Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
This election season feels like an active shooter drill.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Bernie Sanders. There are still good people in the world. youtu.be/Vf5MThSniiY
“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?” Here is my answer:
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
one perhaps salutary consequence of Donald Trump is he’s exposed just how pathetic plutocratic “masters of the universe” really are.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
“The rentier economy is characterized by low growth and therefore less material prosperity for everyone, but more guaranteed relative position for those on top. And people, it turns out, really like relative position.” @sjshancoxli.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/the-plutocra...
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
high interest rates are just taxes the poor pay to the rich.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
what if prime is the new blue checkmark?
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Jeff Bezos is frightened of Donald Trump.
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
I have been debunked. You are hearing voices.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
without comment. from www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-sho... ht @newseye.bsky.social
Text: While the jokes about Puerto Rico and watermelon-carving made at least some Trump staffers wince, the sources who spoke to The Bulwark all agreed that the campaign did not object to Hinchcliffe's other jokes about rock-throwing Palestinians, Jewish people who want to keep their money, false reports that Haitians are eating cats and dogs in Ohio, or the assassination attempts Trump survived.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
On the other hand, here's what Kamala Harris has to say about Puerto Rico. kamalaharris.com/wp-content/u... ht @Edelruth@mastodon.online
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
I don’t think this is accurate. It was much more accurate around the end of the Obama administration, but Biden’s lizardism and general good relations with people like Bernie and AOC have gone a long way to mending fences. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Gaza has been hard for people, and a thriving tankie zombie griftosphere has infected some well-meaning and once more sane people with some cartoonish versions of global south anti-imperialism that horseshoe theory with social conservative Putinist America Firsters. But those are fringes. /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i think he thinks that a group of Dem electeds have succumbed to motivated reasoning that pretends Amazon and Google and their absurdly wealthy principals can be the Star Trek future, great virtuous meritocrats, fine donors and allies. it’s finally hard to pretend. theintercept.com/2016/04/22/g...
Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts
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"Jeff Bezos just forced the Democrats to see that economic power is political power." @matthewstoller.bsky.social www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post Teach Democrats About Billionaires
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
there are important distinctions between very bad and much, much worse.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
people who own the media are capable of manufacturing vibes of despondency about the candidate they disfavor. fuck them. even though they are unfuckable. everyday miracles.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
are the echoes of choosing this venue intentional?
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
maybe a month ago? i e-mailed ‘cuz i couldn’t find you here (replied to a kind e-mail from you). i’m still very much on Mastodon, but now here too!
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@interfluidity.com
from @edieolmsted.bsky.social newrepublic.com/post/187537/... ht @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social @oregonthedm.bsky.social
Text: The letter urges that after the election, they can hold Harris accountable with “every nonviolent tool of democracy.” Such tools would likely not be available under Trump, who has vowed to deport pro-Palestinian protesters and threatened to turn the military against his own citizens.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
the false familiarity of political solicitations makes me want to vomit. “Steve, it's Aly, and I need to have a quick ❤️ to ❤️ with you” i don’t know Aly. u are not Aly, just some fundraising flack using her name. it’s a campaign i support, have already given $ to. why do u treat me like a mark?