Derec
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A tent can be too big to be functional. I do not think DSA members should be welcome in Democratic primaries. Islamists and terrorist sympathizers like Adam Hamawy certainly should not be welcome in Democratic primaries.
2026 Mid-Term Elections
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Derec
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Gerrymandering is a double-edged sword. If you optimize too much for the number of seats, you sacrifice margins and become more vulnerable in a wave election.
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Given that his term doesn't end until January 2029, why should he?
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Does you mean Jan 2028 or Jan 2027?
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By the time he cuts the check and mails them, it's going to cost $6,000 to fill his tank.
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Sadly, I meant 2029. Way out over my skis! Sorry.
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You do know that your assertion is not supported by your evidence, right?
It is quite possible for Hamas and their allies and Tehran masters to be genocidal (and indeed it is observably true), while @Elixir remains entirely correct to assert that Israel is a rogue State with a genocidal leader.
Both claims are true, and nothing logically prevents both from being true, so that the truth of one is not in any way evidence of the falsity of the other.
If you stopped treating this as though it were sports fandom, then your comprehension might be rather improved. Both "sides" suck. And the ordinary people in each side's areas of control suffer as a result.
Some talking heads don't think he will last his full term. James (it's the economy, stupid") Carville for one.
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Iran war. Gas and other fuel prices. Global recession/depression caused by Trump, Tariffs that tax US companies and consumers for ego. The destruction of public health. The destruction of the military. The killing of the Justice Department. The killing of science research, the killing of the free press, etc... All of the terrible things that Trump is doing and..
.. the GOP are focused on Trans.. That fucking evil slimes.
WTF?
Do these people have no clue and no brain and no ethics?
.. the GOP are focused on Trans.. That fucking evil slimes.
WTF?
Do these people have no clue and no brain and no ethics?
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If this is true you should be able to point to several places that do what you claim they are doing.
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Netanyahu has done some very questionable stuff, such as the attempted permanent displacement of the Gazans into Egypt.
And now, it appears Israel is cleansing attack sites. Now, I understand, the mess must be cleaned up. But they can't clean up the sites without accounting for the dead that were there while cleaning it up.
Hamas isn't some sort of magical "diplomatic immunity" or "national security" card that can be waved around to justify any and all actions taken by Israel/Israeli military. Hamas committed an atrocity. And now large swaths of Gaza are uninhabitable. And it didn't destroy Hamas. And even Mossad's beeper attack on Hezbollah merely slowed down Hezbollah. Israel took revenge for the October massacre, but it sure the heck didn't provide justice nor make Israel safer.
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The republicans in my state are desperate. I'm getting phone calls from 'pollsters'. The questions are all thinly veiled right leaning propaganda. For fun I tried one and it went on for over 15 minutes, the questions became more absurd the longer it went. The call might have continued on indefinitely if I hadn't hung up. It was on speaker, we had a good laugh after.
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The ads online are relentless right now in Ohio. Watch CBC in the morning via Google News and almost every add is going on about how Sherod Brown will follow the socialists and force children into sex change operations (<--- this isn't an exaggeration)... and is in the pocket of big banks and medical insurance. Yeah, try to figure that Venn Diagram.
Go from tempered news coverage to might as well be watching Fox News for the ads.
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Derec
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Elixir hasn't offered any evidence for his assertions either.
Wrong. Netanyahu is not genocidal, nor is Israel a rogue state.
Neither side is perfect, but that does not mean that both sides are equivalent. The Tehran/Jihadist axis is 1,000,000x worse, but that is the side defended by the far left elements of the Democratic Party.
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I know your statement is hyperbolic, but I think it needs to be pointed out that there is only so far that gas/diesel prices can rise because of feedback loops that both act to increase supply and decrease demand.
And the prices are not even at all time highs.
Adjusted for inflation, gasoline prices were higher in 2022, 2008, early 2010s (after that, the shale revolution reduced prices by massively expanding domestic supply, but some 2020 Democrats wanted to undo it by banning fracking) and even in the aftermath of the 1979 oil crisis.
From here.
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It hasn't been attempted, only discussed. But perhaps it would not be so bad. Israel could buy much of the Sinai from Egypt and cede it to "Palestine" in exchange for it giving up territorial claims in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Sinai is ~10x bigger than Judea, Samaria and Gaza put together.
It appears that Israel can't do anything without nefarious motives being alleged. In one article it is said that there are >60Mt of debris and rubble that will take years and billions of dollars to clean up. And in articles like this, Israel is condemned for clearing rubble and debris at its own expense.
It's a very one sided article too, not worthy of a Canadian public news channel.
Note however that much of the clearance is in order to have space for IDF military bases. These bases would not need to be there to begin with had Gaza not attacked Israel.
It does justify a lot though. Especially when Hamas (and allies) operate from civilian areas, these areas naturally become a target. For example, when a rocket launcher is placed amidst the tents (look at the first frame, or you'll miss it and Middle East Eye does not mention there being a launcher there of course), the people in those tents are endangered because of actions of Hamas. Same goes for a Hamas leader stockpiling explosives amidst tents (see the secondary explosion) or other leaders hiding out in tunnels under a hospital.
And of course, starting this war was Hamas' choice.
But it is significantly weakened. And the reason it wasn't destroyed is because it enjoys a lot of support among Gazan and wider Palestinian population. That makes those people complicit.
I disagree about justice. I also disagree about Israel not being safer. If Israel's enemies are weaker, then Israel is safer.
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I have pointed to many such instances in various threads. In general, it's about exaggerating any fault of Israel and ignoring what its enemies are doing.
Since this is ostensibly still the 2026 Midterm thread, I will here just give you two examples which are Democratic congressional nominees.
Avila Chevalier attended the Oct. 8 pro-Palestinian rally Lander condemned
At this rally, Hamas' attack on Israel was praised as an act of "resistance".
As a student, she was a leader in CUAD, an extremist anti-Israel organization that supports Palestinian terrorism.
DSA House primary winner led radical anti-Israel group, took part in Columbia campus takeover
DSA in general has been supportive of 10/7 attack.
Fringe-Left Groups Express Support for Hamas’s Invasion and Brutal Attacks in Israel
And the Blind Sheikh associate Adam Hamawy does not want Israel to have even defensive weapons like the Iron Dome and he claims Israel is the "bully" even though his side is the aggressor which brutally attacked Israel on 10/7.
Because both the districts where they run are prohibitively safe, there is not much hope for anybody defeating them in the general election. That is especially undemocratic in the case of Hamawy, because he got the nomination with <30% of the primary vote.
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The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.
newrepublic.com
I posted this on another thread and then saw this one and thought I’d add it. This is basically the regime’s recipe for refusing to give up power on January 3.