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Anti-populist, both right and left; liberal- not a "progressive". A proud member of All Those Other Blacks. Plantsmantx on Spoutible.

Joined May 2020
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@TxPlantsman
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1 year
@myronjclifton I guess that's what people in his circle call the Negro League.
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@TxPlantsman
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@RichLowry Even if you mispronounced the word "migrants" with a short "i", there was no reason for the "er" to be there.
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@TxPlantsman
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4 years
@dhookstead That's almost up there with Trump calling his efforts to avoid catching STDs his "personal Vietnam".
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@TxPlantsman
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7 months
@detroitdsa Detroit is 80% Black. Can you explain this?
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@TxPlantsman
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1 year
WITHOUT GOOGLING name a famous historical battle
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@TxPlantsman
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2 months
They not like us.
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@hebagowayed
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد
2 months
The reason people don’t protest trump at his rallies is because protests are target for political change— they’re targeted at those from whom you expect better. They’re indignant and definitionally hopeful. But y’all don’t care to think about any of that.
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@TxPlantsman
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1 year
@StrongBordersTX Heads up, Black America. When people like @StrongBordersTX go after the 14th Amendment, they're going after us, too.
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@TxPlantsman
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4 years
@kittycatromeo @CharlieGileNBC @shaqbrewster They couldn't possibly get worse people.
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@TxPlantsman
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3 months
@ScooterCasterNY Who does she want to win it back from?
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@TxPlantsman
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4 years
@Laura4Senate @jennybethm For me, the most ridiculous thing about that was her saying she expected her white sons to be "nerds", and expected her black adopted son to be "cool".
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@TxPlantsman
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3 years
@anyoneallen @justinbaragona I'm not going to watch this, but I assume she doesn't mention who rioted, who destroyed that wealth, and why they destroyed it.
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@TxPlantsman
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4 years
@imxvi @MikeSington @laloalcaraz And two others worked for the Congressional campaign of an unabashed neo-Nazi.
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@TxPlantsman
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@AkbarSAhmed I hope not. The last thing the DNC needs to do is give speaking slots to Hamas supporters. That should go without saying.
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@TxPlantsman
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4 years
@LizyConyers @THEHermanCain You have to understand. They have to keep their hand in. There is money to be grifted.
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@TxPlantsman
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1 year
@avirgoworld On whose non-Black behalf are you telling this obvious lie?
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@TxPlantsman
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10 months
Keep up the pressure...until what happens?
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@TxPlantsman
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3 years
@theonlyGreyson No, vaccinating schoolchildren in schools doesn't seem weird to me. It's weird that you think it's weird.
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@TxPlantsman
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3 years
@davidhogg111 You're saying Black Americans aren't everyday people. Tell us, where did "woke" start before some people turned it into a pejorative? If Black Americans aren't everyday people, then who are?
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@TxPlantsman
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4 years
@jlwallen @charliekirk11 @GOP @TheDemocrats @senatemajldr He's not out of touch, at least not on this issue. He knows perfectly well the Republicans are to blame. That's why he's pretending Democrats are to blame.
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@TxPlantsman
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@rltygrfx @brood_mayor @darreldrowland He should suffer consequences no matter how that election shakes out. Him not suffering the consequences would be corruption.
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@TxPlantsman
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4 years
@AlasscanIsBack All of them are from...the suburbs.
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@TxPlantsman
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2 years
@bronxkid55 @DavidDTSS Is that why he told the people who paid to see him to "shut the fuck up", and suggested that all the people who booed were poor?
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@TxPlantsman
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@RVAwonk You wouldn't have the authority to do this even if it were valid. Don't use Black American men who were lynched over false accusations of rape of white women to try to exonerate Hamas rapists. Don't compare Black American men to evil terrorists *period*.
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@TxPlantsman
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@rltygrfx @brood_mayor @darreldrowland That's not politics, that's the same corruption you pretended to decry.
