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[Trump voice:] Harold Innis is someone who's being recognized more and more

Well we have an answer

Why is this guy fantasizing about sexual torture?

It's fun how every country's Green party is its own special thing.

Like, the GPEW has its radical progressive wing and its Tories who like fields wing, but even the latter group is more dovish on foreign policy than the German Greens, who are paradoxically both really pro-NATO and anti-nuclear.

He's enjoying in this rhetoric because he's getting off to it. That much is clear.

Why did @lord-of-illyria.bsky.social RT this? Does he like this fantasy too?

Why is this guy fantasizing about sexual torture?

I think 2 is skewed by whose on this site but if you check the other site its very clear the most anti Platner people are centrist Democrats who strongly support Israel.

I find this convoluted: 1) traditional notions about masculinity exist fundamentally independently of it being applied re: Diaspora Jewish men esp in wider culture and 2) the most anti Platner people in the Democratic Party are those who hold strongly pro Israel views.

Sounds like Boric in Chile.

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Genuinely if USians paid more attention to the links to fascism abroad in minoritized communities here, some of this stuff would not be remotely surprising. Liberal multi-culturalism for me here, fascism for you there. The distance to Usha Vance and Tulsi Gabbard- fascism everywhere!- is minuscule.

I mean there aren't a lot of (or very good) data points but what evidence we have suggests that Platner is competitive in the primary and does no worse than Mills against Collins.

Whose claimed that? The point is they are safe Dem constituency, to win in Texas you need swing voters.

Is that why he's calling for abolishing ICE?

In Syria, the US backed the Kurds and then shrugged off as they couldn't/didn't really want to topple the Assad regime. It took an Arab rebel group based in Idlib to be able to make the push.

So why is the US trying to repeat in Iran what failed in Syria?

Do you think people are incapable of looking at your timeline? You full throatedly support the war against Iran, unlike Kamala Harris herself.

Have there been negative ads against Mills?

Something this site should acknowledge is that if Mamdani lived in Maine, he would very obviously be voting for Platner in the primary.

U.S. SENATE VOTES 53–47 TO BLOCK RESOLUTION THAT WOULD HAVE REQUIRED CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL FOR FURTHER IRAN STRIKES.

Also even within Dems, elite can have different meanings. Ie most economists and seriously policymakers would agree that one of the best ways of increasing revenue would be raising the income tax on the upper middle class. But how would upper middle class voters *within* the Dem coalition react?

A revisionist idea that I'm currently pondering is that the post-war nationalisation of key industries wasn't really about ownership but instead about management.

The British private sector, being so oriented around market finance and trade, is just not very good at management...

There's a variety of outcomes for Platner, but Fetterman 2 really isn't one of them. Imo Yglesias legit thinks he's the stronger candidate in ME-or at least the one that the primary electorate will back.

Also why increasing upper middle class taxes is dead on arrival.

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Two factors at play here are that the PMC (especially under 40s) don't really benefit from the existing welfare state in the way that actually low income people do and the lack of any real political coherence to the emerging service sector working class/precariat.

Two factors at play here are that the PMC (especially under 40s) don't really benefit from the existing welfare state in the way that actually low income people do and the lack of any real political coherence to the emerging service sector working class/precariat.

Tbh that's the kind of low visibility high impact issue Platner can get away with changing on without alienating his core supporters. Question is if anyone can convince him.

there was weird discourse about this about Roy Cooper too: it's just a function of Bluesky mostly being highly educated secular left liberals when that is basically not the actual majority voting coalition of Dems