The Dixiecrats helped design the New Deal and made sure that it excluded black people. You can’t separate the two.

People are criticizing Mamdani because Democrats 100 years ago supported Jim Crow laws.

Who is “people”? We’ve been yelling and marching and calling and we are still here. Talk to the Republicans who are marching us into the abyss. Talk to the business leaders who are calculating their profits.

I didn‘t know much about Hasan Piker until blue dog Dems and Never Trump Republicans decided to spend two weeks in the middle of an illegal war and a fast moving economic crisis created by a man mentally deteriorating on live TV telling us not to platfom him.

That sounds a little too much like nuance.

Fudd cried and I teared up bc I am a sympathetic crier. Geno takes NO responsibility for his behavior. Shakes his head when asked about the handshake line.

His emotions about losing don’t entitle him to treat the opposing coach like that. This isn’t an AAU game, he is being paid millions of dollars to do his job and sportsmanship is part of that job.

Even researchers who study right wing authoritarianism don’t view it as a mental illness.

If you can. I don’t judge people if they don’t.

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Nature published another pile of trash

i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields

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Acting like they are leaders and calling off a boycott where they did not negotiate a single concession.

Cuellar’s primary was this week - are you advocating to replace him with a Republican who would vote the same?

He was primaried this year too and won - at this point you have to hold his voters responsible.

That’s an insult to Cynthia McKinney.

Is butter considered too feminine now?

I know this will probably have asshats in my mentions again, but periodic reminder that everything happening now has a precedent. And that precedent is closer than slavery, internment, boarding schools, Jim Crow...it is the very modern school to prison pipeline. It is the last 40 years of policy.

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Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was.

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Yes they did. A significant percentage of Trump supporters wanted this. And we have to deal with the fact that those people cannot be won over and focus on mobilizing everyone else.

No, we need trials, reforms, laws and a couple of Constitutional Amendments to make sure this never happens again.

Because the evil doers founded the country, have been leading the country and constantly reinforce that those values weren’t intended for everyone. That foundation has to be unmade before you can redefine anything.

Harris’s ground game sucked because Biden, the DNC, and Democratic donors put no money into it going into 2024. She couldn’t manufacture something that didn’t exist.

Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961: “Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1967: “The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”

"But I know that Justice is Indivisible. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The "he's gonna cancel elections after he invokes the insurrection act" conversation—as if there's some natural path from one to the other—is driving me fucking bonkers.

And there aren’t billionaires and multimillionaires funding it.

This is why the approval ratings for the Democratic Party are in the toilet. This kind of spineless, cowardly response.

That and it’s the NPCification of the tech bros. They don’t see the complexity of humanity, just inputs and outputs.