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Heidi N. Moore

Jul 24

I think a lot of lefties backing Kamala are not genuinely contradicting their claimed ideals but ARE extremely practical about the fact that there is no antizionist candidate, there is no socialist candidate, and it's a waste of organizing time and power to sit on the couch until the perfect one comes along. You have to pressure politicians. They're not going to come to us straight out of the box with the right policies. That's how politics works.

I'm sorry, I'm just really annoyed with the posturing about how True Leftists don't vote for Kamala. She introduced a version of M4A and co-sponsored the Green New Deal, which is as close as this country has gotten to leftism in the past 30 years. She has slowly changed her position on Israel, and that needs to go a lot further. So she can be pushed. Sitting at home and playing with anti-imperialism dolls living in the perfect commune is a waste of the chance to shape the historical moment. There's no purity in sitting around and complaining. Do something, say something, work with this moment instead of wishing for some perfect future that doesn't exist yet. Biden has been pushed out. Changing things is possible.

If you don't think Kamala can be pushed, that's fine and you don't have to invest a single second of your time in that. But you DO have to invest your time SOMEWHERE, maybe making sure that there IS a good antizionist candidate advancing somewhere, or organizing, or pushing some useful policy idea. Sitting on your ass pretending to be above it all until the perfect person with the perfect politics is delivered to your door like a pizza is not going to happen. You have to make the future you want, however you decide to do it.

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Heidi N. Moore

@moorehn

Jul 23

The idea that Dems are vetting PA governor Josh Shapiro is evidence of how out of touch the party is with the historical moment.

Shapiro is anti-free speech: He wants to harm people who speak up against apartheid and genocide. He's the classic neoliberal concession to mid-2000 neocons, but mid-2000 neocons aren't a real voting bloc any more. He does nothing to combat either the MAGA vote or the young white working class vote that JD Vance brings or the libertarian capitalist vote. Electorally, he's useless.

They can get all the benefits of a "swing state pick" with just an endorsement from Shapiro and a promise to campaign for her. Along with the promise of an ambassadorship. He doesn't need to be VP. And he shouldn't be in the cabinet either, considering his embarrassing and controversial stances against free speech and the First Amendment.

The rest of the country is not Pennsylvania. Getting Pennsylvania's votes - which it's not even clear Shapiro can deliver - will not help close the electoral gap significantly between Kamala and Trump.

This weird Democratic obsession with Pennsylvania is a creation of the Democratic consulting class -- which, by the way, has only ever picked similar liberal neocon failures in that state, like Conor Lamb.

Kamala represents, to many people, a chance for an empathetic future. Beshear is the only choice that works with that energy, and he delivers the Southern and evangelical votes who are on the fence and want an option other than Trump.

For Kamala to pick a throwback Boomer-style West Wing liberal neocon like Shapiro who is cold, rigid and unlikeable will hurt her image -- and her votes -- considerably.

Additionally: Whatever the liberal Democratic consulting class - the people who are ALWAYS WRONG - say, it's crazy work to choose to lock down Pennsylvania while ignoring the enormous effect of Uncommitted in far more important stages including Michigan and Minnesota.

If Dems try to ignore the message of Uncommitted, it WILL come back to bite them. And picking Josh Shapiro, a pro-genocide anti-First Amendment neocon, will lose all those states for Kamala.

It's impossible to stress enough how much the pivot to Kamala means Democrats have to understand what Kamala represents to their base and why she's been able to raise so much and get so many volunteers so quickly:

People want empathy again -- something that was completely missing in Biden, and is missing in both Trump and Vance.

People are uniting behind Kamala because they want their RIGHTS. They want abortion rights back. They want immigration rights. They want free speech rights. They want the end of the disastrous Democratic embrace of Republican restrictions on every part of our lives. People want an ADVOCATE.

Josh Shapiro would sink all of this. Shapiro has no empathy. He's a careerist. He's never helped anyone but himself. He's never STOOD UP for anyone but himself. He's a classic liberal neocon narcissist who wants people to have fewer rights.

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Heidi N. Moore

@moorehn

Jul 22

Kamala will be kryptonite to Trump, and I'll tell you why: She's attractive. Trump's form of somatic (body-based) narcissism prevents him from criticizing attractive people. He can't help but admire them. Trump is going to fold quickly whenever Kamala comes at him in a debate.

As an example, his one (1) criticism of Kamala this week has been that she has a laugh that he called "crazy," but then he swiftly followed it with "not as crazy as Nancy Pelosi."

Trump will never fully attack an attractive person because he needs to see himself as one of them. As a narcissist, he defines himself by his youthful attractiveness and so he sees other attractive people as his "mirrors," like him. So he will never fully mobilize against another attractive person.

Fundamentally, Trump will always see Kamala as a member of his "tribe" -- the "tribe" of attractive people -- so he's basically KHive. He's never going to be effective in his opposition to her. Even if he attacks her directly, he'll sabotage it, like with the Nancy Pelosi comment.

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Heidi N. Moore

@moorehn

Jun 22

I saw a TikTok about some eye makeup that was allegedly so good that "it made her ex cook her a roast chicken" and I was like "because of some colored wax and talc? Come on now. Surely men are not THAT stupid." Anyway I tried it and three separate men have respectfully told me I look great today.

We are not here to gatekeep and it's Friday so please go forth and try this this weekend if you are so moved. It's a basic smoky eye but it's very imprecise (and dare I say, French) so it takes literally less than a minute

tiktok.com/t/ZTNLxyqJB/

Corrections and amplifications: The meal in question was apparently a "three course dinner," I do not want to hear from any exes (there was enough of that during the pandemic) and one of the men actually said "when you're cute you gotta hear it!!" which is honestly a man that truly gets it

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Heidi N. Moore

@moorehn

Jun 15

https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1802102989181890563

I just want to give this post points for using "déshabille"

https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1802102989181890563

Pronounced "dess- hab - iyay" by the way, NOT "dish-abile"

Habillér means dressed so déshabille means undressed. For women, it was popularized by Marie Antoinette in her "peasant" dresses, an affectation she loved while Queen of France.

Later, during the French Revolution, French It Girl Terezia Tallien (who was imprisoned for being married to an aristocrat and pissing off Robespierre by encouraging her husband to defend some other aristocrats) turned déshabille style to the scandalous, taking the very light muslin shifts that female prisoners wore during the Reign of Terror and rendering it in sheer, sleeveless silk. Talleyrand was aghast:

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Heidi N. Moore

@moorehn

Jun 14

We also need a real reckoning with the implications of the "one-state solution." After all this, you want Palestinians to share a state with these genocidal psychopaths who support their annihilation? The entire Israeli Knesset and the vast majority of Israel's population not only support the current genocide but consistently say they want it to be MORE violent and have MORE war crimes. That's who you want Palestinians' neighbors to be in a "one-state solution"? Delusional.

Would you voluntarily live next door to a genocidal psychopathic white supremacist racist who wants you dead? I wouldn't. Why would you demand that Palestinians work and live with people who have been openly urging their annihilation for 8 months? You can't reform this.

This is an important thread, below.

All of these Palestinians were taken prisoner by Israel and held without charges or any due process far before October.

How do you build a one-state solution where you're proposing to fold Palestinian lives into a long-established system of fascism that imprisons and tortures them without any recourse?

Do you all think after 76 years Israelis are suddenly going to stop being racist and violent towards Palestinians and embrace them as peers and neighbors?

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