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7 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Come on Ian...did they do this in 16 for Clinton supporters? No. Would they have done it for Biden supporters if they'd won this time? No. When we lose, we grieve for those who will be hurt. When they lose, they grieve because they can't keep hurting people the same way...
tired of "being the bigger person," when the smaller people continue to focus on cutting the bigger folks off at the kneecaps...Our ecumenism will not change them or get them to reciprocate, and you cannot point to any real evidence that it will...
I'm not saying be mean to people, obviously. But the idea that the burden is on us to reach out to them? No...they lost. It is their job to figure out why most Americans reject their movement and views...not our job to keep justifying ours
Saying we have to reach out to them is like saying we needed to reach out to David Duke supporters in 90/91 in Louisiana. Nah...They need to show some contrition and made amends for the damage they did. THEN we can talk. That's what restorative justice is, not blanket forgiveness

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7 Nov
Funny how conservative EC defenders make arguments like this while worshipping the market for reflecting consumer preferences...perhaps people vote with their feet when they choose where to live and that too is "the market." Face it, y'all are RC Cola, and most folks prefer Coke.
The fact that few want to move to the small towns and rural communities that the right fetishizes and thinks should wield outsized influence via the EC says a lot: you think places where people WANT to live should be punished for being in concentrated areas?
there is no other market u would treat this way...demand suggests preference. Hell, even when some of y'all move to red states, you move to the Blue areas bc that's where culture & life are. To wit, Ben Shapiro, Tomi Lahren and Candace Owens all moving to Nashville, NOT rural TN
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6 Nov
1/ Must be easier for some folk to make Trump's Latinx support the issue (still only 1/3 nationally) rather than ask why white women supported him even more than in '16 as per exit polls (assuming they're right). White women and men are voting basically the same...
2/ We've learned to expect this from white guys. White supremacy & patriarchy are powerful drugs, after all. But liberal white women want so badly for women as a group to be seen as different, when politically, the white ones mostly aren't. "Sisterhood" is conditional...
3/ Once again, black women saved us from ourselves, and the country from us. If it were up to white people, David Duke would still be in the Senate from Louisiana (or Governor there), since whites (men and women) were willing to put him in either of those positions...
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3 Nov
1/ A thread about what we know, for certain, today.

Forget the polls for a minute. Forget the punditry. Forget the campaign hype men (and women) telling us what we (or their team) want to hear. Fact is, we don't know for sure how this is going to turn out...
2/ I can lay out very plausible scenarios by which Biden wins in a rout, but also a couple of scenarios, only slightly less plausible, where Trump squeezes out another EC victory while, of course, losing the popular vote handily. But for today I won't do that...
3/ Instead, let's focus on what we know for sure. First, If all who wanted to vote were able to vote and if every vote cast were counted (enuf machines, so no crazy lines, folks could get off work, no suppression, no court tossing ballots, no USPS slowdown) Trump is crushed...
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24 Oct
1/ Putting aside the absurdity of Trump's claims to have done more for black folk than any president except Lincoln, given his racist rhetoric & support for police violence, I'm thinking LBJ presiding over the Civil & Voting Rights Acts beats whatever he thinks he's done...
2/ And of course it's inherently racist to say you "did things" for black people anyway...black folks pushed Lincoln to whatever greatness he achieved, via rebellions against enslavement and service in the war...likewise, black folks' movement pushed LBJ too...
3/ In Trump's case, black folks have been pushing criminal justice reform (and much broader reform than he signed) for years, and he would never have done it had he not thought it was politically expedient. Neither Trump not LBJ nor Lincoln were "great white saviors" of anyone...
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14 Oct
1/ Barrett's totally absurd articulation of "super precedent" and why Brown is an example but Roe isn't, shows her mendacity. Her position is, well Brown is settled law because everyone accepts it basically. Putting aside if that's true, note the contradiction, please...
2/ IF Brown is now settled & accepted, that shows that things evolve, and the law must keep up with that evolution. Bc it wasn't always accepted. There were 20 years of resistance to it. So, the basis of originalism/textualism (the law is fixed) is undermined by this argument...
3/ And if Roe is not as universally accepted, thereby making it NOT super precedent, or if Obergefell isn't, that is simply a function of time, possibly. It may become accepted if given time. But if she ignores precedent to overturn it, she isn't willing to let that play out...
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9 Oct
1/ I love when people like Ben Shapiro argue anti-discrimination law shouldn't have been applied to private businesses and the way to deal w/private sector racism is through market pressure...yet NO conservatives in history EVER launched concerted boycotts of racist businesses...
2/ So putting aside the absurdity of thinking that would have sufficed in the 60s, and putting aside the immorality of prioritizing the rights of businesses over the people they harmed, even on their own terms, conservatives and libertarians are full of shit...
3/ They say segregation was evil of course and they would NEVER have patronized segregated businesses personally, but that's a lie. Conservative whites of that era patronized such places all the time and none condemned racist businesses owners in any concerted way, if at all...
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