Leftist Hot Takes

If you are one of the New York landlords who object to the rent freeze because you "can not afford to" make slightly less income for doing nothing, then I volunteer to take the property off your hands. You can get a real job if sitting on an extremely valuable asset is too hard

@NigrumFry @sheilanazarian Huh, where did this happen? In your large intestine before you pulled it out of your ass?

I want to ask the students screaming “Death to America”, do you have any idea what happens when American values die? Because I do. My family fled Iran, a country where freedom died. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone. You think America is oppressive because you have never experienced real oppression. You think silence is violence because you’ve never been silenced. You think words are dangerous because you have never watched a government drag someone away for speaking them. You think capitalism is evil because you have never stood in a bread line. You think borders are immoral because you have never had to flee across one. You think revolution is romantic because you have never had a revolution take everything from you. I have. And that’s why I refuse to be quiet.

@V4Carver @space_stations @sheilanazarian If you were in favor of legal immigration, you would not have voted for the guy that ran on lying about legal immigrants, saying they eat your pets. Just about every immigrant I know values self-reliance and freedom. You are trying to take their freedom away

You don’t need to read a book, you have obviously been educated beyond your limited intellect already. Conservatives are in favor of legal immigration. A nation without the ability to control their borders is no longer sovereign. We used to be a melting pot, where immigrants were proud to become citizens and assimilate. No longer. We are now a crock pot of people who refuse to adhere to our American values of liberty, self reliance and freedom. We have first generation immigrants trying to remake their political districts in the manner of the countries that they fled.

@J_MeD_ @space_stations @sheilanazarian I don't know if you really believe this, but your representatives definitely don't. Many right wingers admit that they just want less migration. This is also implied from their behavior. When Trump lied about Haitians eating pets, it was an attack on legal immigrants

@space_stations @sheilanazarian What? You’re view of right wingers is hysterically comical. Right wingers live immigrants. They just want them here legally.

@5minute_witness @sheilanazarian A religious chant? America is not in the Quran. Christians are are referred to as people of the book. It's obviously a geopolitical chant, akin to us saying "death to al-Qaeda" after 9/11. We wouldn't care about al-Qaeda if it had stayed in its part of the world

@sheilanazarian "Death to America" is a religious chant. People speaking it don't care about our values. They expect God to reward them - for killing us and everyone who isn't them - with our country You can't reason with them. They don't think America is oppressive, they think it's theirs

@TheBillJustice1 @sheilanazarian Thinking that unequal outcomes are a result of inherent intelligence is far more naive. Unless you can completely control for environmental factors, you cannot prove this

@sheilanazarian The Class 1 folks think unequal outcomes equals oppression, which is painfully naive.

@mirijoie You realize that 10/7 would have happened with or without Bibi, right? The root source of the conflict (Palestinians not having rights) would still exist. It's ironic how a nation founded on self-determination for Jews would deny it to another group of people

They’re making Bibi the fall guy and I think that’s beautiful. I hope Israel will recognize this as the outstretched hand it truly is, and vote accordingly come October. A season without Bibi would be healthy for all. You can always vote him back in again next election cycle, lord knows he’ll run.

@Nechama12345 @LDSGroyp @mirijoie Neo-Nazis have stupid solutions. The Nakba should have never happened, but the only ethical solution at this point is replacing the apartheid system with a real democracy with equal rights for all. Similar to South Africa. More mass killing and ethnic cleansing won't fix it

@LDSGroyp @mirijoie Someone would actually have to conquer the country for that to happen, so it seems unlikely. Also, where would all the Sephardi Jews be deported to in your plan? The Arab countries won't take them back, and that's like 4 million ppl

@IndieChefster @bklnfin3st @ClippingWings Politico not having those texts because she later deleted them for closure does not mean they never existed. They likely did exist because she told others about the incident at the time. Why would she make this up before Platner was a political figure?

@bklnfin3st @ClippingWings Those texts do not exist. Politico does not have the “don’t come over” texts. They report her saying those texts existed, then later say she deleted all texts/social correspondence with Platner.

Emma Vigeland lightly pushes back on Ryan Grim's criticism of Politico not including the 'glute massage' detail in the Platner story

@bklnfin3st @ClippingWings Well, I guess the idea is that he may not have seen the follow-up text clarifying that the glute comment was not an invitation. He may not have seen it because he immediately started driving when he saw the first text that he misinterpreted as an invitation.