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@TxPlantsman
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6 months
@SwampCommunist Why doesn't it have anything to do with you? What would make you immune?
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@TxPlantsman
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4 years
@jacobinmag The populist left wants you to accommodate misogyny, reactionary politics, violence, and white supremacy for "the greater good".
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@TxPlantsman
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4 years
@brucedesertrat @churchlady320 @WillThink4Money @TBishUp @lesleyabravanel ...and even during Jim Crow, state laws didn't explicitly say "Black people can't vote".
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@TxPlantsman
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3 years
@StopTheCriminal This restaurant received much more than that:
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@TxPlantsman
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2 years
@jacobin "We're going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution. By which I mean: nothing." - Che Guevara Sounds about right for a left-populist.
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@TxPlantsman
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3 years
@mattyglesias @SpecialPuppy1 @JoePostingg You tweeted this to get dunked on. Why?
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@TxPlantsman
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5 months
@Penny_J_Thomas It's almost becoming a tradition for these people to delude themselves into believing they're the main force in the Democratic electorate, only to be shown they're not.
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@TxPlantsman
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@trymainelee Let's see... they have a "lack of excitement" in the President who has done more for Black Americans, both specifically and as a function of doing things for Americans in general, than any recent President, including Obama. Is that what you're saying?...
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@TxPlantsman
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3 years
@SusanStJames3_ If this were Don, Jr. you'd be defending it.
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@TxPlantsman
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2 years
@sheldonrampton @joshtpm He didn't have a motive for buying it. He had a motive for pretending he wanted to buy it, and it spun out of his control.
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@TxPlantsman
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@jacobkornbluh She's trying to redirect *very credible charges of anti-Semitism* away from the left, and throwing us POC under the bus in the process. We aren't responsible for the largest outbreak of anti-Semitism we've seen in a lifetime. The left is responsible. She's responsible.
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@TxPlantsman
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2 years
@IsaacHayes3 Stephen Miller is behind this. To the black American nativists out there, I told you so. The "so" is the fact that your white nativist allies consider native-born Black Americans to be every bit as "alien" as they do Latin American "illegal aliens".
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@TxPlantsman
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@EricBoehlert I assumed they were lying about getting sick.
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@TxPlantsman
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3 years
@FloydSoRandom Well, yeah. What's your point?
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@TxPlantsman
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@TrashPandaGirl Sometimes, white privilege is laugh-out-loud funny.
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@TxPlantsman
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@LeisDuch @detroitdsa DSA...apartheid?
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@TxPlantsman
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3 years
@DrJillStein "There is no scenario where adding Ukraine to NATO is worth nuclear war & human extinction." You should be telling Putin that. But then again, he probably sent word that you should say that.
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@TxPlantsman
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2 years
@DSA_Intl_Comm The conditions created by your boy Vlad warrant the largest expansion of NATO in 20 years.
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@TxPlantsman
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3 years
@samstein Christmas gifts are arriving on time this year, despite the hopes of people like Sam Stein, the NYTs reports.
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@TxPlantsman
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2 months
@BlackRedGuard1 And the DSA does? Where are all the other Black people?
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@TxPlantsman
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2 years
@iamchanteezy Re Hakeem Jefferies, they're already trying to paint the Black man as the aggressor, when all he's guilty of is not cowering away from their attacks.
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@TxPlantsman
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1 year
@jonfreadom @TheDailyEdge @TheAmandaGorman After seeing the complaint that was filed, I question whether the person who filed it could pass a reading test.
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@TxPlantsman
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8 months
The "high priest and priestesses of woke politics" who hurt Bernie Sanders' campaigns:
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@PostLeftWatch
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Norman Finkelstein blames "the High Priests and Priestesses of woke politics" for hurting Bernie Sanders' campaigns. He calls the New York Times "so woke it can put you to sleep" and claims that these "ultra-woke cutting-edge supposed radicals" are now going after Cornel West.
