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Shannon Watts
Shannon Watts@shannonrwatts·
“… if Democrats pander to the bigots and haters on the left, as Republicans have done with the bigots and haters on the right, there will be nothing left of the pro-democracy movement. It will be red shirts versus brown shirts, as in Weimar Germany.”open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…
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Tyler Balbuena@BalbuenaTyler·
Tankies telling refugees their lived experience in totalitarian communist states isn't valid is a whole genre. Just ask a Cuban.
Charlie Sykes@SykesCharlie

NSFW: Here is a Vietnamese refugee telling her story of suffering under a communist government. Hasan Piker insults her — “Fuck you old lady. Shut the fuck up you stupid idiotic old lady. Suck my dick, old lady. God damn, Yo, fuck this refugee” — and hurls racist dog whistles at her, telling her to go back to where she came.

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Tyler Balbuena@BalbuenaTyler·
This is really simple. Either we view each other as human beings who disagree, or we see one another as vermin to he eradicated. Fuck the left for constantly seeing the center-left as the later!
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Tyler Balbuena@BalbuenaTyler·
@PatGarofalo 2 things: 1. We didnt aid the UK and France during the Suez crisis. 2. The fact that we spent months threatening to invade Denmark, a Democratic ally, and then didn't loop the Europeans into our war planning over Iran, and then said we didn't want their help, seems relevant.
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Nick Freiling
Nick Freiling@NickFreiling·
A cutting reflection from Cardinal Ratzinger, Good Friday 2005: "Pilate is not utterly evil. He knows that the condemned man is innocent, and he looks for a way to free him. But his heart is divided. And in the end he lets his own position, his own self-interest, prevail over what is right. Nor are the men who are shouting and demanding the death of Jesus utterly evil. Many of them, on the day of Pentecost, will feel "cut to the heart," when Peter will say to them: "Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God... you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law." But at that moment they are caught up in the crowd. They are shouting because everyone else is shouting, and they are shouting the same thing that everyone else is shouting. And in this way, justice is trampled underfoot by weakness, cowardice and fear of the diktat of the ruling mindset. The quiet voice of conscience is drowned out by the cries of the crowd. Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think."
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Pat Garofalo 🇺🇸
Pat Garofalo 🇺🇸@PatGarofalo·
@jbrillha I believe we will get a nuclear weapons free Iran and a new regime in Iran. You disagree. Time will tell.
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John Brillhart
John Brillhart@jbrillha·
No one is arguing this as well. If you’re turning off comments and using non-sequitur do you expect to be taken seriously?
Pat Garofalo 🇺🇸@PatGarofalo

@davethul I’m not aware of another country in the Middle East that supports Iran.

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Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl
Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl@FrederickMelo·
Or we could just rip up how we approach property taxes entirely... A bill out of Bloomington would allow cities to impose land value taxes. Cities tax buildings more than the land beneath them, a nasty incentive for speculators to hold onto empty lots and derelict properties rather than develop them with housing and commerce that could draw jobs and capture sales tax revenue. Imposing higher taxes on building improvements offers an equally perverse disincentive to fix up properties. What if St. Paul flipped the proverbial script? Imagine a tax levied solely or primarily on the assessed value of land. By excluding buildings, partially or wholly, speculators would pay more than homeowners. Hey, they do it in Denmark. And New South Wales. You like Wales, don't you?
Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl@FrederickMelo

"Lower my property taxes!" Easier said than done. What are some ways St. Paul could boost growth, shift tax burden off homeowners and otherwise stabilize property taxes? A watchdog group is talking about boosting downtown skyways (the more tax downtown buildings pay, the less homeowners have to). That's one approach. I need 9 more ideas, stat... cbsnews.com/minnesota/news…

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Tyler Balbuena@BalbuenaTyler·
@zacharywefel My understanding is the Pope was also reluctant to grant to divorce because he didn't want the Church to look arbitrary in the wake of the reformation as well.
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Zachary Wefel
Zachary Wefel@zacharywefel·
Fun fact: Luther advised Henry VIII to be a bigamist rather than get a divorce.
NickFrank40@NickyFrank30

It’s always funny to me that as Catholics we were always thought the Pope opposed allowing Henry VIII to divorce Katharine of Aragon out of some virtuous belief in the sanctity of marriage, when actually it was because Katharine’s nephew, Charles V, ruled like all of Europe except France and needed his aunt to remain Queen to keep England on his side, and he had just laid waste to Rome, so the Pope had no choice but to deny what would otherwise have been a pretty standard annulment.

