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  • Rare?

    Democrats have a pattern of vocally opposing issues only after they irreparably solidify them.

    In 1986 they helped pass draconian drug laws and mandatory minimums that supercharged mass incarceration, then decades later turned around and branded the “war on drugs” a moral failure.

    In 1994 they wrote and championed the crime bill that funded more cages and longer sentences; only once whole communities were gutted did it become fashionable for them to “reckon” with mass incarceration.

    In 1996 they joined Republicans to “end welfare as we know it,” slapping work requirements and time limits on poor families, then years later started admitting it deepened extreme poverty.

    That same ’90s crew pushed NAFTA and the broader free-trade consensus that helped ship industrial jobs overseas, then reinvented themselves as champions of the working class once the damage was locked in.

    They joined in financial deregulation at the end of the decade, tearing down New Deal banking walls, and after the 2008 crash, suddenly discovered the virtues of regulation.

    On social issues it’s the same story: they crafted “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and passed DOMA, then only when public opinion flipped did they pretend they’d always been on the side of LGBT rights.

    They voted for the 2002 Iraq AUMF and let Bush have his war, then spent the next decade calling it a catastrophic mistake.

    They backed the 2006 Secure Fence Act to harden the southern border, then later denounced wall-style politics as cruel and nativist.

    So no, Epstein Island wasn’t some weird one-off “bipartisan moment.” Bipartisanship is the rule whenever it comes to locking people up, bombing someone, cutting social supports, or serving corporate interests, and Democrats in particular have a long record of helping build the machinery first and only discovering their consciences after it’s too late to dismantle it. At least the Republicans consistently tell you they hate you to your face.






  • Haven’t tried JF in over a year, but last attempt was full of errors. I’ll give it another shot.

    Only reason I’m still on Plex is I have a lifetime pass, and it’s working. But it’s sure inshitifying every day… Remote play with plex pass is super easy, and plex amp was promising but replaced it with navidrome and so much happier. I’m ready to ditch Plex if JF is better now, I’ll install it next time I have time to mess with my setup.




  • Hillary was probably the worse:

    I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product… So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, ‘Make America Great Again’, was looking backwards,

    Obama:

    Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

    John Kerry:

    You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq

    These are slip ups, if you search for coded ways they describe their opponents, you can find a lot more “low information” and “uneducated” examples.

    Remember Joe the plumber? He was a reaction to republican voters feeling unrepresented as blue collar workers.

    This kind of class contempt absolutely isn’t unique to Democrats, but their obsession with courting higher educated voters has branded their contempt for those who aren’t.




  • 9 of these countries are majority Muslim, 7 are majority Christian, Eritrea is about half and half, and two are Buddhist… And Qatar is opening a military base on US soil.

    That’s a move from religious coding (“Muslim”) to openly hierarchical, civilisational coding (“poor,” “Third World,” “non-Western”).

    The U.S. helps create or worsen crises (Afghanistan, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Haiti), then shuts the door on people fleeing those crises.

    It’s a structurally racist, classist ban that turns poverty and Global South nationality into a security threat, while giving legal cover to a broader project of fortifying a rich, imperial core against the people its own system has helped impoverish and displace.

    By dropping the religious coding, liberals can silently get on board by not being pressured to voice their discontent for racism. There will be way less push back from Democrats than the Muslim ban.

    Trump is just the tool, this is an American imperial classist war.