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Luke Savage
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Staff Writer . Words in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, New Statesman, Smithsonian, & others. The Dead Center, out now from .
Toronto, Ontarioorbooks.com/catalog/the-de…Joined April 2011

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"Alt left" is a term quite literally designed to draw equivalence between white supremacists and people who want universal healthcare
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Jeff Bezos makes $3,182 a second
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Amazon-owned Whole Foods is cutting medical benefits for part-time workers theverge.com/2019/9/13/2086
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He's literally rallying Democrats to make healthcare a human right while you do a vanity book tour and relitigate 2016
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Hillary Clinton on Bernie Sanders: “He could be helpful if he so chose, and that's what I’m calling on him to do” snpy.tv/2xlrb0L
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ME AT 17: Elites are irredeemably corrupt liars. We need socialism. ME during undergrad: Politics are actually incredibly nuanced, the world is a complex place. ME at 31: Elites are irredeemably corrupt liars. We need socialism.
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There's nothing more emblematically Obama than a Netflix show that waxes mournfully about the gig economy not paying living wages without mentioning how many people from the upper ranks of his own administration literally helped create it.
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It's pretty cool that most cities are becoming unliveable, billionaires got 700% wealthier during a global plague, the planet is literally cooking, and major political institutions are basically hardwired to neutralize leaders and movements who actually want to fix it
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Just wanna put it out there, for no reason in particular, that Dick Cheney quite literally helped carry out the successful version of January 6 in 2000 and that it's maybe a bad idea to hold up the Cheney clan as noble stewards of American democracy
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Adolph Reed Jr. once remarked that liberals don't really believe in politics anymore, just in "bearing witness to suffering." I think about that a lot.
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The Lincoln Project is an effort by a small group of extremely destructive people to rehabilitate their public images after a lifetime of serving conservative reaction, welcomed with open arms by credulous liberals who like Republicans but hate the left. That's the tweet, folks.
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Much of the essence of conservatism can be found distilled in these tweets: the overriding belief that there are structures somehow both innate and natural but also so fragile and persistently on the verge of collapse the state must constantly work to impose and reify them.
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Any society that isn't normatively based on heterosexual family formation is definitionally doomed to collapse. Pretending that society ought to be apathetic about such matters -- or even worse, condemnatory of the presence of traditional norms -- is civilizationally suicidal.
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You gotta love the free market
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Google salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews theverge.com/2021/1/28/2225
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Only liberals do this. Imagine Mitch McConnell or Trump repeatedly saying "this country needs a strong Democratic Party." But because centrist liberals fantasize about compromise rather than ideological victory, they actively fetishize an idealized opposition.
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.@SpeakerPelosi: "I want the Republican Party to take back the party to where you were when you cared about a woman's right to choose, you cared about the environment. Here I am, Nancy Pelosi, saying this country needs a strong Republican Party. Not a cult."
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The far right wants to impose a fascist ethnostate. The "far left" wants everyone to have healthcare, housing, and basic dignity. These two things are not morally equivalent and I cannot believe this point continues to be lost on so many people.
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Basically, the center-right is terrified of the far-left and the center-left is terrified of the far right, and that is causing both to be less willing to criticize the fringe that is closest to them, which many earnestly see as obviously the lesser threat.
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I am a lifelong Dem who only voted for Bush once and Reagan once. I *canvassed* for Joe Lieberman. Yet because I work with the Landlord Center For Eviction Studies and don't want to discuss universal healthcare during a plague, divisive leftists call me a "neoliberal". Sad!
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Keep in mind that, whatever happens tonight, Joe Biden is going to have to debate Bernie Sanders on national TV five days from now
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Billionaires like Bezos and Musk are obsessed with space travel because it helps them maintain the illusion that they're technological prometheans at the vanguard of civilizational progress, rather than greedy plutocrats who happen to own expensive bits of paper
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Jeremy Corbyn is one of the most principled and dynamic political figures of modern times. He’s given socialists everywhere tremendous inspiration and we’ll forever owe him our gratitude - particularly in light of what he’s been subjected to, courtesy of the worst people alive.
