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The country wants this. I've just come to accept that.
I think they'll regret it when they get it full force, but they clearly want it. Let them have it.
Just pray the rule of law survives it.
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Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦
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Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦
@bdquinn
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Madison, WI Katılım Temmuz 2009
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There are a lot of leftists who think liberal democracy is just generally an irredeemable bourgeois institution that gets in the way of "real reform."
Trump being hostile to liberal democracy is therefore seen as useful.
The Notorious S.E.B.@bigseb31213
not even pretending to not be pro trump accelerationists anymore. Could not care how many people are hurt or killed as long as they can mask the dolls together and make them kiss
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1. The idea that Stalin and Mao are historical footnotes is the most absurd thing I've seen in at least a couple weeks.
2. The idea that Stalin was worse than Hitler in death toll relies on "only" counting the Holocaust's death toll for Hitler.
Calvin@RealCalvin1
Hitler is mentioned a lot in history books. Stalin and Mao are nearly footnotes despite doing far worse. You should ask yourself why.
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@DJBranham I don't view Piker and me as being on the same side, ultimately. I'm not aiming to make this country like the PRC, but he is. The illiberal left is not something I'm interested in creating alliances with.
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@DJBranham Piker being around is one thing. Democrats buying into the Piker worldview that China and Cuba are the ways we should govern our country, I want nothing to do with that.
Piker is illiberal and I won't vote for illiberal candidates of any stripe.
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Throwing us to the wolves of fascism because of one streamer
Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦@bdquinn
If the party becomes genuinely Commie-curious, I'm out. I'm just going to stop voting.
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I think a lot of not especially radical Democratic primary voters are going to be prone to vote DSA just to "shake things up" without realizing quite what they're getting themselves into.
As many have said, it's not appreciated just how out there the DSA is on a lot of issues.
Magdi Jacobs@magi_jay
"Radical socialism" is not "taking over" the Dem party. DSA did have a few tactical victories so far this year. Nothing overwhelming. They get outsized media attention. B/c shitting on Democrats always gets outsized media attention. Somewhat concerning. Not *that* concerning.
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I'm not abandoning the Democrats over Piker as it currently stands. If the party becomes Pikerist, though, I'm out.
DJ Branham 🗽@DJBranham
Throwing us to the wolves of fascism because of one streamer
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@JoshMosh138 Single-payer isn't the only way to achieve universal health care. Leftists seem to always ignore this. Most universal health care systems in the world aren't single-payer.
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That's a funny way to say, "This is all the unvarnished truth."
Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦@bdquinn
It's amazing how essentially none of this is true.
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Milwaukee County and the city of Milwaukee getting greater sales tax authority was a good thing. The consensus in Wisconsin on that point spans pretty close to the whole political spectrum.
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein
Asked what policy he's most proud of, candidate for governor of Wisconsin, David Crowley, points to a regressive sales tax hike (Act 12) and a property tax cut he pushed through. "We helped to cut taxes, the largest property tax cut in our, in our county's history."
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@shift_in2_turbo Single-payer isn't the only way to achieve universal health care. Medicare-for-All people seem to never appreciate this fact.
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@shift_in2_turbo Single-payer isn't the only way to achieve universal health care.
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Biden vowed to veto it if it reached his desk.
Hillary Clinton said it would never happen.
Obama shot it down in 2009.
Jonathan Chait@jonathanchait
Universal health care is not a DSA position. It's a standard Democratic Party position. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/…
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It's amazing how essentially none of this is true.
Karim is reading A Farewell to Arms@shift_in2_turbo
Biden vowed to veto it if it reached his desk. Hillary Clinton said it would never happen. Obama shot it down in 2009.
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Trumpism is fundamentally populist plutocracy. Sounds like a contradiction, but it's all a question of what you're populist against.
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Yeah, he pretty well shattered the consensus for free markets almost all by himself.
Funny enough, he did it in a very plutocratic way where he thinks government should be intervening all the time on behalf of connected interests.
Justin Slaughter@JBSDC
@jasonc_nc Trump not believing in free markets is the best thing that ever happened to DSA. It’s single-handedly moved Overton Window on state ownership to left by multiple standard deviations.
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Yeah, public opinion on taxes these days is a massive roadblock for what Dems want to do at both the state and federal levels. The overwhelming pressure is for continued tax reductions for all but the very highest earners.
Justin Slaughter@JBSDC
@bahradx Yeah I think Matt agrees with that. But it’s truly the exception to the rule. And I think he believes, as I do, this is a really bad change! We can’t fund a social safety net if we can’t ever raise taxes on those making 150k!
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@bdquinn Wow a $60B pipeline for a war that cost $3T 20 years ago.
I was still right the war was a terrible mistake.
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Dick Cheney would be loving this.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Iraq signs 48 deals with U.S. companies worth over $60 billion, including a pipeline project aimed at bypassing the Strait of Hormuz.
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Also, the DSA still holds to all of the defund/abolish the police, empty the prisons, allow petty theft, and on and on and on positions. The DSA is drunk on calling everything white supremacy, systemic racism, colonialism, etc. It's central to their rhetoric.
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I'd believe this more if the typical DSA gathering wasn't 50% masked.
Eric@Ericrse37986
The biggest truth nuke is that most Democrats who vote for moderates in primaries are actually Bluesky libs who are stuck in Woke 1.0.
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@Proxy_Tank Yeah, it's my biggest problem with Dem party leadership.
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Not sure about the dementia label, but I do think running for reelection with a garbage approval rating and otherwise not good health was something that party leadership should have intervened to stop.
The coalescing around Biden was a sign of what ails the Dem establishment.
Eric@Ericrse37986
A quick reminder to everyone that the biggest reason why we are in this mess right now is because Biden selfishly decided to run for reelection despite having dementia and the entire Democratic Party went hard for it.
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@Jameslo27683575 Biden dipped his toe in the water there in late 2024, but it was much too late.
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@bdquinn The US has offically held that the settlements are illegal but has never actually sancitoned Israel over them
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Because for most people Israel/Palestine isn't even a top 10 issue.
Eric@Ericrse37986
Why do a lot of boomer Dems say they think Israel is bad but keep voting for pro-Israel Dems in primaries?
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Big swaths of the electorate haven't forgotten or forgiven all of that. I think that's fair, too. The party loyalty drive at the expense of being rational about what was necessary to at least try to stave off defeat was a terminal error.
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go with someone else. At a minimum, Biden had to at least prove he still had it. Thank God Trump decided to do the early debate because otherwise we would've had the turnout crushing effect of a failing Biden on the campaign trail.
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