"the only things dems need to cave on are race, gender, policing, and immigration" what kind of victory would this be
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if you play on their territory you lose every single time. that's just how it works. what are *we* trying to build?
mar 7, 2025, 4:44 am • 1,749 65 • view
These are already the Democratic positions on immigration and policing; they accept the Republican framing (immigrants bad, shooty police good) but offer milder solutions. Which sends the message "we agree about the problem but we'll do less about it" and of course that's not a winning message
mar 10, 2025, 2:46 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly give no ground
mar 7, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
it really should not be that hard. A simple, clear coherent message that we all can recite, and that is consistently understood by our constituents.
mar 7, 2025, 4:49 am • 0 0 • view
Here is my answer to that question. bsky.app/profile/davi...
mar 7, 2025, 4:46 am • 8 0 • view
Also, if you're doing what Bobby George suggests, you're going backwards.
mar 7, 2025, 4:45 am • 4 0 • view
I loled at bobby george
mar 7, 2025, 4:46 am • 3 0 • view
it really starts out with a bang "all dems gotta do is reject diversity and inclusion"
mar 7, 2025, 5:03 am • 1,262 32 • view
“if we just throw the right people under the bus”
mar 7, 2025, 5:06 am • 663 12 • view
A favored Dem strategy since the Clinton administration.
mar 7, 2025, 5:43 pm • 2 0 • view
“First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up, and I won”
mar 7, 2025, 5:08 am • 280 5 • view
First the came for everyone they didnt like And i didnt speak up because aligning myself to their views will surely get me votes in the next election
mar 8, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
feeling like this post broke containment somehow cause I’m getting some replies that EPICALLY miss the point
mar 8, 2025, 5:28 am • 14 0 • view
the Bluesky experience
mar 10, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
If you won, you can make the Jews and everyone else safe, the fascists are out of power
mar 8, 2025, 11:23 am • 0 0 • view
I feel like it’s important to mention that the actual quote says that they first came for communists and trade unionists, which is currently happening and these people are absolutely salivating over.
mar 7, 2025, 1:59 pm • 61 1 • view
There are multiple versions of the quote, though I never see the version including disabled people quoted anywhere (the Holocaust Encyclopedia says it exists, though)
mar 7, 2025, 3:56 pm • 7 0 • view
Wasn’t it initially written in private correspondence? Holocaust Memorial Day Trust calls it a poem, but they do mention there are multiple verisons
mar 7, 2025, 6:32 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm not sure about initially, but there was a series of speeches
mar 8, 2025, 6:32 am • 0 0 • view
Actually, no.
mar 9, 2025, 11:20 pm • 2 0 • view
These folks never get tired of creating straw Democrats to accuse of crimes against lefties.
mar 9, 2025, 11:22 pm • 2 0 • view
"First they came for the Jews, but they were anti-Zionists Jews so I liked that."
mar 8, 2025, 4:45 am • 4 0 • view
Even better, "they came for the Jews and I said, 'here's one! Hiding in this attic!'"
mar 7, 2025, 11:52 am • 74 2 • view
ah careful, ol Smith will play the jewish ancestor card to say it's different this time
mar 7, 2025, 12:48 pm • 18 0 • view
Ehh, then you get to play the "Yes it is, because this time you're on the side of the Nazis" reverse card
mar 7, 2025, 3:26 pm • 9 0 • view
It's long past time we accept that the Big Three monotheistic religions are just ideologies of hate
mar 8, 2025, 12:10 am • 2 1 • view
Wrapped up in a "peace" narrative.
mar 8, 2025, 1:51 am • 1 0 • view
I did speak up, and I lost. How does that help the Jews?
mar 7, 2025, 6:14 pm • 6 0 • view
"Just get the right combo of people to officially hate, bro, it's a guaranteed win, bro, I swear" - Bluesky Political Punditry LLC
mar 7, 2025, 1:01 pm • 8 0 • view
Look, we don’t really go to “those parts of town” anyway.
mar 7, 2025, 5:19 am • 10 0 • view
You don't throw them under the bus. You simply don't make them the face of the party. Politics is about getting elected, not losing with honor. You people really don't get it. Putting up a losing lesbian or black woman for president does not protect lesbians or black women. See, e.g., Trump.
mar 7, 2025, 6:13 pm • 4 1 • view
Wrong, cuz Dems are never going to out hate monger the Republicans and Libertarians. Dems need to reject the false reality Republicans and Libertarians make up and press people about who they want to kill off while they destroy the country. While presenting their own inclusive vision that
mar 7, 2025, 7:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Provides equity and equality for everyone. Americans (non-Black) have already proved they’ll pull the lever every time for the most hateful, even at their own peril. We have to counter that.
mar 7, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Which "losing lesbian" are you referring to? Some hypothetical one? WTAF are you talking about? For the GOP, putting up a demented sociopath (which doesn't protect anyone) hoodwinked everyone-your country just picked him A SECOND TIME You people have lost the plot, truly
mar 7, 2025, 7:21 pm • 1 0 • view
“you people”? Yikes.
mar 7, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
gotcha: only straight white (christian, i'm assuming) men should be democratic candidates
mar 7, 2025, 6:15 pm • 66 1 • view
How about standing for a set of values- regardless of the political headwinds- that ppl can rely on you to defend? Or supporting the best candidates with experience and perspective regardless of sexual orientation or race? The very fact that “DEI” exists…
mar 7, 2025, 7:31 pm • 3 0 • view
…is due to a lack of diversity, equity and inclusion for all in our communities. These issues don’t arise in a vacuum. With Dems falling into the R trap of viewing this as some magic bingo card to winning a temporary game, they will keep losing messaging and elections…
mar 7, 2025, 7:31 pm • 4 0 • view
Do you think Kamala Harris, the VPOTUS at the time, one heartbeat from the Presidency, was the face of the party last year after the President chose to stop his campaign because of her race and gender? I don't think you've thought this through.
mar 7, 2025, 6:32 pm • 8 0 • view
If anything it was the ancient white man being the face of the party for too long that sank Harris's chances
mar 7, 2025, 6:48 pm • 4 0 • view
Whaddaya mean "you people"?
mar 7, 2025, 6:44 pm • 10 0 • view
What would a non-losing-lesbian or non-losing-black woman look like?🤔
mar 7, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Dems aren't really placing minorities as the face of their party. Their approach to DEI, trans rights, and immigration is wimpy at best. Republicans put these labels on Dems, and Dems don't even deserve them. I wish Dems were as "extreme" as the right says they are.
mar 7, 2025, 6:30 pm • 13 1 • view
Oh, ok But like not in a racist or sexist way
mar 7, 2025, 6:29 pm • 5 0 • view
found the Biden 2008 fan "Don't make them the face of the party." holy hell
mar 7, 2025, 6:45 pm • 1 0 • view
For people with any moral sense at all, values aren’t something you just abandon because of polling
mar 7, 2025, 6:56 pm • 6 0 • view
I disagree. I think that people who purport to hold the moral high ground which results in thousands suffering and dying are not moral at all.
mar 7, 2025, 7:20 pm • 0 0 • view
You seem to lack an understanding of basic moral development When people have principles, they don't "purport" to hold them They literally HOLD THEM Just as the right literally believes abortion is murder & that black people are inferior, the left believes minorities are equal members of society
mar 7, 2025, 7:24 pm • 8 0 • view
So what about the people who make pragmatic concessions when historical evidence demonstrates pretty clearly that the concessions will win them nothing?
mar 7, 2025, 7:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Are there not thousands of women and people of color?🤔 You should take a long long moment and reflect You won't. But you very much should.
mar 8, 2025, 7:54 am • 0 0 • view
A lot more than thousands. Millions. And none of them will be helped by the current administration. I suggest we focus on avoiding similar administrations in the future, if we get the chance.
mar 14, 2025, 3:25 am • 0 0 • view
Who the fuck is “you people?” 🤨
mar 7, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Avoiding support for black women or lesbian candidates on the basis of this is just bigotry. There are trans women and lesbian politicians in state legislatures and in Congress right now, some of whom have successfully been re-elected.
mar 7, 2025, 6:34 pm • 15 1 • view
a Black man won the presidency in 2008. Many people couldn't believe it could happen, until it did. Don't choose candidates just on identity, but don't *not* choose them because of identity.
