One of the signs at our rally today said āAs a feminist, I support the following women TOOā and listed Melania, Penceās wife, and I forget who the third wife was.
There were a lot of signs like that, actually: showing humanity and decency and reminding everyone that feminism is about equal rights for ALL.
Fuck that. They didnāt like Obama because heās black. We donāt like Trump because heās a fucking moron who actually bankrupted a casino. You could fit the Grand Canyon inside that difference.
No, sorry, Iām not going to abandon a party because their current leadership are doofuses just to join a party whose current leader is an ignorant doofus, especially one who hangs out with Putin and whose most outspoken defender is the albino rapist Julian Assange.
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Itās also funny how peopleās opinions of Assange tend to depend on whether heās attacking their team or the other team.
[/quote]This is a nonsense talking point.
I think in the case of Assange itās more people updating opinions as new information becomes available. Sometimes people learn - this is a good thing. My opinion of Assange was always low (the rape charges and his confabulations to dismiss them were always a serious issue and he was always a narcissistic asshole) though I used to think more of Wikileaks. Now that itās clear Wikileaks is used as a front for intelligence agencies to peddle documents to manipulate public opinion and when editorializing Wikileaks lies flagrantly, that respect is gone. Were they peddling docs from the FSB to back Clinton theyād still be just as compromised a source. We know theyāre a front for the FSB, so they could just as easily be used by the CIA, MI5, or whoever. Youād have to be a fool to trust them now.
There are better options than Keith Ellisonā¦which is a good thing, because I could never vote for him. Even if he is now being honest in his repudiation of his former self, āprobably no longer an antisemitic nincompoopā is not an especially strong point in his favor. Democrats really have to stop our fascination with candidates who are so easy to portray as deeply flawed, who start on the defensive from day 1.
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just to join a party whose current leader is an ignorant doofus, especially one who hangs out with Putin and whose most outspoken defender is the albino rapist Julian Assange.[/quote]
I said third party, right? That is still an option.[/quote]
You understand that Iām talking about Jill Stein, yes?
But when he was attacking the neocons a couple years back, didnāt it occur to you that this guy just might be amoral, and heās on the same side as you by random chance? I was told Wikileaks was this great resource, sunlight is the best disinfectant, etc, and I was somewhat in agreement, but the rest of me was waiting for the other shoe to drop. It just dropped, and there just may be a third shoe and a fourth shoe to drop. There is no ideology, just chaos.
Somehow I donāt think the neoliberals would be against Assange if he werenāt attacking their guys. They werenāt earlier. I donāt think weāve learned anything that we couldnāt have easily inferred before.