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@TxPlantsman
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3 years
@ShawnMcCreesh After putting up with "real America" for 8 years, they deserve to be in any mode they want to be in.
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@rottengirl @cbouzy @rottengirl Is not our ally. Pass it on.
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@TxPlantsman
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1 year
@benshapiro @MattWalshBlog I'm Black, and you're telling me I have to tolerate white ethnofascism in order to be tolerant. That gaslighting talking point is dumb. It really is.
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@TxPlantsman
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@TimRyan @KamalaHarris @TimRyan decided to put left-wing white populism into practice. He pointedly ignored Black voters, and pandered to racist white working-class Trumpers. @TimRyan gave us Senator J.D. Vance. Why should we listen to @TimRyan ?
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@TxPlantsman
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1 year
@witglass @michaelharriot He's presenting facts.
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@TxPlantsman
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3 years
@mattsko @BillPascrell It was obvious from the first video we saw that the person who shot he was wearing a suit and not a uniform. Besides, what difference does it make? I wouldn't even argue with them about that.
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@TxPlantsman
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@SeniorMoment4 @brucedesertrat @churchlady320 @WillThink4Money @TBishUp @lesleyabravanel It's always been about throwing up roadblocks to voting. I can understand why a lot of people think Jim Crow era voter suppression laws explicitly prohibited Black people from voting,...
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@TxPlantsman
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@FreeMetalDay @Nugjokes The sad part is the fact that you all really believe this. To be clear, it's sad for you, not us.
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@margarethhendr1 You can't teach American history without teaching about race.
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@TxPlantsman
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@Sweasty Is Marcia Fudge's mother "the DNC"?
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@TxPlantsman
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@9_tellthetruth @MattWalshBlog Even worse for him, a whole lot of people aren't offended, but amused by his trying-to-hard attempt to offend.
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@TxPlantsman
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2 years
@Harpers @JoeBiden @BernieSanders I did a page search for "Black Democratic electorate" on that article. It wasn't found, which means the article is worthless, except as an example of left-populist denial.
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@TxPlantsman
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@yuhline @CabotJasper “Go back to China, that's where your headquarters is.” Why are you lying?
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@TxPlantsman
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3 years
@SunriseMvmtDC If you have to strategically plan your response to your own statement, then the last thing you are is sincere. Go away.
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@TxPlantsman
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6 months
@SwampCommunist Come to think of it, what does Gaza have to do with me or other Black Americans?
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@TxPlantsman
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@m7mdkurd @AOC Amazing. Not to defend AOC, but your appearance at the "encampment" was nothing *but* political theater and opportunism.
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@TxPlantsman
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@peterbakernyt You're getting real obvious there, Pete.
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@TxPlantsman
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@RegBlackGrl @LifeWithJRDN He wants to be that guy. He just doesn't want to *be seen* as being that guy.
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@nycDSA @RepJeffries @DesisRisingUp What does the watermelon signify?
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@TxPlantsman
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@IsaacDovere This is an attempt by rightist reactionary Arab supremacists to flex the muscle they *think* they have.
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@TxPlantsman
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@dan1aah But...you're complaining about Black people. You're doing the pitting, and you won't stop, which is fantastic.
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@TxPlantsman
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@jaymac1893 @MayorBowser @DMVBlackLives @SunriseMvmtDC A black woman who hasn't pledged fealty to the white populist left did something independently, and you all couldn't stand it, could you? Populism is racism.
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@TxPlantsman
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@lalaloo19100393 @skedeschi @bindelj Jesus, you fascist reactionaries don't even try, do you?
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@TxPlantsman
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2 years
@jacobin "As a Black person"...who is writing on behalf of the herrenvolk populist left...
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@TxPlantsman
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@erinrpineda This is the white populist left, folks.
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@TxPlantsman
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@DrewSav Hey Palestinian-American activists, are these the sort of people you all want to be on your side? I'm just kidding, I know they are.
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@TxPlantsman
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@StewartLeeC @laurenboebert They will enforce it at the Scrabble tournaments they sponsor. In other words, it'll be none of your business.