mar 7, 2025, 6:47 pm • 9 0 • view
That’s all I’m saying, yeah! Republicans shaped the dumbass identity politics discourse, AND YET plenty of people who are not white Christian males have won races in the interim.
mar 7, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
“If we placate our abusive husband and just get his dinner cooked faster, maybe he’ll stop hitting us”
mar 7, 2025, 6:26 pm • 13 0 • view
Also really need to be more open-minded about Nazi salutes, and that’s it
mar 7, 2025, 5:07 am • 20 0 • view
No, you see, we just have to be polite fascists, then all the reasonable people will pick us over the explicit fascists and anyone who doesn't like fascism still has to vote for us because at least we're the polite ones.
mar 7, 2025, 1:25 pm • 3 0 • view
So become the All Time Pick Me
mar 7, 2025, 10:37 pm • 1 0 • view
"what if civil rights are bad?"
mar 7, 2025, 12:28 pm • 17 0 • view
All Dems gotta do is say bussing instead of something something something.
mar 7, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
"Why can't dems just be regressive conservatives???"
mar 7, 2025, 1:05 pm • 9 0 • view
At least we can still keep equit- oh hang on, there’s a call on line 2
mar 7, 2025, 1:13 pm • 5 0 • view
"If you'll just stop doing everything that helps people, you'll be okay with us."
mar 7, 2025, 8:46 pm • 57 1 • view
We need to move left and hope it helps people re-engage politics rather than trying to steal the Rights voters. More people didn't vote than did, go after them to vote.
mar 7, 2025, 5:24 am • 13 0 • view
I'm mad I see so many articles talking about Trump voters but nobody is looking at nonvoters at all. Converting a third party voter into a Dem voter would be easy if they were interested in doing so at all.
mar 7, 2025, 1:28 pm • 13 1 • view
The thing is, why would I vote Diet Republican if I can just vote Republican?
mar 8, 2025, 12:13 am • 0 0 • view
The center of the party has been begging for this for decades, except it was originally kicking all us Negroes to the curb rather than support us in our fight. Just more groups included in their plea now.
mar 8, 2025, 12:14 am • 16 0 • view
Noah is a ghoul. him bill Maher, Matty and shitheads want to rerun the campaign Harris did. she had the fucking Cheney's parading around. I did my MBA at Berkeley they aren't woke classmates work for trash companies. absolute idiocy from the pundits
mar 7, 2025, 5:19 am • 11 0 • view
one of my favorite classes there was on equity fluent leadership and it wasn't even super woke. like one of my classmates there is a senior leader at Amazon not a fucking radical. destroying colleges for complete dipshittery
mar 7, 2025, 5:21 am • 4 0 • view
Weird how no one ever recommends throwing themselves under the bus. It’s always somebody else who needs to go.
mar 7, 2025, 6:04 am • 31 0 • view
Oh, no, they do that all the time (MAGA women voting in favor of losing their rights. The fact there are trans repubs /at all/. Etc.) They assume that exceptions will be carved out for /them/, or, some of them, that they can buy their way around it.
mar 7, 2025, 9:22 am • 5 0 • view
With this grifter-in-grief, the latter are probably right, until they aren't.
mar 7, 2025, 9:22 am • 2 0 • view
The real trouble is they /think/ they are throwing somebody else under the bus, and not paying attention to the rope cinching tighter around their own ankles as the slack plays out.
mar 7, 2025, 9:25 am • 7 1 • view
You’re absolutely right, but they don’t do it consciously. They don’t say, “You know what, I and people like me need to go.”
mar 7, 2025, 2:05 pm • 4 0 • view
The tent is too big.
mar 7, 2025, 5:14 am • 3 0 • view
The 'using DEI as a dog whistle' thing, when DEI also applies to women, veterans, people with disabilities, and more, says right up front that this is a garbage argument, a 'well guys we tried, they just won't listen to reason'. 😬
mar 7, 2025, 9:16 am • 8 0 • view
DEI, as it is practiced today in white-collar workplaces, has had minimal positive impact and led to a great deal of resentment. DEI programs need to be improved, if not overhauled.
mar 7, 2025, 3:14 pm • 4 2 • view
Really shows that this is just a game to them. The lives of diverse working class and poor people are just "issue cards" to be played or discarded as they bargain society out of it's rights and dreams.
mar 7, 2025, 1:21 pm • 158 5 • view
It is just like team sports to these weirdos. The only ideology they follow is "my team wins", no care for what ideology or policies that team has. It's just fandom.
mar 7, 2025, 3:27 pm • 4 0 • view
"Be the change you think others want to see in the world" They're so bold 🙄 You don't need to lead others to what is popular, that will happen on its own. Righteous leadership is convincing people to support what is right even when they don't want to.
mar 7, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
As near as I can tell most democrats think it's a football game or something and the point is 'winning' not being human. Whatever you need to do to make that happen is acceptable
mar 7, 2025, 3:49 pm • 2 0 • view
"In the game of patriarchy, women are not the opposing team; they are the ball" just repeat for whichever minority group the Dems decide to cede on
mar 7, 2025, 3:22 pm • 51 4 • view
They play games with social wars and rights to keep us busy trying to protect those when we can be fighting for our rights AND a more fair economic system.
mar 7, 2025, 2:01 pm • 11 0 • view
ITS THE FUCKING ECONOMY! People are in debt up to their eyeballs, they are sick, little vacation time, education system is struggling, few job protections, inadequate retirement security, poor safety net. The greed of the rich needs to stop, but they make excuses.
mar 7, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
All his above points are fine.
mar 11, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
You aren't that smart are you?? No critical thinking skills whatsoever.
mar 7, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Trust me Black people have known for YEARS that some Dems and a LOT of leftists resent how much political power Black people have in the Democrat party.
mar 7, 2025, 9:25 am • 11 0 • view
I’m black lol, I don’t have to trust you! I am fully aware
mar 7, 2025, 12:23 pm • 5 0 • view
Again, that's not what it actually said (although given the right's abuse of DEI as a phrase, I can't entirely blame you for making that mistake.)
mar 7, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 1 • view
We may want to build something, but centrists like Noah just want to stay in power despite repeated fails, which is why he’s pretending that the same Republican Lite approach that lost 4 months ago is suddenly the answer now.
mar 7, 2025, 5:04 am • 10 0 • view
These people are bigots but are too chickenshit to just come out and say that so they're appealing to an imaginary silent majority. Democrats won in 2020 while defund the police was in the zeitgeist. They overperformed in 2022 being seen as pro-trans. These clearly aren't political kryptonite.
mar 7, 2025, 5:31 am • 9 0 • view
By a candidate who was against the framing.
mar 11, 2025, 9:45 pm • 0 0 • view
No you don't. Not everything is an us vs them situation. Dems need to be open to the possibility that not all their ideas are good and not double down simply because republicans disagree.
mar 7, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Which of the ideas in the tweet in question do you think is a bad one? Diversity, equity and inclusion, spending money on solving problems instead of throwing billions at brutal, ineffective policing, the internationally-recognized legal way to seek asylum, or the existence of trans kids?
mar 7, 2025, 9:18 pm • 4 0 • view
How can Bill Freaking Kristol see this issue clearly as one of human rights and basic dignity, and drips like you can’t?
mar 7, 2025, 3:21 pm • 3 0 • view
You can't buy a house or feed your kids with white male privilege alone. As long as Dems fail to acknowledge this, white males will vote red.
mar 7, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
"With liberty and justice for all"
mar 7, 2025, 4:57 am • 2 0 • view
>What are we trying to build Evidently, some centrists like Noah just want to recreate the pre-Trump GOP
mar 7, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
It pains me to say it but the right wing propaganda machines have skewed the perception of some of these issues-idont like to denigrate Trump voters but is it that they were so ill informed and closed off that they could be dumped or do they mostly know as we do that he is a scumbag but don't care?
mar 7, 2025, 10:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Crossing the border to seek asylum is a right enshrined in international law. To act like someone should request asylum at home is to willfully misunderstand the nature of asylum.
mar 7, 2025, 10:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Let’s not forget the likely 2028 dem candidate, Gov Newsom is all for criminalizing the homeless and is a rabid transphobe.
