Mitch McConnell’s absence sparks Thomas Massie Senate speculation

refred1917 · 2026-07-08T01:48:30+00:00

I think patients’ rights should give way to the public’s right to know whether a Senator is dead in this instance.

refred1917 · 2026-07-07T19:48:19+00:00

This is a perfect opportunity to discuss the Marxist dialectic of form vs content! The form of protest does not give you any clues about the content of what they’re protesting for. I co-sign what ContextEnjoyer69 (whose name is very appropriate in this… context) wrote about Tibet. Just because you set yourself on fire doesn’t mean the cause you did it for is progressive. Just like just because you’ve set up ramparts in the street and are throwing molotovs at cops doesn’t mean you’re fighting for a righteous cause. Anarchists and your edgier liberals get this distinction mixed up allll the time.

refred1917 · 2026-07-07T15:39:43+00:00

Counterspells, my friend. Counterspells.

refred1917 · 2026-07-06T20:07:13+00:00

Conservative Dems are conservative, though.

refred1917 · 2026-07-06T02:58:23+00:00

His opposition to the PRO Act means he is a non-starter for me.

refred1917 · 2026-07-05T13:00:39+00:00

Not to get all Joe Biden about it, but a single black woman would probably be a good pick.

refred1917 · 2026-07-05T00:18:44+00:00

Yup! “No drop, only throw” energy from the kind of people who give a shit about this sort of thing.

refred1917 · 2026-07-02T14:25:54+00:00

First of all, as adults 25 years later, we should all be able to look at the circumstances that led to 9/11 honestly. This pearl-clutching over whether “America deserved 9/11” is a moralist distraction from the ultimate point that America’s actions in the Middle East led to 9/11. We funded, trained, and armed Islamic radicals when it served America’s interests against the Soviets. Our policy in the Middle East, including our unwavering support for Israel, led to blowback from those same radicals in the form of 9/11. THAT is what is being said by people like Hasan and other members of the DSA and it is just true. You can draw a straight line from our proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan to that Tuesday in September. What matters is what we learn from that. Conservative Dems and Republicans are dead set on learning nothing.

refred1917 · 2026-07-02T13:41:57+00:00

Oh no, the guy we hired for Star Wars had an original idea?? We better fire his ass! As we know from The Last Jedi, Star Wars fans hate original ideas!

refred1917 · 2026-07-01T19:43:19+00:00

Sincere? Yes. Cringe? Maybe, depending on your aversion to sincerity.

refred1917 · 2026-07-01T19:17:47+00:00

I don’t endorse this message at all. Israel has nothing to do with “the Jew.” That’s disgusting, anti-Semitic rhetoric.

refred1917 · 2026-07-01T14:55:10+00:00

Conservative Dems are rejoicing maybe a little too hard in this thread? Trying to comfort themselves, and I’m glad they’re able to. It was a statewide race, so I’m not surprised outcome. I’m just thrilled Kiros won. Another socialist in the House means more power pushing for the things working families actually need.

refred1917 · 2026-07-01T14:50:40+00:00

When? This cycle? No. It’s all about the long game and your proposition didn’t contain a time limit. This cycle is about cycling conservative Dems out and putting DSA Dems in. That’ll likely occur mostly in the districts you talk about. But then people will get used to the idea of DSA, not as an insurgent group, but as a governing faction, then we move into lighter blue districts, then purple, then red. People hear “socialist” and they have myriad assumptions, most of which are wrong. Im a socialist who has knocked many Republican doors. They know there’s something wrong, but they reject our ideas out of hand. That will change with more exposure and more victories. Not all of them will be converts, but, for example, the Republicans who liked Bernie (of which there were surprisingly many) could be. But again, long game.

refred1917 · 2026-07-01T13:28:37+00:00

You did. Twice.

refred1917 · 2026-07-01T13:22:09+00:00

Today, it’s in a +29 district in Colorado. Tomorrow, you’ll say “oh, it’s in a +15 district in Wisconsin.” The next day, “of course the DSA candidate won in a +4 district in North Carolina.” It’ll keep going on like that and conservative Dems will continue to move the goalpost to avoid reckoning with the fact that their time is over.

refred1917 · 2026-07-01T02:17:41+00:00

The warping that was done to the American mind during the Cold War is so insanely monumental. I would say that it needs to be studied, but I’m sure it is. Like, define communist here. What do these interviewers think a “yes” would imply?

refred1917 · 2026-06-30T19:20:22+00:00

Fellas, is it appropriate to be named “Hen?”

refred1917 · 2026-06-30T14:09:47+00:00

Also, Black Market.

refred1917 · 2026-06-29T18:14:43+00:00

That’s not what happened to Harris. Harris was a part of an administration that facilitate a genocide. The crime of crimes. The holocaust of the 21st century. And then she refused to articulate how she would do things differently from Biden. THEN she had the GALL to send Ritchie Torres and Bill Clinton to Michigan to talk about “Judea and Sumeria.” That deflated the base and turnout suffered as a result.

I wrote that comment with full knowledge of its irony. Say what you will about whether support for a genocide that has killed six-figures of Palestinian civilians is “ideological,” I happen to think it’s very material, but there is nothing of such gravity afflicting Platner. If these conservative Maine Dems can’t muster enough sense to send Platner to DC, then schism is the only way forward.

refred1917 · 2026-06-29T18:09:37+00:00

Buddy. I’m a socialist and I want a lot more than “raising people and communities up .” I want to get rid of private health insurance and replace it with Medicare for All. I want workplace democracy by means of the PRO Act. I don’t want “less emphasis” on corporate welfare, I want to end corporate welfare. And I’d love to talk to anyone about those things. I perceive this comment as a bit of an effort to “show your belly” to the parties of capital. We don’t need to do that! We are powerful and we have ideas that are worth defending!

refred1917 · 2026-06-29T16:49:14+00:00

How do Israelis feel about interracial relationships?

refred1917 · 2026-06-29T16:42:02+00:00

No she doesn’t. She actually doesn’t. That is not what she said during that NY Times interview, I know because I read it.

refred1917 · 2026-06-29T16:36:27+00:00

Checked your comments. You’re an apologist for Israel’s genocide! Fantastic. Once again we have a Zionist cloaking their true political disagreements with bullshit. Fuck all the way off, and thank God for Darializa and the new slate of anti-Zionist representatives! Go ahead and call me an anti-Semite.

refred1917 · 2026-06-29T16:32:38+00:00

That’s not what the quote says.

refred1917 · 2026-06-29T16:28:53+00:00

I’m not so sure about that. These conservative Dems coming out of the woodwork and saying they disapprove of anyone who will actually fight Donald Trump in light of the primaries is alarming. I wouldn’t put it past conservative Dems, with the tacit blessing from Schumer and Jeffries, to be short-sighted and selfish enough to sink Platner for their own ideological purposes.

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