This isn’t a reporter breaking the silence to reveal how laws are broken, this is “Democrats say Trump broke laws” but won’t do anything about it. The point is to continue portraying them as opposition.

It’s not their job to remind people of the laws, it’s their job to do something about it.

creation of a Jewish state in the middle of a muslim area.

That is not the issue with Israel. Jews lived peacefully among Muslims and Christians in Palestine, the problems started when they started immigrating from Europe to displace indigenous Palestinians on the bases of religious superiority and exclusivity.

The problem with Israel is not that they wanted to create a Jewish only state (that’s a different issue), it’s that they wanted to colonize and ethnically cleanse Palestine to do it.

The core problem with the Working Families Party is not that it is “too left" as its mainstream apponents like to paint it, it is that it often uses left energy to discipline people back into the Democratic Party, then calls the cleanup “movement-building.” That can win some seats, but it can also teach leftists to accept candidates who later betray the movement.

WFP treated John Fetterman as a major 2022 battleground project. In its own 2022 memo, WFP called Pennsylvania “the best opportunity for a Democratic Senate pickup” and said it had built one of its largest voter-contact programs in the state for Fetterman against Dr. Oz.

But Fetterman’s later record exposed the danger of endorsing “vibes” over political discipline. Once in office, he moved sharply away from the left, especially on Palestine. The New Yorker described him as once being “a beacon for progressives” who then moved beyond even many centrist Democrats in his “unconditional support” for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Then WFP turned around and announced a future primary effort against him. In 2025, Pennsylvania WFP said Fetterman had “sold out working Pennsylvanians” and accused him of being the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that would strip health care from millions, including more than 400,000 Pennsylvanians.

That is the problem: WFP helped manufacture Fetterman’s progressive legitimacy, then asked the movement to spend years undoing the consequences. For left movements, this is exhausting. It turns organizing into a cycle of laundering candidates, being betrayed, then fundraising off the betrayal.

WFP endorsed Platner in March 2026 for the Maine Senate Democratic nomination, calling him a champion for working people who would fight billionaires, lobbyists, and corporate interests.

But Platner came with serious baggage. There’s his Nazi tattoo that he got to commemorate the great time he had murdering brown people, there’s the fact that he constantly reminisces about his time in the army and how much he enjoyed his war crimes, so much so that he decided a promotion that put him away from the action was not worth it and joined blackwater to do more war crimes instead. And his old online comments include dismissive remarks about military sexual assault, Black patrons, police officers, rural Americans, and anti-LGBTQ jokes. He’s an unapologetic racist war criminal, and is being pushed as a progressive anti-imperialist.

The left should absolutely believe in transformation, accountability, and people becoming better. But electoral organizations often convert that principle into something thinner: “ignore the contradictions because he has the right class aesthetic.” That is dangerous. A left movement cannot build durable solidarity if it asks women, Black people, queer people, Jews, or antifascists to subordinate their concerns to a candidate’s “working-class” branding.

Platner may be better than establishment Democrats on economic policy. But WFP’s endorsement illustrates a recurring weakness: the party often treats populist anti-billionaire language as enough, even when the candidate’s record raises questions about political judgment, accountability, and who gets asked to absorb harm for the sake of “the bigger fight.”

In 2014, WFP endorsed Cuomo after he promised progressive concessions, even though Zephyr Teachout represented a clearer anti-Cuomo left challenge.

WFP endorsed Elizabeth Warren over Bernie Sanders, after having backed Sanders in 2016, which intensified divisions on the left.

In 2021, WFP ranked Scott Stringer first, then rescinded the endorsement after sexual misconduct allegations, then shifted to Maya Wiley and Dianne Morales. The result was a fractured left and Eric Adams as NY mayor.

That’s what they do.

No, it’s made by swatch with a swatch movement and a plastic “bioceramic” body, it just has AP’s branding and signature look.