mar 8, 2025, 4:53 am • 0 0 • view
Based on the new DNC agenda, this looks to be their proposal.
mar 8, 2025, 4:50 am • 0 0 • view
“Crossing the border to request asylum” is in fact 100% legal and correct THE WORLD OVER!
mar 7, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 0 • view
It would be a big fat W for the Republican Party
mar 7, 2025, 12:48 pm • 1 0 • view
DEI isn’t something imposed by The Party on the public. It’s not a “Democratic plot”. It’s the culture organically evolving.
mar 7, 2025, 6:01 pm • 6 0 • view
“All we need to do is abandon our core principles.” How’s that been working out?
mar 7, 2025, 5:56 pm • 7 1 • view
Any changes in policing have been going on at the local level in response to citizens wanting more accountability for abuses by cops.
mar 7, 2025, 6:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Seeking asylum is legal.
mar 7, 2025, 6:04 pm • 2 0 • view
No. ..I.. O ..I.. Tired of these assholes demanding we cave on our values, when they stonewall anytime they don't get 100% of what they demand. "Treat others as you would treat yourself" is how I was brought up. If they wanna stonewall, I see no reason why I shouldn't give it back to them.
mar 8, 2025, 12:30 am • 3 0 • view
Just call yourself Republicans and be done with it.
mar 7, 2025, 7:15 pm • 26 0 • view
Ah, the ever present myth from MAGA that we are out here transitioning toddlers.
mar 7, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I have yet to see any of these guys use “DEI” in a way that makes me think they could give me a ten second explanation of what they think it means
mar 7, 2025, 1:00 pm • 1 0 • view
None of us are free until all of us are free. Fuck Noah Smith, let them rot in a gulag while they think about their stupidity.
mar 8, 2025, 3:10 am • 4 0 • view
Moving toward the center isn’t caving. You can’t make changes if you don’t win. And we need to win moderates to win elections. Most people are in the middle, not activists.
mar 7, 2025, 1:09 pm • 0 0 • view
The Dems continually lose with that strategy. They win when they run on progressive principles and policies.
mar 7, 2025, 2:21 pm • 3 0 • view
People seem to forget 2020, 2012, 2008. Every election requires the middle. And change doesn’t happen overnight. Gay rights, gay marriage, desegregation, civil rights were all long battles that required moving the middle of America over time. I am not saying it is right. It’s just reality.
mar 7, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Those elections all serve the argument I am making, not yours. People respond to clear principles. Obama ran as a progressive and so did Joe Biden, the first time around. Progressive policies like M4A, ending wars, and taxing the rich are very popular.
mar 7, 2025, 2:32 pm • 3 0 • view
I live in the sticks. It’s all economy and jobs for these people. The rest just doesn’t matter. And perception is reality for them. Obama won due to the Great Recession. Biden won due to Covid. Trump won due to convincing people their economics would be better with him.
mar 7, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 7, 2025, 5:00 am • 3 0 • view
I am dumber after reading that screenshot.
mar 7, 2025, 1:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Republicans don't even care about transgender women in sports anymore, they've moved on to criminalizing being transgender cause they knew sports was just a wedge they could push on. Jesus how are they this bad at this
mar 7, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
If history is any reference, they should move further left. Seemingly worked for conservatives going full reactionary on policies. Also grow a spine and not defend status quo out of pure cowardice
mar 8, 2025, 5:14 am • 1 0 • view
Democrats should be republicans is not really good for winning elections i think
mar 7, 2025, 1:12 pm • 18 0 • view
mar 7, 2025, 5:33 pm • 0 0 • view
"Dems should cave on the only policies they have that differentiate them from Republicans" is such wild take
mar 7, 2025, 2:58 pm • 6 0 • view
I told him directly someone just really needs to dunk his head in a toilet sometime and I stand by this
mar 7, 2025, 7:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Rich coming from a guy who’s into Hindutva and indirectly admitted to having an “Asian fetish”
mar 7, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Like Yglesias, this stupid motherfucker is just intentionally trying to steer the Democrats toward fascism
mar 7, 2025, 10:00 am • 37 1 • view
Praying for a day when Matty stops being useful and the knives turn on Mr Sensible Opinions
mar 7, 2025, 10:05 am • 11 0 • view
It's also not illegal to enter the US anyway you can if you're claiming asylum > "There’s no way to ask for a visa in advance for the purpose of seeking asylum,” says Byrne. “You just have to show up.” www.rescue.org/article/it-l...
mar 7, 2025, 3:04 pm • 71 2 • view
Meaning if congress really wanted to stop “illegal” immigration, putting facilities to hear asylum cases at regular border crossings. There would be no need to cross undetected. Right?
mar 7, 2025, 4:01 pm • 18 0 • view
Depends on whom one is running from, no?
mar 7, 2025, 4:06 pm • 2 0 • view
As in, that wouldn’t work if they are being persecuted by Mexican (or Canadian) government or police, who also staff border crossings?
mar 7, 2025, 4:09 pm • 1 0 • view
The cartels have a heavy presence in border cities. Physically getting to an official port can be extremely dangerous, especially when the U.S. is doing any kind of metering (which both Trump and Biden have done).
mar 7, 2025, 4:24 pm • 2 0 • view
The UN standard is that an asylum seeker can cross anywhere and shouldn’t be prosecuted for that.
mar 7, 2025, 4:25 pm • 2 0 • view
No argument on that point. I’m just saying they should ALSO make it as easy as possible in as many cases as possible.
mar 7, 2025, 4:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah, it should always be a “yes and” situation. Just letting them fly in would be best. Bypass all the mortal danger of the journey and disrupt the cartel economy that preys on them. The average price of the journey is about $10,000 per person these days.
mar 7, 2025, 4:31 pm • 2 0 • view
And that’s a corollary to my initial point: process asylum claims at another type of port of entry, airports. 👍
mar 7, 2025, 4:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes exactly: “yes and”
mar 7, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah I don’t know much about metering, but seem like a different mechanism with the same lesson: if you want to reduce undocumented crossings, eliminate metering where asylum facilities already exist.
mar 7, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
*they would put
mar 7, 2025, 4:02 pm • 4 0 • view
I’m not sure if you’re joking/trolling, but under US asylum law, you can only ask for asylum when you’re in the US. If you’re asking for “asylum” outside of the US, then you’re a refugee.
mar 8, 2025, 10:50 am • 0 0 • view
I don't want to speak for him, but I assumed he meant more offices inside the US and near the border to process asylum applicants
mar 8, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Ya I’m not an immigration expert, but basically this. At ports of entry on the US side.
mar 8, 2025, 5:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Labor! We could throw them under the bus too. That would truly make us indistinguishable from the center right that Mitt Romney led to victory in 2008.
mar 7, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
When Republicans move center and admit they're Nazis.
mar 8, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
I mean - just completely compromise your morals and Nazi up. Easy right.
mar 7, 2025, 11:29 pm • 23 0 • view
mar 7, 2025, 8:22 pm • 22 3 • view
"Give up your values" is akin to "stop struggling, just lie back and enjoy it". No frigging way.
mar 7, 2025, 2:08 pm • 1 0 • view
The only thing dems need to do is stop letting Rs define those terms/issues, i.e. the border issue exists because we're the #1 consumer of illicit drugs... AND the #1 supplier of weapons to the cartels. Remember the Contra/cocaine years. That was us. Our government. Over $1T on WoD is the real FWA.
mar 7, 2025, 7:19 pm • 3 0 • view
And who the fuck is that little twit?
mar 7, 2025, 5:28 am • 1 0 • view
Basically all three of those points boil down to pretending discrimination doesn’t exist and shouldn’t be addressed and white Americans are the “real” victims.
mar 7, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Okay but if we do all that *then* can we tax the rich to pay for universal healthcare? "Lol absolutely not."
mar 7, 2025, 10:07 am • 6 0 • view
Respectfully, someone needs to win the majority of voters in the middle. I would argue that it’s worth it to give a little to get a lot more.
mar 8, 2025, 12:26 am • 0 0 • view
The problem is that you would be running on *their* framing of the issue. It’s not debating about what DEI actually is, it’s accepting the right-wing distortion of what it is and then campaigning on that. Same with “defund the police”, and “asylum seekers are criminals”. 1/2
mar 8, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
Democratic candidates can never win in a debate where the starting points are based on MAGA talking points.
