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I am seriously worried we might face some sort of redneck Cultural Revolution. It is so funny to me that MAGA shrieks about communism when they share so many traits with Chinese communism than the American “Left” ever has. -the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 days ago

This is actually so much more pro-life than being anti-abortion. Helping parents with child care costs is going to go a long way in other aspects of society: less stressed parents, parents who then have means to spend on other goods and services,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 days ago

Like I said, when you have poor and middle class white male janitors voting the same way as John Elway, Mike Shanahan and Boomer Esiason, that's a problem..... That’s a problem but framing white men as people that Democrats have abandoned… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

Democrats need to appeal more to white men voters One, Democrats have been watering down the progressive platform so as to try to appeal/ not offend white male voters for decades. Two, it hasn't worked because if conservatism is what… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

It is literally a “heads we win, tails you lose” situation. Some people feel the police are on their side, up until the last moment of their lives like we saw at the Capitol. In their view, the police are hurting the right people… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

when you're talking about abolition: do the shitty aspects of police outweigh the positive things? For most people, the answer is no. And that's further reflected in the overall opposition to "defund." When you're talking about… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

The epidemics of police brutality and gun violence rage in America.
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MeFi post - 2 months ago

Walter ‘Fritz’ Mondale, 1928-2021
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MeFi post - 2 months ago

The time on the clock of the world is telling us it's time to reimagine public safety. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I can't bear to watch and think about the outcome of this trial. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

It was only a matter of time. ........ This, in addition to the discrimination against LGBTQ & trans kids, all feel like a huge backlash to progress that is only starting to be made. We are fighting a huge battle here. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Her goal: Secure backing from DeJoy and win over Republicans whose support they'll eventually need in the Senate to push the bill into law. Republicans are never going to support something that leads to their demise. The same reason less… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Government is back: The first 50 days of the Biden-Harris administration
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

I count it as a huge victory that the government is going from a partisan tool to torture the wrong Americans and becoming something that can help people, however minimal and flawed it might be. The pressure and Discourse around some of these… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I didn’t complete the sentence about minimum wage: Raising the minimum wage to $15 did not make it into the American Rescue Plan, with much drama by way of Senator Sinema, 7 other Democrats, and all 50 Republicans, so the #Fightfor15 continues… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

When I hear the left talk about mutual aid as an alternative to government programs, it sounds just like the right talking about charitable giving as an alternative to government programs. Assuming that government is irredeemably flawed is… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

The Right loves choice except when they are not chosen. Criticism = silencing. It feels we've been circling the drain over the same cultural war stuff for nearly 40 years. This is by design, I suspect, and it ain't any one particular… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Alt right media is super unsettling and creepy. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I'd prefer we NOT praise or glorify the non-Trump Republicans. Republicans are Republicans for a reason. They are still evil. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

There is something poetic about McConnell having to acknowledge Biden's win on the same day that Biden appointed a Secretary of Transportation to replace McConnell's wife. 2 L's for McConnell! I'd like to see it as Biden's signal to Mitch that a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

perhaps - i wonder how many republicans are looking at the state of the country and are scared shitless of what could happen - not anywhere near enough, of course, but maybe they're sensing the games are starting to backfire and it's time to get… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

If we are being 100% honest, a large number of Asian immigrants are just fine with white supremacy. It's what they know, it's what they're comfortable with, and it's what they expected (signed up for, even) when they came here. They see no reason to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Thanks, toasty k, for bringing us back on track. Yes, I think we, the progressives, need to take back the narrative from the right-wing Asians who have been more vocal so far. This feels also like an ongoing reckoning about where Asian… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

While we watched them happily vote away the strides that had been made. This is the most enraging thing to me and the thing connecting me to Resisters / Boomer Dems. More than a few have told me that the last 4 years radicalized them… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I'll happily quote-for-truth as a Jimmy Carter-stan, and be more explicit: Reagan and the movement he was part of has made the world actively worse for most of my life. Same. Even if I spend the rest of my life undoing the damages of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Thanks, wuwei, for your comments. This topic’s been on my mind and the rising tension between Black and Asian communities has me worried that a riot will break out and more people will get hurt. I specifically remember them equating… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Tips for having multiple careers
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Ask MeFi post - 4 months ago

