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*Muslim gets elected to any political seat in the US*

Americans: why would you elect a violent extremist who wants to go on a religious crusade?

Richard Nixon: “God/Billy Graham told me to bomb Vietnam”

Ronald Reagan: “God told me to destroy communism”

George W. Bush: “God told me to invade Iraq”

Donald Trump: “God told me to bomb Iran”

Every Evangelical Zionist in Congress: “God told us we have to let Israel genocide the Palestinians”

it does seem like an important question to ask, i just have to wonder to myself why it oddly seems to only come up and people tend to only focus on it when it’s a brown person who gets elected to said seat.

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“look, i’m as lefty as they come” — last thing you hear before someone says the most reactionary shit you’ve ever heard in your entire life

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Unidentified ICE agents are now kidnapping people off the streets of Portland.

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amazing news. i guess this means i don’t have to worry about training myself on media as a whole without any permission from the creators anymore, then! folks, call your ISP to schedule a gigabit fiber install. piracy is officially legal.

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Most unserious country in the world

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i know her heart was in the right place but my mom wrote this in the funniest way possible

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Globalize the Intifada

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as someone who was very radicalized by the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries and then somehow even way more radicalized by the 2020 Democratic primaries and who doesn't even care for Bernie so much these days or identify as a Democratic Socialist anymore, watching conservatives and neoliberals alike melt down and come unglued over a pro-Palestine progressive upending the apple cart feels like what i imagine heroin feels like.

and mind you, i say this not only just because they're seething and it makes my heart full... but because everything they're saying - from the Islamophobic bile to the Red Scare shit - is being widely laughed at even by people who were just riding for the Democratic party like a week ago.

i don't know where this goes from here and in general, my hopes in electoralism alone being a viable way out of this remain very slim, but you must remember: americans have goldfish memories and don't know what they want. between Radical Marxist Leninist David Hogg getting the Lib Trotsky treatment, the last week of them trying to rig this thing for Cuomo just like 2016 and 2020, the House Democrats voting down Trump's impeachment and then Zohran winning on the same day... maybe we've hit an inflection point for a lot of american liberals? too soon to say, but the second half of this year is going to be a very interesting time to be alive.

New York City don’t you fuck around with me right now

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shut it down we have a winner

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my heart goes out to the paranoid neoliberal zionists in New York who will be peering out their windows scanning the sky nervously for hand gliders above the Manhattan skyline for the next 8 years. it has to be exhausting to be so irrational.

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permission to engage in optimism regarding electoral politics temporarily granted.

almost a decade of trying to explain to liberals offline, online and every space in-between that there is a hunger for a truly progressive, left-wing movement in this country and it is not getting "more right-wing."

almost a decade of being told that the Democratic party doesn't embrace progressives because they don't win.

almost a decade of being told that i am an idealist and people like me are the reason the Democratic party loses.

almost a decade of being told that over and over that horseshoe theory is real because i and others have repeatedly acknowledged the very obvious fact that the Democratic party is controlled opposition, only to watch those same people act totally perplexed when the Democratic party ratfucks another progressive out of an important seat.

nobody wants your fucking geriatric corporate-backed empty suit bloodless neoconservative wearing a rainbow mask candidate. every last one of them has to go. if they won't go, they should be forced to go. the Democratic party is a dead movement. either revive it or bury it, but we need to move on.

New York City don’t you fuck around with me right now

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New York City don’t you fuck around with me right now

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I think the empire might be falling in our lifetime

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liberals be like he bombed a country…. without congress approval

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Have US citizens been deported by their own government? After investigating this question for our exclusive report on Al Jazeera I can honestly say yes they are. Research by Jacqueline Stevens, a political scientist at Northwestern University, shows that up to one percent of all detainees at immigration detention centers are US citizens.   It’s hard to know exactly how many citizens get deported every year. If that one percent figure was constant throughout all deportations – that would mean 4,000 US citizens a year are deported. While that’s a high estimate, the fact that it’s happening at all demands clear and urgent answers.   Stevens says it’s an indicator of the abuses that are rife throughout the deportation machine. “It’s a symptom of the lawlessness of the deportation legal system. If US citizens go into the system with their full civil rights and they’re unable to challenge their unlawful deportation that tells us a lot about the more precarious situation of everybody else who may not have the same rights as a citizen.”

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Despite their records, both also have strong evidence of their citizenship.  Andrés’s evidence was so strong that the government eventually let him back into the US and issued him with a passport card and certificate of citizenship. The certificate says he became a citizen in 2002, six years before he was deported. But that was only after he spent nearly three years in Mexico.   An Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, spokesperson told us that Andrés never mentioned in his deportation hearing that he was a citizen. But he did mention it in his interrogation. Still ICE officials didn’t look into his claims – despite viewing with him a photo of his father showing he was a citizen.   Andrew Free is Robles’ lawyer. He says alarm bells should have sounded for those asking the questions during that interrogation but that it’s hard to stop the deportation machine once it begins: “When you look at the records that ICE created where Andres is claiming he’s a US citizen, and then not three months later the US is putting him on a plane and walking him across the US-Mexico border, it seems that something had to have broken down.” Free also blames deportation quotas. “Right now the Obama administration wants to deport 400,000 people per year. It wants to put 34,000 people in detention centres per night because Congress has mandated that,” he said. “People were looking for a reason to detain him. That was what they were measured by and that’s what the government and Andrés got.”

15 Jun 2014

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Source: BaseNation