mar 8, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
Can't win by being the light beer version of your opponent. But preserving the current positions as shibboleths for Democrats is a loser. The progressive-centrist tension needs to dissolve orthogonal syntheses on these "cultural" issues to ground where the broader coalition is comfortable.
mar 8, 2025, 12:45 am • 3 0 • view
Okay, and you don’t think folding on Black people would lose them considerably more voters than it would gain??
mar 8, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
The problem here isn’t (just) an ethical problem, it’s a tactical one. Say you drop DEI (whatever the fuck THAT looks like). What makes you think anyone left of Thatcher would vote for a dem on this platform??
mar 8, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
If they took a hard tack and were like “actually fuck the trannies,” I wouldn’t vote for them! No amount of “but the other guy!” would move my needle here. You dropped me and my comrades, to what end would I ever vote for you again?
mar 8, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
Who is Noah Smith and why are their opinions so terrible?
mar 8, 2025, 12:28 am • 8 0 • view
“Let’s move to the right of the center we’ve been circling for a while now.” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
mar 8, 2025, 12:29 am • 7 0 • view
I thought this was satire. We need a word for deliberately ignorant and malicious people.
mar 7, 2025, 12:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Only a white man can say “let’s just go back to not being racist”
mar 7, 2025, 8:44 pm • 73 1 • view
I'm white and totally agree.The rules didn't allow work for me, but with maga rules we're just going back to the very ugly days of racial abuse and disparity, and look how well our freedoms are holding out.Damn good reasons for fighting for rights.It just went a little too far.better than now tho!
mar 7, 2025, 9:30 pm • 7 1 • view
I have no idea what rules would stop you from working. I’m going to be charitable and assume I’m misunderstanding whatever it is you’re trying to say
mar 7, 2025, 11:16 pm • 5 0 • view
Uhhh I was passed over for jobs I was qualified for to allow minorities a chance to apply/be hired first.I didn't hate minorities for that because I had seen discrimination keep minorities who were also qualified get passed over for whites who weren't qualified.ok daniel?
mar 8, 2025, 12:20 am • 1 0 • view
Dunno mate, what made you think you were “passed over”? And not that they were also equally or more qualified? This is the sort of pernicious thinking that gets us to the point where we assume all minorities jobs are “given” and not equally earned
mar 8, 2025, 12:42 am • 6 0 • view
You're an ass, but I'll clarify for you. I was hired later. Within a week. When quotas were met. NECESSARY quotas because of bigots.
mar 8, 2025, 12:47 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe you shouldn't call a Black person an ass when you are talking as if prior to Nov 5th racism was solved. Your use of quotas makes me think you are part of the problem and not the solution. How about listening instead of centering yourself for a change.
mar 8, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
And ass was for daniel
mar 8, 2025, 1:33 am • 0 0 • view
Aight mate, good night.
mar 8, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
Good night
mar 8, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
I was more than happy to accommodate quotas. I do apologize if you thought I was calling out anyone of color. I'm only calling out bigots and have fought for equality since the 60's. Racism is the problem and blind hate for people who are different. Fed by current administration.
mar 8, 2025, 1:32 am • 0 0 • view
Story makes no sense mate. If there was a quota but also more jobs than the quota how were you passed over? Seems like you just got a job? Along with some brown people you assumed must have only got their jobs because they were brown.
mar 8, 2025, 12:50 am • 4 0 • view
Lots of qualified people don’t get the job. Only white men think they are somehow the ones who deserved it over everyone else. You can work hard and be qualified and someone may have been way better than you in ways you don’t know. Of course you’d assume it’s only because of race.
mar 8, 2025, 12:37 am • 16 0 • view
Yeah, I’m really curious about the conclusive evidence this person has that says they were the best candidate but didn’t get the job solely on skin color. Sounds… fictional
mar 8, 2025, 12:43 am • 11 0 • view
Usually is, or it’s a way of helping with the rejection. It’s hard and we always reach for some explanation that makes us feel better 🤷🏾♂️
mar 8, 2025, 12:47 am • 8 0 • view
Sounds… familiar! Some people have a tendency to think people have to be MORE qualified than them to get the job, not just like, you may interview badly or some other small thing that really makes a difference in the end.
mar 8, 2025, 12:48 am • 3 0 • view
I have 150 FTE on my team and I can guarantee you quota hiring has never been discussed. We hire on merit and are a huge proponent of DEI programs. Productivity and retention are crazy good
mar 8, 2025, 1:13 am • 2 0 • view
Employers discussed quota hiring. You're such cute hyenas.
mar 8, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
So because some employer has discussed quota hiring you were specifically skipped over based solely on race? Again, please provide that proof
mar 8, 2025, 1:10 am • 1 0 • view
No they didn’t that’s a flat out lie. Maybe you’re not as great as you think you are.
mar 8, 2025, 12:54 am • 2 0 • view
I hesitate to respond to those just wanting to fight, but I ran into this post of yours. Beth, I am not a male, and when I was young employers would discuss quotas. I accepted DEI although not called that then. I didn't assume I was better because of color. I simply understood bigotry & hated it.
mar 12, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
Absolute asinine take.
mar 7, 2025, 9:33 pm • 12 0 • view
psst. you have the worldview of a racist.
mar 7, 2025, 11:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Also, not for nothing, wtaf does Smith think asylum law is? "Illegally crossing to claim asylum" is a contradiction in terms.
mar 7, 2025, 7:46 pm • 34 0 • view
Big Ben Tre, “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it...” vibe.
mar 7, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
"illegally crossing the border to request asylum is bad" For 10 points, what does asylum mean? (It does not in fact just mean migrant)
mar 7, 2025, 5:05 pm • 14 0 • view
Guys listen, we have a shot at winning if we just give up on everything
mar 7, 2025, 5:45 am • 6 0 • view
good time to start using alt text then since disabled people are very much “DEI”
mar 10, 2025, 3:49 am • 0 0 • view
None of these things are going to win them votes with the voters that cry about these things. They will never vote for them. Dems need to rally the voters that stayed home. Or find their own billionaire that's willing to commit crimes to win an election. 🤦🏿♀️
mar 7, 2025, 4:30 pm • 4 0 • view
We just have to admit that some animals are simply more equal than others. How hard is that guys??
mar 8, 2025, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
“Not being racist failed so it’s time to get rid of not being racist and just not be racist” Also, in what world is that something we’re “going back to” when DEI initiatives exist because people were racist, if it failed that means people were still racist, and getting rid of it is so people can be
mar 7, 2025, 4:35 pm • 9 0 • view
The only thing the Dems need is for the media to report on them the same as they do on Reps.
mar 7, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I love the idea of “go back to not being racist” as if that was ever a time in America
mar 8, 2025, 12:41 am • 74 0 • view
"The only thing the Democrats should move to the center on is literally everything."
mar 7, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Holy shit what a rancid bad take that also shows *no understanding*. Asylum is LEGAL! "Reasonable" police reform is not even at the far end of what Dems have been proposing. Has no idea what DEI does, just propaganda. Then just tacks on "oh and let's abandon human rights whole we're at it.
mar 7, 2025, 7:25 pm • 1 0 • view
gonna go against the grain on this one. During the election, immigration, trans rights, Trump ran on. Dems lost because we ran on trans rights, immigration, and issues that did not resonate with the masses. rights are important. To win, we have to take care of trans but not be in your face with it.
mar 8, 2025, 3:52 am • 0 0 • view
No political system that shoves people into a corner to wait quietly until a “better time” is worth having. Centrists don’t choose a side and they pander to comfortable middle white folks who want everyone to get along. Since our country is breaking, I want better for everyone.
mar 8, 2025, 11:39 am • 0 0 • view
Well said.
mar 8, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, if you want to never win an election again. This is the way to do it.
mar 7, 2025, 10:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Can't the Dems just lie, and then do whatever the hell they want? Isn't that what Trump has taught?
mar 7, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
🤔 Right... 🇺🇸 Sometimes need to cave.
mar 8, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view
Went to take a peek at OOP’s post in the Bad Place and yuck! I forgot how gross that place is. Also, if we suddenly start to see more support for these center right viewpoints, in no way shape or form will I believe it’s not astroturfing from that weird centrist dem think tank.
