"Alt left" is a term quite literally designed to draw equivalence between white supremacists and people who want universal healthcare
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Meat identity politics is an underrated right wing micro-genre IMHO
Jeff Bezos makes $3,182 a second
It's the phrase everyone in Vietnam loves to hear!
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Vice President Kamala Harris to promote "America is back" message in Singapore and Vietnam cnn.it/3jgMCWZ
This is literally capitalism you idiot
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One week in the life of "the most progressive administration in history"
He's literally rallying Democrats to make healthcare a human right while you do a vanity book tour and relitigate 2016
BREAKING: Two multimillionaire jerks think healthcare for ordinary people is "chocolate milk" t.co/QZsOAJhlXQ
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Quick, everyone name a Biden policy without googling twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/s
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The best endorsement you could ask for
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.
Lots of people owe Ilhan Omar an apology
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.
Some guy dressed up as his dog's favourite toy for Halloween and I can't even deal
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
Hard to overstate how evil this is. Huge kudos to everyone who so nobly "put politics aside" the past few days.
Late capitalism is many things, but above all it's just morbidly absurd
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
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.
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.
Percentage of Democratic candidates' supporters who would back Trump against one of the other 3 if their preferred choice didn't secure the nomination:
Buttigieg: 12%
Warren: 10%
Biden: 9%
Sanders: 4%
emersonpolling.com/wp-content/upl
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.
You gotta love the free market
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.
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.
Here's to a wondrous economic model that it would be absolutely crazy to change
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!
Keep in mind that, whatever happens tonight, Joe Biden is going to have to debate Bernie Sanders on national TV five days from now
So I guess Amazon is a country now
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos today. No media allowed at this bilateral meeting, we are told at the request of Amazon. #hw
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
"Earned" is doing some incredible work here
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Elon Musk earned $36 Billion yesterday… breaking the record for the most amount of money an individual has earned in a single day 
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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.
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.
Gonna blow these people's minds when they learn that Pittsburgh and Paris are on the same planet twitter.com/jonathanvswan/
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It's incredible how, for a certain segment of the commentariat, there really is only one idea
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.
Look. At. His. Face.
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
How about you people just pay your fucking taxes
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.
AOC got 74.6%, Rashida Tlaib got 66% - "survived" is certainly one way of putting it
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"
Ah, that well-known and longstanding ethos of communism [*flips through notes*] corporate control
Bernie Sanders won 45% of the vote in Alaska despite having suspended his campaign
So why does Joe Biden's healthcare plan?
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.@JoeBiden - “The coronavirus does not discriminate based on national origin, race, gender, or zip code”
I'm begging everyone not to just go to sleep if Joe Biden wins
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Elect Joe Biden so you can read books at night again rather than endlessly doomscrolling twitter.
"Bernie Sanders isn't even a Democrat!" I scream angrily, as a bunch of Senate Democrats help a Republican Congress deregulate the banks
Satire really is obsolete
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President Bush’s portraits of immigrants reflect a lifelong kindness to strangers | Commentary buff.ly/2QYbfxG
Accept mass death, peasants
For The Atlantic, I wrote about the strange pantomime act of liberalism in the Trump era - which sees elite politicians talk endlessly about the evils and injustices all around them while behaving as if they're powerless to act.
“Get a job!”, I yell at homeless people and welfare recipients while my country’s fiscal and monetary policies deliberately engineer unemployment
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
Every time I think I've found the worst liberal meme, another one rises to take its place
You are valid, you are heard, you are in violation of curfew and will be met with full force of law
This would absolutely fucking rule. twitter.com/SenTedCruz/sta
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"The Third Reich was actually a regime of SJWs". This is it. This is the worst take.
Congratulations to whichever grotesque lobbying firm is about to add Eliot Engel to its roster of consultants
Just in case you needed further evidence that neoliberalism is a dehumanizing dystopian nightmare
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.
Chris Matthews is maybe one bloody mary away from comparing this to 9/11
Bernie Sanders threatens government shutdown unless Americans get more stimulus checks
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
It's refreshingly nice, in a dystopian sort of way, when mega corporations are honest with us about their contempt for basic morality
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.
forbes.com/sites/giacomot
Number of billionaire donors by candidate:
Pete Buttigieg: 23
Cory Booker: 18
Kamala Harris: 17
Michael Bennett: 15
Joe Biden: 13
John Hickenlooper: 11
Beto O’Rourke: 9
Amy Klobuchar: 8
Bernie Sanders: 0
This shit with the app is basically how most Democrats think healthcare should work
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."
In that case I have exciting news: Bernie Sanders has raised a lot more money without courting billionaires in wine caves. #DemDebate
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I like Buttigieg's argument that maybe defeating Trump is going to require money
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.
People who defended the DNC's ludicrously undemocratic superdelegate system are in a poor position to criticize the #ElectoralCollege
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