I genuinely thought this was an Onion headline. I don’t understand how any registered Democrat could see this and ever take the party’s messaging seriously again. I’m not even sure if this is just Biden being Biden and not giving a shit how badly he fucks over the Harris campaign, or if the Dems genuinely think it’s good to have their sitting president wear a symbol they’ve spent 8 years claiming is more evil than Voldemort’s dark mark.
“Some business leaders… Here’s what they prefer”
Let me stop you right there
insider trading is an unspeakable violation of our sacred norms and traditions unless you’re a member of congress in which case it’s totally fine and normal
the police will be along shortly to throw the kids in jail
In her interview with that zionist, she had a lot of opportunity to absolutely shred that bullshit
Sure she could’ve, but I’m sure the logic going on in her head was: “If I lose my cool and come off too aggressive, they’ll just fire me and replace me with someone more explicitly Zionist. If I stay calm and professional I can ask questions that prompt the settler to expose her own bigotry to the audience without looking like I’m trying to do a debate instead of an interview. I’ll get to keep using this platform to reach people and ask questions that others wouldn’t.” The joke is that it didn’t matter at all because in the end they just fired her anyway because they didn’t like a black woman’s face while she was being slandered by a bigot.
Maybe I keep wanting to see a new generation of black panthers, instead of someone who doesn’t want to cross the invisible line. Going against the imperial narrative in US media is hazardous to your career, for sure. There’s room for her if she wants to move left, but the forces of capital won’t let her use their media monopoly to undermine their interests.
There’s ideological room for her on “the left” (the limits there being her own class interest and political education), but lets not pretend there’s room for her to have a career “on the left”. The Panthers didn’t organize a 501c4 to pad their resumes. People like BJG desperately want to believe they can turn meaningfully positive political action into a job that pays the bills, and it always ends up like this. To ideologically move beyond the limits of professional reformism, she’d need to accept that it’s almost never going to come with a financially successful career. You can make a living, and you can be a revolutionary, but you can’t make a living being a revolutionary in a capitalist framework. The contradictions will always make you choose one over the other, and a person’s material conditions will usually end up being the deciding factor.
She’s not especially impressive, I just can’t help but pity her being continually hung out to dry in increasingly degrading ways by the systems she keeps trying to work within. A person in her position could live an easy and comfortable life like any other DC suit passively toeing the liberal line. She burns all her bridges with the DNC to be Sanders’ press secretary after they’ve already fucked over Sanders once before, and Sanders turns around and disowns her when she doesn’t endorse Biden. She can’t get work in DC, so she uses some of her only remaining relationships to try to make a living as a podcaster by attaching herself to a Chapo host at the height of their success. The Chapo host gets outed as an alleged sex pest and ghosts her, with the scandal sinking the podcast. She gets a job as a talking head on a DC tabloid rag’s pivot-to-video internet talkshow where they make her interview a settler colonist promoting an ongoing genocide. Gray stays professional throughout the interview, and they fire her anyway, not for anything she said, but because they didn’t like her alleged facial expression after the settler accused her of being a rape apologist.
Obviously she’s a privileged imperial reformist whose politics are nothing special, there’s just something surreal about how disproportionately her career seems to keep getting worse every time she fails to seig heil with enough enthusiasm. If anything, she’s a living morality play for every DSA-adjascent professional “progressive” reformist: you can do everything “the right way” and this is still the best you can expect.
Seems like this woman’s career has just been getting continuously fucked over ever since she decided to work for Bernie Sanders.
Joe Biden correctly believes that US involvement in the western front was about directly securing future Nazi control of Germany from the Soviet Union once it became clear that no amount of private sector US funding and resources would keep the Nazi leadership in power. Joe Biden again wants to secure a weakened, dependent Nazi state in Ukraine from being liberated by Russia.
Mortgage originators this summer: “75 percent of your gross income is actually a perfectly healthy housing payment if you cut out extras like car payments, student loan debt, or food.”