mar 7, 2025, 7:25 am • 0 0 • view
"Prepubescent medical transition"? WTAF are these people on about? You literally CANNOT BLOCK PUBERTY UNLESS YOU ARE IN PUBERTY, THEREFORE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MEDICAL TRANSITION BEFORE PUBERTY, YOU ABSOLUTE MORONS, YOU F**KING IDIOTS, YOU STUPID PIECES OF SHIT
mar 7, 2025, 7:17 pm • 87 1 • view
It's all reactionary Andy issues that right-wing media has gotten people terrified and paranoid about over the past 15 yrs
mar 8, 2025, 12:55 am • 2 0 • view
Also puberty blockers are reversible! Once you stop taking them, puberty starts up again. Their use can lead to LESS need for surgery since it stops secondary growth characteristics. Jfc these people enrage me
mar 7, 2025, 8:33 pm • 44 0 • view
thank you!
mar 7, 2025, 7:50 pm • 3 0 • view
So, just run as Republicans. Gotcha, gotcha
mar 8, 2025, 12:07 am • 28 0 • view
1. Wish someone would explain how DEI is different from “not being racist”. 2. Has the Democratic Party ever asked for anything beyond policing reform? 3. Does he actually understand how asylum works?
mar 7, 2025, 12:55 pm • 1 0 • view
People need to grasp the fact that: Yes, the American populace is mostly right-wing. But that does not mean it's the job of Democrats to magically mind-control people nor their job to cater to that. It's our job, the leftists and progressives, to convince our fellow Americans to not be right-wing.
mar 9, 2025, 2:16 pm • 1 0 • view
well,I'm only surprised they didn't include Climate Change and Abortion and Gaza
mar 7, 2025, 5:29 am • 3 0 • view
IOW, just cave on civil rights for all. No biggie.
mar 7, 2025, 6:44 pm • 8 0 • view
[infamous far-right account]: time for my wheelhouse, giving heartfelt advice to Democrats
mar 7, 2025, 5:16 am • 56 1 • view
Big “if AIDS is so bad in Africa why don’t the women there just stop having sex” energy. This is an idiot with a child’s sense of the world.
mar 7, 2025, 8:11 pm • 31 0 • view
We need to become Republicans to defeat the Republicans
mar 7, 2025, 4:18 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 7, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
“The only thing Dems need to do is exactly what they just did which resulted in the only time Donald Trump has ever won the popular vote”
mar 7, 2025, 3:07 pm • 57 0 • view
No no, that wasn't actually leaning right, the DNC capitulated to the far left on literally everything (Also if you bring up any proof I will immediately move the goal posts) so now we have to just be MORE Republican lite! -Average Lib Argument when you say that Kamala didn't run a perfect campaign
mar 7, 2025, 3:28 pm • 39 0 • view
This is such a common occurrence that when I read it I thought, 'Jesus Christ it's another one' and then I got to the end.
mar 7, 2025, 3:56 pm • 1 0 • view
I would, however, like to apologize. The orange is entirely my fault because I was selfish and intransigent for expecting a candidate whose policies I didn't find morally repugnant and not voting for her anyway. I promise, in future, to vote for whatever vile piece of shit they offer up /s
mar 7, 2025, 4:02 pm • 1 0 • view
No no, it's my bad, I should have spent the billions of dollars in campaign funds I received on getting Kamala elected. Even if I voted for harm reduction in a blue state, it's definitely my fault for not embracing genocide with open arms. I'll be less selfish next time :(
mar 7, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
My block button gets very liberal (hah) use by me, I'm very used to the arguments
mar 7, 2025, 3:59 pm • 1 0 • view
I feel you. I don't even bother trying to talk to them anymore
mar 7, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
you see, a left-wing position on policing (etc) is any position that the far-right criticizes as left-wing
mar 7, 2025, 3:42 pm • 20 0 • view
it’s funny because they expose the right wing on the immigration issue with that bipartisan border bill and it didn’t fucking matter
mar 7, 2025, 3:49 pm • 16 0 • view
that should have been the lesson: by accepting their framing on issues, you will never be running on your actual positions, you will only ever be running on what they think your positions are
mar 7, 2025, 3:49 pm • 22 0 • view
The border bill still allowed 3-5k per day illegal immigrants to cross and was granting amnesty to the ones already here.. Total scam!! Trump exposed Biden who said Congress had to address the border..
mar 8, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not that Kamala wasn’t perfect. It’s that people on the left stared in the eyes of Bibi’s friend the genocidal fascist, pedophile, rapist, and criminal felon then went “But I don’t like the black woman so I won’t vote for her.”
mar 7, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view
While I opted for harm reduction with my vote, when the reduction was a lot of compromise with the right the harm reduction argument starts to feel hollow. At some point harm reduction cannot be your major platform point, especially after making no progress to address the issues that got us here
mar 7, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Major? It was enough of a reason for me. I don’t need to be begged to give a shit about marginalized people. I’m happy to address the issues but now we have a fascist in the White House because people scoffed at harm reduction.
mar 7, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
A lot of people felt that the issues were explicitly being swept under the rug. People made their stances known and the DNC decided to say that they didn't need their votes to win. They were wrong. People didn't scoff at harm reduction, they said the harm wasn't being reasonably reduced.
mar 7, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
They stared a pedophile, rapist, genodical fascist in the face and said “it’s not good enough to vote against this.” Fuck them and you for making excuses for their decision to help harm marginalized people because they were mad at a a black lady they didn’t think was good enough. Bye.
mar 7, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
they believe in nothing except bowing to some constantly shifting "center" that's rendered meaningless by the right's ever-increasing extremism
mar 7, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
A republican one
mar 8, 2025, 9:56 am • 0 0 • view
The dems listen to these slopbrains and then lose, rinse repeat lol. What a nightmare
mar 7, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
It would be the MAGA kind of victory
mar 7, 2025, 9:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Feverishly centrist Dems operate under a belief that the constant concessions to gain and hold power are justified because that's the only way to get what you want. The trick is, you have to have something you want.
mar 7, 2025, 3:30 pm • 1 0 • view
The thing that melts my mind about these kinds of posts is that the entire point of democracy is having a choice. If both parties agree on 80% of stuff then what is the difference between that and a single party dictatorship Shows how little they actually value democracy
mar 7, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
"all Democrats need to do to win is just be Republicans" is NOT the bumper sticker we need right now
mar 7, 2025, 4:50 pm • 10 1 • view
mar 7, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Why Democrats lose
mar 7, 2025, 6:15 am • 0 0 • view
"The Dems should have Liz Cheneyed harder" is um quite the take
mar 7, 2025, 3:26 pm • 4 0 • view
Fuck these losers
mar 7, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
They are super duper dumb. They are just so OBVIOUS about it. As usual, some set of rich people who are very rightwing are saying they will pour money over politicians so they game the system, and cannot lose either way. Here comes the groupthink. Anyone sucked in here is a huge chump.
mar 7, 2025, 7:27 am • 5 0 • view
Aren't they already there Gavin Newsom caved yesterday... The conversion is now complete. Today's Dems are yesterday's Reagan Republicans, or in simpler, more accurate Engish, Nazi sympathisers.
mar 7, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
“To seek asylum in the United States, you can apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) if you are in the U.S. or at a port of entry”. Asylum seekers aren’t illegally here it’s how one applies for asylum.
mar 8, 2025, 5:11 am • 1 0 • view
The asylum thing is so insane. The reasonable centrist position of violating signed treaties.
mar 7, 2025, 12:48 pm • 90 1 • view
The fix on the asylum issue, even if you think that lots of people are gaming the system, is hiring a ton of administrative judges to whittle down the backlog of cases. Democrats proposed a bill that did just that; Republicans largely were not interested.
mar 7, 2025, 1:21 pm • 61 2 • view
That bill was effectively a ban on asylum. It was an enthusiastic embrace of the exact capitulation Noah is advocating for.
mar 7, 2025, 4:48 pm • 2 0 • view
They've (Rep) been introduced to many bills that they rejected. They're not interested in fixing the problem. Just using it as dog whistles. To feed their base of racist.
mar 7, 2025, 1:34 pm • 12 0 • view
So it seems Democrats gained no political advantage from supporting the white nationalist border bill. Might be a lesson for them in there somewhere.
