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The bitchass mayor of Minneapolis endorsed her challenger lmao fuck you and choke on it Frey
I was talking more about her apparently having an affair with her campaign manager, which I don't really care about. I will say the nice thing about the Republicans being crazy about her is that basically anything they say is probably bullshit.
Still one of the few politicians I donate to. Nobody has a perfect track record, everybody has blindspots....but I'll stand in solidarity with one of the few voices in congress willing to take any kind of stance against AIPAC and take the right crticism of US foreign policy. The fact that the Democratic party was willing to primary her is enough reason to support her IMO.
All of our ghouls are awful, but she is one of the least awful. She'll fall in line and vote for more imperial bloodshed like the rest of them, but sometimes she speaks out against it as well so she clears that extremely low bar?
Results like this are a limiting factor on how cool and good a politician can be. If you're too cool, you'll draw so much heat and opposition money that you'll be out of a job.
The strategy for people in these types of positions is to be as cool as you can be while staying in power, use that power to lower barriers for cooler people who are not in power, and be ready to go full cool if the winds shift.
Yeah, our system forces everyone involved to be complicit in its worst excesses. I know I should have a certain level of leeway or forgiveness for that, but it's hard.
Yeah, it's tough to ride the line between calling on folks to do more and maintaining an understanding of what is feasible at the moment. Then you also have to factor in how less radical actions can enable more radical actions without letting that become an excuse.
Does Hexbear still like her? Or was she cancelled for something?
She's easily one of the best people in congress, that just doesn't mean anywhere near what it should
I like her and I voted for her.
Idk, she's fine. Definitely scandal prone, but she has the best foreign policy and that's honestly all that matters.
She's a Somali Muslim woman in Congress in America. Republicans still believe with their whole hearts that she secretly married her brother.
I was talking more about her apparently having an affair with her campaign manager, which I don't really care about. I will say the nice thing about the Republicans being crazy about her is that basically anything they say is probably bullshit.
Still one of the few politicians I donate to. Nobody has a perfect track record, everybody has blindspots....but I'll stand in solidarity with one of the few voices in congress willing to take any kind of stance against AIPAC and take the right crticism of US foreign policy. The fact that the Democratic party was willing to primary her is enough reason to support her IMO.
All of our ghouls are awful, but she is one of the least awful. She'll fall in line and vote for more imperial bloodshed like the rest of them, but sometimes she speaks out against it as well so she clears that extremely low bar?
Results like this are a limiting factor on how cool and good a politician can be. If you're too cool, you'll draw so much heat and opposition money that you'll be out of a job.
The strategy for people in these types of positions is to be as cool as you can be while staying in power, use that power to lower barriers for cooler people who are not in power, and be ready to go full cool if the winds shift.
Yeah, our system forces everyone involved to be complicit in its worst excesses. I know I should have a certain level of leeway or forgiveness for that, but it's hard.
Yeah, it's tough to ride the line between calling on folks to do more and maintaining an understanding of what is feasible at the moment. Then you also have to factor in how less radical actions can enable more radical actions without letting that become an excuse.
I met her once and she was very sweet. Not that the vibeometer means much.
Not American so no. Hard to have any sympathy for imperialist middle of the road entryist socdems , especially Yankee ones
Isn’t she basically the most anti-imperialist one there is? I know a large part of why they keep attacking her is because she supports Palestine
She's arguably the least-bad person in the house.