@ClippingWings The situation is pretty straightforward the moment she told him to stay home he should’ve stayed home

@southrongirl @johnnyfrederix @ClippingWings @ryangrim @EmmaVigeland I feel like people in this thread are talking past each other. The most that this additional context would tell us is that the break-in may have been a misunderstanding (if Platner didn't see the follow-up text), but it does not excuse the actual rape at all

@johnnyfrederix @ClippingWings @ryangrim @EmmaVigeland Im glad the rape apologists are outing themselves

@southrongirl @OGNAGBONE @ClippingWings @ryangrim @EmmaVigeland If you were actually paying attention to Emma this week, it's pretty clear she made a complete 180 on Platner as soon as the rape story came out. She did not excuse his behavior at all

@OGNAGBONE @ClippingWings @ryangrim @EmmaVigeland I have unfortunately listened to MR all this week, Emma has made her stance VERY clear

@Reereelmao @ClippingWings I don't know why Ryan is obsessed with this, but I think his point is that saying "I need a glute massage" to a casual partner could be misinterpreted as an invitation. If he also didn't see the follow-up text while driving, then it explains the break-in, but not the rape

@ClippingWings What a fucking moron. Why is he running a hypothetical where she asks him to come over and give her a massage… She didn’t. Ryan grim has said she didn’t do this… What a vile person

@davidro48157546 @infolibnews It already has de facto. And the Palestinians living there can't vote. That's why we call it an apartheid state.

@infolibnews Israel should annex Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

Axios: "Do you consider Israel an apartheid state?" Gavin Newsom: "I said that was directional as it relates to what Tom Friedman was arguing about the annexation of the West Bank... so no." "My biggest concern—my red flag—is Netanyahu, period… I've been very critical of him." "I've long supported the state of Israel."

@DaliaCanora @infolibnews Netanyahu actually represents his people well when it comes to Israel's foreign policy. They all agree on taking over Gaza and Lebanon and starting a war of choice against Iran. They just tell themselves they need to take over the entire Middle East to be safe

@infolibnews What a despicable slime ball. IsraHell is a society of sick, psychopathic creatures & Newsom wants to pin the savagery on one person: Netanyahu. He’s not the root cause but a symptom of the project of Zionism, one founded on terrorism, rooted in GENOCIDE. x.com/ireallyhateyou…

@donald_s_miller @infolibnews You realize that you threatening to murder Jewish people and turn them into lampshades only justifies these insane censorship policies?

@infolibnews I suspect Todd, who is Jewish, shares the very real concern expressed by Alex Karp that he could end up as a lampshade if severe censorship, both devious and overt, isn't implemented

Chuck Todd: "I was working with a small startup about a year ago that…through technology, was trying to essentially hack the TikTok algorithm… Views on Israel were -20 pts… They couldn't get pro-Jewish content amplified!" Does this sound like an impartial journalist?

@DivisiveDevices @ostonox @ettingermentum Buddy, you might want to take your own advice about having humility because your GOAT Bill Clinton was also credibly accused of rape and was buddies with the king of the pedos

@ostonox @ettingermentum oh my goddddd your guy just got outed as a rapist please have some fucking humility for once in your life

It looks like the reports about him trying to make his departure conditional on him getting to choose his successor are true. Utterly embarrassing behavior on his part that could turn this into an even bigger disaster for his supposed movement.

@drwatsonabc @USA_Polling Not saying your analysis is wrong, but that would be absolutely psychotic. And it would expose that the establishment prefers a Republican over a progressive, which would not go well with their electorate.

@USA_Polling The establishment has no incentive to play ball with Platner. If they don't get their candidate, they can just write off Maine, go all in on Texas and Iowa and if we don't win the Senate that way, they have a convenient scapegoat to punch left with next cycle.

Fastest way to keep Platner in the Senate race is to try and get a Blue Dog Democrat to replace him Not a fucking chance lmfao

@SeanMcGann98 @ostonox @ettingermentum Not even his victim wants that. She didn't sound like she even wanted him in jail. She said she wanted the truth out there and didn't want him in a position of power. But she shared his politics, so probably would not mind him using his leverage to elevate his politics

@ostonox @ettingermentum He’s a rapist, he should have been beaten to death 24 hours ago

@SakethSD @ostonox @ettingermentum I don't think the argument is that he should publicly endorse. That would obviously destroy the campaign of the person he endorses. Presumably this was something happening behind the scenes and was leaked.

@ostonox @ettingermentum You realize that if you let Platner handpick a successor you’re going to get “CHOSEN BY A NAZI RAPIST” ads about them till the general election

@cakeboss26 @ostonox @ettingermentum I think it's more that the voters should have the power to pick his replacement. If that can't be done through a formal primary process but the person they voted for has the leverage to get them what they want, then that leverage should be used

@ostonox @ettingermentum You are saying a rapist should have the power to pick his replacement. Fuck that, he has ceded any kind of power he once had and if that means he's petty enough to stay in if his bluff is called, then Maine is lost and the Bernie wing is dead and we get president Newsom in 2028.