@MattyBeRad

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Toughen up. We have a world to win. mattyberad.medium.com/no-fin…

No Final Defeat.

Tony Benn, a long-time socialist MP for the UK Labour party, endured more defeats than most of us could stomach. Brought up in the…

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G Elliott Morris
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yeah, this is an example of how people who talk about politics for a living map their own conceptualization of ideology onto all voters. this is problematic and leads to all sorts of bad takes and strategy gelliottmorris.com/p/the-str…

The Strategist’s Fallacy in American politics

The average American voter does not think about politics the way elite strategists and pundits do

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Robert Griffin@rp_griffin19h
Good thread but I don't find this one convincing. Decent argument to be made that ideology isn't measuring the same thing across racial/ethnic groups. If the claim is that a candidate like Buttigieg would shift black conservatives voting behvaior signficantly, I'm skeptical.
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DSA Communist Caucus ☭@DSACommunists17h
Communist Caucus members Ben M & Sebastian FG spoke with Madrid Tenants Union organizer Pablo Pérez Ruiz about the tenants uprising that has broken out across the Spanish state, and the looming general strike uniting labor with the tenants movement. Read in Spadework below.
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Jack Treanor@jwpt617Oct 21
Is Somerville Massachusetts in E or C?
Josh Barzon
@JoshuaBarzonOct 20
You can only live & travel within one region of the United States for the rest of your life. What are you picking?
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David Wallace-Wells@dwallacewellsOct 18
Somehow, in certain quarters, it has come to be seen as a personal failing to devote one’s life to improving the world around you. It isn’t “downwardly mobile” to choose, after college, to be a teacher, a city councilor or an artist. It’s just a different kind of ambition.
Malcolm Harris@BigMeanInternetOct 18
Great article about the DSA newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

How the D.S.A. Learned to Love Elections

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America believe deeply in the possibility of a class revolution. Meanwhile, they’re running for office—and winning. Benjamin Wallace-Wells reports on the...

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Those saying this reveal total ignorance of French history and austerity. Austerity programs often fail to cut costs, arguably because they aren't intended to. They do make life worse for the poor, which is manifestly visible in France.
Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦@bdquinnOct 17
France has government spending at 57% of GDP and runs an over 5% of GDP budget deficit. This isn't a country being deprived by neoliberal austerity.
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The last 30 years of french history have been defined by neoliberal, pro-austerity governments winning power by defeating an anti-austerity left. Macron has done his very best to create the outcomes we're seeing, but because of one number these people can pretend he's communist.
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Jorge Melo@jorglmeloOct 6
“Un violento anhelo de felicidad” Fue la mejor pancarta que vi en la manif de hoy.
Jorge Melo@jorglmeloOct 6
Hoy estuvimos marchando junto a los estudiantes de liceo que han llenado las calles con demandas legítimas frente al gobierno de Macron. Como es costumbre en Francia, la violencia policiaca y respirar gas lacrimógeno por las demandas más esenciales se hizo presente
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It's still way cheaper to make your own food even if every meal is delicious and varied than it is to eat out unless, ironically, you're ok with eating the same cheap premade meal from like a grocery store every day
Steely Liz@TotesLizOct 6
I agree with this. The people who keep screaming that it’s “cheaper” eat the same depressing, boring food, day after day. I’m not making chicken and rice and sandwiches and stew for weeks on end. Sure, that would be “cheaper” in the long run. But you’re eating like a dog.
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And even then you could make the same pre-made meals in bulk for less.
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Grace Cathedral Park@gracecthdralprkOct 5
Task for the left in the 21st century: how do we do anticlericalism against evangelicalism
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@cenitalcomOct 4
“La gente decía: ‘Gracias, Lula, pero voto a Bolsonaro porque mi pastor me lo está pidiendo’”. Federico Merke analiza el peso del voto evangélico y su impacto en las posibilidades electorales de Flávio Bolsonaro. Seguí la cobertura especial en C+.
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Polish*
shannon. 🇵🇸@ohheyitsshanajOct 3
The American Protestant mind cannot comprehend the spiritual power of the Irish Catholic Atheist
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Bartlebry@fugazipolitikOct 2
I was looking up song lyrics and I made the AI feel bad
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Pope Leo XIV
@PontifexOct 2
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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I dunno man I get the joke but why are you more put off by this than the hundreds of NaziPedophile1488 bots in the replies to every tweet. I find Twitter much much less enjoyable
Hail Seitan Ⓥ🇵🇸@tofuafficionadoSep 28
i genuinely tried using bluesky but it just felt like this over there
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LabourStart@labourstartSep 27
278-09-1875 USA: Textile strikers in Fall River, Massachusetts, demand bread for their malnourished children.
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yay liam.@notliamanders0nSep 26
How are you out to dinner on vacation and wearing AirPods? You gotta die, I’m sorry.
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"US policymakers for all their faults do not deliberately try to kill Muslim civilians." And liberals call *us* naive?
Shadi Hamid
@shadihamidSep 17
It's technically true that the US has killed more civilians than al-Qaeda as @hasanthehun says but that's because the US is a superpower of 350 million people and al-Qaeda is a relatively small terror group. It's comparing apples and oranges. Also, key difference: US policymakers for all their faults do not deliberately try to kill Muslim civilians. Al-Qaeda does.
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The United States kills civilians kindly and epicly while the terrorists kill them evilly.
Stephen Kent
@StephenKentXSep 17
In Piker's moral universe, evil and terror are about the number of people killed without The Why. If Al-Qaeda targets an office building to kill 2,000 civilians and America targets 2,000 terrorists, killing 300 civilians by accident in the process, Piker views America as worse.
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It's very telling that these people literally do not comprehend the idea of staying and fighting over giving up and fleeing to more comfort.
Jill Filipovic
@JillFilipovicSep 17
I truly don't mean to sound like a reactionary right-winger, but if you genuinely hate the United States and think it's the worst most evil country on earth but you are a wealthy person with a job you can do from anywhere... why do you live there?
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When the most racist people in America say Somali migrants commit fraud or eat dogs media pretends these are based in a kernel of truth and hosts panels on CNN. When Hasan accurately reports the civilian death toll of the war on terror...
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