Did you proceed to have an obvious nazi tattoo on your chest for a decade and change?

Nope. Just woke up on the sub with a shiner and a bank account that had been completely drained, neither of which I had an explanation for.

Because that’s a big blind spot and a bad look. Like, he’s better than Collins and he’s saying the right stuff, but I won’t trust him until he’s proven himself. You don’t get a nazi tattoo for years and years and not deserve a lot of extra scrutiny. He’s got a lot of work to do.

Yeah and this is the point I made about giving people space to have changed. Mainers have had that kind of grace, and if you believe in grass-roots democracy, you should trust them at this point. And its funny because I make the point, people seem to nod their heads along, and then always, there is some chirper who wants to pipe in and say “not good enough”. And its really a catastrophic sickness in the current leftist populist moment in the US, which we can easily contrast with the rightwing populist moment (both started at the same time).

The rightwing movement has been inclusive, and the leftwing movement has been exclusive; and because of that difference in ideology, the rightwing movement took over for the previous 10 years and enacted their agenda: fascism. And you (and others) are doing it right here. Your trying to find a way to exclude someone from the movement. Rightwing populism has been doing the opposite. When they identify someone who could be an ally, they find a way to make a seat for them at the table. Its a horrible, fascist, disgusting table, but its been able to grow its membership because they’ll take all comers and speak to how their movement will address their grievances.

The entire point being made is that the very thing you are doing is a self-destructive, reactionary tendency which has knee-capped our ability to grow a leftist populism which can confront fascism. And I wont’ deny there are other factors to surmount in this regard, but this self-sabotaging instinct is fundamental to why things have been so difficult. Thankfully though, as the movement has grown, this voice of yours which is typically online, and very disconnected from lived experience, its volume becomes lost in the crowd.

I was drunk as fuck on habu saki, 18 years old, in Okinawa one night on shore, in line with four other sailors to get tattoos. I dont remember what happened after that.

Iran feels like it was a sidequest and we’re about to get back to the main storyline about an entire nation funding a billionaire pedophile cabal.

Thanks for demonstrating the “lacks a coherent theory of change” in practice. Nothing better than a worked example to make the point.

Thankfully this kind of opinion is relegated to the terminally on line and is basically non-existent in the real world. No positive social change could happen if we don’t give people space to change.

Mother Theresa but good

I mean your not wrong to have included it. But so much of the reaction is from a place of cynicism and bad faith. I think everyones hackles are raised, and legitimately so, around characters like Sinema and Fetterman. But what Planter is doing is clearly different and has been different since they started. I got to meet them when one of my volunteer groups were trying to make the decision around endorsing him. This was back in September & October.

And there has been a lot which has happened between August and now. Anything that can happened in this race basically did. If they had more powder to set off, they needed to set it off weeks ago, because at this pace Platner is looking to schelack Collins.

Its time to coalesce as a party. Schumer and Jefferies just threw the best two years we had to fight fascism to a pit and lit it on fire. But now, now Woke is back baby!, and Woke 2 gonna make your head spin. We need to see Platner, Mandami, Al Sayed (inshalah), Chris Rabb, All three of Mamdani’s endorsees on one stage. Schumer and Jefferies spoiled our ability to present a coherent front of resistance against fascism. That changes in November.

Platner can be divisive

Only to those with either thin skin, a sense of entitlement about what kinds of people should be allowed access to political power, or who don’t have a coherent theory of change.

Look. I’m a veteran. I drank that kool-aid and won the poverty draft lotto. I literally signed up for tacos. Understanding the imperialist machine from the inside changes you. And veterans have been representative in the fight against fascism in the US the whole time. And I’ve worked with every one in those links. Many of them were raised as conservative assholes. And for some of them it took their buddy getting blown up in the humvee next to them to wake up to the consequences of imperialism. And you should have the grace to allow people to change.

Ahh fuck really? I thought they were 100% against funding aid to Israel?

In ranked choice in a crowded field, why wouldn’t you?

Brad Lander is a boss hog. If it wasn’t going to be Zohran, it needed to be Brad. They cross endorsed.

Cost-ed.

Its now costed him the seat. We in the post tense.

Running to the center is why fascism arrived, and Democrats have been espousing it as a strategy since the 80’s, while Democrats as a brand have basically given up on the concept that government can be a force for good in peoples lives.

Remember the decades we were told you had to run to the center to win?

Yeah it was always lies.

Clean sweep…

I totally agree with the assessment.

I just wanted to use the useful idiot for good instead of of only for evil

What an idiot. You know you could have just gone independent and kept the seat dummy?

Countersue with a class-action lawsuit, where the damaged class is the Citizens of the United States of America and the world.

I think she’s like Vance. Just not an icecubes chance in hell of surviving a primary.

Not that I disagree, but what’s the relationship between the statement and the headline. This is an inside the party fight.