Yes; political operatives mess with peoples minds. But if you’re serious about building a better world, learning how to overcome the brainwashing and conditioned polarization is a MUST. This shit is bigger than just elections

Maybe try talking to them with genuine empathy and curiosity instead of condescension? It’s a lot easier to get right-wingers on your side if you prioritize making them feel valued and heard while emphasizing shared values/interests. That’s what they call "organizing"

I thought Chic Fill A used to be homophobic. Didn’t know they were racist... Their food is really good though so they need to have done something REALLY racist for me to boycott

Maybe we just don’t need so many fucking cops in the first place. 

This is great news! Hope to see laws like this all over the country. But it is worth pointing out that if we cut police funding enough they won't be able to afford tear gas or creepy surveillance technology. 

Neera Tandem has advocated invading a country and stealing their oil to pay for said invasion.

Does our economy look particularly stable to you? We’ve had three massive recessions in the past 20 years and each has been more devastating than the last...

Policy, dipshit. The distinctions between Neera Tanden and AOC are based in policy. Pretending like you can't understand those policy differences won't make them any less important but it does make you seem stupid

A healthy press is supposed to have an adversarial relationship with powerful people. Also, Biden’s pick for Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, is an especially bad choice (who happens to be a woman). Besides covering up for torturers, Haines has worked as a consultant for a LITERAL vampire named Peter…

I guess... I haven’t found any indication that Mayorkas’ Cuban heritage (or any sort of moral convictions) lead him to speak out about the record number of deportations carried out by the same government agency he worked at while Obama was president. Maybe, under Mayorkas, the dudes rounding up poor brown people won’t…

Is this the mayor who tried to do some mild police reform and the NYPD responded by RIOTING for several days straight?

Avril Haines played a key role in setting up our horrific drone warfare program. Then she consulted for an evil surveillance company called “Palantir” that was founded by a literal vampire named Peter Thiel who was instrumental to Trump’s 2016 campaign. This woman is bad news; her appointment represents more militarism…

Sounds OK to me but I worry about a private company having so much power to determine what counts as "misinformation". 

Very true. Just hope people don’t go “back to brunch” so much that Biden winds up setting the stage for a Trump comeback in 2024. 

Excellent point: transparency means nothing without the threat of some kind of enforcement

“Competent at what?” is an important question to ask when evaluating these staff picks. Mayorkas looks OK at first glance compared to swamp monsters like Cedrick Wilson and William McCabe...

You seen something in Mayorkas’ bio that makes you think he’ll abolish ICE? 

How do you feel about Cedric Richmond’s position given his background/record? He’s definitely demonstrated competence at something... it might not be something you like.

Have you looked at the background/record of Cedric Richmond? 

We have survived though, haven’t we?