#Establishment

The way Inslee is handling the pandemic in Washington sure makes it seem like the Bernie-and-Warren-are-too-scary crowd picked the wrong horse. What I find so deflating about the Biden nomination
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These establishment autopsies of @BernieSanders campaign as a rejection of class-politics (it's not) are from same outlets who were finding Jesus/explaining why "Bernie had won" 10 days before Super Tuesday
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WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON- has more to do w/destroying the moderate fraction of the Democratic Party. Several yrs ago 4 of the largest Communist groups in America formed a
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A scathing assessment of Corbyn from @IanDunt I've *tried* to be a bit more optimistic about Corbyn, but I largly agree with the main points here. A few thoughts on
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On the cannabis referendum ... Should I #VoteYesOnCannabis?Here are some thoughts. It seems to me the very best reason to vote no is as a protest against the Grey Lynn
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I get it. We're all angry, and we don't really know what to do with that anger (even voting doesn't offer any certainty). But I will not tolerate liberal/moderate/centrist Democrats
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This is the stupidest fucking timeline The DOD is arguing over haircuts during a goddam pandemic that is so bad that travel restrictions are preventing me from attending my own
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Just imagine how liberating+exciting it would be if the 38 SCG Mp's,ex Labour progressive MP's like Pidcock,Smith+Dent-Coad,BLM campaigners,keyworker candidates+ecosocialists all came together to form a new socialist party with mass
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Yes, this is exactly right and what democracy with a small d because democratic governance is part of a republic (please don't argue this because if you don't understand I
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Prediction: the US will lift the lockdown and India will follow suit. The Indian scientific "establishment" right now is like a rabbit caught in the headlights. It would ideally like
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The subject of this piece frequently attacks Palestinians and non-Zionist Jews on here. If that behavior is any indication, she was not harassed for being a Zionist—she faced pushback for
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Why are so many of the prominent people we despise Etonians? (Oliver Wetwin, Boris, Dave, Prince Harry, Justin Welby, etc). Here’s my theory... It’s undoubtedly the best school in the
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Never underestimate the extent to which the education establishment want to conceal the extent of bad behaviour. This is what a lot of those stories about sexual assault in schools
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Yet another example of what we can expect from habitual violent offenders as we continue down the road of decarceration for its own sake (a journey that began long before
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Let me acknowledge two important things. Republicans usually win low voter turnout elections, so they had big advantage in special election in #CA25. And I have no leg to stand
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Ehh, I think there was an organized effort to stop Bernie, more or less, and those endorsements were a big part of it. And it worked. Bernie's campaign didn't think
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