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The problem is that it's a no-win. If Sarah McBride makes this An Issue and fights, then she's giving the GOP another opportunity to campaign on "Democratic wokeness gone amok - and in the Halls of Congress!!!!!!!" and also really double-down and ramp up the offense and harassment. And also not make any impact and spend more time on this than on legislating.

If she goes the route she's going, she gets criticized for weakness and also has to put up with an incredibly and horribly toxic and hostile (possibly violent) environment politically and personally, and still empowers the haters and bigots.

My hope/inclination is to think that the Dem Caucus can come up with a way to help resolve this or deal with this and that they don't back away from her or only offer perfunctory support.

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Rise of the Tomb Raider

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gen z making antisemitism cool again but being lauded as the most progressive generation ever sure is wild

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We're headed home at least

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This is so embarrassing

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there's no greater betrayal than finally starting to read a book you've had sitting for months on your shelf or your desk or your nightstand and then finding out it's bad. like. i gave you a fucking home.

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I had to do this guys

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Hey y’all! Did you know? That uhhhhhh…. People telling you the consequences of an election is not them “fantasizing about bad things happening to minorities.”!

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this blog hates donald trump

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Breaking news:

New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and California state AG’s are already stating they will REFUSE any Trump effort to do mass deportations, attacks on reproductive rights, or attacks on LGBTQ+ rights.

These states will not allow him to enact any harmful legislation without a fight. Other blue run states are expected to join them.

Sources:

New York: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2024/attorney-general-james-and-governor-hochul-commit-protecting-fundamental

Illinois: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/07/gov-jb-pritzker-has-warning-for-donald-trump-you-come-for-my-people-you-come-through-me/

Massachusetts: https://www.latintimes.com/massachusetts-governor-vows-refuse-trump-request-help-mass-deportations-absolutely-not-565052

California:

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"in the cracks of light" referring to the "cracks" in her self proclaimed "daylight" makes a lot of sense to me and it's making me sick with grief again she treated that man so fucking horribly for three years and he stayed through all of it

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Bro I've been critical of the Pro-Palestine movement all year long, but I know that it did not have a real impact on the election. It would be so easy for me to blame them, but I'm not, because I'm not a liar. But for them to say "akshewally this is Dems' fault because they didn't court the movement that refused to vote for them and [repeats lies about Biden-Harris not calling for a ceasefire]" is just cope. It's cope because they want to feel more important than they actually are, they don't want to admit that American voters do not care about Israel, and it's because the whole fucking movement is detached from reality. Even now, even as someone who will be so much worse for Palestine is becoming president (again), they just can't stop lying about Democrats and the autonomy of Israel and Hamas.

And these are the people outraged that Democrats are moving away from the left. Yeah, this is why. Democrats learned to ignore the unwinnable voters whose rhetoric just repels normies who actually vote. You can't spit in Dems' faces for 8 years and refuse to work with them and then get mad when they stopped listening to you. And this is simply not the reason why Harris lost. It's not. There's zero incentive for Democrats to listen to these people. In fact, it's the opposite.

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Where's that post from years ago that was like "I predict that Gen Z is gonna have a cult problem" cuz uhh they just voted for Trump and I fear OP was spot on

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one of the saddest things from this election is that I think it probably permanently damaged the leftwing coalition among people of color. obvs full final counts aren’t tabulated yet but on the whole, black voters didn’t budge; >90% of black women voted for Harris, and while Trump made some gains with black men in some states, they didn’t shift too much (and I think in Michigan, >90% of black men went for Harris).

they did not waver, and they got shanked. they know they got shanked. and other subgroups of POC don’t even seem to be aware that this reckoning is already underway. there’s this overall aggrieved sense of like, “well I chose what I chose because it was right for ME, and you can’t blame me,” which is fine to shout at some corporate political consultant but is absolutely not going to work on some random fellow American. and it is REALLY not going to work on politically engaged black voters.

(this is pretty much the same logic we apply towards white Trump voters, guys, and it cuts both ways: people who are directly endangered because of your actions do not have to coddle you while expressing rage and fear for their own lives. yes, some white people in particular have really crossed lines, but a lot of folks are simply being blunt in a way that’s angering people because it’s too honest. for example, college-educated white women broke for Harris by like 20 points, and they are still going to die from ectopic pregnancies & bleed out in parking lots because all men including men of color threw women’s rights to the wolves. those women do not have to make niceys about this.)

anyway. moderate black voters (especially southern black voters) are the backbone of the Democratic party, they’ve been very loyal to the rest of the coalition, they’ve allowed themselves to be pushed leftward on policies that don’t even benefit them, etc, and they’ve eaten shit for it. it’s one thing to be disappointed by white people, another to be let down by other ppl of color whom you were allegedly in solidarity with.

as a non-black person of color who absolutely relies on solidarity with black voters, I uhhhhh. well. I really can’t blame them if they are permanently unimpressed with me (we don’t have clear data yet bcs small population, but I expect that final analyses will show that desis also shifted rightward with everyone else). and if, for example, black voters decide that they’re not interested in sticking their necks out for issues like immigration policy (primarily beneficial to nonblack POC; massive liability with the rest of the country, etc) in the future, I absolutely can’t blame them.

I don’t want this, it will suck immensely because we all need allies, but honestly I just can’t blame them for being fucking furious with the rest of us & fundamentally questioning solidarity from “people of color”

I don’t really have any answers for this, just sad about it.

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