Nothing about that looks like it’s worth more than the cheap kits you find on Amazon. There’s really nothing special about that kit.

Depends on how far you want to go with the maintenance, buy a good caseback opener, a movement holder, a good set of watchmaker screwdrivers, some good tweezers, hand setter, and a good magnifier. If you want to full service with washing and lubricating and reluming etc, you’ll start going to specialty stores but you’d be far down the hobby at that point and you’ll come across the right sellers in your research.

Same thing happened a couple years ago when swatch partnered with Omega to release a quartz “MoonSwatch”, designed to look like a Speedmaster Moonwatch.

Lines were insane, it was sold out everywhere and eBay was flooded with them at insane prices.

There were some people that wanted a $300 “Omega”, a handful of actual Omega fans/owners who understood the novelty of it and actually wanted it, but the majority of sales went to scalpers and people who don’t know anything about watches that thought they were buying an investment.

It’s not a limited production, and you can now find it in pretty much all swatch boutiques just sitting and begging to be bought.

Mostly scalpers and FOMO buyers, that’s who buy it at launch.

The same party that brought you Fetterman and is whitewashing war criminal for fun Planter as an anti-imperialist?

No, no they’re not. They’re focused on branding centrist/right ghouls as far left to infiltrate and hinder actual leftist progress.

Ben Shapiro is fighting everyone to defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and it’s why even his followers are dropping like flies.

“Do as I say, not as I do” applies here.

It applies to you, silly. It’s YOUR government. Your need to be willing to fight for it, and it’s okay to ask for external help but it’s not okay to insist it’s everyone else’s problem.

I’ll be your Che, but you have to be Fidel first.

Actually, you do you, your country is heading for collapse that will primarily hurt you, and most of the rest of the world will be better off.

You don’t want to be gunned down, but you’re fine with me being murdered, I get it, no fucking shit.

You’re a coward, that’s the only thing you think everyone is afraid of. You’re fine with our people being drone struck at weddings or in ambulances, you’re fine with your country completely destroying our homelands and genociding us, I get it, no fucking shit. You only care about you and yours.

But again, they’re coming for you next.

Meanwhile, your own nation is shoveling money to the USA right now.

I assure you, my nation isn’t shoveling any money to the USA. I can’t wait for the empire to fall. I hope the coward citizens can make something good out of it, but I’m watching the same film I’ve seen many times before; a cult of personality comes to power and slowly strips away any mechanisms to stop him, then he targets and eliminates any opposition to his rule, secures military allegiance and sits on a throne and never leave. And finally when you’re ready to step up comes the torture camps and disappearances.

Enjoy having your vote counts before its cast for dear leader, if they decide to keep up the voting facade in the first place. Might just declare martial law and cancel elections permanently.

What a stupid rebuttal…

In response to being accurately accused of not doing anything to overthrow the fascist ruling class in your own country, you ask people from other countries to come do it for you? And you think you’re being smart?

When will you learn that Democrats are not real opposition? They exist to give you the illusion that someone is fighting on your behalf, when they’re in power they fund genocides and war crimes while gaslighting you and backing off on most of their top issues, when Republicans are in power suddenly they care about minorities and women and healthcare again. Rinse and repeat.

Run on single-payer healthcare; when in power, establish and defend a Republican healthcare plan. Run on protecting Roe; let it get shredded after decades of fundraising off the threat. Run on student debt relief; deliver a means-tested maze and call it historic. Run on climate action; approve drilling, pipelines, and record military budgets while telling you to recycle harder. Run on labor rights; break strikes when workers become inconvenient. Run on immigrant justice; expand deportation machinery, cages, surveillance, and border militarization, then act horrified when Republicans use the same tools more openly. Run on criminal justice reform; fund more cops. Run on democracy; crush third parties, sue to keep opponents off ballots, and tell you there is no alternative.

