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Nov 14 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
History lesson: every single job you now think of as union-coded (mining, factory work, etc) was, prior to be unionized, broadly seen as inherently transient, precarious and for unmarried young people. The only reason they stopped being coded that way is because…they unionized
The hard hat jobs you now think of as being Real Union Jobs were, prior to militant worker actions, seen as inherently low wage, for illiterate immigrants and not “careers”. Organized labor changed that, then pop culture adopted this ideological assumption then you ingested it
Pop culture, MSM, Mike Rowe and his billionaire backers, have a lot invested in you thinking service jobs + healthcare labor (most woman-coded) are inherently less worthy of unionization because THATS WHERE MOST WORKING CLASS JOBS ARE NOW. Theres nothing intrinsic about any of it

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Nov 5
[$70 million organization dedicatedly entirely to israel]: it’s important politicians understand Israel is irrelevant and they need to ignore it
It’s an interesting PR tactic common with pro-Israel groups I call Quantum Zionism. they put on press tours, trips to Israel, luncheons etc for politicians, then when it’s a politician critical of Israel they go “um obsessed with Israel much? Hum, curious why that would be?”
The obvious implication is this “singling out” or “obsession” can only be explained by antisemitism. But they can’t actually say this because they don’t have the courage or substance to level such a charge so it’s just heavily implied
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Nov 5
Trump openly said his motives for attacking Venezuela are to seize its oil. But recent explainers in WaPo, Politico, BBC pontificating about Trump's motives do not mention this fact at all. I wrote about western media's bizarre refusal to state the obvious
columnblog.com/p/media-pontif…
For years Trump has openly talked about how he thinks the US should take over other countries' resources. Indeed, exploitation of resources is his most consistent, publicly espoused motive behind his foreign policy. Why is this dynamic rarely discussed in Venezuela coverage? Image
I get that 'resource grab' stuff has the undignified and Unserious whiff of conspiracy but this isn't an issue when the guy in charge openly says “when I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. [Had I won in 2020] we would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil.”
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Nov 3
this is all so tedious. This sleight-of-hand is exactly what make the Abundance guys so cynical. What Sanders says here is that the generic "good govt" stuff is banal and fine. The issue is **this is not the whole of their project** which anyone with two brain cells can see
The Abundance "movement," as it exists in reality, (rather than a vague marketing pitch) but actual policies, think tanks and funders with actual goals, is defined by deregulation and left-punching. And anytime this is mentioned they do the coy "Who me?🥺I just want more stuff"
everything Abundance argues that is unobjectionable is vague to the point of being politically meaningless. Everything they actual specify, when it comes to actual trade offs, priorities, and narrative focus is explicitly anti-populist and pleasing to their billionaire patrons.
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Oct 17
Ah I see the Christian studio behind the Qanon exploitation film Sound of Freedom is releasing a gritty origin story hagiography on George Washington July 4 weekend 2026 and doing the aggrieved “help us make it the No 1 film in America (to own the libs)” marketing campaign
Mel Gibson chose to make the enslaved people free black workers (unclear why 18th century Mel Gibson would be so kind??) when he did The Patriot, curious how they handle this awkward fact. They may just ignore it, or just imply his slaves are cool and chill with the situation
The problem with depicting Washington was that he has a LOT of slaves. It wasn’t like a Mark Twain situation where his family had one or two for a while and it can be glossed over, he enslaved ~600 people in his life. It was His Whole Deal, it’s how he got powerful and rich.
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Oct 16
Another attempt at a fake scandal, Mamdani’s position on this is the same as Trump’s (thus far at least, thankfully). Demanding Hamas disarm is a nonstarter for obvious reasons. This is a rational and moral position because the alternative is open-ended nonstop genocidal killing
“Hamas shouldn’t be forced to disarm” isn’t some abstract normative position, or endorsement of Hamas, it’s a rational position because that’s what a “ceasefire” is—a cessation of firing—not demanding unconditional surrender from one side.
Blithely demanding “Hamas must disarm” was the thin military pretext that dragged on this genocide for months on end, it’s a call for continued collective punishment posing as an anodyne moral proclamation. It’s dishonest, faux liberal smarm.
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Sep 16
Vance’s speech was a masterclass in shameless demagoguery. They cant find any credible media “cheering on” Kirk’s killing so they just highlight media criticizing him, then pivot to random nobodies celebrating Kirk’s death, then seamlessly switching back and forth between the two
The reason the goal posts has to shift from “celebrating Kirk’s killing” to “mocking it” to “being mean/misquoting him” is because no one with any power or significance on “the left” celebrated it so they have to create a fog by mixing in random social media posts w/ “the media”
Vance did this shoddy demagogic trick just one week prior when he tried to claim some undefined “media” “told you that Donald Trump was on his death bed” which literally no actual media outlets did. It was just Random People Online
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