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Also, ideology wouldn't be ideology if it wasn't functional. People want to get caught up in whether or not people are stupid or misguided miss the point, which is that ideology determines the horizons of political possibilities and narratives, therefore, speaking of Trump voters in such ways ends up being fruitless from an analytical standpoint. Did they know who they were voting for? Sure. But, what does that even mean? They voted for their imagined relationship to power or empowerment, which will not come to fruition obviously, so perhaps the key to the problem is offering a more radical, more materialist vision of what actual empowerment is. Don't give them someone who represents, symbolically, an establishment figure. Jesus, folks. It isn't hard.

 

Don't think Mr. Jesus can run for office Dom. Good suggestion tho.

 

Chomsky: Hillary Clinton Fears BDS Because It Counters Decades of US Support for Israeli Aggression | Democracy Now!
Why doesn't Noam Chomsky support BDS?
Noam Chomsky opposes cultural boycott of Israel
Chomsky backs tactics opposing Israeli policies

There's a lot from him on it, I don't think he's as black and white as Thom made it seem.

 

Bloomberg Promises $15 Million To Help Make Up For U.S. Withdrawal From Climate Deal

Huh, wasn't expecting that.

 

He was the Bernie of his time. The Pharisees were the DNC.

 

Don't know what you're talking about, everyone knows Jesus was 'Murican. Although the GOP would never back his platform, ironically.

 

#JohntheBaptistWouldaWon

 

Magdalene/The Baptist 2020

I'm with her.

 

People are such trash

 

Stop Pretending to Be Outraged by Kathy Griffin’s Gross Video

Backlash was exactly what Griffin was aiming for — and it certainly wasn’t unjustified — but there was something inauthentic about the intensity of the response. The stunt was quickly glommed in with “the left,” which contributed to the tribalism of public condemnation from both sides. Conservatives clutched their pearls in unison, while mainstream media figures like CNN’s Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper clarified their personal disturbance as if participating in a roll call. The posturing of righteous indignation was not only the safest possible reaction, but something of an obligation. This outrage performance is an unnerving handicap on the productivity of public discourse and further evidence of our mounting inability to process relativity in a moment where the cultural force of shame appears to be malfunctioning. Or, in other words: Where the hell is the line if Donald Trump gets to be president?

Trump rose to political prominence with his inherently bigoted stance on Obama birtherism, and was elected despite a rich history of racist housing policy and sexual assault allegations. On the 2016 campaign trail, he called Mexicans rapists, took aim at the families of war heroes, and said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing voters. Then he won the election.

The simple fact that Trump won the election marked a condonation of his rap sheet, which continues to destabilize our propensity for shock. And while we discussed the merits of Kathy Grifin trying too hard to get attention, Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement, effectively cancelling the United States’s commitment to the preservation of the planet. If this course goes uncorrected, environmental disasters will increase, and our children and grandchildren will be forced to grapple with unimaginably harsh daily conditions. But please, keep dragging Kathy Griffin on Twitter.

 

BBC Question Time: Leaders Special starting now

 

Bernie SANDERS, Jesus the CARPENTER. open your eyes sheeple.

 

Sanders backer prepares to challenge Paul Ryan in 2018

I highly doubt this works, but anything to convince a few Wisconsin voters that Ryan is a garbage human

 

Lol
Why a gay law professor is trying to shut down women-only ‘Wonder Woman’ screenings

 

Wait, campaign?

 

All his rallies since Inauguration have officially been campaign re-election rallies, reminding supporters to vote in 39 months

 

Oh, you didn't know? When global temperatures rise ... Pittsburg's don't. Cool, huh?

 

sick headline

“If Sweden joins NATO this will affect our relations in a negative way because we will consider that the infrastructure of the military bloc now approaches us from the Swedish side,” Putin told state news agency Itar-Tass. “We will interpret that as an additional threat for Russia and we will think about how to eliminate this threat.”

The Russian leader said “only a sick person” would imagine Russia attacking Sweden but noted that NATO membership would add “simply nil” in the way of defense capability improvements to Sweden.

 

Good article:

"Where conservatives fuck it up is in not understanding exactly how rich liberals are failing. As is often the case, they see only individuals making personal choices and not the collective action problem. The individual consumer choices of rich Americans will make little difference to the large problem of halting emissions in time to mitigate the worst-case climate scenarios. Al Gore’s enormous personal carbon footprint is a symptom of the problem, not the problem. Instead, what rich people—corporate executives especially—ought to be doing is exercising their enormous political influence to Do Something. They could, for example, stop funding the political party that is actively hostile to efforts to address carbon emissions.


Conservatives like Bret Stephens have correctly diagnosed that liberals aren’t taking climate change seriously. The proof of that is not Al Gore’s large house, though—it’s that their newspapers keep hiring people like Bret Stephens and their businesses keep giving money to his political allies."


http://fusion.kinja.com/why-dont-co...ange-seriously-a-1795767624?rev=1496430459620

 

question time is lit

 

Thank god for that audience member bringing sense to the situation

 

lol of course that was the asshole who asked about 0 hour contracts

 

Trust fund d-bags like that have no idea about job insecurity

 

oh fuck off with the ira shit