Trump and then the Pandemic reshuffled EVERYTHING about American politics. You all still pretending it's 2015 is why you are so completely unequipped to deal with ANYTHING that's happening right now.
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Trump and then the Pandemic reshuffled EVERYTHING about American politics. You all still pretending it's 2015 is why you are so completely unequipped to deal with ANYTHING that's happening right now.
No one but conservatives wants to go back to the 2015 status quo. COVID imposed multiple seismic changes in our entire political landscape. We learned that "impossible" things were possible after all, and then we were told to forget everything we saw. That's just not gonna happen.
Jeffries is a crab bucket piece of shit who goes to taco trucks just to see if they have green cards. He's the mfr who calls the police with a noise complaint and "Also I smell weed." He's the guy at church who gives a sermon about "discernment" right before he gets arrested for embezzlement.
Make it stop...
She's a Clinton.
I mean, we got to see this in real life with DOGE and it's been happening at factory farms since before I was born. Giant megacorp that is also the literal government has no oversight and no regulations to follow, behaves exactly as you would expect.
It’s such a cheap shot, too. When I started Getting Into Politics, it was activists from Alabama and Georgia and Missouri who taught me the most. They FIGHT HARD to protect their communities under the most difficult of conditions.
Would someone PLEASE slap this uncle tom bastard.
There are two kinds of people: 1) "Teachers are some of the most important people in our society and they are not paid or appreciated nearly as well as they should be." 2) "Teachers are snobby elitists with six figure incomes and cushy pensions and who can be easily replaced with chatbots."
Didn't they turn that into parkland? I thought I heard that somewhere.
Unless they're planning to confiscate a fleet of duck boats, it aint happening. They just don't plain don't have em in the Great Lakes.
Where they gonna land, though?
It aint the loop I'm worried about. ICEholes are cowards and like easy targets. That means they'll be going after random single moms in Skokie and GrubHub drivers in Forest Glenn or some shit.
It's one of the largest naval baes in the country. At least three entrances plus some service roads. You're not blocking that with anything less that a battalion. * Slowly turns and looks at Pritzker who has the authority to deploy the ING*
If you hear about a Mexican Independence Day celebration in your area, go. There is strength in numbers and — especially if you’re white — you can protect your community just by being there and not flinching if ICE shows up. These goons are cowards. Don’t be one.
Keep your neighbors safe and your community informed
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The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
they'll never admit we were correct bc they'll have to accept that they were wrong.
I was one a GROUP of people who reported those guys with rubber masks and plateless SUVs back in '21. Tribune never followed up and neither did CPD. History repeating itself, I think.
He never does. He's been spamming this factoid for weeks and insulting everyone who says otherwise. 50/50 it's a bot account.
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Last weekend, I retraced the steps of two of the most important moments in American (and Chicago) labor history, starting with the Haymarket Massacre. But the Haymarket Massacre wasn’t just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today:
I'll believe what actual Jews say about themselves before I believe what any Zionist pretender genocide apologist wants to say on their behalf, thank you very much. Your laughter means nothing to me; I've seen what makes you cheer.
You're pulling statistics out of your ass and I'm telling you what my Jewish friends and neighbors have been saying to me for years. Who am I supposed to believe?
Nope. American Jews are American Jews, not Israelis. Ask them yourself. I HAVE. Cut the bullshit.
I live in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood; few things piss them off more than this kind of nonsense. They see themselves as AMERICANS, not Israelis. Zionism is a nationalist ideology that most Jews do not subscribe to and s growing number actively rejects.
It is NOT the definition of Zionism, and most Jews are not Zionists. To even imply that they ARE is just a "divided loyalties" trope mostly used by antisemites to cast doubt on the patriotism of Jews. The vast majority of American Jews have one homeland: AMERICA.
That a majority believe Jews should have *A* homeland does NOT imply they believe Israel is *their* homeland. More importantly, we both that is not the definition of Zionism. The overwhelming majority of Jews are NOT Zionists.
ALWAYS!
There was an insane vicious cycle where school funding was pegged to standardized tests and if test scores went down the school lost funding which would usually cause test scores to drop and then MORE funding cuts... A lot of schools solved this by just teaching to the tests. Some still do.
I feel like this is never more prevalent than when you tell people what Charlie Kirk actually believes. All this debatelord nonsense falls apart when you show a normal person that Charlie Kirk thinks Taylor Swift should "submit" to her husband.
It definitely a LOT of kids behind, for that matter.
