You know what? We aren’t about change anymore. We are fighting as the conservatives because MAGA is so fucking regressive. They want to take us back to the robber barons of the 1880s.

Compounded now by the echo chambers of Social Media disinformation?

Shouldn’t we be a bit farther on the curve there? Fuck.

Looks like some knee-jerk downvotes, and very little introspection. He demands the student to ask the question again later when she is interviewing to be an intern. Could help to watch that clip too if you haven’t seen the series. https://youtu.be/bGIT4HT8mME

So why the hell can’t we be confident? Why are we always on the defensive and the backfoot? To take another Sorkin quote to the party, when will we “Let Bartlett be Bartlett?”. Fuck.

And obviously America wanted the cheaper gas I guess. Fuck 'em. So tired of this country.

Hello from around the corner at NCCU. Keep it Dirty Durham!

Huh…I’m up to 15 jobs at 44. Really happy with my current so hopefully will be here a while.

Thanks for getting this out there. Check myself and a few other people and we are still good.

Housing in even semi-desirable locations is already unaffordable for most Americans. How would immigrants, considering the low wages they are limited to, make this worse?

Looks at the current SCOTUS roster, notices both Alito was appointed to the court in 2006, and Thomas was appointed in 1995 (after a huge sexual harassment fiasco no one seems to ever bring up any more). Finds their records are even worse than the Trump appointments.

Nope, sorry doesn’t line up…

The gross politics of the GOP started with Nixon, and was driven to overtime after they lost power when Clinton took office by Rush Limbaugh, Murdock, and the like. That was the real turning point. Where we are is a progression to the GOP going more and more radical, but the seeds were always there. Honestly, I think Roe stood for so long because they weren’t stupid enough to actually appeal it back then.

Thanks for this!

McCarthy almost did the right thing by letting the funding bill come to the floor, but it also stripped Ukraine funding and was a can to kick things down the road giving us only 45 days till we’re in the same spot. He could have also offered consessions to the Dems for their vote, which he refused to do. Add to that what is a literal witchhunt of an Impechment inquiry, why do you think the Dems should have saved him?

And Zelenskyy agrees with you. Any part they had in torching Polish villages or other atrocities are horrendous.

To be honest, i am a bit conflcted about it all. This wasn’t a statue put up to help bolster segregation 100 years after the fact, and I just wanted to point out that the Ukrainian struggle for independence has been ongoing and real, regardless of how ugly it may look. It is stuff like this that is fueling the propaganda of Russian’s invasion as an attempt to de-nazify Ukraine.

I’m as anti-NAZI as the next guy, but I swear some people have no idea of the nuances of history. I am sure we will start to get a rash of people protesting against Finland soon. We sided with the Soviets because of the convenience of a common enemy, AFTER they had invaded and partitioned and annexed half of Poland right beside the NAZI Germany. The invasion of Poland is what kicked off WWII btw. After the war, the West almost immediately entered into the Cold War with the USSR.

I get it, this is an SS squad, and they contributed to atrocities of NAZI Germany, but I can understand some Ukrainians considering them to be freedom fighters against the Soviets, especially in 2023. It is also a memorial in a church cemetery, and not a statue of Lee in the middle of a town square. A debate is warranted, but I hope some people will learn a little bit more about how history is not black and white with the conversation.