@ACGuerrilla @mattyglesias @daveweigel @semaforben AND saying, "I never said, 'defund the police'", before pivoting to claiming it won't hurt him electorally.
Wait, that's not a gesture.
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Anthemius
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@mattyglesias @daveweigel @semaforben AES’s gesture of moderation is tamping down his support for Hamas and Hezbollah.
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This is from Nate Cohn's column and Abdul says a version of it. Voters see a candidate Rs *and* Chuck Schumer hates and assume he's a rebel, not necessarily a left-winger. You need to work to brand him as left-wing
alex bronzini-vender@alexbronzini
This is pretty remarkable
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@jessesingal I'd rather use "Ossoffmania" than "Ossofforrhea" - two VERY different things. ;)
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I like Ossoff. I wouldn't say I've contracted a case of Ossofforrhea but I do feel some symptoms coming on
Headquarters@HQNewsNow
Sen. @Ossoff: Who won the 2020 election? DNI nominee Jay Clayton: I'm not going to do this with you Ossoff: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Clayton: I'm not gonna get into that with you Ossoff: You refuse to answer a basic question about who won a presidential election, but you ask to lead America's intelligence community. Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the president's delusions?
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8: Obama winning
15/16: Bernie Sanders running, making me left.
16: Hillary losing, deepening the left shift.
20: Me preferring Biden over Bernie.
21: Jan 6th
23: Hamas War
24: Harris losing
25-26: Growing disillusionment with the left AND the establishment.
st. vincent-st. marys grad@PuckFupett69
6: Clinton Impeachment 9: Eleven 11: Iraq War 15: Ron Paul campaign 16: joined the Something Awful forums and started reading LF 17: Jeezy releases “My President” 19: worked for a Romney super PAC 24: Trump president 28: BLM protests 30: moved back to America 33: StVG23 banned
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Anthemius retweetledi
I hate the line (which is racist, by the way) that Black voters are "reactionary" or "low information."
I'm sorry, but perhaps you're the reactionary, low information voter? Have you talked to Black voters? I've canvassed for Dems before in heavily Black and Hispanic areas, and it's illuminating.
Basically, a lot of them are quite jaded. They don't always pay attention to the minutia of politics, not like us freaks on X. But many (and working class white Dems as well) are very skeptical of insurgent candidates that make big promises. I'll never forget one woman in particular who yelled at her adult son, in front of me, for saying he didn't like how they just "rigged" the race in 2024 to have Harris become the nominee.
She went on and on about he was listening to that "stupid shit" again, and made it clear that she meant the "stupid shit" that was insurgent anti-establishment narratives that split the vote against people like Clinton on 2016 and Gore in 2000, handing the win to their Republican challengers.
That stuck with me. You don't need to know the minutia of politics to be informed. What matter is strategic voting choices and knowing how American democracy works. That's what I heard time and time again from supposedly "low information" voters. They wanted to know, which candidate was going to defeat the Republican, and which was realistic enough to actually get things done to make their own lives better?
It was not typically a battle to get a lot of working class or younger voters to not vote Republican or not vote third party. The battle was that a lot are inclined to not vote AT ALL. That is where lefty ratfucking and negative campaigning really makes a difference. If someone has limited time to pay attention to politics or learn the minutia of policy positions, they want to know who can win. Any hint of a scandal makes the skepticism of pragmatic voters weary.
The far left simply does not understand how certain voters act and make decisions, because they do not want to know. It flies in the face of their entire worldview that there is some secret majority of temporarily embarrassed socialists that just need to be persuaded by smearing the "establishment" enough.
But that's not the case. There are no secret socialists. There are just mostly people weighing the possibility of staying home versus voting at all.
Batya Ungar-Sargon@bungarsargon
In a new poll, Haley Stevens is cleaning Abdul el Sayed's clock with working class voters—by nearly 20 points. And she's ahead with Black voters by 46 points (!). This is the same trend we've seen with all the DSA candidates. Socialism by and for white elites.
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I only support "Free Palestine" as a way to get a two-state solution.
I doubt a lot of activists have put much thought at all into what that slogan means - and I suspect that a LOT of the guys who want a one-state solution are either dangerously naive, or have darker goals.
Heimish Humor@HeimishHumor
For everyone chanting "Free Palestine," you ever stop to think what would happen if all 7 million Jews just got up and left Israel? There would be a second civil war between Hamas and the PA which Hamas would win again. Hamas would then impose their terrorist state on the West Bank and on the 2.1 million Arab-Israelis in Israel. Thousands would be killed. Democracy would end. Women would lose all rights. Gays would be executed in the streets. All of Israel would become Gaza. Maybe you haven't really thought this through.
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Anthemius retweetledi
Some interesting notes from @EchelonInsights national poll re: Democratic Socialists
Fav:Unfav:
Total: 25:46
NPA: 20:47
Suburban: 23:49
Rural: 21:48
Non-College: 24: 45
Undecided on Congressional vote: 5:40
This shit is toxic to actual swing voters.
