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WTF is wrong with the left?

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spark mandrill

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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4080 on: December 15, 2023, 05:43:50 PM »
Quote from: alum74 on December 15, 2023, 04:27:57 PM
There's a certain subset of progressives who demand that you have to support every jot and iota of their positions, otherwise you are The Enemy and an Evil Neoliberal Incrementalist Corporatist Wall Street Shill.  Fetterman is telling them to go shove off.

But he was already heading in that direction anyways.  He shed a lot of the more progressive positions he used to have leading into 2022 and ran as more of a Sherrod Brown-type Democrat.

I like Fetterman's views for the most part, and obviously the right-wing attacks on him were absurdist shit, but I do wish he'd cut out the childish trolling stuff.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4081 on: December 15, 2023, 05:54:49 PM »
Quote from: spark mandrill on December 15, 2023, 05:37:44 PM
The problem isn't celebrating POC who were elected.  We should celebrate the elected POC - that was a thing that didn't happen in this country for literally hundreds of years.

To not invite the white people is really ugly.  Why not include them in the celebration of elected people of color?

Obviously this sort of thing is red meat for the "EVERYONE is bad - but especially the libs!" morons.

Recognizing POC electeds would have been fine in the 60s/70s, but not today.  I think the better approach would be to recognize first-term electeds, regardless of color, gender, etc.  And of course inviting all electeds to the reception, as you pointed out..
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4082 on: December 15, 2023, 05:57:35 PM »
I don't see any problem with celebrating people of color who were elected.  You're acting like it's ancient history that they were just excluded from the political process - it isn't.  The first POC (and also, the first woman) to be mayor in Boston was sworn in in 2021 (in an interim role).  Until that time, every single mayor of Boston had been a white man.  Literally the first non white man elected as Boston mayor was ... Michelle Wu.

Excluding people based on skin color is basically never going to be okay.  Celebrating POC being elected should be a repudiation of that, rather than an extension of it.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4083 on: December 15, 2023, 07:24:38 PM »
They have a separate event for everybody, but the whites only get 1 event and not 2.
Apparently it's not legal to hold an event that discriminates in a public building.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4084 on: December 15, 2023, 07:42:22 PM »
Quote from: Mn on December 15, 2023, 07:24:38 PM
Apparently it's not legal to hold an event that discriminates in a public building.

thanks Obama
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4085 on: December 17, 2023, 01:59:05 PM »
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4086 on: December 17, 2023, 02:01:02 PM »
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4087 on: December 17, 2023, 03:50:17 PM »

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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4088 on: December 17, 2023, 03:59:35 PM »
He said he was not disrespecting the place.

So, on a lighter note, a Christmas presentation at the White House for a "bit of magic, wonder, and joy"

https://twitter.com/i/status/1735074586721468855
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4089 on: December 17, 2023, 04:03:26 PM »
This reminds me of pointing to isolated cases of crimes committed by illegal aliens to paint all immigrants with a broad brush.

What is more appropriate to  point out the hypocrisy of the right wingers who like to have threesomes with pool boys ...
 
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4090 on: December 17, 2023, 04:07:16 PM »
Have a homophobic xmas and xenophobic new year?


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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4091 on: December 17, 2023, 04:11:34 PM »
Quote from: illiniray on December 17, 2023, 04:07:16 PM
Have a homophobic xmas and xenophobic new year?

My question is… why is someone’s sexuality tied into it at all?!
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4092 on: December 17, 2023, 04:12:58 PM »
Quote from: Judge Judy on December 17, 2023, 04:11:34 PM
My question is… why is someone’s sexuality tied into it at all?!

Because they are horny?
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4093 on: December 17, 2023, 04:15:41 PM »
Quote from: ThePAMan on December 17, 2023, 04:12:58 PM
Because they are horny?

Well we know Jill probably isn’t getting any from her husband…
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4094 on: December 17, 2023, 08:11:21 PM »
Quote from: illiniray on December 17, 2023, 04:03:26 PM
This reminds me of pointing to isolated cases of crimes committed by illegal aliens to paint all immigrants with a broad brush.

What is more appropriate to  point out the hypocrisy of the right wingers who like to have threesomes with pool boys ...
 
It reminds me of what not to film in a U.S. Senate building.
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