SpeedAnimal [none/use name]

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  • SpeedAnimal [none/use name]tothe_dunk_tank*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    And then the media uses surveys of Jewish people reporting increased sense of fear over anti-semitism, after months of reporting of mild social democrats criticising Israel as indicating an increasing tolerance of anti-semitism, as a confirmation of increase in anti-semitism due to the "hard left".







  • SpeedAnimal [none/use name]tothe_dunk_tankthis is fine dot gif
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    4 years ago

    There have been shifts to green and Lib Dems. But conservatives are the party currently in charge during a pandemic, and Labour have been saying and doing jack shit except "we're under new management!!!!", or only commiting to 2.5% increase to nurses wages and they'll "negotiate up" (????), our media is very right wing...

    Conservatives have also been using a bunch of rhetoric that encroaches on Labour territory, even if the actual policy/implementation doesn't match. "Levelling up", "Green revolution", recent announcement of Great British Rail, and they've done stuff like furlough (80% of wages paid during lockdown as you keep your job). No opposition to call these things out, little serious criticism in media, and vaguely popular economic rhetoric half cribbed from Labour in the first place.








  • SpeedAnimal [none/use name]topolitics*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    There was already that pressure, because it wasn't clear it was going to pass, as it ultimately passed by 1 vote.

    So yes, there was already as much pressure as there was going to be without a clear, very likely loss, where it would have been a lot less relevant anyway.


  • SpeedAnimal [none/use name]topolitics*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    I'm sorry that being able to talk in specifics and not repeating "electoralism!!!" and Lenin quotes is confusing for you. Feel free to criticise the 3 "presents", but Democrats are not master string pullers. Reality is not always as straightforward as everything being clearly planned theatre. The Socialist Campaign Group within Labour is similarly often split due to differences between its members, and is not a united front even as a minority group within Labour. The same is true here of "progressive" Democrats.





  • SpeedAnimal [none/use name]topolitics*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    Democratic opposition came exclusively from liberal members of the party who have broken with its leaders in the past — and in recent months have advocated reducing funding for police operations nationwide, a campaign that began last year as part of the country’s reckoning over racial justice in law enforcement. Their opposition to Thursday’s bill highlights the challenges House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will face going forward as she tries to keep her razor-thin majority united, an undertaking that will only get more complicated as Congress draws closer to the 2022 midterm elections.

    The 213-to-212 vote was a nail-biter as Democratic leaders, on the House floor, made emphatic last-minute appeals to the holdouts, pleading with them to back the measure. As Thursday’s vote closed, cries of, “One more!” could be heard from the GOP side of the chamber, prompting the Democratic leader, Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (Md.), to declare that they had run out of time and demand the final count be called.

    The three members who voted no — Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Cori Bush (Mo.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.) — released a joint statement Thursday saying that “a bill that pours $1.9 billion into increased police surveillance and force without addressing the underlying threats of organized and violent white supremacy, radicalization, and disinformation that led to this attack will not prevent it from happening again.”

    Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.), all Democrats, voted “present” ­­— officially taking no position, and allowing the bill to pass by one vote.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-passes-2419-billion-bill-to-pay-for-capitol-security-upgrades-despite-democratic-defections/ar-AAKczwp

    Edit: Cori Bush is still explicitly supporting her stance on No https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1395520445756157965 (and post got fucked up trying to edit)