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Equal parts sour ale, martinis, ceviche, chili, and pizza. Hiding out in the burned husk of what used to be called Portland, Oregon. Decriminalize all drugs.
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As someone with 100% Syrian ancestry, I find it really amusing when white people accuse me of being pro-Zionism because I have nuanced views on the State of Israel.
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Ah yes, perfect example of campism. Thank you.
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Yup, up until then, it was completely normal for immigrants to receive citizenship papers when they disembarked.
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"general welfare"!
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I consider myself fairly leftist (probably not as much as many people on BlueSky) but I have never adhered to campism (i.e., everything the US/West/Israel does is inherently "bad"). It's definitely been difficult to stick to a cohesive set of thoughts on the State of Israel as a whole.
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Some elements of the Left have been at least sympathetic to various strands of Zionism (e.g., the kibbutzim) and/or at least tolerated the idea of the State of Israel as long as there was an effort to fully integrate Arabs, etc., in the political process.
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Israel occupying southern Lebanon has, historically, always gone as planned.
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The most obvious way this will end is with SCOTUS saying Congress forgot to statutorily execute the Insurrection Clause.
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@forevernever.bsky.social
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licensed. firearm. NFTs.
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illumi
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Avi Zollman
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probably best to just let the voters decide
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@olivergrayhound.bsky.social
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In that case you have to point out that the fascist always lies. They lie to get power. And relinquishing the power the middle class has to the fascist will be the middle class's undoing.
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I wouldn't necessarily call them rich, though (my definition of "rich" is "doesn't need to worry about money"). They're upper middle-class folks: comfortably well-off but one financial calamity away from making hard decisions. That fear drives them to reactionary politics.
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The comfortable middle-class consists of many people who are terrified of losing their privileges and can easily be scare-mongered into supporting fascists who promise to protect those privileges.
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The landed gentry / petty bourgeois class historically includes some of the most reactionary people in society who believe their privileges and comforts are precarious and act accordingly.
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But civility!
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@forevernever.bsky.social
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Gee, I wonder why Lululemon avoids that enormous swath of Los Angeles County from downtown LA to Long Beach / San Pedro, one of the densest areas in the country?
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I mean, seems like a good reason to not allow everybody with a pulse easy access to firearms.
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I was about to point out that Lululemon's locations are concentrated in diverse cities before I checked a map of their locations in Los Angeles and the Bay Area and realized they generally open locations in white neighborhoods.
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funny.
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ah yes, what Lululemon is known for is not being friendly to white people
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They love the idea that they're an impartial referee in the "free market of ideas" or whatever without realizing even the best referees make game-changing mistakes.
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It wouldn't surprise me if Canon's quote was also an unattributed (or improperly attributed) rephrasing of someone else's description.
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It can be lonely being against *all* forms of injustice, not just those that it's cool to be against.
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Good critique of campism from a socialist perspective:
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There is no scenario, absolutely none, where Trump will "accept" a loss at the ballot box; and most of the GOP will go along with whatever action he demands to nullify that loss. He should be disqualified now when his power is undoubtedly far weaker than it will be in November.
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That a democratic republic can't have mechanisms in place to prevent someone who attempted to use the power of the presidency to nullify an election he lost from appearing on the ballot is nuts.
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The rise of the undoubtedly-genocidal Khmer Rouge was facilitated by a *completely secret* US war in Cambodia; you could have been a "good" leftist to point these things out rather than defending Khmer Rouge for being (nominally) communist.
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So is Tulsi Gabbard.
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I just saw that last week! Such a wacky story.
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If there's ONE place where I thought masking would become the norm, it was healthcare facilities and offices.
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Found out that a family friend has been giving colloidal silver to her kid the other day and I'm determined to never make friends ever again.
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Argh! I had legitimately forgotten her name!
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I guess he's enjoying life these days?
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Fatima Ayub
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The (white) grifters who pretend to care about Palestine cut their teeth on propaganda and disinformation during the war in Syria, defending Bashar Al Assad as a resistance hero (barf) while I studied photos of people his government tortured to death, by the thousands.
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Remember when whats-her-name from Hawaii was lauded as "antiwar" while she was literally making secret trips to visit Assad?
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Is he talking about the Harvard that apparently admits people like him?
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Meredith Shiner
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I will never for the rest of my life forget when the grandson of the founder of Motorola came up to me in high school and said "How does it feel?" and I said, "Excuse me?" And he said "How does it feel to know you worked so hard and finished at the top of our class but I'm the one going to Harvard?"
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Oh wait, that's not what they're saying; they're saying "physicians". So… it's a scam.
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This is frankly unbelievable. There are only 25K ob-gyns in the country TOTAL. A *quarter* of them are members of this group? Please.
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So you're saying it has a national footprint?
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Gretchen Leigh
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The festive butthole trend taking the world of graphic design by storm
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American Association of Pro-Life Ob-Gyns? Legitimately curious how many members it has.
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In fairness, there are no panels, just death.
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Conservatives: we'll make exceptions for the life of the mother. Also conservatives: no, there can't be an emergency care exception.
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Marisa Kabas
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HUGE!!! Platformer, one of Substack’s biggest publications, announces it will leave the platform if leadership won’t reverse course on banning nazis.
They’re meeting with them this week to discuss.
www.platformer.news/p/openais-ne...
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Oh, they may go to Substack's payment processor? They're not playing around.
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It honestly must be amazing to call yourself the "paper of record" and apparently believe you are a neutral referee.
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This headline was made by the same editors who greenlit 5+ dozen articles about Harvard's president over the past five weeks.
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NYTimes: We're All Trying to Find the Guy who Did This
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