Valid

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Who is doing this?? Granted I am not on Twitter or bsky, but is this really a thing?

And an air shuttle for the executives…

What I’m really driving at, is how can we have a shared culture that is safe for Marxists, anarchists, and people who would define themselves as Liberal? That was uncomfortable to type, but in order to affect material change we have to learn to speak each other’s languages and treat each other with empathy, while remaining open minded and learning from each other. It doesn’t advance any cause to dunk on each other for Internet points.

The tricky part is where is the line drawn? Some ‘anarchists’ are just accelerationists. Some MLs are just Soviet flavored conservatives. Some Liberals value the system itself more than marginalized people.

I propose that the shared value we all have is empathy. Regardless of how you felt about voting for Kamala - or whether you feel the system must be improved or destroyed - if you want to see the lives of marginalized people (and by extension, all of us) improve, we should be able to find common ground.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not talking about the recent thing we’re all doing our best not to panic spiral about. I’m talking about common ground in shared spaces and future politics.

Some things are not eligible for compromise. Human rights are non negotiable. We can debate about voting systems and trade policy but the only other is those who aren’t willing to treat the least privileged members of society the way they want to be treated.

This is exactly what I was hoping to crystallize

That’s a good way to look at it. You don’t herd cats, you show them something they want and they’ll herd themselves independently :)

This could be distilled down to ‘empathy’ almost. It’s very easy to fall into patterns of chasing rage bait and lose track of ourselves

You absolutely do not have to hand it to Greenwald, but he really did rise to the stopped-clock moment here…

It’s the same picture

And even those celebrities might need to watch out, political prosecutions are almost guaranteed in the next few years

I’m willing to bet a significant amount of American dollars that if she would have endorsed Harris, Harris would have accepted it.

If someone is being violent, I think it’s reasonable to answer that with violence contextually and in the moment. I don’t think it’s reasonable to track the person down later and ambush them.

Fair enough

Honestly I don’t know enough to condone either ‘side’ here but I am reasonably confident in my own mind that this was not just taxi drivers looking for Jews to attack for no reason. I am open to being wrong there.

I wish there was no violence but I also believe that communities have the right to defend themselves. I can’t say if there is a moral winner in this whole situation.

I suppose the ones that aren’t holding your government hostage via the military industrial complex. If those Palestinians didn’t want to be bombed into oblivion they should have lobbied themselves up by their own bootstraps.

They were ripping down Palestinian flags and picking fights. This is not just a few tourists getting assaulted because they looked Jewish. Reconsider your assumptions

Yep. That excuse does not fly.