We're ALREADY doing that. Hence the "subsidies." It's not like the billionaire class is sharing the wealth with the blue cities anyway. Take it and give it to someone who could use it more, and they MIGHT just agree with us that eating the rich aint so bad after all.
On the flip side: voters don't hate crime either; they FEAR it. Most of the "tough on crime" discourse is literally just unsophisticated scare tactics and othering. "They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs!" was only unusual for how unsubtle it was, but it's the same basic tactic.
Yes. And the best way to do that is to eat the rich and redistribute their wealth to red states, investing in them economically and socially, so they don't need to be subsidized anymore. Nationalize Amazon, break up Citibank, student loan jubilee and universal healthcare. Red states need it most.
Let's be real, "I can hypnotize your wife to give her bigger boobs and a more comfortable bra" is NOT a man I would vote against.
Democrats want to retreat to the only place where they are politically comfortable: disavowing the left
See, that WOULD give them an unfair advantage in sports. Then you'd have to give megaman cannons to all the cis kids. Might even trigger some sort of... Arms race...
STRONGLY disagree. I would never guillotine the janitor.
"We are the final arbiters of what is and isn't a credible policy and anyone who disagrees with us is helping the fascists!" - Shitlibs in literally every country
I'm sure that as the fascist boot smashes your face into the ground your focus groups will provide you a politically inoffensive way to communicate your displeasure to the people who paid for them.
Which is why the far right of almost every country on Earth is using it simultaneously. Fascists always need a target; it never matters who the target IS.
wow. blam. truth. #TruthWarriors
Zack Polanski being a former boob hypnotist is both the funniest and weakest "gotcha" in political history.
Wealth redistribution. It would give those communities more economic power and more autonomy, which would lead to them being less dependent on some perceived strongman (Republican) savior to fight for them against the "elites."
Republicans captured ALL the political will for that by pushing charter schools in every other district. You CAN build new schools now, but the only people who want to fund them want you to build faith-based low key segregated schools private schools.
But you don't support it. You don't advocate for it, you don't defend it, you couldn't even get your own parents to get past a knee-jerk reaction to the marching slogan. Defund the police IS the policy. "How do we do that and what does it mean?" is the politics.
Dad goals!
But you DON'T support the policy, and you don't want to talk about it. So why would I be worried about alienating YOU?
Is this another one of those weird laws pushed by rich American megachurches or do they have an actual reason this time?
It flows directly into Lake Getsum
Stop teasing us. Croak already.
And let's be clear: I don't for an instant believe you support the idea of defunding the police. More likely you're putting on your Internet, marketing, expert hat in an attempt to be superior to people you think are stupid for wanting things you ALSO think are stupid.
Except when they find out within the wrapper, they'll reject it anyway. The only way to keep them on our side would be to throw out the original premise. You win by building support for what you want, not by watering it down for people who don't want it
Which would be pointless. The people who like "strengthen the communities " don't want to "defund the police." Your whole thesis here is basically stop demanding things unless they're popular
It you agree with the idea but think the slogan was bad, then you don't really agree with the idea.
This part. Oh HELL this part. "The people we appointed ourselves to lead are demanding things we don't want to do and it's making it so much harder to be their designated saviors."
Dude, I'm from Illinois. Politicians pulling some racist bullshit to benefit themselves personally is just longform for "tuesday." The only shocking thing about Trump is how little effort he puts into feigning honesty. There's different about the script he's reading, he's just a terrible performer.
No, 98% of Jews are not zionists. Cut the bullshit.
Looser ass bourgeois liberalism is just the larval stage of fascism. It was ALWAYS going to end up this way. I just let myself think MAYBE we'd have a chance to change it if we stayed on the grind long enough. There just wasn't enough time.
I have a full time job, a side hustle, and two kids that have to grow up in a country that is now a festering shell of its former self because a handful billionaires BOUGHT our entire government out from under us. I've got all the perspective I can handle, bruh.
And if "Having Israel as a homeland" was all Zionisn was, that would matter. But MOST Jews are not Zionists and most Zionists are not Jews. And that matters quite a bit.
Real talk, though, this is what can happen when Europeans surrender their actual identities to partake in the social and political advantages of "whiteness." Their "heritage" becomes corporate logos.
How does that make him DIFFERENT? They have ALWAYS done it for their own personal desires. The main difference is that Trump's personal desires are deeply unsophisticated and he has no interest in pretending they aren't. A polished turd isn't a completely different thing than an unpolished one.
The problem is you see Trump as a problem of category: a totally different KIND of politician. The rest of us see the things he's doing are the exact same things Democrats have been doing for decades, just cranked up to max without the soothing platitudes. Same policies differing only in harshness.
