I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Np

Yes

When is someone going to do something about the antisemitism problem on the left, shaking my smh head

I’m sorry please correct me if I’m insane and wrong…

but is this newsom saying he “fell prey” to not being “culturally normal” because he was supportive of same sex marriage?

Trump 2 has made it blindingly clear: The owners of corporate media see Trump as an ally and the left as a threat.

Compare how the New York Times covered AOC's Munich talk with how Wikipedia covers it:

“you need to swear to support the nominee whoever it is so that liberals are on notice they have to do the same in case a socialist wins.” no I don’t. they’re not going to do that because of my posts in 2026

actually I can pat myself on the back for saying I would even though it will never happen. it proves what a better person I am

we dont want to go back to having our neighbors deported quietly under cover of darkness either the problem isnt the fucking optics the problem is the fucking policies

polite transphobia is still transphobia institutional racism with a smiley face and a half hearted apology is still institutional racism fuck the optics and focus on the actual goddamned fucking problems you goddamned useless fucking libs

lol of course FIRE shows up to take the nazi side

We need to kill this Blood-and-Soil Wokeness.

No, White people should not embrace neo-Paganism. Why should White people care what dead European shamans believed?

Your ancestry, your place of birth, your "ethnicity" -- none of that should dictate your religion or your identity.

Death to racialism.

How dare I use the power vested in me by our democracy to try to see more favorable outcomes in the world. How silly that I should want to chose something other than “90% genocide or 100% genocide”

Lemme rephrase that lol:

I’m not an evil centrist who thinks only *SOME* brown kids should be bombed, and only *SOME* families should be ripped apart. Instead of NONE.

And that only *SOME* trans people should be allowed to exist instead of ALL of them

So vibes, got it.

Local man discovers two things can be bad at once, more at 6

The choice as YOU are presenting it is:

“A little genocide or a lot of genocide”

How about NO FUCKING GENOCIDE!

Do you, like, know how to read or are you just going off vibes here?

Like be so fr. I’m not saying “YEP LET JD VANCE KILL ALL BROWNS AND TRANSES”

I’m sitting here fucking begging you to not let Newsom win the primary because he won’t stop any of this! He won’t defund ICE, he won’t prosecute them. Put someone up there who will so this bullshit can finally stop!

“Yeah, bro he’d never platform neo-Nazis and fascists.”

“Okay here he is platforming a neo-Nazi.”

“Noooooo broooo you can’t do that that’s moving the goalposts!!!1!!”

Are you being dense on purpose?

My point is that by 2032, GN will have done exceedingly little to curb the power of the GOP and the threat of genocide will be dangled over our heads in perpetuity to accept “moderate” transphobia, “compassionate” deportations, and support for Palestinian genocide

if you care about winning elections, your bosses fucked up. the fault is theirs, for fucking up. the fault is not with the left for pointing out they were fucking up ahead of time

Hey doofus, where did I ever say “fuck trans people I love the GOP”

Gavin Newsom’s podcast with neo-Nazi Steve Bannon

Such a fictional scenario

I strongly doubt that they’d hold themselves to their voting intentions 2 years out. At that most of them, if taken at their word, voted for Harris anyways. A lot can change in 2 years, and if Newsom shows himself to be a better candidate in that time then this is a different conversation,

reaction as though I said “I love ICE”

Wanting better candidates who will implement better policy isn’t some crazy idea. Rather than looking at the lack of support for the guy and reassessing “hmm, maybe this guy isn’t a good front-runner” instead of “you all love JD Vance and hate trans people.”

But “not worse” is not substitute for better.

Honestly that’s the whole crux of this. Things can always meaningfully get worse, which is a point so many of my “crew” (as you call them even though I don’t care for them) don’t get. At the same time, asking for a better candidate is met with the same,

You do understand that the point of this conversation is that under no circumstances should Newsom EVER get the nomination? If you think I was under the illusion the GOP is somehow better then you’re sorely mistaken.

As far as trans people, of course it won’t be worse,

And while speculating on what he will or won’t do 3 years out isn’t reflective of what reality might be, I don’t suspect he’d be using every tool at his disposal to set up robust protections for trans people and migrants

A pause is enough progress for a lot of people though. They’d call it a day and not care further. I don’t want the existence of trans people to rely on a soulless husk in a suit to not fuck up. My main issue is that given his record, Newsom will fuck up bad enough to hand Republicans the WH in ‘32,