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@magi_jay
Sep 30, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I think they've been aware of this for a while. Probably since well into Obama's presidency. What's changed is that they've gotten to the point in the Prisoner's Dilemma where they've estimated the other side has defected so many times that it makes no sense to stay in the game
I've said this before, but Democrats are in a *particular* dilemma b/c they have two goals: 1. advancing their agenda & 2. upholding democracy. The dilemma arises given the other side can only 1. advance their agenda thru 2. *undermining* democracy.
So I don't see this situation as being one where Democrats are especially naïve as to GOP goals/strategies. I see it more that they were battling on two aforementioned fronts. And were conservative w/r/t the second (upholding democracy)
But we are now at a point where the GOP has defected too many times, so the rules change for the Democrats. Upholding democracy now might involve more extreme measures, given the level of defection from the GOP.
Maybe Democrats should have reached this point earlier. But I don't think it was out of naïvé re: the GOP's motives that they did not.

The shift is not one of ignorance to knowledge. It is one from one form of protecting democracy to another, given too many defections.

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I've been sitting for a few minutes asking myself, "Do I look at Minneapolis? Do I not look? Is it wrong to choose not to & to do something else? What does that even mean? I don't think I have anything interesting to say about it. . ." I do think we should share grief. Emotions.
I think it is a disservice to the issues we care about to constantly approach them as if we have to say something novel, or interesting, or pithy, or whatever. I think this is one of the worst effects of social media, in its current form. We can't just be regularly human.
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Yes. I am finally done. After 9 months, I am done. I had a very good lawyer and he told me not to say a peep about the police to anyone because what they really needed to be was "soothed." That they needed time to calm down. That's what the police needed. And it worked.
I was arrested 13 days after the presidential election. I still had my Kamala Harris signs. When the police were typing up the false charges against me, & laughing to each other, they said, "Who's she gonna tell? Twitter?" Then: "Bet she's proud of those Kamala Harris signs now"
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This is a photo of my mother's roommate, Jimmi, from when she lived in Paris in the 1960's. Jimmi was American, from California, & went by the stage name Mademoiselle Crème de Coco. Like many Black Americans, she recieved cultural appreciation in 1960's Paris, per my mom's memory Image
Western societies' racism operates in different ways. France had--& has--a racism problem, largely directed to Arab ppl, Jewish ppl, & Black African immigrants. It is simultaneously true that the French revere Black Americans & Black American culture.
Jimmi told my mother that she much preferred Paris to the U.S. b/c she did not encounter as much racism there. She eventually left Paris to go tour in Russia. She invited my mom to come & be her assistant; to manage her hats, clothes, wigs, etc. My mom declined. They lost touch.
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The last 2 years have been a lesson in how little Americans understand the world prior to the emergence of nation-states. In some sense, I think the rigidity of this anachronistic lens helps us remember facts of WWII much better than those of WWI.
Obviously other things contribute to these differences in remembering fact/detail. WWII closer in time. My grandpa fought in it, whereas his father fought in the previous war. Nazis were almost incomprehensibly evil in their project. The very American story of D-Day. Etc.
Still, I'll tell you this: Every few years I ask my dad to explain the origins of WWI & he does so quite exquisitely but, up until recently, I couldn't really remember much other than random phrases like "Serbian Nationalism," detached from narrative; just floating in my brain.
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Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, & Joe Biden would all know that such a statement was not only deeply disrespectful to Kamala Harris, but to Black women more broadly. And that is one of the reasons, in my view, Bernie Sanders is a two-time primary loser.
If you don't know how to go to a Black Church, you can shut the entire fuck up about the Democratic Party. Image
The gall of that man. I could slap him.
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I think we need to say some things more plainly. It is not just wrong to tell Jews to "go back to Poland." It is an incredibly fucking awful thing to say. It is disgusting.
The Germans viewed Poles (Slavs) as their lessers. The land of the east--Poland, Ukraine, etc. We can actually use the lens of "intersectionality" to understand. The Slavic lands--the East--that's where you brutalize people. That's where the Nazis made their death camps.
The Nazis didn't build their camps in France, which they occupied. Or the Netherlands, which they occupied. They didn't build their camps in the West. Nor did they go on mass shooting sprees. No, they did that in the East. They made "barbaric" Poland into a factory of death. Image
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