Will the DNC Dems successfully destroy their party, or will they themselves collapse in a heap before then? Tune in to find out…
A key concept that keeps popping up is “allyship is not enough; we need accomplices”.
Basically, if you want to stand with an oppressed group, you need to put yourself in a position where your security is just as compromised as theirs is. Burn your privilege [1].
[1] Which may mean discard it, or it may mean spend it.
Also, see this thread:
White middle class liberal folks are useful as more than just human shields, fortunately.
Eleven million people; that’s roughly how many Americans are undocumented. That is what is at stake here.
And then he’ll move on to the Muslims…
Idle thought…
The traditional political graph was one dimensional, left/right. Initially it was industrial/mercantile wealth vs landed wealth (because who cares what the peasants think), later it transformed into socialism vs capitalism (because the peasants care, and they have guns now).
Libertarians whine about this, and argue for adding a second axis running from authoritarian to permissive. In their rhetoric, conservatism is authoritarian capitalist, communism is authoritarian socialist, liberals are permissive socialists (bullshit) and libertarians are permissive capitalists. Fascism gets tagged as either authoritarian socialist or authoritarian capitalist depending on the sophistication of the propagandist.
But their two-axis graph is still incomplete. It needs a third axis, for racism and xenophobia.
One of the leaked sections of the HRC book contains a section that could be read as criticism of the people who came to the Women’s March.
Regardless of whether or not that is a valid reading, the response is generating some interesting threads.
Like this one:
Thread:
Important Chapo today; the usual juvenilia at the start, but it gets serious quickly.
Goddamn, the Democrats are not being nearly the problem the “liberal” media is.
To be clear - I agree 100% with this.
Reading his ramblings it’s pretty clear he meant Bernie’s tax returns for some reason because he should have released as many as Hillary did - not that Bernie was a Russian agent.
Then again, Glenn Greenwald does almost zero research ever when it comes the HRC.
Appears originally in the Daily Mail without context (literally a single sentence) and quickly passed around far-right blogs, anyone tweet pictures?
Gotta second that. When I was abled enough to protest, there was a big Nazi rally (April 2008) and a group of Nazis attacked us before the rally. Then the police swooped in and grabbed some protesters for defending themselves. I have pics of two of the attackers.
Nothing substantial with a quick Google.
OTOH, if it were false, I would expect HRC to have denied it by now.
But the very, very far right on economic issues have zero interest in allowing that alliance unless it’s an alliance on social issues, not economic issues.
I took it as satirical. How could you not?