As someone whose thinking I respect (and who doesn’t seem to hold the weird idea that I think the PRC is above reproach) can you point me to things you think are worth reading on this issue? I’d love to check them out, because I’m always looking for more information there and it’s very difficult to find…

You know, I don’t think I’ve ever really commented on that? But for what it’s worth, while I have plenty of criticisms of the Chinese state (including its handling of Wahhabist separatist movements in Xinjiang), it’s true that I don’t give a lot of credence to lines coming from US State Dept-affiliated organizations…

Accurate as they may be, I think only you (generally reasonable), tankie-selassie (less so) and the folks over at wsws.org (they’re just happy their 1619 project critique made them semi-relevant again) really prioritize those as issues.

Very fair point. As one of her interlocutors pointed out today, she literally tweets more than Trump.

Don’t forget busting a union or publicly naming a CAP employee who was sexually assaulted! She’s trash, but mean tweets at Republicans don’t exactly make the list of why

I mean if you’re going to say leftists are the major issue here it’d be helpful to pick leftists as your examples, and none of these people are leftists, so it’s not “no true Scotsman” so much as “this person isn’t Scottish, they’re an Icelander,” which seems pretty fair to me. I mean in what world is Glenn Greenwald…

Yeah it’s very strange (but also not, when you remember that a) we live in a misogynist society and b) people are so alienated from the idea of having actual power or influence over their government that their only conception of “pressure” is yelling at politicians online) and counterproductive.

Well, two truths and a lie I guess? The MSM does have an inherent bias — all media has bias; hegemony is a thing! The important thing is learning how to identify that bias and critically analyze “objective” news — and Biden is terrible (worse than Trump? I don’t think so, but that’s not saying much, and worth even less…

A slight disagreement with the framing of this piece: while there are definitely plenty of edgelord-types who trash AOC (primarily on Twitter) in the manner you cite, I don’t know the degree to which I’d really place any of these people on “the left.” Clowns like Dore were Tulsi partisans (and just argued we should…

See also his recent, bizarrely right-wing knock against BDS -- the man quite simply does not know what he’s talking about when it comes to any number of issues.

The goal of the LP is threefold: to grift large sums of money from overly credulous liberals (succeeded there!), to rehab the reputations of some of the worst Republicans in the country within the same group (also succeeded!), and to pull the Democratic Party rightwards (currently in progress). Trump to these people…

Goes to show just how toxic American Exceptionalism is that when we even bother to acknowledge our ongoing colonialism, the liberal “solution” is of course to just...incorporate those colonies into the nation. Because after all, who wouldn’t want to be an American?

But as far as the broader point, I tend to listen most to PR independence activists (and those from other US holdings) who argue that rather than bringing colonies further into the empire, the US should recognize the autonomy of the territories it has dominated and exploited for so long and pay the sizable reparations…

Well, the results of those referenda have been all over the place (and only in the last few has there been support for statehood amongst a majority of those who voted — with a non-binding “yes” prevailing in 2020 amongst 52% of voters, so just over a quarter of the registered voting population), but I’d say the…

Let’s get statehood for PR and DC and watch all their fucking heads explode; it would be the single greatest achievement of a Dem President since ObamaCare, and finally pull power and influence away from flyover states that do not deserve it.

Personally, I’m still happy that we chose Biden over an insane wanna-be dictator.

And if they don’t use it, they won’t have one at all in two years

Totally legit, and I do apologize if I came across as overly aggressive in my initial comment. I’m also not gonna pretend your anecdotes are ones I’ve never come across in real life, because I have. Brocialists aren’t huge in number, but they are very loud online.

Respectfully, what in god’s name are you talking about? Glenn Greenwald is extremely not a Marxist (he’s an anti-Marxist libertarian, if anything), and the Marxist objection to “identity politics” comes from its having been twisted away from its Marxist origins (see: the Combahee River Collective) to a liberal…

Yeah definitely, what the police need is more money and some racial sensitivity seminars, that’ll fix things right up.