Harris has the power to end the mess of Biden being the Democratic Party nominee.
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#Obscurdle 549: 3/6
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The office of the US presidency really went from being the Chief Overseer of a Slave and Genocide Republic to the Chief Overseer of a Slave, Genocide, Colonial, Military Industrial Complex and Cutthroat Capitalist Empire with the power to bomb anywhere on earth at any time.
It's come a long way.
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My guess of where things are leaning on the Real Clear Politics polls.
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