“It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising” says David Brooks, the same man who called student encampments against the genocide “hate-filled and bigoted.” It’s been time for some years now, David, but hell, better late than never.
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Fuck Brooks, stupid shill and war criminal supporter. He's no better than a Frum or Maher.
apr 18, 2025, 12:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Truth, Omar! People are waking up, but the truth has been in our faces far too long to have been denied.
apr 18, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
whut?
apr 18, 2025, 11:21 am • 0 0 • view
There was plenty of hate and bigotry amongst the anti-Israel protestors. You can easily oppose what Trump has done without being a Hamas advocate.
apr 18, 2025, 6:32 am • 0 0 • view
You cannot oppose a right-wing authoritarian regime that cloaks itself in religion as it defies the law in service of its commitment to harming minority groups towards which it is openly, violently racist, and simultaneously support Israel. Not if you want to have consistent principles.
apr 18, 2025, 11:43 am • 1 0 • view
You don’t have to be a Bibi supporter to have opposed Hamas’s October 7 invasion or to have blamed Gaza’s leaders for Gaza’s condition. That’s like saying, “Trump’s a bad guy, so therefore I’m going to support Tren de Aragua.”
apr 18, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s clear America needs to reckon with its fucked political system, but to in order to do that and not arrive at this exact same point you must be able to understand the problem and the way the Democrats walked hand in hand with Republicans to get here.
apr 18, 2025, 4:35 am • 35 10 • view
Thinking pragmatically… you could put your energies into lobbying for voting reforms such as rank-choice voting. This could encourage the growth of minor parties and independents. It’s crazy you don’t have many options to choose from in America.
apr 18, 2025, 5:36 am • 2 1 • view
or Canada and UK, which keep pretending they aren't lumbered with a failed, designed-antidemocratic FPTP
apr 20, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
louder so Canada can fucking hear you
apr 20, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, they really aren't ready for that cuz. Still trying to Orange Man Bad their way out of this
apr 18, 2025, 5:17 am • 3 0 • view
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apr 18, 2025, 7:23 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, how's that goin
apr 18, 2025, 7:25 am • 0 0 • view
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apr 18, 2025, 7:25 am • 0 0 • view
Being shown something I'm blocked. New one there
apr 18, 2025, 7:27 am • 0 0 • view
But David Brooks is a Republican.
apr 18, 2025, 5:41 am • 3 1 • view
He's got plenty of Dem company agreeing with him daily. "[I consider myself] on the rightward edge of the leftward tendency—in the more promising soil of the moderate wing of the Democratic Party." - David Brooks, 2017 (we know that that "soil" is full of toxic and racist manure)
apr 18, 2025, 7:29 am • 2 0 • view
He considers himself a “moderate Democrat”
apr 18, 2025, 6:02 am • 2 0 • view
He was always a Republucan before. Same with Bill Kristol - always a Republican. I think they just don't like Trumpism
apr 18, 2025, 7:31 am • 1 0 • view
Only because he says the Trumpists have moved the republican party too far to the right. He calls himself an "exiled republican."
apr 18, 2025, 6:35 am • 3 1 • view
What?! He does?? The way he talked about every Democrat policy and president on the PBS Newshour Friday political discussion sure has/d me convinced he was a hard-core Reagan Republican this whole time!
apr 18, 2025, 6:40 am • 3 1 • view
He aims to give the Democratic party tailoring such that it fits his (still) Republican politics, along with Lincoln Project, MeidasTouch, The Bulwark, and others who also wish to continue destroying political parties in the U.S. with their mealy-mouthed 'moderation.'
apr 18, 2025, 7:33 am • 4 0 • view
The terms "moderate" and "centrist" are vacuous. They mean nothing. How can we tell when a policy is moderate? Are there any principles at work? Nope.
apr 18, 2025, 2:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I guess I stopped paying attention to him years ago. But he has supported Republican policies and positions for most of his career, with the typical deceit. There is no shame in public life anymore. link.motherjones.com/public/30899...
apr 18, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view