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"Questioning support for the US - Israel relationship is unacceptable" There it is, folks. Right out in the open. The quiet part said loud. Don't you dare question whether it's right that your tax dollars go to supporting apartheid.

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Rep. Juan Vargas

@RepJuanVargas

Mar 4, 2019

It is disturbing that Rep. Omar continues to perpetuate hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes that misrepresent our Jewish community. Additionally, questioning support for the U.S.-Israel relationship is unacceptable. (1/2)

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When you don't pay your staffers and they just publish the brief word for word. twitter.com/RepJuanVargas/…

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Were they always this incompetent, or is desperation making the quality of the propaganda fall?

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Looking back... bit of both, I think Current tactics are very similar to pre-abolition period, where everyone who opposed slavery would endure sustained, but increasingly ridiculous & fatuous attempts at character assassination. + some actual assassination attempts, I suppose.

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It's definitely got the air of collapse, rather than ascendency, about it.

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It's interesting to note that the dems started their delusional death spiral with Trump - "Not my president" etc. And now the Republicans are running scared before four or so democratic socialist congresswomen. This could very well end up unravelling the 2-party system.

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I don't doubt it.

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I hope for it (which is why I'm a bit skeptical). I think we need the US in the game, and it isn't happening with these mooks in charge. Confused Dems talk about electoral unity, as if this iteration of their beloved party wasn't itself a breakaway faction formed during a crisis

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Ben King

@Grimeandreason

Mar 4, 2019

I'd rather a country with 20,000+ nukes didn't outright collapse, tbqh. Although if it's a choice between that, and the US clinging on to power for another 20 years & condemning us to a hothouse earth, we might as well take the risk.

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See also: global market share, speed of innovation, local resource consumption, etc.

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I think innovation has long since stopped being the domain of the US. Unless you mean in ways to make rich people's lives that bit more convenient and hipsterish.

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I think we're talking past each other. The country best placed to fund green tech, or defund fossil fuels, or change the state of the oil game, is the US. That will remain true for the entire window of opportunity to do anything except pray, unless the models are very wrong.

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Don't get me wrong, though, I think the US as a country is far too blinkered to dig itself out of this. Basically 0 societal recognition of the scale or significance of what's to come, or regard for much more than navelgazing in general...