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17 Dec 20
Never in a million years would I have guessed that some on the left would oppose a vote on medicare for all during a pandemic where 300k people have died and 15+ million have lost their insurance. I'm genuinely astonished and disappointed.
If you oppose the current plan to fight for medicare for all it's incumbent upon you to tell us what *your* plan is, in detail. When do you want the vote? What benchmarks have to be met before you call for the vote? Nobody against the current plan is answering these questions.
Rejecting a concrete plan to fight for medicare for all *right now* for a nebulous undefined one at some obscure date in the future is inadvertent interference for the worst forces in the country. It's a high minded rationalization to accept the status quo longer.
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13 Oct 20
I'm gonna start tweeting good things but do it like Trump (thread)...
MEDICARE FOR ALL!
ABOLISH STUDENT DEBT!
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12 Oct 20
I've deconverted a lot of people from the ugly right-wing pipeline & 1 of the things I've learned is there are no shortcuts in changing minds. It's a long arduous process that that requires thought, nuance & effort bc people are complex. Anyway keep shaming voters good luck!
This is especially the case where identity is concerned. If people perceive you as attacking their being they just further retreat into the comfort of what they already know and they shut off to new ideas.
I think MOST people can eventually have their minds changed, but I think the last thing you should do if that's really your goal is insult them and be dismissive.
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7 Jul 20
I see a lot of pushback to this but the letter is basically like hey please don't fire people or totally socially ostracize them for having questionable or fringe opinions. Disagree, but don't try to ruin their lives.
I think the letter is correct. I think critics are right to point out some of the people on the list being complete, disgusting hypocrites and not actually abiding by the principles laid out in the letter (Bari Weiss, for example)...
Many on the left scoff at invocations of "free speech", namely because often times it's deployed disingenuously by pampered elites or right wing idiots to deflect any and all reasonable criticism. This needs to be pointed out...
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21 Jun 20
Trump's rally made clear that his strategy now for 2020 is lean into the culture war and try to tie Joe Biden to the far left. This is the worst strategy possible for him. It won't work.
When you still have a pandemic, 20% real unemployment and tumultuous uprisings your bitching about statues and the fake news media being mean to you rings hollow. It's also obviously untrue that Biden is like pro-antifa or some shit. Embarrassing strategy.
Trump hammered Hillary on corruption, NAFTA, the Iraq war & he postured as being anti-establishment. That was so much more potent than leaning into culture war symbolism and pretending Biden is antifa. The right wing bubble has dulled his instincts.
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14 May 20
You will never ever ever bring about real change from inside the system unless you're willing to be smeared and hated by your party leadership and corporate media. And I haven't seen a single elected lefty who is truly comfortable with that.
All of the institutions perpetuating the status quo (media, party leadership, big business etc) are deeply unpopular. Their agenda is directly counter to what opinion polls show the American people want. Point that out, make your enemies known & the solutions known.
The only power the left has is derived from the grassroots. You have to harness the outsider energy and use it against the system. You can't play the game from within the system and win. You're not as good at it and you don't have the numbers to.
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