And every election, the pitch is the same: “This is the most important election of your life.” Not because they intend to transform anything, but because fear is the only thing they have left to sell. They point at Republicans and say, “Look how bad they are,” as if being slightly less openly cruel is a political vision.

The function of the Democratic Party is not to defeat the right. It is to absorb anger, neutralize movements, discipline the left, and protect the ruling class from any genuine alternative. They take the language of justice, diversity, feminism, labor, climate, and peace, strip it of any threat to capital or empire, and sell it back to you as branding.

They do not fail because they are weak. They fail because their donors, consultants, lobbyists, and institutions are getting exactly what they paid for: no universal healthcare, no end to empire, no serious redistribution, no confrontation with capital, no real democracy in the workplace, no liberation from police violence, no break with apartheid, no politics beyond managed decline.

Republicans tell you they are your enemy. Democrats tell you they are your friend while helping your enemy build the cage.

At some point, we have to stop mistaking betrayal for incompetence.

Except the Ukrainian rulers are bending over backwards to suck up to and support the US and Israel in this war and everything else.

“hospitality suite” is not a private suite, it’s one big room with a shitty buffet and is so crowded you won’t want to be in there if you care about the game at all.

Are Trump supporters part of the intellectual debate on democracy?

No, we’re not a monolith, but not everyone can contribute intellectually. Yes, Fateh and Mahmoud Abbas are widely seen as collaborators, and have been for a long time now, but especially what they’ve done to oppress Palestinians since the Gaza genocide started.

I think Marwan Bargouti has potential to unite people, and if anything radicalizes you to not collaborate with Israel it’s Israeli prison. And he has spoken more recently in support of a one state solution so I think he has potential, but the narrative that he’s our Mandela is a romantic myth; imagine if Mandela fought for a black only ghettos as a state within South Africa instead of pushing for economic sanctions against the apartheid government.

That said, his children arguing for his release using the two state solution rhetoric doesn’t have as much weight as you’re implying it does.

So, I am also not going to start going around like a western asshole shitting on people on the ground who risk their safety, going against the genocidal Israeli right on a project of shared grief like this. In the exact same way that I don’t go around blanketly condemning groups that take on armed struggle to exercise the Palestian people’s legal right to armed resistance to occupation under international law.

False equivalence.

And for the same reason, I’m going to call the other commenter out, just like I would (and have) call out someone for blanketly denouncing Palestinian armed resistance.

Stick to the latter. “this kind of attitude is ridiculous and disconnected from the reality of Palestinians” this is you engaging in an argument on behalf of Palestinians and their reality, and you should expect to be called out in the same manner as the user you called out, who expressed an opposing Palestinian viewpoint.

Why do you feel entitled to express a Palestinian viewpoint but they aren’t? Have a measure of consistency in applying your criticism.

to recreate a kind of monolith that you can call “a very mature body of literature” (and whoever is outside that is “not part of the debate”, i.e., outside the monolith).

I didn’t exclude them from the intellectual argument and literature, they are absent from it.

Not every Palestinian wants Marwan released, and not for the reason you might think, some view him as a violent murderer who stands in the way of peace, believe it or not a lot of Palestinians oppose armed resistance, which you rightfully said shouldn’t be condemned.

I hope I’m not being repetitive and I hope I’m getting my point across. We’re not a monolith, but not every opinion deserves to be entertained respectfully by the simple merit of coming from a Palestinian’s mouth. I’ll bring up Trump supporters as an analog, a lot of them genuinely believe they are supporting the best future for their country and people (we’ll ignore the truly racist and just want others to suffer portion for now), does their view that Trump is protecting democracy and freedom need to be amplified and given equal weight because Americans are not a monolith?

It’s a stretchy analogy, I know, we live in Idiocracy now, but you understand what I’m saying?

I think you mean well, but I think you consume too much liberal Zionist propaganda, which is really convincing if you don’t interrogate it strongly.

Yes, they’re tactics. Tactics to create a false equivalency of suffering between the occupied and the occupier.

