RedWizard

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RedWizard @news.abolish.capital 3d ago

Just in time for war.

5d ago

Newsom goes all in on transphobia | CNN

RedWizard @news.abolish.capital 5d ago

Serious purity testing here. What he actually says:
I'm transphobic!
This all seems very reasonable and fine. I’d vote for him.

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1w ago

Newsom goes all in on transphobia | CNN

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1w ago

PSL Candidate running for governor of California

1w ago

Democrats’ secret ‘autopsy’ report of 2024 election links Harris’ loss to Gaza stance

RedWizard @news.abolish.capital 1w ago

Maybe Kamala Harris should have read the fucking room.

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1w ago

Gavin Newsom tries to connect with a black crowd: "I am like you… I'm a 960 SAT guy… I can't read…"

2w ago

Sanders to Oligarchs Opposing California Billionaire Tax: 'You're Treading on Very, Very Thin Ice'

Any time!

2w ago

The Kids are gearing for the Revolution

2w ago

Sanders to Oligarchs Opposing California Billionaire Tax: 'You're Treading on Very, Very Thin Ice'

https://www.cabillionairetax.org/endorse

2w ago

As Dem Voters Seek a 'Fight' With the Superrich, AOC is Now Their Favorite Candidate: Poll

So, a lot of words to cover one basic idea.

What is the basic idea?

You have no current alternative to the Dems.

If dem voters think Newsom is a bad candidate, then what should the dems do?

But yes, you attacking me will certainly get those low information voters to fly to the polls.

The dems sure don't care about getting them to fly out to the polls.

2w ago

As Dem Voters Seek a 'Fight' With the Superrich, AOC is Now Their Favorite Candidate: Poll

Do you really hear yourself when you type these words out? I really want to understand. Do you not see what the Democratic Party analysts are saying? People turned away from the Democrats because they were unconvincing. The Democrats did not present themselves as the realistic choice to the people who mattered. Again, new voters broke for the Republican Party for the first time. Why did they do that? Why did Harris not capture new voters? Third party voters did not change the outcome of the election, that is not what the data shows. Why are you even talking about them? Why did Harris fail to capture the "politically disengaged and ideologically heterodox, aka low-information voters" who decided to stay home? Those people didn't even bother voting, they didn't vote for third parties, the system failed them and they stayed home. From the Vox article [emphasis mine]:

Taken together, all these figures paint a disconcerting picture for Democrats. The party has long wagered that time was on its side: Since America’s rising generations were heavily left-leaning — and the country was becoming more diverse by the year — it would become gradually easier for Democrats to assemble national majorities, even as the party bled support among non-college-educated white voters.
And it’s true that Democrats still do better with young and nonwhite voters than with Americans as a whole. But the party’s advantage with those constituencies has been narrowing rapidly. Last year’s returns suggest that demographic churn isn’t quite the boon that many Democrats had hoped, and can be easily outweighed by other factors. Meanwhile, as blue states bleed population to red ones, Democrats are poised to have a much harder time winning Electoral College majorities after the 2030 census [but don't forget, Trump won the popular vote in 2024 as well]. Given current trends, by 2032, a Democratic nominee who won every blue state — and added Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — would still lose the White House.
How Democrats can arrest the rightward drift of young and nonwhite Americans — while broadening their geographic base of support — is up for debate. But pretending that the swing electorate does not exist, or that unreliable Democratic voters are all doctrinaire progressives, probably won’t help.

I'm not sure what you're arguing about at this point. The Democrats did not present themselves as the obvious choice. Voters did not see Democrats as the obvious choice. Democratic Analysts have shown, through their own analysis of millions of records and data points, that this election was lost do to a failure to capture demographics The Democrats have historically won. This is a failure of the party and their campaign, a failure of the message, and of the candidate.

If you are not going to seek out why this failure happened, then you are doomed to continue to fail.

2w ago

Hakeem Jeffries plays dumb when asked if he'd 'abolish ICE' | BreakThrough News

2w ago

As Dem Voters Seek a 'Fight' With the Superrich, AOC is Now Their Favorite Candidate: Poll

The Democrats can never fail, they can only be failed. You can spend billions on a campaign and yet it's the constituency who needs to have done more. Pathetic.

2w ago

As Dem Voters Seek a 'Fight' With the Superrich, AOC is Now Their Favorite Candidate: Poll

Who was supposed to push hard for her? Also you can admit you were wrong you know.

2w ago

As Dem Voters Seek a 'Fight' With the Superrich, AOC is Now Their Favorite Candidate: Poll

The data actually disproves the "people stayed home because they wanted something better" theory.

According to Blue Rose Research (which conducted 26 million voter interviews), roughly 70% of the Democratic vote share drop was due to people changing their minds and voting for Trump, not staying home. Only 30% was due to turnout.

Catalist (the Democratic party's own data firm) found something even more damning: For the first time in their dataset, new voters broke for the Republican. Harris only won 48.5% of first-time voters. These weren't leftists demanding a purity test-they were mostly young, diverse, and working-class people who decided Trump's message on the economy resonated more.

The voters who did stay home? They weren't hardcore progressives. They were "politically disengaged and ideologically heterodox", aka low-information voters who didn't feel motivated by either candidate. That's a persuasion failure!

