Tag: us politics

mydadisindianajones:

matthulksmash:

Romy eviscerated him.

Local Man thinks women can only be pretty or smart; gets roasted alive by smart, pretty woman.

SonderKommandos were forced laborers who would burn the bodies in concentration camps if anyone is curious. Most of them also died because the Nazis didnt want people alive who could tell the world the truth about what was happening. The Grey Zone refers to the moral conflict of being complicit in killing others but also being threatened with death yourself if you didnt comply. It comes from scientist and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi.

allthecanadianpolitics:

This is the kind of treatment asylum seekers are currently facing in the United States; they are given the choice to either give up their asylum claim, which would keep their family together but be forced to return to a country wracked with violence, or be imprisoned for a year and have their child put up for adoption.

If the Liberal Party sees this and still concludes that the US constitutes a “Safe” country for asylum seekers then they are morally bankrupt on this issue.

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Submitted by @fueltransitsleep.

“Go challenge the establishment in the primary” is the centrist equivalent of saying “go make your own comics/games.” If you actually do it and are successful, they get very bewildered and irate.

professorelemental:

In a shocking upset, New York Rep. Joe Crowley, who is the fourth-highest ranking Democrat in the House and had been considered a possible future speaker, has lost his primary to challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A community activist, Ocasio-Cortez is a shoo-in to represent this heavily Democratic and Latino district that spans Queens and the Bronx.

As an avowed democratic socialist, Ocasio-Cortez ran a challenge from the left against Crowley, who has been in office for two decades and is chairman of the Queens Democratic party. Crowley had access to immense resources, and in the final months of the campaign, he outspent Ocasio-Cortez $1.1 million to just $127,000.

As an illustration of how big an upset this is;

date-a-jew-suggestions:

prismatic-bell:

date-a-jew-suggestions:

If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you

A note:

I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:

Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.

Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.

And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.

Very good very important addition

publicprivatepartnership:

peteseeger:

peteseeger:

Liberals BIG mad about Ocasio winning

@erratticusfinch

The fact that Democrats would rather complain about how ridiculous and ungrateful leftists are for legitimately running in an election and beating them, as if the Democratic Party has some inherent right to being in power that just shouldn’t be challenged by third parties, really says a lot about the center liberal perspective of “democracy” and also their complete inability to recognize their own failures, if you can be beaten in the United States of “Socialism is the Devil” America by a person openly calling themself a socialist

cydonianmystery:

rush-keating:

The US is about to get our own Mhairi Black and I could not be more excited about that!

AP’s officially called it for Ocasio-Cortez.

I may still have some serious issues with the DSA, and the people they’ve endorsed. But… damn does it feel good seeing some big-time establishment Democrat like Joe Crowley go down in flames.

It’s been a horrible day, especially with SCOTUS and other things. I’ll take silver linings when I can get ‘em.