Rushing to Zibo for the barbecue 🍖🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️

Going to say this just once since I got like 50 “I think I’m clever” reply guys trying for this dunk but did y’know when bad harvests hit farms cities also starved? It’s almost like in preindustrial world all shitty things y’all attribute to farm life applied to life in general😉

(And no, the past sucked but people had babies anyways is not the clever retort y’all think it is because in general minimal bar for supporting a child changes with economic context, *especially when access to necessities is wage dependent and constantly shifts with the market*).

(Weird how people don’t think “I’m okay with having kids even if their material quality of life and mine has to regress relative to normally acceptable expectations in my contemporary economic context” is a persuasive argument for having kids like at any moment in human history).

The reason why Dems are losing elections & will continue to, unlike the white GOP for whites, when Black ppl defend themselves like Black Cincinnati did after racist whites attacked them, Dems are silent like they always are. So why vote for a party that doesn’t help you ever?

Yep, they infact helped create the country doing the genocide

Understand, I’m not asking the Dems to do anything for Black Americans or stand up for Black Cincinnati’s self defense rights. I’m just pointing out how compared to the white GOP who stand behind white evil, Dems wont ever stand behind Black justice, they never have & never will.

Good morning. Is there anyone up at this hour?

Hideous to hide behind the current escalation of the genocide in order to escape responsibility for complicity with the initial phases of the genocide. "Up until they started starving the Gazans it was entirely appropriate to be on board with Israel's US-bankrolled policy."

Yglesias refuses to acknowledge that a *ceasefire* was the central demand of the student protests, as well as the central demand of the Jewish left's organizing against the war in Gaza. Instead he accuses us of being pro-10/7. Deceptive bullshit. x.com/mattyglesias/s…

He highlights statements in response to 10/7 as opposed to the actual on-the-ground organizing that happened almost immediately. That organizing focused almost exclusive on advocating for a ceasefire through divestment and political pressure. x.com/mattyglesias/s…

Any serious engagement with the massive protests that occurred would have revealed that when people sat in at Grand Central, they were not trying to defend 10/7. They were calling for a ceasefire. This was the message. nytimes.com/2023/10/27/wor…

A prominent discussion was gabrielwinant's in Dissent Magazine. This essay played a meaningful role shaping a lot of left wing conversation around 10/7. Gabe did not defend Hamas's assault here. He rightly focused proleptically on certain mass death in Gaza. dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

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At my university, student encampments demanded divestment. They didn't celebrate the mass death inflicted by Hamas in 2023. Implying that this was their position is deceptive and a threat: "Stop telling me to recant or I will paint you as a terrorist." wgbh.org/news/local/202…

Restating the last point: Ygelsias is making the following threat: "Stop telling centrists to recant or I will paint you as a supporter of terrorism." He knows better. He insists on deception to avoid responsibility for immoral silence in the face of the Gaza genocide.

Matthew Noah Smith He also says that they were “helping” Trump win by criticizing Harris’ position, but then not consider whether there was anything Harris could’ve done/said to try to win them over

Matthew Noah Smith One can argue that (1) Harris couldn’t have taken another position or else she’ll lose, and (2) since she’ll be better than Trump on the issue, 3) people who care about the issue should not criticize her, if only instrumentally. But (1) needs to be examined and not just assumed

The clouds today are also very beautiful.

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