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all for the low low cost of killing 50+ million of your own people over the last century, 1 million actively in prison camps, and zero essential freedom.
Power to the People ☭🕊@ProudSocialist
The new American dream is escaping to Communist China where you can actually afford groceries, housing, and health care.
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@steady_drumbeat @Leibniz0x0 With Mamdani I guess, but the Piker stuff is legitimate chase for concern
I’d also note that more independents voters thought that Harris was *too* left wing, not that she wasn’t left wing enough
That needs to be a warning sign for Dems
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The sad part about this is how avoidable this is. Americans are desperately searching for a reasonable alternative to MAGA, and Democrats are having a civil war trying to decide whether they want to be that reasonable alternative, or sprint directly into left wing extremism
Swann Marcus@SwannMarcus89
Long term the Democrats are completely fucked. They keep moving left and 60% of American voters already think the Democrats are too liberal. The party is overwhelmingly hated and it will get worse The Democrats are only able to compete because Donald Trump is still alive
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@ForlongD Hasan Piker’s pro-USSR, pro-China, anti-Ukraine faux anti imperialism, immaturely violent attitude and policy framing
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Thank God those assassins keep failing because JD Vance would kick our ass
Swann Marcus@SwannMarcus89
Long term the Democrats are completely fucked. They keep moving left and 60% of American voters already think the Democrats are too liberal. The party is overwhelmingly hated and it will get worse The Democrats are only able to compete because Donald Trump is still alive
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@demsocsean I think it's clear that swing voters know and do not like Janet Mills and Platner is better.
whether that advantage continues to hold is less clear after all the negative GOP ads. I still think he wins, but it's not obvious that he's this elite candidate. x.com/lxeagle17/stat…
Lakshya Jain@lxeagle17
Janet Mills is an extremely weak candidate. It is likely that Platner is better than her. But the GOP hasn't run anti-Platner ads yet, and swing voters do not tune into politics this early. It's also why Mastriano's early competitiveness cratered fast when Shapiro got on TV.
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I think Platner wins by ~2%, because the generic ballot is D+8 and Maine is 7% bluer than the country.
But it's odd that folks say he's electable based on how he does with *Democratic primary voters* when these same people never make that mistake with Blake Masters and the GOP.
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@longmarchofwonk @mattyglesias Let's wait until the Nazi failson actually wins an election before we proclaim him the new model candidate.
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Something you're seeing today is that one of the signature characteristics of the left insurgents is they are very graceless about winning.
They got what they wanted in Maine, but instead of pivoting to bring people in and beat Susan Collins they're doing ongoing factionalism.
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I believe that if you look at the actual demographic patterns of support, it does not shake out this way.
The Palestine News Network@PaliNewsNetwork
@ChuckThies @kenyanmcduffie White Crackers support Kenyan McDuffie Real Washingtonians support JANEESE ✅
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I was part of the campaign that elected New York City’s second Black mayor, and I’m damn proud of it.
Jesse Cannon@JesseCannonIRL
@BPolatseck @ericadamsfornyc You were a part of one of the worst campaigns ever run that people will be laughing about for decades to come and you’re lecturing people. Real self aware
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there are no homeless in china which is why they still build hostile architecture
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there are 600 million chinese people living with less than $540 a month, but hey look at this computer generated concept video of an imaginary consumer product, isn’t china great? i’m a leftist btw
The Meme-Industrial Complex@MemeIndustrial
The US gets Palantir and the dumbest false flags in history meanwhile China has universal housing and healthcare and education and high-speed rail and TVs that do this
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@papanoel_cool They’re just going to make sure their residency is in another state
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The tax is genuinely poorly designed and would levy a 100% tax rate on certain people because it’s levied based on voting power
matt@mattxiv
a man fighting against a ONE TIME 5% TAX on billionaires so that the poorest among us can have healthcare is not someone who should be president btw
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@neontaster @USSpaceLawyer I’m glad the failed streamer turned failed podcaster has given his analysis
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If the shooter doesn't send Ken his manifesto personally, he's going to act like it doesn't exist.