You will have a coal-powered SUV that falls apart after 5 years and you will like it
Mainstream liberals will laugh about how anyone could be stupid enough to believe that the 2020 election was stolen by a secret pedophile cabal as though it’s not still totally hegemonic in 2024 to believe that the 2016 election was stolen by a secret cabal of KGB Manchurian candidates. Both of these ideas are evidence-free nonsense, but it’s the one debunked by years of comprehensive bipartisan congressional investigations that it’s normal to still believe. Hell, at least they’ve actually found pedophiles in congress, which is more than I can say for secret Russian Skrulls or whatever the these lunatics believe.
The Republican Party hasn’t needed voters to win for at least the last 30 years.
The former definition is being openly stated by the Israeli president, prime minister, and senior government officials as explicit justification for years of illegal settlements and apartheid.
The latter definition is a purely speculative excuse from Euro-American liberals that ignores that Palestinian Jews existed before Zionism in order to pretend that Jews can’t exist as part of a multiethnic society.
I’ve had 3 ereaders and the only real changes I noticed between my oldest and newest is water resistance, lighting, and barely noticeable resolution improvements. Upgrading won’t fundamentally change your reading experience.
So you got banned for homophobia then?
Incredible how readily people like this will accept open holocaust denial. Bandera and the OUN weren’t quiet about their politics, their participation in pogroms, or their collaboration with Nazi Germany. We don’t need to speculate about their motives, they came out and said them quite freely:
you based your entire opinion here on “whatever the opposite of America is”
Pure projection. I treat Russia as an ordinary liberal democratic state led by ordinary human people with rational self-interested motives rather than a cartoon villain with an army of mindless robots. My refusal to treat them as fundamentally evil, irrational, or inhuman doesn’t suggest that I think they’re “good”, selfless, or beyond criticism. It means I judge them by the same standards I’d use to judge any similar state with a similar political and economic system in similar circumstances.
I don’t need to like how America acts to also not like how Russia acts.
If you’re an American as I am, then your taxes funded the 2014 coup of Ukraine, the ongoing war on Donetsk and Luhansk, sabotaging the Minsk agreements, and prohibiting a negotiated end to the ongoing conflict. You’re not some unbiased neutral observer if you’re pretending to claim “both sides bad” while actively funding and voting to maintain the war and block every local attempt at peace. Absent continuous US intervention for over a decade, this war never happens.
I don’t care where Russia and Ukraine decide to put lines on a map between them. That’s exclusively up to the people that actually live there, and Euro-Americans like me aren’t entitled to an opinion about it. I care that my government stop using money generated by my community’s labor to murder the people that live there.
Believe it or not, history didn’t actually start in 2021, and Nazi collaborators didn’t all suddenly disappear in 1945 after enthusiastically carrying out the holocaust. Many German Nazis went right back to work at NATO, the West German government, and various US intelligence and military projects. The Ukrainian fascist organizations, Stepan Bandera’s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists among them, that directly participated in the murder of over a million Jews, Poles, and communists operated continuously through the 2014 coup where they overthrew the democratically elected Ukrainian government with the backing of the United States. The coup government had been waging continuous open war on Russians living in Luhansk and Donetsk for 8 years before Russia came to their defense at the explicit request of their democratically elected governments.
Of course, you either already know this and don’t care, or you’re going to choose to ignore it to substitute with some cartoon fantasy about how there was peace in the world until Putin and his orcs arbitrarily decided to blacken the land with their unclean hordes and wipe out the good, clean, pure Men of the West for absolutely no reason and with no strategic objective beyond embodying the metaphysical concept of evil.
Gen Z and millennials are correctly realizing that no amount of saving on a working person’s pay will ever outpace the infinite growth of housing prices. Might as well get your pleasure where you can if we’re all just waiting to be priced out of the rental market and one ambulance ride away from living on the street.