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....you think left-wing parties in Israel are platforming Hasan Piker?

This was the same attack during the primary that failed. Constantly seeing Zionists move the line on what needs to be condemned is why antisemitism is not meaningful to the average voter anymore.

I think you should ask yourselves why you seemingly want these black and brown progressives to not win higher office despite that they ultimately will thanks in part to Hasan's organizing efforts on his platform via awareness and donations: Anyone confused about Hasan's popularity with young progressives just has to look at his actual work.

I genuinely can't stand to see another Jewish chauvinist melting down online about how "ABDULAH EL-SAYED" is "CEMENTING THE FEAR JEWS HAVE TO JUST LIVE IN PEACE!!!". it's genuinely mass psychosis and mental illness.

This is why Europeans barely evolved out of the primordial swamp. You got Ratatouille's family invading your schools, your teachers unable to pay for a month's worth of heat cause there's no gas, and more money is spent on police overtime than the social safety net yet here comes Jacque screaming "J'DETESTE MOOSLEMS!!!!".

I do hope that these centrists keep attacking Harris in such ham-fisted ways only because, if say AOC by chance outlasts Harris in 2028's primary, Harris' supporters hopefully know who was showing Harris basic respect on her identity and didn't feel the need to make these kinds of bad faith, reactionary attacks against her like these centrists have.

One time I got such bad food poisoning that I was projectiling fluids out of both ends and, in that moment of hopeless despair, understood how a 14th century peasant might think such a thing happening to them at that time meant demonic possession was real. So, in that same kind of way, I can see how some people might think LLMs are actually God, sure.

Some context to keep in mind with now less than 3 weeks left.

Do we have any info on the last time a song peaked at #1 on Pop, Hot AC, and Rhythmic radio?

I'm questioning the usage of "tankie" and that it's an incoherent snarl term that doesn't actually communicate anything. The historical origin of the term is supposed to mean "let the tanks roll in," and yet nearly all modern usages of the snarl term aim to denigrate those who are universally opposed to military aggression and interventionism. It's an inversion of the original sin - the idea that Soviet influence in Hungary was so important that internal conflict in Hungary meant that the Soviet Union must crush dissent. In this thread, people include mentions of places like Iran and North Korea into their usage of the snarl term, but the literal view being denigrated by the term's usage is simply that peace is better than war and the US shouldn't threaten to bomb these isolated nations, let alone for the reason of not risking nuclear annihilation for the world. So when the internet uses the term so loosely, what does it actually mean? Even the several mentions of Russia in here are incoherent and ignorant to, at least in America, the views of the socialist left. Pro-Russia leftism doesn't exist in the US. Pro-Russian leftism is a uniquely European phenomenon in the same way that anti-LGBTQ or anti-migrant left-wing parties exist in Europe yet there is no meaningful cohort in the US who preach such "anti-woke" socialism, because socialism's modern rise in the US is so intrinsically tied to the spread of views like intersectionality and social justice. Someone like Hasan Piker and the reactions to him as an American leftist captures this contradiction. Despite some online acting like he's a Hitlerite figure, Hasan Piker holds views that make him more progressive than 95% of other straight cis men his age. He regularly affirms the reality of transgender people and gay people's rights, holds views on women's healthcare to the left of 99% of European leftists, and speaks of Black Americans as victims wrongfully devastated under the American Empire's crimes of chattel slavery and Jim Crow. Even on foreign policy, one cannot even call him a slightly more specific insult like "campist" because his views are not actually pro-Russia. The most "pro-Russian" statement he's made is that the US shouldn't bother helping Ukraine take back territory like Crimea that, at the point of saying such, was veering into a decade of being occupied by Russia. A view most Americans would agree with. On the issue of leftist sectarianism, he can't even be called some other vague term like "ultra" - his entire appeal is promoting candidates running for higher office, for example. Maybe backlash and fatigue to decades of American interventionist foreign policy is simply, on its merits, anti-interventionism and doesn't need scary snarl terms to suggest it's something more sinister in view.

What does the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 have to do with either modern geopolitics or Ziwe interviewing Hasan Piker? I don't think that word means what those using it seem to think it means.

Slotkin joins calls from other centrists like candidate for Senate in Iowa, Rob Sand:

Oh.. budget!

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The video made me smile so much for how much passion and effort she puts into everything. She deserves the world and more. Genuinely a perfect pop star.

No, it's why it's important that Jewish identity in America be understood as being a white ethnic group benefitting from proximity to and inclusion within whiteness. When the lens steps outside of this understanding, things can become conspiratorial. That antisemitism is not a systemic issue endorsed by the government is marked by things like Jewish Americans, especially Jewish New Yorkers, enjoying largely high incomes, housing security, job and education attainment, etc. (And thus the contradiction that Zohran Mamdani still receives ire from Jewish Americans within NYC despite over-sized anti-discrimination funding that similar white ethnic cohorts to Jewish Americans - like Irish and Italian American groups - would not receive, exposing that the issue is indeed determined by support for Israel for many.)

There are also several interesting observations to make: Will the media treat this shift amongst Jewish voters as a moral rot and failure in the same way that Arab Americans staying home in November 2024 was framed by the media at large? Outside of a few House districts, Jewish Americans are simply not large enough of a population to meaningfully decide elections, which leads to... Polls were largely accurate in 2024's presidential election. Harris was in the margin of error for all of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. It was the massive backlash in deep blue places with large young, urban, populations of color where Dems took the biggest of blows. And as the trends develop, it becomes clear that those demographics are more aligned with pro-Palestine Dems than pro-Israel Dems. See: Hochul's weakness appearing to be being weak amongst both pro-Israel Dems flipping to Republicans and young progressives.