mar 7, 2025, 2:26 pm • 12 0 • view
It's not always about political advantage. 😶 Dear God.
mar 7, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Someone should tell that to Democratic Party leaders.
mar 8, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes it was not a good bill from the standpoint of Democratic stakeholders, with nothing for the Dreamers. It matters little what Dems do on immigration; there will always be a migrant caravan somewhere, and Fox is sure to put images of the teeming masses on blast (but never closeups of actual humans
mar 7, 2025, 2:30 pm • 6 0 • view
They actually were accused of using old footage and it wasn't even in this region. I can't remember the specifics. But someone on TT made a video about it. I should have saved it, darn it.
mar 7, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
This is my pet peeve. The so-called border problem would be solved by devoting enough resources to process claims. But they never do. Instead they’re firing immigration judges. Gives away the game which is scapegoating brown people.
mar 7, 2025, 3:08 pm • 18 1 • view
Mine too. I’ve been to the border and watched trials. It would absolutely be solved with more resources. I think they like throwing this as red meat to the base.
mar 7, 2025, 3:21 pm • 8 0 • view
It’s been this way for decades. It’s nothing new. Congress just never wants to devote enough $ to solve the problem. Also many immigrants overstay visas after arriving at an airport but you never hear about that because it’s not “hordes of brown people coming to get you.”
mar 7, 2025, 3:25 pm • 8 1 • view
It’s just a modified version of their “Black men coming to pillage and rape White women” fear mongering. It’s worked to unify their racist base since Black people got the right to vote so why stop now, right?
mar 7, 2025, 3:30 pm • 9 2 • view
A longer-term solution would be to push the (true) narrative that immigration, both legal and "illegal," is a big part of what makes America strong
mar 8, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
Neither they nor their voters have any interest in hiding the game at this point, I think.
mar 8, 2025, 8:13 am • 1 0 • view
Why draw up a battle plan for the last one Ds lost? It is Social Security and Medicare and basic services (looking at you Alabama facing massive hospital closures). Now go scare the bejesus out of America. Start with field hearings in every state.
mar 8, 2025, 2:08 am • 0 0 • view
Seems like she wants Democrats to stop supporting every ideal that America is supposed to stand for
mar 7, 2025, 3:26 pm • 1 0 • view
These chuckleheads really just don't understand what the purpose and motivation for asylum seeking is, do they?
mar 7, 2025, 5:21 am • 2 0 • view
First they came.....and I said Nope!, because I learned from the original. 🫡
mar 7, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
“Just don’t be a racist” had worked so well in history to give people equality with white men 🙄
mar 8, 2025, 2:58 am • 6 0 • view
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mar 7, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
DEI didn't even "fail", it was killed. There's an enormous difference.
mar 7, 2025, 3:03 pm • 52 0 • view
"Popularism!" should be the new punchline, replacing "The Aristocrats!".
mar 7, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Ah yes, gotta return to that time when we weren't racist.
mar 7, 2025, 2:51 pm • 8 0 • view
Noah "screaming the N-word in Karaoke" Smith has strong opinions about not being racist.
mar 7, 2025, 5:05 am • 6 0 • view
The phrasing is so revealing, he's fully right wing. Having a DEI office that reminds people once a year to not say the n word in the office is "racist".
mar 7, 2025, 5:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Fucking liberals. Every time.
mar 8, 2025, 12:26 am • 0 0 • view
*Trump loses by 4.5% in 2020* Republicans: “we did nothing wrong, the election was stolen, we should double down on every divisive issue again in 2024” *Trump wins by 1.5% in 2024* Democrats: “we did everything wrong, we are never going to win another election ever again unless we move right”
mar 7, 2025, 1:27 pm • 2 1 • view
He’s also so wrong on policy at each point
mar 7, 2025, 5:25 pm • 4 0 • view
Also lmao “dei is bad let’s just go back to just not being racist” lmao he’s such a racist weeb
mar 7, 2025, 7:39 pm • 2 0 • view
The reason the democrats lost isn’t because they need to move to the center, it’s BECAUSE they moved to the center. Millions of young and working class voters stayed home because they couldn’t see a difference between two parties cuddling with corporations hanging with Liz Cheney.
mar 8, 2025, 1:01 pm • 16 2 • view
mar 8, 2025, 7:08 pm • 1 0 • view
There’s already a party with those priorities: the Republican Party. Poverty drives crime, not lack of police. DEI was intended to level the field a bit after 400 years of extreme racial economic repression, and creates value in organizations that embrace it. /1
mar 8, 2025, 1:37 am • 5 0 • view
2/ Crossing borders to seek asylum is legal (this your Republicans would like to change). And as far as ideology goes, you’ve embraced crime ideology, and DEI ideology—why draw the line at gender ideology?
mar 8, 2025, 1:40 am • 7 0 • view
These are the center-rights the Dems that voted to censure Al Green and Hakeem are trying to win over. This is exactly why their mentality is dangerous and an obviously intentional way to water down the progressive demands of their voting base.
mar 7, 2025, 9:11 pm • 19 1 • view
Basically “Stop holding bigots accountable”.
mar 7, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
As if spending 50 years since Carter moving to the right has done a damn thing to help Democrats. Maybe try going back to FDR and the real Democracy base. Pretty sad when Eisenhower was more left than any modern Democrat
mar 7, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Democratic base. Fuckin autocorrect
mar 7, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
"Just go back to not being racist." JFC.
mar 7, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Fun to watch a supposed moderate uncritically accept the totality inaccurate right wing framing that DEI(A) was only or even primarily a race thing
mar 7, 2025, 5:14 am • 2 0 • view
Why do people give this idiot oxygen by reacting? Not worth my time
mar 7, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Worth noting, all of those suppositions are false.
mar 7, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
During the 4 years of the Biden Administration, money was poured into local policing and crime rates fell after the COVID spike.
mar 7, 2025, 4:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Of course "not being racist" is the definition of DEI.
mar 7, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
fwiw, that guy is an idiot
mar 7, 2025, 2:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Me just reading this like "what do they mean BACK to not being racist? When was that a thing?" Truly spoken with the confidence of a sheltered white person.
mar 8, 2025, 12:30 am • 28 0 • view
We just aren't taught so much of our history. It is alarming. I was never taught about the Tulsa Massacre in school and I supposedly had some of the best teachers/curriculum at the time. I learned about this horror from Watchmen and then searching for it. And that is just one of many things.
mar 8, 2025, 1:02 am • 12 0 • view
It would literally give you 100% of the Sanders 2016 platform
mar 8, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 0 • view
This reads like many more comments came along prescribing what right wing policies dems 'need' to adopt and the noah person just kept agreeing with them.
mar 7, 2025, 5:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Dems have already moved too far right on those issues. Ask Harris how that worked out
mar 7, 2025, 10:30 am • 1 0 • view
Noah smith can get fucked
mar 8, 2025, 2:58 am • 21 0 • view
I suspect she can't, hence why she is such a squeaky ass neo-fascist who needs to blame those less fortunate for it. I mean how can she get laid if you're letting in good looking asylum seekers?
mar 8, 2025, 10:33 am • 1 0 • view
So she wants them to be republicans?
mar 8, 2025, 12:23 am • 6 0 • view
Monty Python Spanish Inquisition asses.
mar 7, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah just keep loosing elections cus that been great for all the above. Gender identity crushed them in this election. Guess what your never gonna convince people That don’t wanna be convinced that they need to Bend to your beliefs. Just like you’re not gonna believe abortion is wrong.
mar 8, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
*losing
mar 8, 2025, 2:54 am • 0 0 • view
Do this one lol.
mar 8, 2025, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view
'cause
mar 8, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
*you're
mar 8, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
*that's
mar 8, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
Heheh! I love some ‘grammar policing’. 😁👍
mar 8, 2025, 3:42 am • 0 0 • view
Aggressive
mar 8, 2025, 3:46 am • 0 0 • view
It’s
mar 8, 2025, 3:46 am • 0 0 • view
When
mar 8, 2025, 3:46 am • 0 0 • view
To
mar 8, 2025, 3:46 am • 0 0 • view
Me
mar 8, 2025, 3:46 am • 0 0 • view
Again! Why is that his profile picture?!?!
mar 7, 2025, 5:55 pm • 2 0 • view
WTF is “prepubescent medical transition”?
