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This is aneurism bingo

Lib: "bernie bros are transphobic"

Same lib: "if you're not super hot, maybe dress normally and don't present yourself as a transvestite"

She got the Xeni brain.

I have data showing that a significant portion of it was Russia trying to divide us

“I have here in my hand a list of 205 [State Department employees] that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.”

unfortunate tenancy

landlord says what?

how is it this common that a person's ideology comes down to being a transphobe or not?

Transphobia is on the borderline of being a socially permissive form of bigotry, which makes it a litmus test ideal for revealing the people who aren't open about being fascists, but still share the complete emotional and moral desolation and the political sadism of the mask-off fascists. Checking if somebody is a transphobe flushes out the ones who are too chickenshit to be, say, outright racists. Although Wu's comments about BLM in the linked tweets make me assume she's also an anti-black racist who merely had the instinct not to be open about her views in 2020.

Diehard Democrats need a scapegoat because without one they are left with the painfully uncomfortable realisation that the DNC exists in a parasitical relationship with the GOP and that, in a shocking number of situations, their party would prefer a Republican victory because it provides the Democrats with huge opportunities for shifting further to the right, for preferencing the interests of capital instead of needing to make small concessions to the working class, and of course for fundraising.

So naturally it's the tankies and the trans people and the Russian bots who are ruining the so-called left. They need this to be true in order to diffuse the cognitive dissonance they experience by being a Democrat supporter.

I hate being in the middle of all this. These people need to get firmly out of my life

Lmao what a loser

She is a middle aged woman who hangs out with V**sh?

Yeah, it's a bit odd. She's definitely not Va*sh's target demographic.

wasn't she targeted by gamer gate?

If I’m willing to throw Paul Cockschott in the pit (and I am, even acknowledging how much he has helped me understand Marxism), then I sure as hell ain’t making an exception for this rando.

You just killed leftism singlehandedly /s

With that in mind it's really no wonder why she was the ideal Dem candidate

Dems aren't doing that. They're doing the age-old "you want to put all trans people in camps, so let's compromise and just kill some". This person is just starting their right wing grift arc like Sameera Khan

Yeah I mean this was over state party leadership not one election but when the DSA took over the Nevada DNC, the national party and opponents in the state party treated it like the DSA folks were peasants in medieval uprising, so they laid siege to the town.

I was wrong about her being in district where she could lose to a republican but yeah I was right. Every medium sized half-urbanized area has "The Progressive Crank" that takes all of the air out of the room when it comes to forming an electoral opposition to the maineline democrat. My city's version of this is a local progressive who is well liked by some parts of the labor movement but the rest of the left stays away from due to his abusive behavior towards his former spouse.

The Bolshevik Party. 1917 never forgetti.

she's practically teetering on the edge of a "why I left the left" moment

As an aside, is there a term or phrase for when someone starts doing a West Wing monologue in a group chat?

...Sorkinizing, maybe?