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  • Summary of the people quoted in the article about “Gen Z” protests:

    • 29-year-old business consultant
    • 43-year-old physician
    • 65-year-old real estate agent

    They’re just trying to coopt the other successful revolutions by people who are actually protesting for generational change, not just “do Boomer politics for people of means”.

    From an Al Jazeera reporter:

    Monica Cruz, an AJ+ reporter in Mexico City, said it was likely that the opposition was behind the protests in the Mexican capital.

    “We are having a hard time believing that this is an organic protest. Especially from young people. We don’t want to say that Gen Z is a monolith. There are young people in every side of the political spectrum,” she said.

    “But there’s not a lot of young people out there on the streets and we are thinking that may be a reflection or a sign that this is not really coming from the young people. Because we’ve seen protests here in Mexico City against the genocide in Palestine, for example, and we’ve seen young people by the thousands marching in the streets.”








  • AOC will never be Senate Leader. That’s not on offer whatever path she takes.

    I don’t think calling for resignation or not has anything to do with the Epstein files, but the same collective action problem that made few people publicly call for Biden to resign even though most Democratic voters wanted change. The people who decide these things aren’t the voters and if you call for an establishment leadership figure to be purged and they aren’t, you’re in for a load of shit from them.

    Like with Biden, Bernie and AOC also probably expect any replacement to be the same type of person playing the same sort of games. Schumer is particularly bad at politics, but his replacement won’t be someone who might displease donors.