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@TxPlantsman
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@keithboykin He's become Clayton Bigsby.
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@thevivafrei @POTUS The only people who can be persuaded that it's bigoted to call bigots bigots are bigots, and they're already on your side.
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@TxPlantsman
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@niais Who are "us"?
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@Gore2024 You don't know him, but you assume he's a "thug". Why?
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WW calling a powerful Black political figure a thug ffs Throw tzar in a 🌋 pls
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@TxPlantsman
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@LeverNews @davidsirota For Sirota and other left-wing populists, the "economic-class war" is their effort to get anti-Black working class whites to buy into "economic populism" with the understanding that they won't pester them about *social/racial* progressivism,...
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@TxPlantsman
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@nytopinion @DouthatNYT This isn't the New York Times pitchbot?
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@TxPlantsman
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4 years
@ChadPergram That's what she said to the Democratic Presidential candidate she refused to endorse?
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@TxPlantsman
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@semafor @maxwelltani Why does an online publication operated by a small group of committed ideologues need $24 million?
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@TxPlantsman
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American populist left, this is what you idolize.
@HenMazzig
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BREAKING: The IDF just published footage showing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the evil mind behind the October 7 massacre, escaping in a tunnel under the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. He is accompanied with children which is a known Hamas tactic to protect the terrorists
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@TxPlantsman
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The closest thing to a Black person I see is that caricature of Jeffries. After what you all did in Detroit, I don't think it's going to get any better.
@aaronnarraph
aaron from queens 🇵🇸
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the @nycDSA labor for 🇵🇸 rally is kicking off in front of NYPL with some badass signs 🌹
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@TxPlantsman
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@juliaioffe @samstein It's very reminiscent of the Gore campaign in the way that the "cool kids" press corp tilted toward the Republican candidate and didn't try to hide their mocking contempt for the Democratic candidate.
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@TxPlantsman
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@piratefoxy @davidhogg111 One would think young Mr. "Harvard '23" would know how government works.
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@TxPlantsman
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@ninaturner Your employer, Mercury Public Affairs, represents a lot of those "same people". Every dime they pay you is dirty, and you love it.
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@TxPlantsman
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@AOC The new "Embrace the Base" slogan (Jim Clyburn was right, wasn't he?) isn't going to work. By the time you realize why it doesn't work, it'll be too late.
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@TxPlantsman
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@xabelity @groove_sdc I believe the state of Israel has the right to exist, so...yeah.
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@TxPlantsman
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@theintercept @ggreenwald You all may as well. The only difference between the populist left and right is, left populists try to finesse their white ethnocentricity, while right populists are closer to being honest about it. Notice that I didn't say they're honest about it...
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@TxPlantsman
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@WaywardWinifred "... I really don’t care if it makes some of you feel uncomfortable that I think this." Ooo, edgy.
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@TxPlantsman
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@0liviajulianna Chaya Raichik comes off exactly like a random Trumper being interviewed outside of one of his rallies. Impressively weak.
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@TxPlantsman
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@Justinredalen @ABC You really do think you can dictate your own reality, don't you? Whew!
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@TxPlantsman
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@imwritingwrongs @Sifill_LDF @FBI He's been under *indictment* for several years, but has been able to avoid going to trial.
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@TxPlantsman
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@shaabiranks What the hell? "Free Palestine" students (and non-students) were the ones driving Jewish students out of spaces and blocking them from entering spaces. Your analogy is upside down and ass-backward. I'm Black. Who do you think I sympathized with?...
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@TxPlantsman
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@JamaalBowmanNY @TheJewishVote Damn, LOL. The fact that you had to go the "Blacks for Trump"-type route shows just how much trouble you're in, and that you *know* you're in trouble.
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@juliaioffe @samstein ...or the way the same "cool kids" destroyed Howard Dean's primary candidacy because they thought he got too enthusiastic in a too uncool way at a rally.
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