It’s not conservatives pushing the G7 to “contain” China or conservatives building up military installations in Asia right now (unless your argument is that US liberals are also conservatives, in which case yeah I concede the point). Besides, one of the classic plays in US politics is to distract from your own…

Liberals and conservatives alike are hankering after a new Cold War so goddamn badly they can taste it, huh? Literally zero evidence out there in favor of the lab leak theory, but the neatest little turn in the “just asking questions” framing is that the lack of evidence becomes, in itself, evidence — after all, who…

She also refused to apologize for comparing Democrats to Nazis because Democrats are “socialists” and the actual name of the Nazi party has the word “socialist” in it.

I swear, whoever taught liberals to (mis)use the language of social justice will never see paradise. There is nothing they love more than taking the framing and theoretical underpinnings of these movements and fucking twisting them to their own ends (i.e., preserving the exploitative status quo with occasional…

No, Biden has executive authority to cancel federal student loans with the literal stroke of a pen. He simply chooses not to exercise it.

taking a more conservative stance takes the air out of the room for the GOP’s draconian policies

There’s a lot of moving parts to that system, and it’s going to take a full restructuring of it to fix all the broken/corrupt parts.

Well, sure. Of course, that’s one of the best ways to get couped, so your government can be replaced with one that one that’ll accept them.

Debt trap diplomacy; the IMF functions to entrap countries into imposing neoliberal (in the genuine, academic/economic sense of the term) structures and austerity onto their economies so that they’re more easily exploitable by (Western) capital.

Meanwhile, I agree that the U.S. has a lot to answer for when it comes to the state of Central America, but I fail to see how that can be acknowledged without turning into a ridiculous media shitshow.

He’s fundamentally a company man, as are all the rest.

In response to Ocasio-Cortez’s criticism, Harris reiterated: “We have to deal with the root causes, and that is my focus. Period.”

There has been a lot of Dem Senators who are awfully quiet about the filibuster but because they keep their heads down, don’t take any heat. My guess is that there’s a lot more Dems out there, especially the ones who’ve been there forever, who agree with Manchin but don’t want people to know.

Liberals only care about Black people when they can dehumanize them through martyrdom or tokenization, distancing themselves from the white supremacist heart of this country without ever having to threaten their own comfort or the power and privilege granted them by that white supremacy. Conservatives only care about…

Also, as this person dismissed my question asking them whether they support the absolute right to abortion on demand (but not before themselves deploying Republican fearmongering points over sex-selective abortion), it seems appropriate to assume they don’t -- take their defense of the administration’s squeamishness…

No, someone in the administration would have to acknowledge that abortion is something that exists in the first place in order to make their stance known. Their reluctance to do that, however, feeds the trope that abortion is any of those things, rather than a basic human right, and allows conservatives and…

This is how politics work, messaging is everything.

No, people were much more forthright and bold about their support for abortion rights in the ‘70s.

A massive pet market for US arms sales, a nuclear-armed power keeping our “enemies” (such as Iran) in check and a staging ground for military operations in which wouldn’t be seen as appropriate for the US to engage directly (Syria, most recently), a laboratory to develop repressive US policing techniques, and an…

Absolutely shocked that this guy kneejerk defends Israel when it murders children and steals the homes of Palestinians