"My job is to keep the left pro-Israel" - Chuck Schumer
Link to the video in the tweet: https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2061891037715657047
Graham Platner receives endorsement from top-Zionist Democrat Chuck Schumer
"My job is to keep the left pro-Israel" - Chuck Schumer
Link to the video in the tweet: https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2061891037715657047
35 Comments
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 33 pts · 79d
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 28 pts · 79d
I just got banned from lemmy.world/c/progressivepolitics for criticizing Platner.
Anything to the left of a Nazi is "ultra-left" apparently.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 79d
Yep get downvoted anytime I question this guy. Same with the billionaire running for governor in California.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · -10 pts · 79d
Sanders endorsed him too though if I’m not mistaken. So everyone just needs to take a deep breath and remember that Susan Collins needs to fucking goooooo
Edit. Fucking ML, how to I keep ending up with these dipshits? Time to figure out how to block it all.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 79d
Sanders endorsed Jon Fetterman in 2022 too.
This entire debate is "Kamala Harris is not Donald Trump" 2026 edition. "The left" needs to find an alternative to promote instead of a literal Nazi mass murderer.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 78d
Against Dr Fucking Oz.
Point still stands but probably not here.
webadict@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 78d
mathemachristian@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 79d
Sanders fucking voted to bomb yugoslavia, Sanders refused to call it genocide for two years and the one time he did he opened with "Hamas (a terrorist organization, very scary!) started it". Getting endorsed by Bernie "bent the knee for hillary" Sanders is an indictment of Plaᛏner if anything.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 78d
Liberals when exposed to any disagreement
deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 79d
Left also should not accept current or previous military members unless they are openly anti US military and imperialism pretty much every single sentence they speak publicly.
Not at all, whatsoever with absolutely no exceptions other than listed. Those guys and gals get up to some bad shit, and they’re usually one (or less) person removed from (fascist) government officials
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 79d
Maeve@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 77d
Total institutionalization. Total institutes break down the ego to rebuild it into whatever the institute wants it to be. It's extremely difficult to regain a sense of self completely free of the institute, past a certain amount of conditioning. This is anything from the current El Salvadoran CECOT, to rehabilitation facilities to skilled nursing facilities to reeducation facilities to monastsries and boarding schools.
TiredTiger@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 79d
Partly due to the Overton window, partly due to their inability to confront their own complicity, I think. They don't want to be responsible for anything - they just want to vote blue and pat themselves on the back.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 78d
They've been inapropriately calling themselves "The Left" for decades.
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 78d
The left of maybe Heinrich Himmler, but seeing as they support guy who have tattooed the same symbol that Heinrich Himmler went genocidally infamous under, i doubt even that.
dessalines@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 79d
Pretty fitting that the US democrats main focus candidate right now is a former Abu Ghraib torture camp prison guard, who repeatedly says he signed up for the US military because he wanted to kill people.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 78d
It really kind of is. The bar is so low.
But without disputing who he is: his net worth is around the same (Stated as under $165k) as the median American ($125k). He's categorically not a part of the wealth class, and he at least seems to know it.
That kind of class consciousness on the American national stage from a white man veteran? I think that's relatable to a giant swath of otherwise apolitical or even chuddy Americans.
If he can stick to his principles on policy in Congress and even just be the new Bernie, he's going to resonate strongly with the post-9/11 military community. If that faction can even so much as look at the left outside their crosshairs, it'll be a significant shift.
He's worth the shot in Maine, I think.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 78d
very true imo, but his wealth classifies him petite bourgeoisie and this class has a well documented history of siding with fascism over socialism when it comes down where it matters.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 78d
I can see that interpretation, since he IS a small business owner of an oyster farm.
Having been a shellfish farmer myself, but on the west coast, my perspective is that it's closer to tenant farming than being petit bourgeoisie. The self employed and small growers all had to rent tideflats to work.
But yes, ultimately it is the same function since some other owners as I remember absolutely were just seeking to separate themselves from labor.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 78d
you're right about him being relatable to chuds.
i think platner's is the modern representation of an american liberal; now more aware than the liberals were before.
and i'm convinced that it's entirely because of tiktok -- class-conscientious and palestine became mainstream thanks to tiktok.
dessalines@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 78d
For US liberals, the best "class conciousness" they can come up with is strasserism - Supporting people like Platner who love killing middle easterners, and align with US supremacy and nationalism, and promise to keep the imperialist superprofits flowing to the imperial core.
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 79d
USA senators threatening to beat a woman over minor policy differences, ha
GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 79d
Schumer definitely didn't give his support willingly. And nobody cares what he has to say anyway.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 79d
I'm sure Schumer got something in exchange which he does care about then.
DancingBear@midwest.social · 5 pts · 78d
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 78d
There's no Cuomo or Adams left to stay in the race. It is just Platner and Collins now. So unless you're down with more Collins, it's Platner for Mainers.
DancingBear@midwest.social · -1 pts · 78d
GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 78d
Well this is Lemmy.ml, you couldn't have had high expectations from the start.
DancingBear@midwest.social · 0 pts · 78d
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 78d
Kavernacle and Bad Empanada seem to be fully on the internet clout train.
Allergic to the idea that leftism, or even antizionism, can win.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 78d
ZombiFrancis seems to be fully on the internet clout train.
Allergic to the idea that leftism, or even antizionism, can win
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 78d
Impenetrable. Perfection.
formlessoedon@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 78d
That's cool that you use internet content creators as your lens to view the world, rather than evaluating their claims historically. You must have such interesting studies, so many insights to share.
DancingBear@midwest.social · -5 pts · 78d
GraniteM@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 78d
Yes, let us all unite to [checks notes] ensure that Republicans retain control of the Senate and therefore continue to rubber-stamp everything Trump does and further insulate him from consequences.
Break the Republican majority first. Feel free to turn on each other like starving dogs after.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 78d
GraniteM@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 78d
You're comparing a guy who isn't even in the Senate yet to the single most annoying Democratic senator, when you should be comparing him against his actual opponent, Susan Collins, who thought Trump had learned his lesson.
plant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 78d
There are no rotating villains in ba sing se
plant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 78d
There are no rotating villains in ba sing se
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 78d
the supreme court has also insulated trump from consequences when they gutted the voting rights act and the democrats have proved themselves to be as much a rubber stamp as the republicans since the last election; you seem to be pinning your hopes in the wrong place.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 78d
"Wanting to define the terms of the conflict" is not the same thing as "pinning hopes."
I have no illusions that getting a Democratic majority in Congress will solve all of our problems. I know for a fact that a Republican majority will continue to make things worse at an ever-increasing pace until the situation becomes completely untenable. At least with Democrats, there's a conversation to be had.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 78d
is there?
the democrats refused to talk about gaza during the election and their post-mortem study won't even mention it; yet multiple polls confirm that that was the biggest reason why they lost the last election.