With shallow thinking like this it's no wonder the US loses every war it starts.

Unironically the kids could blockade the ICE trucks. What is ICE going to do, arrest an entire school of kids? Then the parents get involved...

Mods take this down for being too hot!

Also, that dude has a different colored backpack. Do the cops really think this is their man?

Gaza became a symbol for the lack of substance among the Democrats and their manifest policy failures. The Democrats’ response to the horror their own constituents have expressed at what we are doing in Gaza produced a revulsion that alienated many voters.

Gaza was the most visible issue that created the frustration and disillusionment with the Democrats that suppressed turnout in support of Kamala Harris, but it was not the only one. Democrats’ draconian stance on immigration was another factor. The minimization of the struggles that people have making ends meet from month to month, where Democrats kept telling those people that they were too stupid to understand how good the economy really was and burying the reality that it was still very bad for the majority of Americans was likely the single biggest factor.

Gaza became the symbol for all of these failures. In no regard was Harris’s unwillingness to listen to her own constituents clearer. The 77% of Democrats who want a ceasefire also know the United States can get one by demanding it from Israel on pain of stopping the arms flow. Harris’s gaslighting on this issue, claiming that they were “working for a ceasefire” when it is quite clear they are unwilling to take any substantive action toward one, highlighted her shallowness on other issues.

Gaza, and the Palestinian cause in general, were like getting the sunglasses from "They Live" War nerds can tally up all the battle statistics we want, but Hamas' campaign has completely upended the world order in Palestine's favor and decisively against isntreal.

Palestine threw every other campaign signal in sharp relief, and especially highlighted the disconnect between voters and party officials. While I agree with the article that Palestine wasn't singularly the cause of the Democratic rout, it underestimates the symbolic nature that unifies and stitches so many other disparate symbols. The symbolic nature of Palestine competed with the Democrat's own manufactured symbology, and the depth of the Palestine symbol's network exposed the shallowness of, and thus undermined, the Democratic symbology. It's hard to imagine such a unifying force that runs counter to the manufactured symbology.

To put it concretely, the Democrats tried to pull a Baudrillard Disneyland. Democrats, as a Hyperreality, tried to make you believe they were Reality by comparing themselves to the Disneyland of Trumpism. But the Real of Palestine shattered this symbolic network (*sniff*) by precisely exposing both the Democrats' Unreality and Equivalence with its supposed opposite in Trump (*sniff*)

Huh, I wonder why they are using the passive voice...

... the driver said he was instructed by the police to collect the garbage despite the picket line

Well isn't that a coincidence!

democrat megadonors threaten $90MM if biden does not step aside

biden steps aside for harris

harris backpedals taxes on democrat megadonors

"So baffling!"

The Opinion section is the daycare of the ruling class. It exists for them to whine.

About half of the American electorate does not vote, but you don't see these nerds doorknocking or other basic organizing. It's incredibly telling that these people will viciously attack others online, but are complete goldfish ouside where the grows. It is so much easier to scold than pound pavement.

In a world of relentless technological advances and increasing AI anxiety, Rivera wonders whether gen Z’s affinity for retro gaming is connected to its stability. “It provides a constant – it’s not going to morph into something else tomorrow,” she says.

Oh look, the consequence of predatory modern AAA gaming coming back to haunt the medium.

I have a Christian relative that is "ok with capital punishment because there are reasons" and I nearly died of irony. Would you believe they are anti-abortion too?

That's stupid when you have a limited number of hands and a set number of tasks required to survive.

Fragments

violence, particularly structural violence, where all the power is on one side, creates ignorance. If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is going on, and therefore, generally speaking, you don’t. Hence the sure-fire way to simplify social arrangements, to ignore the incredibly complex play of perspectives, passions, insights, desires, and mutual understandings that human life is really made of, is to make a rule and threaten to attack anyone who breaks it. This is why violence has always been the favored recourse of the stupid: it is the one form of stupidity to which it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. It is also of course the basis of the state.

oh you mean the suburbs where everyone is alienated and afraid and paranoid of their neighbor

No better description. They might as well surrender to the Machines and get into the Matrix.