Oh, I’m sorry. Which country is it again that can’t do UHC but can spend billions on blowing up rockets while people starve and or can’t find homes/shelter in this same “first world country”?
Words cannot describe the hate I have for the entire American establishment with the exception of Bernie, Zohran, and AOC.
Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Mark Kelly I’ll even chuck Tim Waltz in there.
Add them to the exceptions too
Jasmin Crockett might be a decent addition too. Wish Katie Porter was still in.
Al Green and Katie Porter are another two that seem alright
That’s also true. I was just naming the first three that came to my head in the moment lol
deleted by creator
Brandon Gill can go crawl up whatever asshole shat him out.
Think the overt racism is bad now; it’s only going to get progressively worse.
It’s the only way the right is progressive.
remember, the super rich are the enemy of the people, not your fellow citizens from different backgrounds
I have more in common with a homeless person in Somalia, India, or China than I do with the super rich.
No War Except Class War
Blatant racism aside, look around at the devastation wrought by repugnantcon policies buddy. Zohran is already in a 3rd world shithole, and he has the audacity to try to make it somewhat more tolerable for those in his city.
The term is pretty racist itself, since it was created to refer to tertiary countryies in the Cold War, but soon came to simultaneously suggest those countries were lesser. Calling a failing state “3rd world” just further perpetuates that.
The majority of those countries were robbed by first world countries for centuries so anyone using the phrase without any moral reflection is intentionally not looking at the whole picture.
Remember the days when an openly racist comment like this would mean the end of your political career?
Happy cake day.
Or a punch in the face?
or a shot to the head?
punch to the side of the head, I mean, obviously
For Republicans it actually boosts their poll numbers.
People want to be openly racist again. That’s what MAGA really means.
People want to be openly racist again. That’s what MAGA really means.
And on this one should think a bit further and realize that any action causes a reaction.
Maybe outright socially punishing racism shouldn’t have been the focus, and instead more effort should have been spent making sure more people know how, well, genetics work and also dream of stuff not involving racial difference, like future space travel or peaceful united humanity, that kind of thing. So that they’d make their own conclusions and have their own wishes.
So - they are tired of “the establishment” not making anything better, and that means they are also tired of some rules of public decency associated with that establishment. One of the reasons MAGA activism looks so gross - they want it to look gross. Because “gross” is not like that picture of “respectable politics”, so already better.
In general studying psychology of people who are your opponents is beneficial. And especially hard when you can’t make yourself respect them.
You lost me at “not socially punishing racism”.
Sorry but GTFOH with your racism apologism.
Republicans are also cutting education so fat chance getting these people educated also.
Nothing quite like logging onto lemmy and reading the most “if minorities were nicer then people would be less racist” victim blaming comment. No, there is no world in which minorities rolling over and gently teaching misguided racists gets them equal rights. We have a systemic issue in the US where the right has been defunding education and pushing vitriolic rhetoric for decades. Minorities should not need to prove their humanity at every turn just to stay alive, nevertheless participate in politics.
It’s right up there with “if you stopped acting so gay you wouldn’t get bullied”
Right? I can’t believe this person seriously responded to my comment with that bullshit. And people are upvoting him.
Right, chase all racists back under their rock for another generation. They are openly declaring they do not wish to participate in our society when they speak that way.
Fingers crossed it’s extinction burst behavior.
He’s already there dipshit. Look around you
I feel like the US is more like a Second World country. By “Second World”, I mean the countries that are more aligned to Russia than to NATO. That description now fits the US, unfortunately.
Best reply.
Zohran getting under their skin. Love to see it
Republican Representative Brandon Gill has told New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to “go back to the Third World” in response to a video of him eating with his hands.
I guess this asshole has never eaten a burger, chicken, hot dog etc. Fucking racist piece of shit.
Brandon Gill does, in fact, look like the kind of person who would eat a burger with a knife and fork.
Hell, I’ll eat anything with my hands if it means Americans can have universal healthcare.
I will happily eat macaroni or soup with my hands for the rest of my life if that means everyone gets Healthcare.
He eats pizza with a knife and fork… allegedly
And it wasn’t intended to be eaten with them from the beginning. The dry fat rim is for holding it.
Shovels beer nuts in his mouth like some kind of grotesque beast
Straight from central casting, judging by his photo.
He’s Dinesh D’Souza’s son in law
In Russia it was impolite, actually, to eat chicken not with your hands. Can’t say why, maybe it’s the possibility of bones splitting and flying away, and maybe it’s that some of the meat remains on the bones, so some visible food gets thrown out. As a kid I would sometimes get looks (making my hands oiled and dirty I don’t like, being autistic and just because it’s inconvenient).
In any case I’m not sure someone’s eating habits affect their politics, unless demonstrating lack of basic hygiene or involving cannibalism.
His father in law is Dinesh D’Souza, the conspiracy theories guy. And like so many other hypocritical Republicans, is an immigrant who became a citizen in '91 after coming here with his parents and attending school here.
What is this high school?
American government sounds more and more like the varsity sports team of America High
It’s not even entertaining anymore. It’s pure cringe.
Pretty much.
Look up Jim Jorden on you tube to really see high school nonsense. He’s been at it for a decade.You mean Gym Jordan, who didn’t report on the sexual assault of teenagers under his care? That Gym Jordan?
Quite racist of Brandon.
Dinesh D’Souza’s son in law is a racist? Que sorpresa!
