A paper that ran in APSR last year found the LA riots in '92 probably boosted voter registration and moved constituents left. This stuff is complicated. There aren't hard and fast rules about what is or isn't counterproductive. Not how politics works. scholar.harvard.edu/files/renos/fi…
Does bulldozing the bodies of the unarmed civilians you just killed into a pit to cover up what you just did count a violation of international law? Or is it more complicated? Is this an issue we need to have a frank conversation with our ally about?
the thing that sucks with Norman Finkelstein is that I don’t think we’ll ever see a guy even somewhat similar to him ever again. once he’s gone, that’s it
Sinema really took massive bribes from corporations, torched all the good parts of Biden’s agenda, left the Dem party, and is now gonna go retire in some cushy corporate job as a kick back for her blatant corruption. Our political system is rotten.