Cripple. History Major. Vaguely left-wing.
If the CIA operated like the KGB, we’d have an autocrat in the White House, and the CIA would still be selling drugs on US streets to destabilize internal demographics.
This is the organization that had data that torture wasn’t effective, and then was told by the fucking president to stop torturing people, and it came out several years later in front of Congress that they just kept on torturing people regardless.
I assume the “establishment Liberals” are all on a spectrum- some are more centrist while others are more progressive; it’s why I mentioned them separately from the other three and only lumped the two together.
I don’t know man, I feel like Establishment Liberals are just “Joe Biden without the GOP cockblocking him”, which, while good, is something I would still very much count as much more moderate than progressives.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/establishment-liberals/
I’d consider only the Progressives and Outsider Left as in our corner on this one.
Dictators would be extinct. Cartels wouldn’t exist.
Have you forgotten what the Funny Alphabet Agency does?
How are they mutually exclusive arguments? The only alternative would be to assert the reverse - that any failure of a progressive candidate is the fault of centrists; but as centrists are the majority of the electorate, that’s a pretty silly argument.
We’re in the minority here. A significant minority, but a minority. Our choices are to be part of a coalition, or hand victory to fascists.
Stop, I can only get so erect
He became less racist later in life, but didn’t, to my knowledge, express remorse for his previous racism.
if all the “vote Blue No Matter Who” centrists actually meant what they say… it wouldn’t matter.
The problem is that there are 2%-3% of ‘swing voters’ who are incredibly low-information and not ‘vote blue no matter who’. And 2-3% is what US presidential elections are decided by.
No, we can excuse lack of refinement in talent, but not racism.
I love Lovecraft’s work, but fuck is he incredibly racist.
Shipping aid that is actively being destroyed by the Israelis is… an interesting way to piss away money.
As a history major, even a lot of academic papers from 40-50 years ago were stunningly intentionally blind to homosexual subtext. It was never universal, but it definitely was common enough to be worthy of mention. Nowadays most publishings are pretty open about the possibility of someone being homosexual.
Separately, the bill contains provisions for $9.15 billion in humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, amongst other places.
Which itself is absurd, but in a slightly different way.
Forgive me if I don’t worry about the guy making the kinds of memory errors most of us do.
Indeed. I was very close with my paternal grandparents. They both passed in the same year.
I couldn’t tell you what year that was.
Most people don’t mentally catalogue events according to the date.
I do so enjoy not being in a death camp…
It only takes one GOP rep to threaten a vote of no-confidence anymore, right? Might be enough to make Mike Johnson fold and allow the vote.
Senators backed a procedural motion by 67-32, exceeding the 60-vote threshold to advance the bill. Seventeen Republicans voted in favor, in a surprising shift after they blocked the broader bill on Wednesday.
Please let this pass. Ukraine needs our support.
“Freedom of speech means you can express opinions in your own property, not anywhere in public. And if you rent, that’s not your property.” - SCOTUS 2025
The “Enhanced interrogation” was what they were told to stop. They kept “enhanced interrogating” people.