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Anthemius retweetledi
"Who are your sympathies with more?"
All:
🔵 Israelis: 27%
🟢 Palestinians: 25%
🟡 Equal: 24%
Democrats:
🟢 Palestinians: 36%
🟡 Equals: 31%
🔵 Israelis: 10%
Republicans:
🔵 Israelis: 58%
🟡 Equal: 18%
🟢 Palestinians: 6%
YouGov / July 13, 2026
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Anthemius retweetledi
Bruh.
We have vaccines for cancer now.
Electric cars and solar power are saving us from climate change.
Small countries can defend themselves against empires thanks to drones.
Taxis drive themselves now.
People with cystic fibrosis live to 65 instead of 25.
YOU HAVE DEPRESSION.
Seth Harp@sethharpesq
Technology is making the world worse. Nothing good has been invented in the last 25 years. Superfluous, spurious innovations that seem impressive at first, like the iPhone, take back more than they give and ultimately benefit only oppressive governments and their oligarch allies.
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Anthemius retweetledi
@mattyglesias It isn't AIPAC money that's putting Stevens ahead. It's this guy out front with his message, smarmily turning off every undecided in his wake.
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The whining about featuring Obama praising Stevens in an ad is funny to those of us who remember when AES was receiving flattering comparisons to Obama which he rejected out of hand on the grounds that Obama is bad.
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@DJ_Name @mattyglesias Like Bernie in 2024? He was one of the last to ditch Biden.
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@mattyglesias Sure, let's listen to the people who tried to run this dementia patient:
thecut.com/2020/04/joe-bi…
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He's arguing against "vetting " because he flunked vetting.
Nate Blouin@NateForUtah
You're going to start hearing a lot about how "vetted" a candidate is and it's becoming generally understood to mean that they're approved by the establishment and nothing more.
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@NateForUtah @mattyglesias Fine. Objectively, you need to watch what you say. We SELECT you to vet, because a). You say stupid things, and b). You're behaving like a child with stupid GIFs to criticism. Again, like a child.
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@mattyglesias Also, I’m not arguing against vetting. I’m arguing against it being used selectively and subjectively.
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That's it, I'm leaving X and becoming a monk.
Tim@trouble_man90
According to the Platner class, this is a good pick for the general
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Anthemius retweetledi
My dear Western friends, many of whom I know have good hearts and sincerely support humanitarian causes, including the Palestinian cause:
please hear this from someone who knows the Middle East deeply.
It is entirely noble to support Palestinians in their aspiration to live with dignity, security, and prosperity alongside Israel.
It is noble to mourn innocent Palestinian lives lost in war, just as it is noble to mourn innocent Israeli lives.
But what is neither noble nor compassionate is supporting a terrorist movement disguised as a humanitarian cause especially one that openly or indirectly calls for the annihilation of another state and an entire people.
This is what I call suicidal empathy: compassion detached from judgment, directed toward an ideology that would eventually turn against the very freedoms and societies protecting it.
The moment you wear their symbols and celebrate their slogans, and want to “free” them by annihilating others (this is what their slogan means), remember that good intentions do not make an evil ideology good.
Supporting evil does not make you virtuous. It makes you a fool.
You’re welcome. 🌹
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Yeah, TOTALLY not controversial. NOT going near THOSE comments.
As for me, Ukraine good, Taiwan good......staying the heck out of Israel/Palestine.
FalkTG 10k 🦅🇪🇺🇩🇪🇺🇦@FalkTG
🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼 Good smart idealist 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 Good dumb idealist 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇳 Good smart opportunist 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇨🇳 Good dumb opportunist 🇷🇺🇮🇱🇹🇼 Evil smart idealist 🇷🇺🇵🇸🇹🇼 Evil dumb idealist 🇷🇺🇮🇱🇨🇳 Evil smart opportunist 🇷🇺🇵🇸🇨🇳 Evil dumb opportunist Shouldn’t be controversial
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Good. I'm all for two-state solution, but there's lines that the pro-Palestine side (which I'm technically part of, albeit loosely) shouldn't cross.
One's whitewashing Hamas, and another's denying Israel's right to exist. A lot of these influencers like to blur that line.
European Jewish Congress@eurojewcong
The German parliament has advanced a bill that would make denial of Israel’s right to exist a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in prison. The legislation received backing from Germany’s upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat. It will now travel to the lower house, the Bundestag. Under the proposal, anyone who publicly or at a gathering denies the right of the State of Israel to exist, or calls for its elimination, would face punishment. In legal terms, this means Germany is expanding Section 130 StGB (its criminal code) beyond Holocaust denial to include existential denial of Israel. According to the bill’s justification, existing criminal provisions (such as incitement of hatred, approval of criminal acts, or the use of symbols of terrorist organizations) currently apply only in individual cases and are insufficient.
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