And when we said militarized policing was out of control and they were doing too much too aggressively, remember how Biden reacted? Or did the fact that Trump is justifying all of this with the EXACT same "tough on crime" rhetoric that Clinton used in the 90s sail over your head?
This is one those things you see and you think "how much longer can @schumer.senate.gov let this guy go on?" but I actually think it's too late to stop him.
just as in Palestine, the aggressor freely attacks civilians and the defenders don't waste ammo on them
Check the other 7 separated replies, and then delete this.
You can't think of anything that might have happened in 2016 that might have had a negative impact on education standards other than teachers unions?
As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, we’re called to remember how we got here. Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago. It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:
Sure, but it's not about the UK per se, it's about WHITE people in the UK. Like, there are Americans who refuse to describe Sadiq Khan as "British" because to a lot of dumfuck racist Americans "British" and "white" are synonymous. Same thing happens when they find out about black Scotts.
I can't speak on what "white" implies across the pond, but in the American version with its weird blood quantum and one drop rules, whiteness is basically meaningless in the absence of white supremacy.
Honestly, this is a culture clash. "Whiteness" in America is just a long (and sometimes conditional) list of ethnic groups you do NOT belong to. Americans see British as an approved "white" ethnic group, so mixing British culture/genetics with any other race is a form of pollution.
Even the Falmer turn up their noses in disgust.
Of course on a larger scale this means industries centered in China gain an even bigger advantage since state run industries simply aren't ALLOWED to burn their own workforce on the alter of shareholder value. They use AI in very different ways.
The irony is that it won't actually destroy the FIELD because smaller companies are already priced out of the technology and will never have the opportunity to use it. It just weakens bigger companies when it's time to adopt new technologies and they have to wait for smaller companies to shed staff.
"It's her turn."
No, purity test only suggests we should rule out candidates that are contaminated with a high degree of undesirable traits. In most political discourse, this is called "vetting."
No, only that there are many corrupt/compromised/contaminated candidates we should NOT vote for and common sense tells us we should make sure we know who they are.
Someone pointed out to me yesterday that Chicago's murder rate reflects the Latin Kings and GDs in their 2nd year of war. EVERYONE has tightened up and operating with a lot more discipline. Irony: this means gang-related homicides are lower than ever and most of those cases are domestics now.
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
I weep for the collective livers of the infosec community when, 5 or 10 years from now, they encounter a generation of people that spent half their adolescence hacking bitcoin wallets in New Jersey while avoiding killbots and ELINT satellites all night. Nothing but respect.
Folks are complaining that people from Gaza trying to raise funds are using some type of spamming program to send out hundreds of replies at once. Sigh. If you were an IT person in the middle of a genocide & your kids were being starved to death right in front of you, wouldn't you spam the world?
Growth that enables or depends on fraud isn't growth, it's just empowered malignancy. The real solution is to just send corporations to prison. In practice that just means the State confiscates all of their shares and it becomes a state owned enterprise for a few years.
Epstein went from "high school teacher with a fake degree" to "millionaire finance bro" in like a year and a half and to this day no one has any idea how he actually made any of his money. You almost wonder if all the rape and sex trafficking was just the tip of the corruption iceberg.
Women's basketball comes to us from the good alternate universe.
Unless it's one of those types who thinks black women are simple minded little waifs who can't help but be dazzled and impressed by a white man's superior culture/genetics/whatever. Some of the most racist white men I've ever seen date black woman almost exclusively. Sexual colonizers.
Similar to Blackstone vs Blackrock. Officially they are completely different companies that operate in very different ways, but very few people remember that one was originally a component of the other and kind-of-but-not-technically still IS.
I have a couple of relatives whose only pictures on their wall are Jesus, my grandma, and Barrack Obama.
See, the existence of goofy ass but clearly ineffable gods like Bachus and Aphrodite are the reason I could never completely be an atheist. I mean, the omnipotent omniscient creator of the universe is elusive at beat. But the god of drunken chaos and bad decisions? We meet him every other friday.
Not sure if angry or just disappointed.
ALL. OF. THIS. We are a *federation*. 50 states, 50 different elections. Very few countries do this & it’s a major bulwark against fuckery he & Bannon et al would or could do nationally
I don't think ALL opposition is futile. I believe PEACEFUL opposition within the normal bounds of the law and/or standard administrative procedure is futile. I believe the opposition brought a chess board to a knife fight. "Yes you stabbed me again, but my knight is still about to take your rook!"
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