mar 7, 2025, 5:33 am • 2 0 • view
Does…. Does this person think the republicans are anywhere close to center?
mar 10, 2025, 5:20 am • 0 0 • view
I don't think her message is wrong but her messaging and the ultra Lefty messaging is always terrible. Always trying to cram your ideaology down the centers throats. Just as bad as the christian fundamentalist on the ultra Right.
mar 7, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Denying asylum to people who enter illegally is literally a violation of human rights.
mar 7, 2025, 4:46 am • 144 4 • view
Yes and asylum is built for this very purpose, most have to enter illegally bc there are no legal pathways for people fleeing persecution
mar 7, 2025, 6:12 am • 34 1 • view
”if you want to apply for asylum from a government that is opressing you you need to apply for a visa from that government to come over here. if they grant you a visa, well clearly they aren’t opressing you”
mar 7, 2025, 9:10 am • 18 1 • view
Hmm, it's almost like these folks are shitdemons who enjoy violating human rights.
mar 7, 2025, 7:37 am • 5 0 • view
So Joe Biden violated human rights? www.texastribune.org/2023/02/21/b...
mar 7, 2025, 5:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, he did. Every president has. The current problem is that violating human rights is this regime's first, if not only, priority.
mar 7, 2025, 7:15 pm • 6 1 • view
Which is why every leftist who didn't vote for Harris is on my eternal shit list, because Trump winning *obviously* meant a regime where violating human rights is the first, if not only, priority.
mar 7, 2025, 7:19 pm • 5 1 • view
crossing the border anywhere and asking for asylum *is* a legal way to apply for asylum
mar 7, 2025, 5:18 am • 12 1 • view
Sparing what's left of the social safety net is the only thing that comes to mind. And only because he didn't include it. Which also isn't to say that's a good thing, because if that's really all he (or anyone else) cares about, it's both indefensible and a perfect example of "fuck you, I got mine"
mar 7, 2025, 6:28 am • 1 0 • view
“Why can’t Democrats understand that it doesn’t matter when people I don’t care about are subjected to violence and deprivation? Clearly the answer is simply compromise on all of their core commitments to their base constituents.”
mar 7, 2025, 4:56 pm • 22 0 • view
mar 7, 2025, 5:29 pm • 2 0 • view
The policing bit is wild. Dems ran a fucking cop
mar 7, 2025, 1:41 pm • 2 0 • view
He's so fucking dumb because there is no prepubescent medical transition. The treatment starts after the onset of puberty (Tanner 2 normally).
mar 7, 2025, 2:57 pm • 2 0 • view
These people can absolutely fuck right off.
mar 7, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
So… basic “humanity”. He’s saying the Dems need to give up on the general idea of positive human engagement.
mar 7, 2025, 3:17 pm • 1 0 • view
DEI didn't "fail", it was purposefully destroyed. Strange that this person wants to go back to "not being racist" but believes more policing is going to fix that. Even more strange that this person wants to talk about racism and then gatekeeps asylum seeking. Batshit.
mar 8, 2025, 3:10 am • 32 0 • view
Noahpinion. Yeah, that would be better. 😓
mar 8, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
>DEI didn't "fail", it was purposefully destroyed It wasn't even destroyed. Everyone just started calling it something else to avoid backlash.
mar 8, 2025, 9:03 am • 2 1 • view
Those are all things they already caved on too / FFS !
mar 8, 2025, 3:38 am • 0 0 • view
"the only thing dems need to cave on are their entire platform, please support my shitty politics" fixed their tweet
mar 7, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Asylum? Really?!
mar 7, 2025, 9:44 pm • 3 0 • view
Identity politics without class politics is a losing game. Addressing economic inequality is the only way to uplift the most vulnerable AND win elections.
mar 7, 2025, 2:26 pm • 0 0 • view
All we have to do is become hateful and stupid like republicans?
mar 7, 2025, 9:38 pm • 8 1 • view
It cannot be illegal to cross a border to request asylum when you need to be in the country to request it.
mar 7, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
"All Dems have to do is cave to the right on fascism." They should probably nominate Trump for 2028 - they're bound to win that way.
mar 7, 2025, 3:32 pm • 14 0 • view
Crossing borders without permission is an essential part of claiming asylum and how that system is supposed to work. (Also, go BACK to not being racist?)
mar 7, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Noah wants us all to be Nazis.
mar 7, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
The stuff that makes snowflakes grasp for alternative facts….
mar 8, 2025, 12:41 am • 1 0 • view
The only thing Dems need to cave on is defending people that make me uncomfortable.
mar 7, 2025, 4:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Did something break in this guy's brain? His takes seem to have gotten dramatically worse over time...
mar 7, 2025, 3:03 pm • 93 3 • view
Really? We're talking Mr. Yeats? 🙃 (@Noahpinion). I messaged him to confirm if he is the same identity behind all three accounts: @Noahpinion - Xitter @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev substack.com/@noahpinion Pair the screen cap/tweet with essay. Highly probable. www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-the-de...
mar 7, 2025, 6:34 pm • 1 0 • view
His unknown unknowns spread wide.
mar 8, 2025, 1:44 am • 2 0 • view
Having an editor and working for a publication with social media rules was very good for his credibility; being a Substack guy and freewheeling poster has been the opposite
mar 7, 2025, 3:19 pm • 3 2 • view
I too, remember the old days where he’d actually introduce people to books (like Studwell’s “How Asia Works”) and give attention to ideas unfamiliar to most, like export promotion. Sad, right?
mar 7, 2025, 3:29 pm • 1 0 • view
He seems to have a poor constitution for going it alone and stewing in the brain juices of the activist venture capital crew of the Bay Area, rather than being at an institution like Bloomberg.
mar 7, 2025, 3:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, inceldom, hanging out with sf nazis, and the pandemic. He is lazy and emotionally incompetent, and has literally spent like five years getting stupider.
mar 7, 2025, 3:05 pm • 52 1 • view
I have yet to see ONE peer reviewed scientific study to show that policing reduces crime. It's a fairy tale. Always was.
mar 7, 2025, 3:23 pm • 9 2 • view
He never really had one to begin with tbh
mar 7, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 0 • view
settle down Francis...
mar 7, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Twitter broke all these guys brains and unfortunately they're going to take down the establishment Democrats with them because their staffers and consultants and strategists and pollsters listen to them. They don't listen to the base at all.
mar 7, 2025, 4:20 pm • 4 0 • view
That dude's handle is a play on "No Opinion" but he should really change it to "No Values" Because either he doesn't have any, or he has right-wing values that he doesn't want to admit to
mar 7, 2025, 3:36 pm • 7 1 • view
"Right-wing values" most of the country shares, which means they win elections.
mar 7, 2025, 5:36 pm • 1 1 • view
I don't believe that, but even if it's the case, being popular does not make something correct.
mar 7, 2025, 6:14 pm • 4 1 • view
I can't imagine why anyone is responding to this disingenue--Maku 'thinks' most Americans are shitbag conservatives and that's demonstrably false, but that sure isn't stopping him pulling such suppositions from his apparently-cavernous-and-expansive ass.
mar 8, 2025, 12:41 am • 2 0 • view
"I don't believe that!" "But if I did, I still wouldn't accept it!" Commies. 🙄
mar 7, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 1 • view
Soooo.....become everything evil and awful and we win???? Win what, exactly?
mar 7, 2025, 7:00 am • 0 0 • view
I like how Harris followed this advice and didn’t mention anything about DEI, defunding police, and ran on a right wing border bill, but people think it’s the reason she lost. She had more favorability when she was just calling republicans weird.
mar 8, 2025, 10:58 am • 16 0 • view
These are all uninformed "dumb guy" opinions, too. "Policing reduces crime by a lot," in an era of sheriff's departments having been mobbed up for decades? "We don't need inclusion, just 'not being racist'"! Whatever that means 🙄 And rejecting asylum law as it is for the new xenophobia!
mar 7, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Does this dipshit not realize that you cannot legally request asylum *until* you're in the country? It's like playing freeze tag, you have to be touching base.
mar 7, 2025, 3:09 pm • 13 0 • view
honestly the dems could really save a lot of time and effort by just disbanding the party entirely and becoming rebuplicans in name as well. if there's no actual intention to do things differently, the parties might as well be football teams
mar 8, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
EJECT THESE FOOLS FROM THE PARTY
mar 7, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/talk...
