He’s only saying this because he’s seen the polls on support for Israel and the Iran war and he wants to be a viable presidential candidate in 2028.

His base has been convinced that all renewable energy development is just a big grift for people to get rich off of government subsidies, which coincidentally is exactly what fossil fuel subsidies are for. The “no you” defense is the most successful strategy in history, so successful that it’s enabling our own extinction.

Oh, I agree completely. Beshear thinks he got elected in a red state because he tiptoes around culture war issues and appeals to common ground, but the real reason is because he captured the populist energy of teachers’ unions (not that he did much with it). If he can capture populist energy again (and he could, it’s everywhere right now) he can get away with being a lot more bold, but I’m not sure he knows how to do that anymore.

Even in death he continues to obstruct democracy.

Beshear is governor of Kentucky. He’s walking on eggshells and has been for his entire career in politics.

It’s not either/or, it’s a self-reinforcing cycle, though it isn’t usually the drugs themselves that start it.

I get where you’re coming from. I just think people are sick of hearing the argument that we shouldn’t run woman or minority candidates because racism/misogyny will harm their chance of success, myself included. I believe that the number of people who will absolutely refuse to ever vote for a woman or minority is often greatly exaggerated, and the number of people harboring racist/misogynist views who would still vote for a woman or minority in the right circumstances is vastly underestimated. When we talk about why a candidate won or lost an election it’s disingenuous to attribute it to something that had only a minor impact when compared to something that has proven to have had a massive (and election swinging) impact. In the case of the 2024 presidential election that something was Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide, and so it isn’t wrong to say that was the deciding factor in the election and racism/misogyny wasn’t.

What you’re missing is that even racists and misogynists will vote for women or minorities if they say the right talking points. Just look at all the pick-mes on the fascist side. This argument is always trotted out by “centrists” against progressives, but the centrists love to run women and minorities, act like that makes them progressive, and blame racism/misogyny when they lose for being uninspiring empty suits. I’m sick of the hypocrisy.

Thomas Paine is the only one I could tolerate hanging out with. The rest are getting pushed back into the time machine and sent to the Devonian period.

The Vietnam war began with majority support and slowly became unpopular over time. The Iran war started with the majority opposing it, and is the first war where that’s happened in US history. It’s a very different political climate from the Vietnam war era.

If Patriot Front was a state asset then no one would have gone to jail for Jan 6th.

Saying this after they all got presidential pardons is just insulting.

Granted now as an enemy of the State hiding their faces is a necessity because mere associating w/ antifa is a crime.

Antifa is an enemy of the state because the state is an enemy of the people. Also, it truly exposes the hypocrisy of right-wingers like yourself when you celebrate guilt by association with an ideological stance (antifa is not even an organized group) after years of proudly proclaiming yourselves as free speech absolutists. You’re libertarians when Democrats are in power, but fascists when Republicans are in power. Pretty convenient for you guys, huh?

Antifa hides their faces from authorities because they would otherwise be persecuted by the state. Patriot Front has the backing of the state (many of them are police themselves), they’re hiding their faces from the people. Antifa are protecting their lives, Patriot Front are protecting their reputation. One is pragmatism, the other cowardice.

I think you’re underestimating how gen Z would respond to a draft. There has been no generation in US history less supportive of war. I think a significant number of gen Z would gladly turn their weapons on the general that asks them to commit war crimes without hesitation, and that’s if they even manage to drag us kicking and screaming to the front.

“Old guard” isn’t referring to age, it’s referring to the neoliberal democratic establishment who are currently facing challenges from progressives and democratic socialists. George Santos is completely unrelated to anything that’s being discussed here.

I fucking dare you to try it bitch. The backlash would be legendary.

It had to be a BadEmpanada video of course. His entire channel is dedicated to attacking other leftists for not being perfect platonic ideals of communism as he understands it. He would accuse Karl Marx of being a liberal if he lived in the same time period.

It sucks that the smokescreen of conservatives hating new trek for being too woke exists because part of the problem with new trek is that it’s fake woke. It wears the face of progressivism like a skin mask while being a bland representation of an ideal future as imagined by a past era of liberalism that no longer exists.

If you contribute to making it happen you won’t need anyone to clue you in when it does.

How the fuck do people don’t get radical or depressed?

Leaning into the former and channeling it into real world action with a community helps with the latter.