I analyzed Biden's Pentagon transition team and found that one third of its members work for think tanks, organizations, or companies that either directly receive money from the weapons industry—or are part of the arms industry themselves. https://t.co/ygRSNKR06y

— Sarah Lazare (@sarahlazare) November 11, 2020

US Politics Isn’t ‘Polarized’; It’s In Almost Universal Agreement

"They do not allow for any mainstream discussion of *IF* the oligarchic empire should continue to exist; all their issues, arguments and histrionics revolve around *HOW* it should exist."https://t.co/20vG2EnoMo

— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) October 7, 2020

Yeah, Twitter is definitely part of the system. They equate ‘far left’ and ‘Nazis’. They do that false equivalency thing, the system does so well.

I dunno if twitter can be a tool for moving the country to the left or radicalizing more mainstreamers. Kinda looks like its just another echo-chamber.

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In the Wechat group setup by US consulate for Native American week lectures, Chinese netizens asked how did US massacre the Native Americans and what did they do w the scalps. US consulate reportedly shut down the Wechat group after https://t.co/8vCuw9dniQ

— Carl Zha (@CarlZha) November 11, 2020

link:https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-b4b4-dc7f-a3fd-bdf660490000
Fr: New Deal Strategies, Justice Democrats, Sunrise Movement, Data for Progress Re: ​What went wrong for Congressional Democrats in 2020Dt:​ November 10, 2020

…Support Black Lives Matter Two months ago, progressive strategists Ian Haney López, ​law professor at the University of California,Berkeley,​ and Tory Gavito, President of Way to Win, publicly and privately ​warned​ Democrats that Trump’s racist appeals against immigrants and Black Lives Matter polled effectively with a fair number of both African American and Latino voters — but they also demonstrated that a progressive message framing racism as a divide-and-conquer class weapon polled even more effectively.

According to their research, “a majority across the groups we surveyed did not repudiate Trump-style rhetoric as obviously racist and divisive, but instead agreed with it,” they wrote in the ​New York Times.​ But, they continued,“There’s a winning message Mr. Biden and his party can deliver that resonates with most Hispanics nomatter how they conceptualize the group’s racial identity… The key is to link racism and class conflict.”Over the last half-century, Republicans have harnessed strategic racism to divide the electorate.

Too often Democrats shy away from conversations about race and keep issues of economic justice and racial justice in separate siloes. ​Data​ has consistently shown that an explicit multiracial, populist message mobilizes and persuades voters.

Republican attacks levied at Democrats this cycle based on terms like “defund the police” or “socialism”have become scapegoats for Representatives like Abigail Spanberger, Conor Lamb, and other senior Democrats. Not a single Democrat — progressive or otherwise — argued that Democrats should run primarily on these themes. Moreover, these attacks will never go away, nor will demands for reform from social movements. The attacks are designed to stoke racial resentment, which is core to the GOP’s election strategy. Our party should not feed into it.We remember how controversial the simple statement “Black Lives Matter” was in 2014. In 2016 and2018, Democrats were nervous about being too closely associated with Colin Kaepernick and Black athletes kneeling during the national anthem. The latest choice for Democrats to locate our fear and blame is the slogan from many Black and young activists who marched the streets this summer: “Defund The Police.” Conservative Democrats may change the terms and people we blame and fear year-by-year, but Democrats must take on the Republican Party’s divide-and-conquer racism head-on and not demobilize our own base.This election, the Black youth leading….see link

Zooey wrote:

The defense is also fabulous.

Like wv said…10-6, good enough for a game or two in January. I’ll take it.

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I still think the Buffalo contest was a disgrace. Clearly, there was cheating.
I have my legal team on this.
A lot of illegal-points were tallied.
The Rams clearly won that game if only legal points were allowed, and illegal points were disallowed.
I’m asking all ram fans to stand by and be ready.

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Rep. Jim Clyburn railing against "socialism" while often having a bust of one of America's most prominent democratic socialists — W.E.B. Du Bois — behind him on TV is a mood. pic.twitter.com/sjaVsHAVWW

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) November 8, 2020

A new interview with IWW member and musician @tmorello on his new photo memoir “Whatever It Takes.”https://t.co/0WuuiUo0OE

— Industrial Workers of the World (@iww) November 10, 2020

This graphic really says it all. Dems who ran on M4A in red districts won. Dems who ran against M4A in blue districts lost.

