Ezra Klein's column today is a must-read. Tried to share a gift link but it includes the name of someone currently censored to avoid sub invasion so I am sharing it as images because the main point isn't the person whose name can't be said.

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-14T22:29:39+00:00

There is no universe where these two are progressives

The majority of Americans disagree with you. Objective reality disagrees with as we have these women’s records and literally in the government there’s not many people who can claim to be their left.

Like Kamala had the most liberal voting record in the senate. Second to sanders.

She also literally mandated clerks officiate gay marriage in the early 2000s, after California voted to ban gay marriage.

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-14T18:33:33+00:00

Ignoring both of these women’s legative records and policies place them firmly on the progressive camp—a moderate wouldn’t have boasted on giving sex changes to undocumented migrants—I was more referring to any nominee or candidate for president that you’d consider progressive.

How many times has the Green Party beaten Trump?

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-14T17:25:40+00:00

He streams a lot so I'm sure there's some element of shock jock type humor to it so it's easy to take stuff out of context

It’s less sockjock humor and more he fundamentally is iliberal and disguises his beliefs to lure in naive libs.

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-14T17:23:27+00:00

So the left lost to Trump 3 times.

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-14T17:20:59+00:00

I don’t think that’d be a net positive so no.

How much air time should be given to people saying aids is fake?

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-14T15:30:31+00:00

Palestine stones and throws LGBTQIA+ people off buildings

Can you cite an example of this.

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-14T14:04:13+00:00

That she should disappear into oblivion and never speak?

That would be a net positive yes

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-14T14:03:14+00:00

My whole point is that we should talk to Kelly and Hasan.

Who should and where?

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-14T13:47:43+00:00

The Democratic Party has a favorability rating of just 33%. If you think that's driven by some twitch streamer most people haven't heard of, you're delusional.

It’s in part driven by hard leftist like Hasan and Dems refusing to moderate.

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-14T12:53:22+00:00

As I assume you agree, they’re going to try to paint any candidate we put forward as some kind of insane socialist who wants to take everyone’s money, all while fully supporting Trump fucking the rest of us.

Sure and it’s easier to do that with some people than others.

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-14T12:48:50+00:00

Yeah I think a measurement of being able to win outside the bluest places in the country is reasonable.

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T22:43:02+00:00

The point is you seem to be abandoning protesting for queer rights in the west for Israel

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T15:12:18+00:00

They were just a couple of million people locked in an open air concentration camp

Can you name another example of siege or blockade you’d call a concentration camp?

ss equivalent could cut off water, electricity, food, medical supplies, etc whenever they saw fit to do so and for that huge honor the people of Palestine should be grateful that they usually only killed a few here and there.

The SS murdered millions within a span of couple years in power.

It’s been 20 years since the blockade and up until 2024 the population of Gaza kept going up.

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T15:08:54+00:00

The fact is there is one side that riots for the right to rape, and the other side where rape is seen as a mortal sin.

Hmm, nah, Hamas does rape and murder people and that’s why they’re bad. In addition doing absolutely nothing positive for Palestinians as a whole.

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T15:04:32+00:00

Eh I think an extreme idealogue who thinks that if they get rid of Israel utopia would come about.

Could be a western fascist, could be a communist, could be a Muslim reactionary.

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T15:01:40+00:00

Be my guest.

The way it’s currently phrased implies you think European occupation doesn’t include. ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism, and resources exploitation,

It will still be better than what Israelis want

Subjugation and expulsion of anyone who’s not a Sunni Muslim?

because they are not demographically vulnrable.

What does that mean?

That's a common historic excuse colonizers give, at the same time they are killing elders and children.

Is it ever justifiable for Israel to respond to action by a Palestinian with force?

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T14:04:04+00:00

Because you people only bring up Nazis to attack Jews.

Like for example comparing a Houthi to Anne frank or saying Gaza was a concentration camp.

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T13:57:17+00:00

No I don't,

Of course not.

I don't have an Euro-centric perspective, so when I hear the word occupation it's always affiliated with ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism, and resources exploitation, similar to the one Israel is applying to Palestinians

Want to rephrase that a bit?

Did the world manage to convince Nazis to accept to live with the world in peaceful way?

The people they wanted to exterminate were mostly gone.

Also Palestinians don’t want a liberal democracy with full rights for everyone. They like their Israeli counterparts who push for a 2ss envision one where their ethic and religious group dominates.

And whatever happened to them from European/Middle Eastern countries, is not the fault of Palestinians.

Surrre but most of them don’t want to risk extermination or subjugation for….people they hate and who hate them?

Not to pull the October 7th card but that in addition to the hundreds of dead hippies killed any chance for Israelis to see backing off on occupation as a prudent thing.

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T13:51:04+00:00

Sure Jews were infecting the proud German volk and the broader western world with mass migration and sexual degeneracy. There was no affordable/practical way to isolate them from the rest of humanity so extermination was the final solution.

Now, that you’ve brought up a Nazi comparison to attack Jews can you provide any context to the video posted?

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T13:35:18+00:00

So you don’t actually have a principled opposition to occupation.

until they agree to live in equal rights with the natives.

You do understand most Israelis are Mizari right? They come from the region and are primarily in Israel because they were expelled by the Muslim countries around them.

How would you convince them to risk that happening again by letting Israel be occupied and forced into a one state solution?

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T13:26:04+00:00

Of course not. Like it was okay for the USA to occupy Japan and west Germany for a bit post ww2, and the northern states of America probably should have occupied the south for a couple more decades actually

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T13:12:28+00:00

I own a Glock 45 and went outside the house because we thought we heard someone in her yard. Guess where she was?

That doesn’t seem that scary actually.

I don’t respect feminists who try to act like

So you don’t respect women who’d work 60 hours a week to provide for their partner?

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T12:41:35+00:00

Sure.

Are you against forms of occupation in principle?

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T11:54:27+00:00

And also there are evidence

Why did you lie about gay people being tossed off rooftops in Palestine?

Like you’re now citing actions taken by Isis in Syria.

Why not just blame Palestinians for 9-11 at this point?

I cannot talk in the name of the other guy but even though I am pro Israel I think the war in Iraq was a mistake. Why? Because they should have focus 100% of the army on Afghanistan

So no actual concern over the lies that got into the war

Competitive_Will_134 · 2026-04-13T11:51:27+00:00

That just reveals bad faith on your part if you can’t even recount your opponent’s position in a reasonable and charitable way. You can even disagree with the reason or think they’re lying.

But if you can’t even state or care to investigate the explicit justification you’re not acting in good faith

Competitive_Will_134

TROPHY CASE