@dorrismccomics
look I know you understand the futility of fighting systemic problems with individual action from your pinned comic, so I think you should try to understand how our society makes adoption incredibly difficult
@constans
@imp_american
@thrasherxy
literally no one is saying that theft does not exist (and I think you know that), just that the "war on shoplifting" from the OP is being waged in bad faith by brick-and-mortar stores lobbying to protect their dying business model
@KUnleashed2020
@TonyMoonbeam
if women's repro rights is a top two issue for you (per your bio), why are you defending the person who bungled the kavanaugh hearings?
@ClueHeywood
If “vets being treated like garbage” is truly the reason for your animosity, you have like 400000 other people to be angry at first before you get to her
@heytred
@blamelessjay
@MitchyD
"being angry enough to engage with shit that doesn’t concern you" what would you call writing several tweets complaining about how a politician chooses to brand herself
@_bahhumbug
picket lines are outdoors where transmission is minimal and even good masks are imperfect. it is likely that unmasked picketers spread less disease than masked workers
Please, please do NOT buy into this.
This thread - on the damage of COVID infection - has one purpose: to induce fear.
It’s not good science or good public health messaging now that we have vaccines.
Worst of all it’s outdated. Nearly every study cited is from pre-vaccines 💉
@llmunro
@DrN1958
Perhaps that’s because the biggest threat to Latin America during the Cold War (and beyond) was American capital fomenting coups against democratically elected leaders
@joshualeifer
@DissentMag
1. I think the ethos you describe is admirable but I would like to see a honest analysis of how/whether that ethos is compatible with concrete demands for Palestinian liberation
2. I think you gotta wait more than five days to make this assertion:
great time to repost the most offensive google docs edit request i have ever gotten in my entire fucking life. this fucking moron was MY boss at equality federation, if you can believe it, lol
It is so cool how “””liberals””” drop all pretense of caring about rights, due process, criminal justice reform, etc anytime someone reports on one (1) unit of crime happening
@RottenInDenmark
really stunned with AOC here...for whatever her faults, she generally seems pretty savvy, but she's completely grasping at straws here
@constans
@imp_american
@thrasherxy
even if it is true that this pathology is real and widespread, you're still left with billion-dollar companies that have admitted to lying to further their ends vs people doing non-violent petty crime. easy to pick sides there IMO
@PeterBeinart
I dunno man these are pretty blatant and dishonest Israeli propaganda that are literally encouraging a course of action that will further endanger the hostages
Finkelstein probably shouldn't opine on things he's less familiar with, but it's telling how his critics seem to purposefully misrepresent him, in this case by simply omitting the next sentence:
@averyhatestwt
@WolfmanZack_
if the only thing keeping our economy from a depression is the continued immiseration of a generation of working people, then it is not worth saving
The thing that links every modern reactionary panic, from hyper-zionists to right-wingers scared of “crime” to anti-trans bigotry to anti-vaxxers to covid doomers, is the existence of a media ecosphere that caters to fear above all else
This weekend, American Jews are being told to stay inside, because - effectively - there are planned pogroms taking place (aka Free Palestine marches) and the police are aware they cannot protect innocent civilians from attack.
"This is America" etc.
@EoinHiggins_
@Lefty_Jew
but the assertion you're arguing against is the "most reactionary forces" which were undeniably the CIA/military/business power brokers that conspired to kill him. No one is arguing that JFK was a beacon of goodness or completely anti-reactionary
@KiraBrook
@jomeezy617
@isaiah_bb
HIV is a retrovirus and SARS-CoV-2 is not. They interact with our bodies/cells in a completely different way. Suggesting they have similar mechanism/effects on the body is misguided, at best
@BeijingPalmer
Ah yes the same long anti Soviet left tradition which was co-opted by the CIA to defeat communism. Can’t imagine why young lefties wouldn’t want to emulate that