I want to strive for a better outcome for the US!
But I don't want to just assume trustworthiness w others.
And I think i deserve a chance to consider the risks that blind trust could have on me as a Jew
And the other marginalized groups here, you all deserve the chance to do the same too
And, for my last point.
I mean, I'm a Jewish shitlib on Bluesky who think israel deserves to still exist, just without any of the cruel leadership still in place.
And frankly, I've spent a good number of years learning to distrust a sizable portion of this tent.
I won't go for disinformation or bad fairy tales but that bigotry in the last post? Thats real, and the fear it escalates beyond where it is now is VERY real.
Platner and Gallego made me realize that I've got to be honest about that. They are, at minimum, parroting the bigotry about Transpeople in sports that I think earns that distrust.
Why am I tolerating that shit? Why would I consider telling this group to keep quiet about it?
But let's be honest about Newsom.
Even if he has signed his share of good LGBTQ legislation
If the Trans community see his bigoted statements, and his cozying with bigger bigots
And then are also told to "shut up and comply" with him as candidate
Then I get why they don't trust many of us either
This particular crisis is a huge one, and w good reason.
Black dems were belittled for even thinking Crockett should run.
And now they're being lectured to shut up and comply with standing behind him
After 2024 made clear how many 'allies' hate actually working with them.
I may 🧵a little on this.
Frankly it scares me to see so many reasons for people in our tent to lose trust in each other
But so few people understanding that trust has even been lost at all
The arguments over this are getting worse (unsurprised) but
If you're ignoring the reasons why Black democrats lost a lot of trust in others these past few years
And you purposely disregard the toxicity that they JUST got went through on the TX primary?
Then why should Black democrats trust YOU?
So is the current discourse that "gestures from 'allies' are too needy and self serving, but we can do better than that"?
Or is it "no one can trust 'allies' to show any gesture of support without being needy and self serving"
Cuz I do get both of those... but I can't tell where we're at today
That fuckin prick, like I'm going to let anyone who isnt me to the spirit of my late mom insist that I'm not a real fuckin Jew
Out of context disinformation
Frankly, don't trust anyone on the Bluesky Left to say truthful things about Hilary Clinton
CORRECTION: this is not AI slop. it is an out of context clip from 6 months ago
I don't know if anyone exploited "defund the police" rhetoric harder that Susan Collins in her 2020 assbeating of Sara Gideon.
And we're gonna give her Platner to beat on?
And if you think Susan Collins can't possibly weather a massive blue wave year against an equally repellant opponent?
then you underestimate her campaigning capability.
Hugely important thread.
We just dropped the ball on an easy local election in VA because the primary Dem voters picked an unapologetic racist and antisemite.
All that pretty talk that got him the nomination couldn't save his bigoted ass in the end
Joe Biden campaigning in 2020. He wears a blue shirt and smiles at a crowd that is busy taking pictures of him. An American flag flies overhead.
Keep the faith. Spread the faith. 🗽
Every time that sniveling shit comes up I have the same thought.
"If this atrocity loving, rape condoning, nazi loving rich boy is what Maine Voters think is a good normal guy? That's their fucking problem"
Piker has hosted a Houthi terrorist on his stream, glorified Hezbollah, and declared, “It doesn’t matter if rapes happened on October 7.” His support for DSA should tell you all you need to know.
It's not progressive to excuse terrorism or promote hate. That's extremism.
Some hard truths here.
And I say this as a small-z zionist (ie, I support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish homeland while also supporting a Palestinian homeland in the WB/Gaza).
Hey thank you for clarifying your stance so I better understood! Im sorry for coming on strong there
It's in response to Monkee Bread invoking the party coming together for Alsobrooks, after they've been browbeating Miss Aja all morning over the talarico/crockett primary. To me that's appropriating a better handled election to pretend that they're actually being supportive, despite their toxicity
Yeah im with you on all that. A single state where one peoples feels at all subordinate to the other resolves nothing.
....and it may be too much to think the motivation for 2ss is at all there now. I'm not letting go of my belief in it but I'm resigned to just seeing it as a belief in my life
I'll live out the rest of my days as a 2S believer. Don't care if that's a nonstarter in my lifetime.
Both people's deserve far better than this
If you actually think theres been civil outreach coming out of the Texas primary, especially amongst the talarico fanbase, then I dont know what to tell you
I really wish the pro-netanyahu Jews took some more time to appreciate this.
We've seen our own history of being only valued by others, through how our people suffer and die
Why would I wish that on another entire tribe?
We didn't spend days belittling and browbeating Trone voters after Alsobrooks won.
"I know how it might FEEL like you have more leisure time if you're not spending all day organizing politically" indicates such confusion about what leisure time *is* that I am disinclined to trust anything this person has to say about it
But it does bum me out that GDT getting a Best Picture Oscar was at the expense of Get Out.
Shape of Water does do the "love letter to Hollywood" thing that can be very Oscar Bait
When I first saw it and got to this scene my immediate reaction was "man this would win GDT some oscars right here, if we weren't talking about loving the Gill-man"
And it turns out that wasnt a bridge too far!
Joel's involvement in the antizionist crowd didn't sit well with me, i felt it was being too cozy with the antisemites
But as things have worsened he's been a man of principle standing up for our people, even as that antizionist crowd pillories him for it. I dearly appreciate that
