While this is almost certainly just a prewritten piece, there is nothing more perfect than the idea that right after the party refuses to endorse public healthcare for all in the middle of a pandemic (while paying lip service to the idea of healthcare as a human right) and refuses to support legalization of marijuana (…

As a materialist that kinda seems like a distinction without a difference, but hey what do I know? By the way, say hi to Liberal George and Randolph for me — kinda miss those guys. This isn’t a bad bit though.

Hey, Obama’s the one who said he was ideololgically an ‘80s /Reagan-era Republican, take it up with him!

(Just remembering Raffi exists is such a shot of nostalgia for me. And it’s refreshing when a figure from my childhood turns out to still be cool.)

Good point - just goes to show that underneath it all, Democrats and Republicans have more similarities than differences :)

Well as a staunch capitalist, I’m sure Reagan would’ve viewed Trump’s adoption of his platform of reactionary white supremacy, demonization and immiseration of the poor and oppressed, and fostering of a deadly pandemic to be a violation of his intellectual property rights.

I just don’t understand the popularity of Louis Farrakhan. I realize the Nation of Islam does a lot of outreach in Black and minority neighborhoods, and in other situations with marginalized people, and has significant credibility as a result (at least for some).

Why not both?

sighs, goes and watches Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, episode entitled “Duet”

See, that right there? That’s exactly the sort of thing I’m talking about. Couldn’t have been better phrased by State Department liberals. Pitch perfect.

“It’s time to stop fighting the propaganda wars of the 20th century,” you say, while...continuing to fight the propaganda wars of the 20th century, when US efforts towards the domestic left were explicitly focused on fostering a sort of “pox on both their houses” equivalence between wildly inequivalent powers.

No background on how the major source for this stuff, Adrian Zenz of the “Victims of Communism Foundation,” is a right-wing end-times evangelical who claims the fall of the US will bring about the rise of the antichrist and that homosexuality is “one of the four empires of the beast”? A researcher whose other…

Yeah as noted in another comment: given the historical track record of unnamed US intelligence sources when it comes to making inflammatory claims like these (that of course just so happen to support their ideological aims), you might think our news organizations would express even the barest hint of skepticism…

Over the weekend, news reports came out that the Russian government had offered bounties to Taliban forces to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, which reportedly led to Taliban forces doing exactly that.

Were you learning Portuguese at the time?

Just a quick aside to say how much I love Jorge Ben! Got into him back in college and to this day he’s buy-on-sight whenever I see his stuff in a record store (which fortunately for my wallet isn’t very often). Had a Keanu-whoa moment when I researched the subject of one of my favorite songs of his, “Zumbi.”

Ron my friend, as an honest-to-god commie radical, I can tell you that every single day these people prove the essential truth of the old Maoist dictum “no investigation, no right to speak.”

Lol the people toppling Washington statues are most assuredly not liberals

They are real Americans.

Also lol at the idea of taking anything John fucking Bolton says seriously or believing it’s accurate (not saying Trump is trustworthy either; anything but, simply that my credulousness extends to neither of them, particularly when everyone ensconced in the bipartisan foreign policy/imperialism blob is rushing to…