tbh it’s a little bit crazy making to see a shift from “well obviously people were raped and killed that’s what happens in a war, and what the fuck did you think decolonization means?” to “it’s all a fucking lie, there were no rapes, no murders, no decapitated babies, anyone who says otherwise is spreading zionist propaganda and is a racist” by the same people in like, less than three days
I honestly did not like Dianne Feinstein very much, thought she was too far right for CA and that she stayed way past her expiration date but Ken Klippenstein inciting people to blame and harass her staff about it is psycho incel behavior
it’s fascinating how modern *anti-imperialists* are so invested in pushing right wing propaganda that the American military is made up overwhelmingly of middle and upper class white guys who really want to be there, like they can’t even do “the military recruits disadvantaged people to be soldiers for the war machine which is why it must end” like they did in the 60s, it’s just straight up gaslighting instead
The most batshit discourse around Feinstein came after Ken Klippenstein tried to get an internet mob to force her staff to quit by doxxing them, and people justified it by saying they were clearly forcing her to keep working against her will because they were power mad
The Chapo guy and his fans seem to lack any capacity basic empathy and he’s genuinely made the world a little worse, and the hagiography being written about him is ridiculous, but if part of your liberal public persona is that you’re better and kinder than the dirtbag left you need to at least be able to stop yourself from tweeting about how you think it’s funny he might die
It’s kinda clear that liberal twitter is now made up almost entirely of people who are like “I genuinely can’t figure out why anyone thinks we should be any more decent about this than he was about other people” like wow Michelle Obama definitely didn’t call it
I like how people will define “progressive” to mean their hyper-specific set of beliefs and personal demands and nothing else, like sure it’s “nice” that Biden is pro-union or whatever, but he’s not a progressive because he’s not a covid doomer and didn’t succeed in making this person’s grad student loans completely disappear
The twitter YIMBYs saw the article in the NYT about a woman who took over her parents’ rent controlled 2br apartment that she grew up in and they’re completely losing their minds about it. It also mentioned that she quit her job teaching to be an interior design *influencer,* and there are currently hundreds of white guys currently yelling that this proves rent control is evil because:
It is SO unfair to her landlord who should be collecting market rate rent!
It is crazy that they were allowed to pass the lease to her even though it is legal for them to do so, and no it’s not similar to someone inheriting a home from their parents, which is ok because property rights are sacrosanct.
She shouldn’t have been allowed to keep living in her childhood home because it’s in a desirable location. It should have gone to someone able to pay $6000+ a month instead, because that is how you solve a housing crisis.
It’s infuriating that people make money doing things they think are stupid and rent control is letting this b*tch get away with it.
is this that one lady that malcolm harris was talking about
