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Brian Fantana

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  1. I would push back a little on this and say that while these things are not punishment by definition, they absolutely can as good as and be used as such, like when the Trump admin decides they want to revoke student visas of people that dare to participate in protests against Israel's genocide, for example.
  2. Yes, this is what I was alluding to. This is the majority of people that we consider "illegals". Visa overstays account for like half of "undocumented" people by itself. Being here illegally is not a crime, and proving criminal entry is very, very difficult.
  3. Yeah. His rights are your rights, even if he is a piece of shit.
  4. Nice of Kamala to come out of her hole to...*checks*...sell her book.
  5. No, you don't get to try and glaze up his foreign policy as stellar and then dip out when you you get a small amount of pushback. That's what our resident conservatives do and you're better than that. It's a bad take, but nobody's trying to shit on you for it. Everyone makes mistakes. Biden did plenty of good. I agree he had some excellent legislative successes, and I even agree some of his foreign policy stuff was good as well. For the most part, considering the political landscape, he did a good job. That said, it's perfectly fair to discuss his absolutely indefensible and disgusting handling of Israel/Palestine alongside what successes he had. That kind of thing forever tarnishes what should have been a pretty decent legacy.
  6. Sure, but there's also a stark difference between being hesitant to call it a genocide, and outwardly refusing to do so because you are captured by AIPAC money. The former is an understandable, if highly arguable, position that you should be prepared to defend when pressed. The latter should absolutely get you tarred and feathered by your constituency because it is an entirely indefensible position, and unfortunately it is the position that a lot of Democrats have taken.
  7. Evangelical cunt Rot in hell
  8. See this is also a major issue everyone has in general. He 100% deserves criticism for that. He should absolutely be taken to task for the goofy ass argument he presented to justify not using the word. The problem is that people take any criticism whatsoever as "cancelling" someone, or claim that by criticizing one aspect of their commentary, we're "demanding perfection". It's bullshit. I'm the loudest anti-Israel poster on this site, I'm well aware of his idiotic refusal to use the word genocide to describe Israel's actions, but that doesn't mean I now hate Bernie Sanders because I disagree with him on the terminology. Just because most people can't take criticism without feeling "cancelled" doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.
  9. He was great on some things and not so great on others. I'm grateful to him for some of the things he did, including beating the brakes off Trump in 2020, but he also cost the Democrats a great deal going forward with his stubbornness.
  10. Sure, that would be great. That's not what the Democratic Party wants. They want people that behave like Wesley Bell and they largely have nothing but contempt for their base. That's the main difference between them and the GOP. The GOP despises their base as well, but they pretend not to enough to keep them captured.
  11. I mean you're not wrong. Mamdani seems like the best strategist the left has seen in a long time. Obama had great strategy but can't really be categorized as a leftist. And it's a moot point because Mamdani could never run for President anyway, assuming he actually wins the mayorship and does well. The point I was making is that while leftist policies are largely popular among the electorate, the Democratic establishment would never allow a leftist to be the Presidential nominee. Bernie is as close as it's ever gotten or likely ever going to get. Moneyed interests are what's most important to mainstream Democrats, and that's not likely to ever change.
  12. I'm aware of that, but he effectively is one/is associated with them in the minds of most Americans because of the Presidential run and his positions at least sometimes aligning with them.
  13. And also, Bernie is one of the few mainstream politicians that has maintained largely the same policy positions on the same issues for the entirety of his political career. It's extremely rare to find any politician that sticks to his guns like that. Whether they agree with him or not, most people have at least some level of respect for him because of that, and the level of popularity he has maintained over the decades has made it impossible for the Party to discard him, even though they would certainly like to.
  14. Any Democrat with openly leftist views that tries to burst into the mainstream is almost always actively squashed by the Party. Bernie had too much longevity and popularity to be cast aside, but they for sure couldn't allow him to be the nominee, at the cost of giving the world Donald Trump. AOC and Mamdani are outliers that have thus far been able to weather the anti-leftist hostility that is endemic to the Party by appealing directly to their constituents rather than simply parroting the Party lines, for the most part. Mamdani employed the super radical strategy of talking directly to his potential constituents, absorbing what policies they wanted from their mayor, and then running directly on those policies. It turns out, when you do that, it's difficult for the Party apparatus to eject you, even when they try their best, as they did and are.
  15. One side is doing whatever it wants, the other side is doing nothing. Unless you count book tours, I guess.
  16. If we were going to lose anyone from a position on the 2-deep on offense before the season I'm glad it's RB. We can fill that position up and our 2 backups are solid and will be fine, though it does suck to lose Joyner.
  17. It started because of some racist shit some stupid Aggy player said about Hispanic players on Tech's team before a game a long ass time ago.
  18. Ok that makes more sense haha....I pretty much agree with everything you said other than I think she would have a good shot at a Senate seat if she was actually trying to message. I don't really understand the D strategy of just shutting the fuck up right now.
  19. Bro. nobody is crying lol what are you talking about...they're just trolling the Big 12 office Simmer down and drink some coffee
  20. Don't act like a bitch just because your school is poor
  21. You're literaly not even responding to the post I made.
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