119th congress: must be at least 75 to chair a committee!

[Kepler]

I'm hoping Graham Platner gets its also

Even if he's Fetterman 2, we need the seat.

But yes, Ossoff's speech right there is a dagger to the heart of Schumer Democrats.

 

[psych]

Even if he's Fetterman 2, we need the seat.

But yes, Ossoff's speech right there is a dagger to the heart of Schumer Democrats.

This is the kind of stuff we’ll always agree on.

 

[Kepler]

White male Economic Leftism is going to do a lot more good for this country in the long term than non-white female Social Leftism.

They both cause tremendous backlash, but the former erodes the ability of the wealthy to rig the system to prevent progress on both fronts.

Do the former, get both. Do the latter, get the latter only, and temporarily.

 

[psych]

I agree with the underlying sentiment, but disagree entirely with the color arrangement. I don’t think economic leftism has anything to do with being white, while, to the detriment of many, feminism has almost been exclusively associated with middle-class white women in this country.
I think nonwhite, non-binary people need to have increased roles in all levels of government, the aggrieved cries of whites be damned. If we’re afraid of aggrieved whites blocking progress, señor, already they block progress…para siempre, progress they’ll block.

I get the sentiment…I think a human of any color would take a decent job, good healthcare, safe, stable housing, and a solid, well-funded school for his/her/their child to attend over some “hollow” social/societal/equality progress win…because yeah, we’d all be serfs together…

…but you know what Kepler, if black and brown people want us all to be serfs together, instead of them continuing to be tread on in the name of economic progress for all, I suppose they have that right. After all, they’re currently the heart and soul of the Democratic Party…not to mention us white folks have put them through the wringer on this continent for almost 500 years.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

kep's comment is extra hilarious given the complete dismissal of US women's team by the men yesterday.

I know what he meant, sure, just...there will never be a point in my lifetime where this won't be the prevailing opinion.

sigh.

 

[Slap Shot]

Will the damning testimony from this ICE whistleblower amount to anything?

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[walrus]

Will the damning testimony from this ICE whistleblower amount to anything?

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no, the laws mean nothing to Taco and his little helpers

 

[Kepler]

I agree with the underlying sentiment, but disagree entirely with the color arrangement. I don’t think economic leftism has anything to do with being white, while, to the detriment of many, feminism has almost been exclusively associated with middle-class white women in this country.
I think nonwhite, non-binary people need to have increased roles in all levels of government, the aggrieved cries of whites be damned. If we’re afraid of aggrieved whites blocking progress, señor, already they block progress…para siempre, progress they’ll block.

I get the sentiment…I think a human of any color would take a decent job, good healthcare, safe, stable housing, and a solid, well-funded school for his/her/their child to attend over some “hollow” social/societal/equality progress win…because yeah, we’d all be serfs together…

…but you know what Kepler, if black and brown people want us all to be serfs together, instead of them continuing to be tread on in the name of economic progress for all, I suppose they have that right. After all, they’re currently the heart and soul of the Democratic Party…not to mention us white folks have put them through the wringer on this continent for almost 500 years.

"Do you want to be right, or do you want to win?"

I was being deliberately heretical.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

I agree with the underlying sentiment, but disagree entirely with the color arrangement. I don’t think economic leftism has anything to do with being white, while, to the detriment of many, feminism has almost been exclusively associated with middle-class white women in this country.
I think nonwhite, non-binary people need to have increased roles in all levels of government, the aggrieved cries of whites be damned. If we’re afraid of aggrieved whites blocking progress, señor, already they block progress…para siempre, progress they’ll block.

When you're used to privilege, moves toward equality feel like oppression to the uneducated, etc. etc.

The issue is, rich white people will always have privilege. Poor, uneducated whites only had privilege when they could vote, and put blacks down, and take their jobs. Now that both groups are economically bankrupt, what's left for whitey but to become morally bankrupt as well to feel better about themselves? And of course, none of them have seen the inside of a classroom since high school (let alone graduated from it). So they get most of their politics from the most educated man they know in Smalltown USA who stands at the pulpit on Sunday morning with his divinity degree from whatever second-tier bible college, justifying White is Right politics with Bible quotes, while conveniently ignoring all the parts of the NT about being a good Xtian. Why? Because it reassures their little group of intellectual and literal in-breds of their self-proclaimed moral superiority to the "godless libruls", because they have nothing left to lean on.

 

[Kepler]

The rubes would rather not rise if it means the one group they have managed to keep underfoot finally gets above them.

Poor rednecks have had 400 years of preferences in the law to get ahead here, and they were still so lazy and stupid they wound up on the very bottom except for one group which a nation of millions held back.

They realize that if we had a truly free country they would have nobody left to lord it over. They would rather be the house slave of the privileged throwing shade at the field slave, instead of being free but then being exposed as the Biggest Loser.

Conservatives are the residue at the bottom after a free marketplace filters us. They are the failures who could not earn a place by their own merits and need institutional racism and misogyny and religious preference in the law to give them handouts.