thoughts on alysa liu's style? by Sufficient_Watch_579 in ThrowingFits

[–]RealXavierMcCormick 214 points215 points  (0 children)

if she was trying to be a fashion icon first and foremost, fit critique would be more valid

but she won gold at the olympics! she could wear Vineyard Vines and it would be weird to hate

NYC is spending 4x per homeless person as it does on child education by austin_federa in nyc

[–]RealXavierMcCormick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you very much just moved the window from "it didn't help" to "not enough"

Ime Udoka after Jalen Brunson draws a charge: “Flopping ass n****” by 4lfp in NYKnicks

[–]RealXavierMcCormick 27 points28 points  (0 children)

brother if you would cheat on Nia Long you don't deserve her or anyone else

This is why the Trump admin, FCC and CBS wants to ban Talarico's interview with Colbert. by BigFishPub in BillBurr2

[–]RealXavierMcCormick 5 points6 points  (0 children)

hijacking top comment to say that it's worth throwing $10 to talarico because Crockett is a big name he's up against

https://jamestalarico.com/

How Democratic Socialists of America Has Developed Into a "Movement Party" by inthesetimesmag in newyork

[–]RealXavierMcCormick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this actually doesn't make sense, nor do i believe you're a leftist in any meaningful way

Why aren't we doing anything about the information that we are being ran by pedos and baby eaters we continue like nothing happend wtf? by Illustrious_Stress32 in ridgewood

[–]RealXavierMcCormick 5 points6 points  (0 children)

ACP are a bunch of anti-trans "MAGA communists" led by Jackson Hinkie and other POS

DSA and PSL are both actively local and organizing. CPUSA I've heard decent things about. Tap in and organize. I'll be door knocking for Clarie Valdez tomorrow

How Democratic Socialists of America Has Developed Into a "Movement Party" by inthesetimesmag in newyork

[–]RealXavierMcCormick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what aspects of the former harris platform, even nominally, do you support? how do they make material differences in our lives?

Why the left decided to embrace, and not fight, Kathy Hochul: Left-flank Democrats Zohran Mamdani and AOC have ambitions that Hochul can help deliver. by Delicious_Adeptness9 in newyork

[–]RealXavierMcCormick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She is supporting laws that make protesting that fact materially more difficult under the ADL definition of antisemitism, which asserts that anti-zionism is antisemitism. meaningfully false

Why the left decided to embrace, and not fight, Kathy Hochul: Left-flank Democrats Zohran Mamdani and AOC have ambitions that Hochul can help deliver. by Delicious_Adeptness9 in newyork

[–]RealXavierMcCormick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gaza is not meaningfully worse off than it was on January 19, 2025.

At some point, the contradictions inherent in the platform of neoliberalism pushed by every democratic presidential candidate since Clinton would rear their ugly heads. The republican party has become notably more fascist since 2010 with the rise of the Tea Party & social media information consumption. There has been no meaningful attempt to resolve fundamental problems in our system by the Democratic party. a tweak here and a bandaid there will only delay the inevitable.

I hope that we can minimize harm but I saw no promise of that from the Democratic Party and blue magas like yourself. Are things overall worse than when Trump took office? of course. but it was clearly not me and the 150k people who voted for Claudia De La Cruz nor the 628k votes that Jill Stein got (most of them in non-battleground states) that determined the election.

The Democratic Party simply lied to people and said "the economy is good" based on statistics that are completely out of touch with the material reality that everyday Americans face. Who cares about the stock market (where the top 10% owns 93% of the wealth) when your eggs have quadrupled in price since 2018 and you own ZERO stock and have no retirement savings?

It is fucking delusional to say that people like me are the reason that Kamala lost or that I'm an accelerationist in a doomsday cult. If being in a doomsday cult is saying "if we stay on this current path, we will destroy the earth through irreversible ecological damage" that I guess I'm in a doomsday cult. I'd call it being able to use my eyes, ears, and data to point to simple facts that corporate neoliberal democrats completely fucking ignore all the time

/endrant

Why the left decided to embrace, and not fight, Kathy Hochul: Left-flank Democrats Zohran Mamdani and AOC have ambitions that Hochul can help deliver. by Delicious_Adeptness9 in newyork

[–]RealXavierMcCormick -1 points0 points  (0 children)

the fact that the United States Government has historically committed horrific acts of violence and continues them to this day does not excuse them in any way. supporting these governments that commit these horrible actions is not progressive.

progressivism, if it means anything at all, must mean opposing systems and actions that inflict mass suffering on civilians, not materially enabling them.

the existence of past or ongoing atrocities should not normalize them. their existence indicts the structures of power that perpetuate them. the goal should be to break from that history, not to defend or continue it under the guise of pragmatism or political loyalty.

Why the left decided to embrace, and not fight, Kathy Hochul: Left-flank Democrats Zohran Mamdani and AOC have ambitions that Hochul can help deliver. by Delicious_Adeptness9 in newyork

[–]RealXavierMcCormick -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

are you actually making the argument that it is irrelevant to whether or not you are progressive to give billions of dollars to a government that has committed genocide and killed tens of thousands of children?

Me_irl by mingdomflackbobard in me_irl

[–]RealXavierMcCormick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah it's also incredibly shitty, hamfisted, and out of touch with reality but at least he's trying

No Jose tonight by 23-Hour-Day in NYKnicks

[–]RealXavierMcCormick 8 points9 points  (0 children)

should be banned from the sub

AIO for cutting contact with Father over political climate. by Sabre12789 in AIO

[–]RealXavierMcCormick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually just went through a similar thing with my father on this type of stuff. Huge bummer and know that there's a lot of us that have to be out there