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein
To figure out why Cole Allen did what he did, I obtained a copy of his resume and talked to his former friends. The portrait that emerges is unlike what the White House is saying: kenklippenstein.com/p/assassin-was…
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@phil_mcalister You’re right it’s totally the same between making poverty wages and 6 figures definitely the same dynamics
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Imagine you were working for someone for $100,000/yr. You both voluntarily arrived at this arrangement.
Of course you want more and of course he wants to pay you less but the market for the job is $100k.
He hired you because the marginal revenue of a year of your labor is approximately $100k.
Now the minimum wage gets set at $150k.
Boss says "at $150k the job doesn't add as much value as I have to pay so you're fired."
You say "we had a nice arrangement just keep paying me the $100k"
This guy would have you believe that somehow you're now being stolen from because of an arbitrary number some politican made up about wages.
It's tough to take these people seriously
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Of course only an idiot would say Britain was communist. With oil, gas, telephones, coal, steel, railroads, electricity, trucking, canals all nationalized; with a completely state run healthcare system; with no one able to build anything without government permission; rationing on meat, bread, and sundries; no one able to hold foreign currency until 1979; arbitrary freezes on dividends; a 98% tax on investment income; with government ownership of the major producers of transportation; with frequent statutory pay raises and freezes across all industry; a third of all housing state-owned; with industrial planning done by the government, and them taking equity stakes in major industrial concerns; with government spending half the GDP; with every import of industrial inputs requiring government permission from the Board of Trade — yes, truly, only a fool would say that they were communist.
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It is no surprise that Britain is struggling; after all, they were for many years a communist country.
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When people talk about "wage theft," it is almost always presented as an employer refusing to pay an employee an amount the employer agreed to pay. That happens (I had an employer wind up owing me a couple thousand dollars at some point) but it's usually not what's happening.
Most "wage theft," is an employer paying what was agrees and what the employee expects but the agreement violates labor law. Maybe the employee has agreed to work for less than minimum wage maybe the employer is supposed to be paying overtime but isn't, maybe the employer is treating pre-shift or post-shift time that's supposed to be on the clock as off the clock, but it's what the employer signed up for.
This later thing is illegal, and we can debate how bad it is, but it isn't what most people would consider "theft," it's a voluntary transaction. It's not even obvious that it makes the employee worse off, since if the employee hadn't agreed to these terms, the employer may have gone with someone better qualified to make up for the higher cost, or just not filled the position.
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Maybe you should visit the institute for the study of totalitarian regimes in Prague. You may learn a thing or two about what the results of the implementation of your ideology are.
Fredda@PunishedFredda
I would maybe read a historian or two
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Genuinely, future historians will be baffled by how the US exclusively went all in on AI and datacenters while China went all in on solar and electric vehicles.
outside five sigma@jwt0625
another even crazier gap
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It’s one thing to think the current fight is unwise or is being mismanaged, but it’s another to openly cheer an enemy terror regime responsible for killing countless Americans.
Rather clear that some Dems are so blinded by partisanship that they have crossed that line.
Josh Kraushaar@JoshKraushaar
BREAKING @J_Insider via @melissaeweiss: "Sen. Chris Murphy applauds Iranian ships against U.S. Navy" "The Connecticut senator responded ‘awesome’ to a report that 26 Iranian vessels evaded the U.S.’ maritime blockade" jewishinsider.com/2026/04/chris-…
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Platner is lying.
Matthew Kassel@matthewkassel
Graham Platner tells Zeteo he learned he had a Nazi chest tattoo “three or four days before” he “had it covered up” last October, even as a former acquaintance told JI he had referred to the image as a Totenkopf more than a decade ago (a claim he denies) zeteo.com/graham-platner…
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