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@NicholasJLevi @AdequateEmily In fact, this is a nuance that Doug and Rob are plenty capable of (notably there's an inversion of this in the early Nostalgia Critic video talking about bad things in The Lord of the Rings which is a series that Doug likes).

@NicholasJLevi @AdequateEmily He said they had good things in them. Not that they were entirely good. There is a difference.

How bad of a film critic do you have to be to get me to defend Doug fucking Walker?

@Forever_noir_ Those aren’t the same people. They’re two different groups.

Still taken aback with how the same Dems who said “you gotta vote Biden and pull him left” followed Biden right and are now demanding that the party goes farther right.

@ArmandDoma Corporations and the wealthy still drive politics like they always have, but they can't just pretend that their views are everyone's like they used to. Politicians have to at least pay lip service if not more to a dissatisfied public.

@ArmandDoma It's simple when you understand that since corporate fundraisers no longer drive politics as much as they did in the pre-internet Reagan-Clinton era, old school "pro-business" rhetoric doesn't fly to the same degree. It's tariffs vs. Lina Khan, at least on a superficial level.

I think it’s even more surprising that while this shift happened the Democratic Party has become significantly more left wing on economic issues!

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GOP clone: “Queers for Palestine is like chickens for KFC. The woke left is hypocritical!” Me: If you cared about queer Palestinians and considered Gaza a bad place for them, you’d be lobbying our government to make their immigration here easier. Prove YOU’RE not hypocritical.

@ECaliberSeven Ok what does your “pivoted” LGBTQ movement look like? You’re not going to get every single person on your side but taking you in good faith that’s not your mission anyway. What message do YOU want to send the people polled here?

Trump's LGBTQ policies are his most popular stance by FAR (53%-37% Approve). Even while EVERYTHING ELSE is split or worse. The sirens are incapable of blaring louder: Adapt or Die. The LGBTQ movements MUST become more popular, or they will INEVITABLY lose political support.

@NateMoore1287 @lxeagle17 @SplitTicket_ Everyone looking at this and nodding should be asking themselves why self proclaimed moderate Democrats spend every minute nagging progressives to do their bidding rather than actually building a movement among themselves. Quit whining and use your numbers to do something.

@ChampionsOTIce2 @whstancil *harasses.

@ChampionsOTIce2 @whstancil Who only supports US and NATO involvement against Russia reluctantly because they (correctly) view Russia as also imperialist but will have a watermelon in bio and possibly harass people for working for Lockheed Martin.

This administration is evil. If you support this kind of indecency, you're evil too.

@ChampionsOTIce2 @whstancil Lol, you say "long live the American Empire" in your profile. Don't know what to make of that unless it's sarcastic. But then again, I've never known what to make of "isolationists" who genuinely think Trump is on their side after what he's said about Gaza.

@ChampionsOTIce2 @whstancil I agree with part one of this because I'm to the left of the neoliberal straw man you're making up in your head. Welcome to anti-imperialism.

@ChampionsOTIce2 @whstancil The best way to fight illegal immigration is to make more of it legal.

So let me get this straight: Iranians who converted to Christianity illegally enter our country without going through the proper channels. They are arrested, handcuffed, and sent to Panama instead of being shipped to Iran. Why am I supposed to give a shit? Because their kid cried? My kids cry because they want to go swimming in a blizzard and I won't let them. People's kids cry when they get arrested. They aren't in any immediate danger, they are just in trouble for doing something they knew was illegal. Fuck off, Will.

@KelseyTuoc I would agree there even as someone probably to the left of you, but would you expand that to the immigration system also?

Every government process that a normal person might have to interact with, including permitting, licensing, zoning, applying for benefits, and paying taxes, must pass the grandma test: you can explain it to a grandma on the phone and she can do it in under 30 minutes.

Every part of every American city should pass the toddler test: you feel safe walking through it with two toddlers who will try to eat cigarette butts and needles if there are any around to be eaten. If you have to use the subway, the elevators work and fit the stroller.

@KelseyTuoc Halt and catch fire is altogether too vague. What do you mean?

Schools should offer students the opportunity to excel; our falling test scores should be a halt and catch fire moment; middle schools should offer algebra; every kid should be taught to read by 2nd grade. Tracking is good. Dangerous or out of control classrooms are unacceptable.