The left is without recourse to better ways of solving social problems in a way that is not purely individualized (capitalist value) and punitive (conservative value). This is it. Victims turn to the court of public opinion because they… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Yes, we have to be vigilant. Never underestimate the number of angry and unreasonable people, and the power of name recognition and celebrity. This can be said of all Republicans, but there is something especially depraved about Rand Paul. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

At the risk of sounding like Pollyanna: Isn't the lesson in 2020 that *WE the People* are the only ones we can count on? Impeachment 2019, Mueller's report, Epstein's arrest -- none of those things took down Trump. It was only enough people… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Biden's decision to emphasize unity and staying out of Trump's business has aged well. He talks about unity so much it's hard to accuse him of being partisan AND gives him cover to move forward without Republicans if need be. Even right wing… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Even if the Republicans acquit and it's a political loss for the Democrats, this trial absolutely needed to happen. It's not an option to just let an insurrection go. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

What would be the effect of a month or two of impeachment trial with increasing media attention? What would be the effect of compelled testimonies? The problem is that now we will never know. I don’t see it as them not taking a shot… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

/This is why I constantly think "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." It's a lot easier to do evil than to do good in this country. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

The GOP is literally a gang. The blackmail, the transactions, the protection via favor of the mob boss, the base. I am not really shocked about that but I am exasperated that many Americans see this group of people as the right ones to run our… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I feel so depressed I have to give myself hope somehow: If they convict him --> Dems managed to convict Trump and they are the actual party of law and order. If they acquit --> GOP is married to Trump and QAnon, material for the midterms… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Given the rest of us no workable choice but to make their endless whining over feeling disempowered into a self-fulfilled reality. That's the conclusion I've come to. We can't and aren't going to ever placate these people. We need to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

A more democratic redistribution of electoral power is a critical and urgent necessity if the USA is to even survive, let alone prosper. It cannot wait any longer, the USA is already on the precipice, with all that implies for the rest of the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Do people realize that progressive faiths and the Christian Left exist? See: Millennial nuns, social justice Catholicism, Black Christian Americans, social justice-oriented Rabbis, Muslim Americans Christian nationalism has hijacked religion as… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

A category that includes Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover. Such figures, he’s written, are outsiders from the party of a dominant but decrepit regime. Jimmy Carter does not belong in the same category as Herbert Hoover. The U.S. not… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I can't shake the feeling that something very ugly* will come out of the GOP and that short of rewriting the Constitution, expulsions, or a Nuremberg style trial, we are going to be held hostage to them as they try their hardest to turn back the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Yes. I can't really describe how it feels like we as a country are underreacting to a coup. I hope this is a case of the wheels of justice and government turning slowly rather than the insurrection being swept under the rug. Of course the most… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

The GOP with and without Trump is a dangerous animal. They are dangerous when they’re in power and even more vicious when they’re not. When I see people talking about “the next time Republicans get a trifecta” I am speechless. The next time… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

In Biden's America and under Liberal Cultural Revolution conservatives will have to declare: "I'm in a straight marriage. My pronouns are he/him. I drive a fuel car." And they shall have to show us their guns and tax returns. MUAHAHA! [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Watching MeFi wait for the hammer of justice to fall on the Turnip crime family feels disturbingly similar to watching Qultists wait for the Storm. Yes, there is truth to this. I get the concern about appearing partisan and that every… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I think the Asian conservative immigrants will find themselves on the wrong side of history. I'm not sure how to win them over but it gives me hope the younger generation is progressice and better informed than their parents. [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I kind of support Biden appointing Sen. Toomey for a Cabinet position to get a Senate majority, and so there is a Democratic incumbent in PA in the 2022 Senate race. He will need to pull every trick in the book to get things done in the next two… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

The senior communications team is all women. After four years of open misogyny, this is actually healing to see. What a beautiful chance to right some wrongs. It seems the new admin recognizes that. I hope the new AG and DoJ will be… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I’ve been pleased with how Biden-Harris are handling the transition, even though I wanted to see more offense, I realized that NOT engaging was the better choice. All in on the Georgia Senate races!! The polls have both candidates tied right now… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Like Mitch McConnell trying to screw around with Democrats in Congress, we’re not back where we were before Trump, and there’s a shift that a lot of folks haven’t realized yet. I also think there has been a shift. Republicans are gonna… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

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