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@simonsez40 @JackilynMoore @LinkofSunshine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect_f… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastru… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisa… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and…

@HealthAMental @JackilynMoore @LinkofSunshine Perhaps, but that’s not what that chart is saying. But I see many instances where the democrats always have rotating villains like Cuellar and Gottheimer to make sure republicans always get what they want, while I never see instances of republicans defecting to enact dem policy

Dems had a trifecta for like 41 days and immediately gave tens of millions of Americans healthcare

@simonsez40 @JackilynMoore @LinkofSunshine By 2005 the two parties had ceased overlapping ideologically in Congress so the most right wing D was to the left of the most left wing R. Even hyper-moderate Olympia Snowe voted against the ACA. pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

@JackilynMoore @LinkofSunshine Why do people accept that a North Dakota democrat is going to vote like a republican, but nobody ever assumes a NY or California republican is ever going to vote like a democrat?

@TheAttleeStan They’d say: “yep, seems about right”

imagine showing this to someone in 2019

When will people learn you cannot gerrymander a statewide elections 😭😭

@tenzyvau @BasketCasePA chomsky.info/an-eight-point…

@BasketCasePA because voting in the democrats is like giving a brat what he wants instead of actually trying to solve the issue. let the democrats earn their votes instead of just voting on them because otherwise the republicans win.

Hasan's reaction to my post in which he admits that he didn't endorse Kamala and doesn't regret it even though the Democrats are more aligned with him than Republicans. He could have just admitted what I said was correct and saved everyone a lot of time and effort. Lol.

@Perhapanaut @BasketCasePA kff.org/lgbtq/overview…

@BasketCasePA Or hey, I'm trans as well, tell me how much better Democrats would be while so much anti-trans legislation happened under Biden and Newsom was talking about throwing us under the bus. Tell me how fake your values are.

@dig6394 @ClassicalSocdem Historically, the only way the centre-left has neutralised “tax and spend” is by adopting anti-government rhetoric, if not anti-government policy.

@HealthAMental @ClassicalSocdem That attack can easily be neutralized by someone with clear messaging, which is why I don't lend it any credence. We are not interested in taxing the average consumer more, we want to tax the rich more Specifically regarding universal healthcare, there might be a slight tax

Daily reminder that “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” people don’t exist in real life While the opposite combination is much more common The left wins when the political debate is about economic issues, “identity politics” is a right wing/neoliberal psyop

@dig6394 @ClassicalSocdem How? Most Americans already have health coverage and would receive no immediate benefit, so conservatives could easily spin this as raising taxes to pay indolent poor people. Your strategy only works if we assume the right-wing media machine instantly folds.

@HealthAMental @ClassicalSocdem increase to fund it, though that is not strictly necessary, it is more realistic. But again, clear messaging can easily neutralize this attack, because anyone actually affected by this will easily end up with more money by cutting their healthcare costs entirely

@dig6394 @ClassicalSocdem Also what does AIPAC have to do with left wing economics? I thought the problem with neolibs was that they got distracted by culture war bs?

@HealthAMental @ClassicalSocdem Nancy Pelosi can't run an economic campaign when she does insider trading like the rest of them. No one who takes AIPAC money can run on economics. No one who opposes universal healthcare can run on economics. You have to actually believe in left-wing economics to run on it

@dig6394 @ClassicalSocdem No, it’s because of the “tax and spend” attack which—shockingly—promising to tax and spend more does not neutralise.

@HealthAMental @ClassicalSocdem The "left" (read democrats) lose on economics because democrats don't actually believe in left-leaning economics. They sometimes allude to it, and they fight for *some* policy, but they are the same lobbyist shills that the republicans are When democrats try to run on economics

@TomCottonAR Keep up the good fight #justiceforall #ChineseStateMedia

I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way. It's time to put an end to this nonsense.

@gothgirl_prelaw Australia moment

if we enacted ranked choice voting in all states for US presidential elections i feel like itd just be this for the next 60 years

@TrueSlazac It also doesn’t apply to Libya belfercenter.org/publication/le…

this doesn't apply to iraq lol that one was on the US

@UN @UN_Women Actually that's a more generous estimate than that recently given by the WEF in its 2022 report. Current estimates instead place it at 132 years. www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_…

Women & girls represent half of the world’s population, yet, no country has achieved gender equality. At the current rate, it will take 99.5 years to ensure they have equal rights. Join @UN_Women & stand up for gender equality: unwomen.org/en