It was a campaign that failed to differentiate itself from Biden, chased Liz Cheney Republicans instead of union workers, and watched 79% of economy-first voters go to Trump.

Harris lost because she couldn't convince people she'd change anything. That's on the campaign, not on voters for wanting "something better."

Vox had a whole write up on it: https://archive.is/20250602132021/https://www.vox.com/politics/414370/2024-election-results-exit-polls-catalist

peoplesforum.org /blog_post/trump-is-at-war-against-free-speech/

2w ago

Trump Is At War Against Free Speech

2w ago

Gaza’s civil defense says 8,000 bodies of genocide victims remain under rubble

Ah I see what happened. I merged a large code reorganization and it had a bug in it that I had resolved after the branch was created. I'm working on pushing the fix now and I can purge the dupes after. Thanks for the heads up!

2w ago

Gaza’s civil defense says 8,000 bodies of genocide victims remain under rubble

Hmm. Is this an example of one of the dupes?

3w ago

Tampa students at Wharton High School walkout against ICE and attacks on immigrants

RedWizard @news.abolish.capital 3w ago

These student walk outs have been great to see. The kids are all right.

3w ago

“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers

RedWizard @news.abolish.capital 3w ago

“National attention on Minnesota has waned with the departure of Bovino and rhetoric by Homan that things are de-escalating,” the group noted, but recent data and reports from commuters in the field did not support those conclusions. Despite orders to the contrary, the group continued, “Agents continue to draw their weapons and deploy chemical agents against observers.”

This is how things usually go, isn't it? Some kind of false "change" is made, one that functionally changes nothing, like the Gaza "ceasefire" or in this case the departure of Bovino, and it acts as a kind of signal to the wider media that this "conflict" has ended. The media shifts focus, attention is moved elsewhere, and the events actually escalate.

4w ago

China bans security software from the US and Israel

This is pretty fair. The US banned the use of Kaspersky in 2024. If I was the CPC I wouldn't trust CrowdStrike either.

4w ago

The US Bombed Somalia 25 Times in January

Probably more likely talking around each other. The agreement is that Nazism needs to be scrubbed out everywhere. I disagree that "These aren’t US forces as long a the nazis are in control." Unless you also agree that Nazis have always been in control of US forces. To put it another way, when I read your comment it read similar to "This isn't what American is about!" which, it is what America is about, and has always been about. To put it one other way, Donald Trump didn't suddenly make America a Nazi state, he just removed its mask. That's all. From our genocidal expansion westward, to our system of slavery and then apartheid after, dropping two atomic weapons on civilian populations, to our genocide in Korea in the 40s, to our imperialist wars through the 90s and 2010s, to our proxy genocide in Palestine. This is just another footprint in our path as we tread across the earth.

If you have a similar assessment, then we're on the same page. If not, then we're not on the same page.

4w ago

Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa”

I'm going to ask you to put a sarcasm tag on this one.

4w ago

United States: ten theses on the 2026 Minnesota general strike

To quote someone involved in the organizing happening in MN regarding this article:

Pretty good but, of course, I found these points annoying:
With a revolutionary leadership, the movement could have gone significantly further. The mood and potential for an all-out general strike were 100% present. This could have shut down not only small businesses, schools, and cultural institutions, but the major levers of the economy: transportation, energy, communications, logistics, manufacturing, etc. After Alex Pretti’s murder, this could have spread across the country. The trade union bureaucrats did everything in their power to direct the energy of the masses into safe channels. Pressure from below had forced them to set a date for a “day of action,” but they conspicuously avoided doing anything more. What was required was to widen and spread the neighborhood committees into the workplaces, and above all to link them through elected representatives into a citywide body accountable to the mass assemblies and capable of coordinating the movement. Armed with this program, a Marxist cadre organization of even just 500 or 1,000 members rooted in workplaces across key industries in Minneapolis-St. Paul could have made all the difference.
The only real weakness of the US working class is its lack of a revolutionary party. The roughly 160 million wage and salary workers in America constitute a potentially unstoppable power, but this potential cannot be fully realized unless and until it has a leadership worthy of the name. In Minnesota, we saw the immense creativity of the working class when it is pushed into action, but also the clear limits of spontaneity on its own. To go further, and to eventually win political and economic power, the working class needs a Marxist leadership. A mass revolutionary party could harness the power of the working class to transform society on socialist lines.
The organizing of the two strikes - both city specific on 1/23 and nationwide on 1/30 - were led on the ground by a Marxist vanguard party:
. It was PSL that dedicated over a hundred cadre on the ground to full-time outreach in Minneapolis in the week leading up to 1/23. Then cadre deployed their skills across the country to push for a national day on 1/30 which was hugely successful. It was PSL that made the call to push for 1/30 (at the behest of the Somali student groups who called for it in Minneapolis) and did all the initial work in cities across the country. It was the Marxist leadership and dedicated party cadre of PSL that made this happen. They did it while FRSO in the Twin Cities actively opposed it, abdicating and potential for their leadership of the movement, and while RCA was nowhere to be found.

Marxist.com is unfortunately a Trotskyist international organization and as such is pretty sectarian at times. There is mass organizing happening in MN, and there is a Marxist party doing their fair share of that organizing. Their other points remain well stated, but their comments on the actual organizing on the ground are strictly not based in reality.

4w ago

The US Bombed Somalia 25 Times in January