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Sara Spafford Freeman
Sara Spafford Freeman@sarasfreeman123·
What no one from MPS has said, is that these cuts - concentrated in the dist's poorest, Blackest schools - wouldn't be necessary if the district consolidated buildings. And that's what "managed decline" looks like in a public school district. FIN
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Sara Spafford Freeman
Sara Spafford Freeman@sarasfreeman123·
10 yrs ago, Mpls Pub Schools had ~36,000 students, 6k staff, 73 total sites & an Operations budget of $557M. This yr, MPS has ~29k students, 6k staff, 73 sites & a proposed Ops budget of $719M. To summarize: enrollment is down 20%, budgets are up 30% & that's why MPS is broke. 1/
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(((Jeremy Posner)))
(((Jeremy Posner)))@jmp_nyc·
@BalbuenaTyler @BriannaWu Neither can happen without the Palestinians cracking down on those among them who will never stop their attempts to drive all Jews out of the region. A Palestinian state that tolerates the actions of those people will be at war with Israel.
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Brianna Wu
Brianna Wu@BriannaWu·
I understand this is not something people want to hear, but has absorbing a large number of people that do not share Western values worked out well for the UK, Sweden or Germany? No, it has not.
parvada medios@ParvadaM20254

@BriannaWu Then why not give Israeli citizenship to all Palestinians in the West Bank? That would solve all your problems!

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Tyler Balbuena@BalbuenaTyler·
@BriannaWu The concern you have has validity, but it's a reason for Israel to crack down on the settlers.
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Tyler Balbuena@BalbuenaTyler·
@BriannaWu You do understand that there are two ethically acceptable ways this ends though right? Either the West Bank is granted sovereignty by creating a Palestinian state, or Israel annexes it and grants the people their citizenship just like the Israeli Arabs have.
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Tyler Balbuena@BalbuenaTyler·
@BriannaWu I also really don't understand your point about overpolicing, maybe because I'm not a progressive. Are you arguing the Israeli government should allow settlers to behave violently toward Palestinians in the West Bank? That seems depraved to me.
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Tyler Balbuena@BalbuenaTyler·
@BriannaWu There are over 5 million Palestinians in the West Bank that have equal value to Israelis and deserve sovereignty too. The settlements are an active obstacle to peace unless Israel is prepared to annex the West Bank and make those people Israeli citizens.
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Brianna Wu
Brianna Wu@BriannaWu·
Progressives seem able to grasp ideas like overpolicing but are unable to apply those concepts to the West Bank. Here’s the truth. Judea and Samaria are the historic homeland of the Jewish people. Jordan briefly held this land after 1948 but it was never recognized as theirs. Since Israel recaptured it in the Six-Day War, international law has often been used as a weapon against Israel as it tries to keep its people safe. There are about 50 Muslim-majority countries. There is one Jewish state. And as politically incorrect as it sounds, many politicians in those Muslim-majority countries gain power the same way racist Mississippi politicians in the Deep South once did, by demonizing Israelis. There are regular terror attacks in the West Bank against Israelis living there, which Israel considers legal under the Oslo Accords. Progressives don’t seem to care. Their best plan seems to be for Jews to roll over and die.
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Tyler Balbuena@BalbuenaTyler·
@WalshFreedom I don't think it's a simple yes or no answer because there isn't a shared definition of what Zionism is. I wish we'd retire the term. The Zionists movement succeeded in establishing Jewish state a long time ago. Use of the term today lacks utility and creates confusion.
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Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh@WalshFreedom·
Here’s the thing - Newsom is asked point blank if he’s a Zionist and he doesn’t answer the question. Instead, he tries to give the perfectly poll-tested/consultant advised non answer. And I don’t think voters want that inauthenticity anymore. Just fucking tell me what you think, whether voters agree with it or not. If a reporter asked me if I was a Zionist, I’d say “Yes. Proudly.” It’s a simple yes or no answer. Newsom was afraid to say yes or no, and was afraid to even say the word Zionist. I have more respect for politicians who simply say yes or no than politicians like Newsom who try to dance around the question.
Melissa Weiss@melissaeweiss

Newsom is, by definition (the actual definition, not whatever the internet has warped the term into) a Zionist. And he knows that. But if he says it, he knows he’s sunk politically. A truly sad state of affairs.

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Tyler Balbuena@BalbuenaTyler·
@smburns It seems like one of the obvious things we could do is not have the second highest corporate tax rate in the US, but that's a hard sell with the "corporations are bad" people.
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Tyler Balbuena@BalbuenaTyler·
@smburns I don't think progressives understand that MN owed it's top 3 in every positive ranking thing in the aughts and teens due to economic overpreformance in the 80s and 90s. We've had slow growth compared to the rest of the country since like 2005. That will catch up with us.
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Scott Burns
Scott Burns@smburns·
Our state is losing people way too quickly because it moves too slowly and taxes are too high for what we get compared to others. This is not dire yet, but it will be. Dems think acknowledging this is political suicide but ignoring it is gross negligence.
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