Gonna cross-post this here, as they get into the why conservatives keep trying to co-opt alternative/countercultural movements (like punk, goth, hip-hop, etc) and that they don’t “get it”…
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The tone of this does seem a bit favorable…
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NY Times killed investigation of Israeli hooligans, internal email reveals
The New York Times has killed an investigation by one of its own reporters into Israeli mob violence in Amsterdam earlier this month.In an internal Times email inadvertently shared with The Electronic Intifada, Dutch reporter Christiaan Triebert explained to a manager that he had pitched “a visual investigation I was conducting into the events of [6-8 November] in Amsterdam.”
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can’t take 11 million people in, I expect 
won’t be keen either.
Edit: IIRC keeping people enslaved in the 
is legal, if they are prisoners.
I’m thinking the USD 9bn in services and USD 2bn in goods generated by slave labour in prisons is about to get a yuge boost.
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I don’t know who that is, but he seems a little foolish.
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You can tell how “progressive” they are by how much they’re tripping over themselves to suck up to and praise actual fascists.
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He has a youtube show called the Young Turks and lately he’s been doing all sorts of shitty anti-trans stuff (among other things)… he’s part of the dirt bag left.
Jinx, @Catsidhe…
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I tried watching the Young Turks a few years ago. I watched about 5 minutes and gave up.
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We need a “dog slap” reaction emoji.
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When is he going to stop pretending to be progressive? He’s not left-wing now, if he ever was at all.
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I gave TYT a chance years ago and never cared for them. One thing I remember from those early episodes was Cenk talking about how he used to be a conservative. I think he’s been pretending for a long time.
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He’s a sucker. He thinks Elon was actually listening to him.
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This. Cenk could suggest something actually progressive, let’s say shift some of the Pentagon weapon development budget to the Department of Education to pay off people’s student loans.
Elon responds, “Great idea, Cenk!”
Elon then goes on stage like it’s a Tesla product launch and says, “This suggestion came from lefty Cenk Uygur. We’re dissolving the Department of Education and shifting that money to a Starlink-Tesla joint development of electric networked killer space drones! Yay bipartisanship!”
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That always seemed like a dodgy interpretation, retconned during the Jim Crow era,
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
That doesn’t seem to imply that all punishment for crime is automatically equivalent to slavery or involuntary servitude, but that those remained as punishment options, if sentenced to it, like the death penalty. (Where are the Originalists, checking to see what the drafters of the 13th actually intended?)
Too bad that it’ll be a long time before there’s a SCOTUS willing to consider that argument.
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It’s how they justify forcing prisoners to work for pennies per hour and pocket the difference.
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