• TheDoctor [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    New York being a Democratic safe haven has made the Democrats there so fucking brazen in their neoliberal ghoulery. The whole state is basically a bunch of real estate developers in a trench coat anyway.

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      They are ahead of the curve. Most dems are going to be that way. Meanwhile dem lackeys, pundits, consultants will explain it to the voters by saying stuff like “Look, difficult times require the dems to make hard choices”. The dems might as well say…

      turning a big dial taht says “Racism” on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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        turning a big dial taht says “Racism” on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

        A reporter wrote this about New York in 1869 (as quoted in Settlers chapter 4):

        When a native Mississipian and an exconfederate officer, in addressing a convention, refers to a colored delegate who has preceded him as ‘the gentleman from Georgia’, when a native Alabamian, who has for the first time crossed the Mason and Dixon line, and who was from boyhood taught to regard the Negro simply as chattle, sits in deliberate consultation with another delegate whose ebony face glistens with African sheen, and signs the report of his colored co-delegate, when an ardent and Democratic partisan (from New York at that*) declares with a ‘rich Irish brogue’ that he asks for himself no privilege as a mechanic or a citizen that he is not willing to concede to every other man, white or black - when, I say, these things can be seen or heard at a national convention, called for any purpose, then one may indeed be warranted in asserting that time works curious changes.(46)

        * The reporter remarks on this because the Democratic Party was the pro-slavery party, and New York was infamous as the seat of some of the most vicious and violent anti-Afrikan mass sentiment.

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    The liberal:

    “I detest the scapegoating of vulnerable populations to further your political goals and I promise to prevent it from happening”

    “They got arrested once”

    “STRAIGHT TO THE OPEN AIR CONCENTRATION CAMPS”

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    “When those are identified, I’ll be the first one to help get rid of them,” she added. “I don’t want them here. I don’t want anybody terrorizing my citizens.”

    wonder-who-thats-for

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      I saw the first half of that but I stopped at she added. Man, it’s like hearing a joke and entirely missing a great punchline. “I don’t want anybody terrorizing my citizens,”" is classic dem. Trump can make anybody a non-citizen at any time by striping them of then citizenship. The GOP justices created their immunity ruling especially for Trump. He doesn’t even have to do paperwork or talk to lawyers.

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        Democrats are so busy conflating anti-Zionism with anti-semitism that they’ve completely forgotten how Jews and other “undesirables” were actually persecuted in the Third Reich and how easily such persecution can happen again. But when the cattlecars are filled with Muslims, Hispanics, queers and anti-Zionist Jews, Democrats will absolutely be there to stop them say “Should have voted harder!”

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    Imagine having less political acumen than Eric Adams. I have no doubt that he’d gleefully do whatever he can to help Trump deport people, but unless he’s said something I missed, his responses to similar questions have been fairly ambiguous.

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    Mass deportation rhetoric scapegoats POC for economic conditions. That’s unambiguous fascism. The democrats spend four years letting greedflation happen, because it’s their own donors raking in the money, then they line up POC to take the fall. This needs to be a wake up call for progressive dem voters, the democrats are giving us a preview of what they’ll do in the future when the chips fall.