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wildcat09

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  1. He's gotta stay fat to keep the benevolent mob boss look going.
  2. Pritzker should be the early favorite to be the next nominee. He's got the billionaire advantage and the big ol' boy advantage and has done a good job in the current gig. He's also been substantially more progressive than Newsom, but won't come with the "California liberal" baggage. Yeah Illinois politician has its own baggage, but it's not as big a drag in national elections.
  3. I thought you weren't Icono?
  4. The question recurs, what will satisfy them? Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must somehow, convince them that we do let them alone. This, we know by experience, is no easy task. We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them. Alike unavailing to convince them, is the fact that they have never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them. These natural, and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them. Senator Douglas' new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits, or in private. We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure. We must pull down our Free State constitutions. The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery, before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us. I am quite aware they do not state their case precisely in this way. Most of them would probably say to us, "Let us alone, do nothing to us, and say what you please about slavery." But we do let them alone - have never disturbed them - so that, after all, it is what we say, which dissatisfies them. They will continue to accuse us of doing, until we cease saying.
  5. It's literally the same 3 guys, over and over and over again. And we usually give Chooky a long leash.
  6. The filibuster was literally made by accident.
  7. Don’t you fucking litter this board with Pam Keith conspiracy theories.
  8. Sadly, the actual dumbest people are the people running the Democratic party: If Trump has half a brain, he'll never actually do anything to oppress these morons because they're the fucking Washington Generals of politics.
  9. Goddamnit Penelope, stop it.
  10. The point I was trying to make wasn't that people shouldn't leave, but that they shouldn't go to Threads.
  11. Yeah man, I did too. But I didn't go to another place that's going to be just as bad for the exact same reasons in six months.
  12. They weren't even quiet with their complaints and it was a media-led campaign that forced Biden out of the race.
  13. I don't really see much point in discussing something the GOP is going to have less than zero interest in ever addressing.
  14. There's something very darkly funny about all of the more general conspiracy theories (i.e. how government is just for the oligarchs) are very openly coming to pass, and it's being implemented and cheered on by those very same conspiracy theorists.
  15. Only kid here, with a disabled mom (though she can mostly still take care of herself), plenty of student loan debt and a mortgage I gotta pay. Kamala's proposal to have medicare cover home health care would've been a fucking godsend. Honestly, no fucking clue what I'm going to do now when my mom can no longer take care of herself.
  16. I honestly have no idea why so many people left twitter for another shittier platform run by another shitty billionaire. Fuck Threads.
  17. See this is how you know Johnny is trolling. He knows there's no real consequence to the state or its agents for unlawful searches and seizures. No accountability. He's bragging about that.
  18. Remember when Elon restored the account of a guy who had posted CSAM? That was definitely cool and good.
  19. I'm not just talking about the goddamned DNC and you're fucking smart enough to understand what I am talking about.
  20. I don't mean the RNC. I mean the Republican party, both its actual infrastructure and its brand. Trump never would have won running as an independent. He had to beat the Republican establishment and take over the party before he could realistically compete to win a general election. Progressives doing that to the Democratic party before nazis were allowed to retake power would've been a whole lot fucking easier than what they're going to have to do now. And let's just say I'm not optimistic about their chances, given what a clusterfuck DSA has been.
  21. It would've been easier for progressives to take over an existing apparatus, like the nazis did with the GOP. But that opportunity has passed. Something new will need to be built and it will need to be able to withstand state oppression the likes of which white people have never experienced before in America.
  22. Do you really have to ask? The answer to every version of this question is just "because he's Johnny." He's the worst person that's ever posted on any of the iterations of these boards going back to HornFans. Yes, that includes TxTow and TTom and Icono. He is what he appears to be, there's not going to be some deep and profound explanation there.
  23. You gotta let the cope go. There likely won't be a functional Democratic party in 2 years. Republican AGs and soon the Republican House and Senate are all opening investigations right now into ActBlue and other Dem infrastructure. Even if they don't fabricate evidence, which they probably will, the investigations themselves will be highly damaging (similar to how Elon's lawsuit against GARM forced them to shut down even though his suit was frivolous). There is no short term hope, except that he shits himself to death sooner rather than later. The institutions that maintained the America you knew have all fallen. I'm not saying you should panic or despair, but everyone needs to open their fucking eyes and acknowledge reality. That's the first step everyone has to take before we can begin fixing this shit.
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