Medicare for All is a winning issue! Anyone who claims otherwise is more interested in keeping corporate donations rolling in than actually winning. pic.twitter.com/S3heo5hJL2

— DSA for Medicare for All (@dsam4a) November 9, 2020

My sister, wv-ewe, still cannot relax. The Monster-Trump cant die, she says. He’s too evil.

She told me, she’s seen too many Monster movies where in the last scene, the monster’s hand pushes up through grave to the surface…

No dancing for her. She’s…waiting. For the hand.

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Meanwhile our nation burns as ICUs become overwhelmed, with hospital staffs beyond exhaustion across North-Central US and here in West Texas and New Mexico. We’ll return soon to 2,000 deaths per day as #COVID19 again becomes the leading cause of daily deaths in America. Few care https://t.co/vs7qKidl6R

— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) November 9, 2020

Billy_T wrote:

Agree with all of that. Another factor, or two, or three:

Clinton/Obama/Biden/DNC govern like moderate Republicans, but those moderate Republicans no longer exist in the GOP. So what is it they’re mimicking, exactly? A phantom, a mirage, a myth?

Both parties also have their own gravitational pull, and the influence of their “bases,” which alter words and deeds and ideologies. So a “moderate Republican” who actually resides IN the GOP is going to be much, much further to the right than a “moderate Republican” who resides in the Dem Party. They won’t speak or act in the same way. Not ever.

I’d much rather have the kind of society described in Martin Hägglund’s This Life. But if I have to choose between a moderate Republican in Dem clothes, or a moderate Republican in Republican clothes, I’d take the former. And in this election, it was a much easier choice than that:

Moderate Republidem versus fascist POS.

I hope I live long enough to see a true leftist in the White House and leftists controlling Congress, etc. etc. Who then work to change the system entirely: fully realized economic and political democracy.

We can dream.

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Yeah, and predicting the future is impossible. There’s plenty of evidence that the nation will just continue replaying the same ole sorry ass record. Over and over and over. Frankly, there is a MOUNTAIN of evidence pointing in ‘that’ direction.
Look at the Senate. 99-1. I’ll just keep pointing it out, year after year after year. Thats a huge piece of evidence. It just cant be ignored.

And yet, there are also rumblings below the surface. Little rays of progressive light coming thru. An AOC here, a Bernie there. M4A is certainly on track to break through. I kinda think its where Marijuana-legalization was about ten years ago. But who knows.

M4A is such a game-changer though. Marijuana is just not all that important compared to M4A.

But just the fact progressives have to fight another decade to get something the rest of the world has had for ages, says a lot about the Corporotacracy.

70,000,000 Amerikans wanted Trump. Donald Trump. He came within a hair of winning a second term. Thats our country.

And Bernie could not even beat a Biden. So, here we are. Again. Groundhog Day.

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waterfield wrote:

Before there can be any real progressive movement in this country they have to let the following sink in: Over 40 million people in this country think Biden is either a socialist or a communist.

There is a real progressive movement in the country. In terms of what voters want, when polled, they identify with progressive positions, too. It is also true that unlike more advanced democracies (in Europe for example), the USA is still dealing with good old-fashioned red scare tactics. But I will say this. People who warn us about that kind of thing actually reinforce those tactics. Sometimes I even think that’s the point.

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I think its quite complicated. Lots of different political-factions and movements swirling in a vortex of American politics.

Biden/Obama/Clinton/DNC use the same formula over and over to win or sometimes lose elections. They do that because they are moderate-republicans. Thats what they are. So they just do what those people do. And its always the same formula.

The question the progressive movement asks is — Is there another formula that could actually Win? I mean win big. Nationally. Not just a small district like AOC’s etc.

I dont think we know the answer to that question.

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JackPMiller wrote:

<Dave Chappelle Stand-Up Monologue – SNL

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I like Chappelle, but I was not moved by that routine. I wish he had used his platform to suggest we all march on Biden for Medicare-For-All.
That would have been actually useful.

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