These groups don’t call for ending occupation as those words mean, they mean leaving the West Bank. If Israel exists as a Jewish supremacist ethno-religous state on stolen Palestian land, the occupation isn’t over. If they dismantle all their checkpoints, if they tear down the wall on Palestinian territory, if they remove their soldiers and stop shooting out children for sport, they’re still occupying our land, our only access to the ocean, our oil, our fresh water sources, our fertile lands, our grandparents’ graveyards, and our homes to which we still have keys. The “two state solution” is a liberal Zionist tool used to make the colonization of Palestine palatable for western audiences.

Ending occupation means a free Palestine from the river to the sea, and these groups aim to twist the meaning of words to make forcing us into a small land with no military and choking us economically so we continue to leave in search of better life. They want to end “occupation” so they can focus on colonization.

Of course the more extreme don’t like that plan, they want to exterminate Palestinians and get it over with as quickly as possible. That’s where their opposition comes from, not from a principal disagreement on the existence of a Jewish only state on colonized land, they all agree on that part.

And you can meaningfully debate with other Palestinians their efficacy or on diversity of tactics but I don’t think the jury is out on that debate

You know, we aren’t just sitting around debating these issues a few times a year when Israel is in the news. We spent decades thinking about this, and we have a very mature body of literature on the topic. Ghada Karmi, Ali Abunimah, Yousef Munayyer, Mouin Rabbani, Hani Faris, Edward Said, and Ghassan Kanafani are just a few Palestinian intellectuals/authors you could read to better understand this very much settled debate.

The existence of collaborators and propagandized Palestinians who aren’t well read on their own history (as a product of the ongoing colonization) doesn’t mean the “jury is out on the debate”, they aren’t part of the debate.

such that would compel outsiders to declare something like this a meaningless joke.

Yet you feel compelled as an outsider to speak with such authority and conviction.

Palestinian here. FUCK that shit.

Israelis are occupying our land and genociding us in the open. These attempts to paint them as equal victims only perpetuate the genocide and colonization of Palestine.

Anything less than allowing us our legal right of return and giving us reparations is just letting them get away with their decades of crimes because some of us dared to fight back.

We call Palestinians engaging in these events collaborators, or generously we could use the Zionist/American favorable term “useful idiots.”

Imagine a woman being publicly beat by her husband for decades and finally decides enough is enough and gouges his eye, and then holds an event to mourn both her scars/wounds and his eye. Would you be celebrating it, or would you say “hold up, something isn’t right here”?

You could also read the article you shame people and declare they haven’t read:

On the other hand, some pro-Palestinian voices have suggested that the ceremony advances a liberal Zionist narrative of false equivalence between Israeli and Palestinian suffering.

Do you even know what “tankie” means? Do you even know what it means to you?

If you ever decide to read non colonial history books and learn something new instead of calling people Tankies when you can’t engage, I’ll truly celebrate.

I haven’t once said anything “tankie”, in defense of Russia, yet you keep insisting I’m spreading Russian progranda despite grounding and citing my claims in both western liberal media and Jewish Holocaust encyclopedia.

You lack the ability to accept criticism, you’ve said nothing of substance, you’ve provided no sources for your claims, and you repeatedly dismissed anti-Russia sources as tankie propaganda.

This isn’t for you, btw, you’re hopeless. It’s for anyone reading your nonsense to see how you engage with facts that disagree with what you think you know.

Trump should’ve stopped sending weapons to Israel as soon as The Hague put out an arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

That would have been challenging, since the arrest warrant was issued in November 21, 2024 and it was Genocide Joe sending significantly more weapons to Israel than Trump ever did.

In the context of this thread, you are defending their position, not simply posting what they said.

You’re such a moron.

The “two state solution” is a Zionist tool used to sustain the colonization of Palestine, but of course your uneducated ass thinks that’s something to be proud of.

I provided historical context, you cited literal westerm progranda as facts.