@jbfunk

Web Developer, former educator, artist, musician and sports and politics junkie

Seattle, WA
Joined September 2008
maybe start by explaining why it didn't happen during Obama's first term. This is all the same nonsense Bernie discussed in 2015 under better conditions than now. Pure fantasy for bourgeois class.
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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this Russel kid for Bama may be the real deal, did he look to 2-3 routes before that receiver became open for the TD? If so, wow.
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meanwhile Deadwood was better as a show than either of them. And, ftr personally my fave is The Wire.
The Wire being ranked the No. 2 TV Show of the 21st century by The New York Times made me bring back this Wire vs. Sopranos debate clip 😂😂😂
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note, 'stopping the funding of' NOT 'stopping' the genocide which @AbdulElSayed has already framed as defined under international law that is dictated by US empire when he implicitly supported US empire as US foreign policy he would support. This is all a freaking joke.
We are out here working hard to elect @AbdulElSayed. I am so inspired that I will finally be able to vote for a MI senate candidate who supports Medicare for All, ending endless wars, stop funding the genocide the Palestinian people + protecting our water and air. #MedicareforAll #FreePalestine
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Very true and also funny cuz her previous album was outstanding. That single didn't just manifest as an AI driven algo single to soak up click$.
What Some Folks Really Mean When They Claim to Have Never Heard ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Proclaiming you're unfamiliar with Ella Langley's record-setting song has a lot in common with saying "I listen to anything but country." rollingstone.com/music/music…
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One cannot in one breath call out the US subsidizing 'genocide' the legal term btw but in another moment claim to defend US foreign policy including the international laws of which the US was the primary architect and dictates their interpretation to the present dayherten
“Our country is subsidizing genocide. It needs to be said.” Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed tells Ezra Klein that U.S. policy cannot change until politicians are willing to say what American support for Israel is enabling. He also pushes back on “Does Israel have a right to exist?” as an opening question, arguing that it asks him to accept the current power structure as a precondition before he can discuss peace, dignity, and self-determination for Jews and Palestinians living in Israel and occupied Palestine.
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Incredible statement, made even more profound, by the fact Lamine Yamal had literally just turned 19 years old.
🚨 Lamine Yamal tells The Guardian: “I went to Leo Messi and said: thank you”. “I just thanked him a lot for everything he has done and how he’s the best. I’ve always believed he is the best”. “I always try to distance myself a little from things that seem beautiful for show. The moment came from within. I saw him there, so I went to thank him for what he did for football, it came spontaneously”.
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This dude literally making the case for American global empire as the only possible foreign policy. 'Enforce' the international laws the US wrote for its own benefit. Aka more for me and less for thee. Nothing socialist of any nature should be associating with US imperialism
My foreign policy views are simple. I think we should be the first among equals to enforce the international law we helped build. Thanks, @ezraklein, for having me on the show.
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Hiring content creators aka influencers to promote socialism like it’s just another commodity to be consumed.
Are you a content creator looking to bring Democratic Socialism to new audiences? Apply today! go.dsausa.org/commsradescrea… All Creators must be DSA members, commit to growing DSA and dedicated to replacing capitalism with democratic socialism 🌹
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Populist uprisings are not halting data centers. Capitalism in a boom bust cycle is beginning to halt the data centers as evidenced by Oracle.
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Morning in America. ObamaReagan
Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment."
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Why of all years is 2028 the flashpoint? Or is 2028 the year when folks hope to grab the most attention…again for another POTUS election cycle?
The 2028 Presidential Election will be a flashpoint for American politics. But without a strong anti-Constitutional program, the forces for democracy will be unable to overcome the structural disenfranchisement embodied in the state. Steven R. argues that, for the work in 2028 and onwards to succeed, socialists must emphasize constitutional politics, disloyalty to the Constitution, and opposition to ICE. READ: geesemag.com/articles/a-demo…
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Actually existing leftism would be on this like flies on shit raising money for heating oil. Crowd source it.
With heating oil approaching nearly $6 a gallon, the Somerset County Republican Party is trying to raise money to purchase fuel for its headquarters. #mepolitics
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To what degree is DJT’s draining of munitions stockpiles whether intended or not, the blank check allowing for the Dem POTUS candidate including even AOC, to run on rebuilding the U.S. MIC to replace and expand munitions stockpiles and create jobs in doing so? All to prep for war
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“…so long as the proletariat is not ready and strong enough, capitalism remains in power; on the other hand capitalism does not recover from its mortal sickness.” Fascism and Social Revolution – R Palme Dutt, 1934. The relevance to our current moment is very hard to ignore.
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This is wild in terms of the very aggressive rhetoric employed by ‘socialist’ Mamdani during campaign to only turn around and learn fellow radmax left populist Sarandon is the one getting arrested. Same for AOC who everybody seems to forget delivered ceasefire statement at DNC
Democratic @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani promised during his campaign that he would arrest Netanyahu if he set foot in NYC. Since then, Mamdani has abandoned this promise, and recently announced that he will not be joining the protest campaign against Netanyahu. Instead, under Mamdani's leadership, the NYPD is arresting antiwar activists protesting Netanhayu. This is a horrific betrayal of the antiwar movement and the Palestinian people. Mamdani also re-hired Zionist and billionaire heir Jessica Tisch as NYPD Commissioner and endorsed Governor Kathy Hochul for re-election and Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries for U.S. House Speaker, both of whom are arch Zionist Democrats. The strategy of putting faith in the Democratic Party or in DSA's elected Democrats is a dead end for the antiwar movement. @wrkrsstrikeback is calling for a new antiwar working class party. - Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes! - End all military aid to Israel! Permanent arms embargo on Israel now! - End the genocide in Gaza and brutal occupation of Palestinian lands! - Build an independent antiwar working-class party!
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How much time/energy/fundraising will DSA devote to this phantom AOC run vs other avenues of whatever DSA does outside of electoralism? Show me and other the ratio. Otherwise this is word salad to deflect from focus on electoralism. Also what is strategy for SC primary?
This is a common misunderstanding about DSA: "They put all their eggs into electoralism." This is incorrect. We're not electoralists. Just socialists who recognize that electoral politics is one of many avenues of socialist struggle. If you Thanos-snap AOC/Zohran/Tlaib out of existence, DSA's labor, tenant, anti-war, and mutual aid organizing is still stronger than any other American leftist org. For example, DSA has an entire side org (EWOC) dedicated to unionizing workers. No one else on the American left has anything close to this.
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“Show me the ratio”
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How are any of these folks winning South Carolina primary let alone passing M4All? Dems wouldn’t codify Roe as federal law back in 2022 when they controlled all 3 branches of government. Likewise for Obama his first 2 years and M4All. None of this is serious. Rank NFL QBs instead
I do think this is an interesting idea. Bernie and AOC explicitly run as a ticket and Bernie says he'll do two years, pass Medicare for All, and retire...
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