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Elizabeth Warren has needlessly burnt through a decade of goodwill on the left over the past few weeks. She could undo much of that damage by throwing her support behind Bernie Sanders, the only candidate in the race who champions the values she’s long claimed to stand for.
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If you grow up poor and advocate for socialism, it’s envy. If you grow up middle class, you’re just a corn-fed hipster trying to be contrarian. If you’re well-off, your socialism is privilege. There is no ideologically correct way of being a socialist.
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The ironic thing about Ben Shapiro and the facts/logic wing of the right is that they quite literally ARE the snowflakey, campus dweebs who participate in endless moral panics about identity politics and constantly centre themselves and their feelings in everything
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“I am not inclined to continue an interview with someone as badly motivated as you” US conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro ends spiky interview with @afneil Watch #politicslive interview in full: bbc.in/2HeKcFd
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If you’re concerned that socialism rewards mediocrity and idleness I’ll just remind you it was capitalism which put Meghan McCain on network TV.
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AOC got 74.6%, Rashida Tlaib got 66% - "survived" is certainly one way of putting it
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez survived her primary. Rashida Tlaib did, too. Now it’s Ilhan Omar’s turn today — and the Minnesota congresswoman faces the stiffest challenge of any member of the Squad politi.co/2ChRA4l
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Whenever I encounter this particular genre of right wing complaint I always have the same thought, which is that we're quite literally living in the world these people created: one where markets rule & everything is for sale. They won, got what they wanted, and are still whining.
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"Tory MP Danny Kruger tells NatCon that Western civilisation is threatened by a "new religion", a mix of "Marxism, narcissism and paganism", conforming to the "dystopian fantasy of John Lennon"
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"Bernie Sanders isn't even a Democrat!" I scream angrily, as a bunch of Senate Democrats help a Republican Congress deregulate the banks
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“Get a job!”, I yell at homeless people and welfare recipients while my country’s fiscal and monetary policies deliberately engineer unemployment
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Young people tried, man. But a certain former president literally made phone calls to make sure the corporate machine politician prevailed instead.
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"Vote like your life depends on it, because it does," said former President Barack Obama in an address to young people at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, urging them to engage in activism to push world leaders into action on the climate crisis. nyti.ms/3EXSXQo
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Hi it's me, the serious op-ed columnist, who cannot tell the difference between the populism that's racist and the one that wants to make healthcare a right. I write the same 3 columns over and over again and am paid $1.5 million a year plus speaking fees.
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Once more with feeling: Democratic elites expended more energy, conviction, and zeal to defeat Bernie Sanders, his movement, and Medicare For All than they did to defeat Donald Trump
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It's refreshingly nice, in a dystopian sort of way, when mega corporations are honest with us about their contempt for basic morality
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Netflix CEO on taking down episode of Hasan Minhaj show in Saudi Arabia: "We're not in the truth to power business" hill.cm/UNzzzwh
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Last night Bernie Sanders and his hugely popular agenda were attacked by both the Republican and the Democratic nominees for president. It's almost as if he represented an existential threat to the awful consensus the leaderships of both parties are determined to uphold.
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This mindset is so pervasive and so dangerous. Imagine living through the events of the past 4, 8, 12, or 25 years and concluding "we need a strong Republican Party."
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President-elect Joe Biden: "We need a Republican Party. We need an opposition that's principled and strong."
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History will remember that, at a crucial moment when all of her professed values were on the line and she could have made a difference, Elizabeth Warren sat it out. The political and moral cowardice she's displayed unfortunately vindicates many of her harshest critics on the left
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According to a CNN analyst— Bloomberg and Warren campaigns have been critical to Biden’s success in Michigan (specifically Oakland County). Warren, without saying anything, did endorse a candidate.
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One thing that occurs to me re: the apparent backlash to AOC's comments about Biden is that many liberals are deeply uncomfortable with the fact that people exist who are to their left - often to the extent that they consider it pathological or illegitimate
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