mar 7, 2025, 10:16 am • 1 0 • view
The "Okay, maybe one more" line is killing me here 😓😥👀💀 Doesn't he realize that after he capitulates to the fascists on this list, it's going to be "maybe one more…" until the Nazis are in complete control?
mar 7, 2025, 8:29 pm • 2 0 • view
…Of course I'm also wondering when he thinks the magical 'non racist' time occurred???
mar 7, 2025, 8:32 pm • 2 0 • view
So we’re supposed to become republicans…?
mar 7, 2025, 5:56 am • 3 1 • view
Maybe add taxes, entitlements and abortion rights too. In fact Democrats should just agree with Republicans on everything.
mar 7, 2025, 3:27 pm • 3 0 • view
‘The only thing we need to do to beat Republicans is have all the same policies and govern the same way’
mar 8, 2025, 1:14 pm • 6 0 • view
rob fuckin george good god
mar 7, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
They already have the brand they want. Why try to make a softer brand? I will never understand the capitulation to the destruction of other humans.
mar 7, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Most Dem politicians are already to the right of the vague stance on policing proposed here lmao
mar 8, 2025, 4:21 am • 0 0 • view
What how are you against both 'self-ID' while also being against the most effective way to pass?
mar 7, 2025, 7:04 am • 0 0 • view
“Illegally crossing the border to request asylum” OMG STFU you don’t know what you’re talking about.
mar 7, 2025, 6:53 am • 6 0 • view
I think he’s suggesting we focus on a comprehensive redistribution of the world’s wealth and the indiscriminate execution of wealthy elites.
mar 7, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
"Gender ideology" is the 2020s incarnation of "the gay agenda"
mar 7, 2025, 3:32 pm • 6 0 • view
"If Democrats were Republicansthey would have won the election."
mar 7, 2025, 8:01 pm • 2 0 • view
To everyone saying it's just that dipshit it's not. People Dems listen to are saying the same, James Carville being the current observer. Granted The Bulwark isn't lefty, but they're calling for it too. The idea is the same, follow the Overton window to the right rather than trying to pull it left.
mar 7, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans destroyed their party and now need a new party.
mar 7, 2025, 3:09 pm • 2 0 • view
I will look for these people on the field.
mar 8, 2025, 4:19 am • 0 0 • view
So he's saying this despite the Dems adopting a hard stance on immigration and rejecting anything but moderate police reforms while increasing funding. Meanwhile Democrats' DEI "policy" was just "not getting in its way." I think the pundits are the ones that need to learn Twitter isn't real life.
mar 7, 2025, 6:52 am • 1 0 • view
Anyone who says “We just need to cave over and over on basic human rights, and then we’ll be fine” should be thoroughly disregarded and/or launched into the sun
mar 7, 2025, 8:39 pm • 12 0 • view
Men who can’t get laid.
mar 7, 2025, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Policing does not reduce crime Police reform does not work, we have been doing it for literal decades and police murders of civilians have only increased over time Defunding the police, prison + military industrial complex should not be a radical position atp
mar 8, 2025, 3:35 am • 15 0 • view
I don't disagree with you about police sucking, but what police reform have we actually had in this country that isn't strictly performative and surface-level?
mar 8, 2025, 11:38 am • 0 0 • view
I’m thinking specifically about Resmaa Menakem who’s a trauma specialist, training police in Minneapolis. I read his book My Grandmother’s Hands where he shared a lot of the techniques he used, and they go DEEP… like exploring intergenerational trauma and the relationship to racism.
mar 8, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Serious question -- what serious police reform has happened? I haven't seen any. We should absolutely stop police departments from accepting former military gear that they feel the need to justify. But what police department has actually been defunded?
mar 8, 2025, 9:09 am • 1 0 • view
See my other comment about Resmaa Menakem in Minneapolis
mar 8, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
This is such a joke. "You see... the only thing we need to do is throw marginalized people under the bus... then we'll be cool. Oh and arrest homeless people... that goes without saying tho right?.. Right?" 🤮
mar 7, 2025, 1:38 pm • 1 0 • view
what is he talking about. democrats are currently to the right of 'reasonable police reform'
mar 7, 2025, 3:08 pm • 6 0 • view
To place DEI, the right-wing boogeyman that still has positive approval in polls, as the #1 sacrificial lamb really gives the game away! He's neither savvy nor popularity, he's just a reactionary weirdo!
mar 7, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Username should give us a good idea of how many good opinions this useless doorknob has
mar 7, 2025, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, "go back" to not being racist? when was this?
mar 7, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Expanding Medicaid in red states would be a huge victory.
mar 7, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
“Become Republicans” isn’t strategy. It’s surrender.
mar 7, 2025, 3:05 pm • 143 2 • view
“Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.” Every. Single. Time. They are brothers-in-arms.
mar 7, 2025, 4:04 pm • 28 0 • view
I think they've already tried this and it did not work
mar 7, 2025, 7:24 pm • 10 0 • view
Yeah it’s like what do yall think the entire Kamala campaign was, extremism??
mar 7, 2025, 8:04 pm • 8 0 • view
My favorite part was when she aligned herself with the Houthis against Israeli genocide
mar 8, 2025, 1:03 am • 0 0 • view
People in the center aren’t looking to fight Republicans as the goal , they are looking to just find the best set of centrist policies. If democrats remain extremist, they will lose again and again
mar 11, 2025, 5:27 am • 1 0 • view
The fact that folks like you don’t want to fight fascist pieces of shit is everything I need to know about you and your nonsense politics. Calling current dems extremist is fucking hilarious you dork
mar 11, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not. You guys have taken the Democratic Party to extreme left to the extent that none of my friends, all of whom were Obama supporters, are supportive of the trans agenda, of extreme DEI and many other woke politics. You can’t win their vote based on this extremism.
mar 12, 2025, 4:40 am • 0 0 • view
It's not saying "become Republicans". It's saying "become mainstream Americans", since most of the country holds these positions on DEI, policing and immigration. And yes, that includes non-whites.
mar 7, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 1 • view
Your profile description of proud centrist is helpful because it lets me know your opinions are dog shit and you stand for nothing.
mar 7, 2025, 8:03 pm • 7 1 • view
And your words are helpful because it lets me know your IQ is dog shit which prevents you from understanding what centrism actually is.
mar 7, 2025, 8:04 pm • 1 1 • view
Centrism isn't exactly "cool" right now, though. The "center" did not hold in the last election, and many centrist independents actively contributed to the country's damnation. So we cannot ask any person or party to move closer to the center until we've actually FOUND that center once again.
mar 7, 2025, 11:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Unfortunately, progressive Democrat voters are probably the LAST people to be blaming centrist independents for our collective woes, since they contributed way MORE to the country's damnation by sitting the election out altogether:
mar 7, 2025, 11:04 pm • 1 1 • view
(Also, if anyone wants to find the center again, or understand what proper centrism even is, I recommend watching "Cobra Kai" on Netflix. Not joking, it explains it better than I could.)
mar 7, 2025, 11:06 pm • 2 1 • view
I don’t think they should back down defending things, but I do think that dems need to focus HARD on the economy and Trump’s embarrassing performance over the next two and four years. Beat him with that over and over again. The economy should be the overwhelming center of their campaigns.
mar 7, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
What fresh hell is this? “Be more like Republicans and then you might win?” Just make sure you throw all your loved ones, friends and marginalized communities under the bus first. 🤬🤬🤬Holy hell NO
mar 7, 2025, 11:04 pm • 10 0 • view
This is what happens when you have no core values other than pop punditry.
mar 7, 2025, 1:48 pm • 13 0 • view
“Time to go back to just not being racist”.. WHAT lmao. What fucking fantasy world do these ppl live in because it sounds nicer there.
mar 7, 2025, 5:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Noah Smith is a piece of shit.
mar 7, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Wrong facts lead to wrong conclusions. DEI has been a success. It will be a greater success the more we commit to it. Policing doesn't reduce crime; it creates it. Acts that would not even be noticed are criminalized when police are present. The nation must follow the law when people seek asylum.
mar 9, 2025, 11:03 am • 0 0 • view