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@strategicchancla.bsky.social

M.A. in Nat Sec, Floridian, Latino American 🇧🇷, just here for the bad IR takes, will probably contribute a few of my own Transitioned from the old bird account, @tacticalchancla

Am I the only one who thinks this "Woke 1" thing was a funny, off the cuff, hyperbolic joke about 2010s progressive politics that is now turned into a pseudo political theory that's memory holing real 2010s progressive politics?

The actual question is are you willing to lose our democracy to keep 1% of our population from competing in sports, not even professionally or with an advantage. And she's leaning toward "yes"

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"Do political relations between peoples and between their governments stop when diplomatic notes are no longer exchanged? Is war not just another expression of their thoughts, another form of speech or writing? Its grammar, indeed, may be its own, but not its logic."

Eustis Bell@eustisbellusaf.bsky.social · 4d ago

Cannot emphasize enough: Diplomacy and military power are not at odds on some kind of sliding scale where you prioritize one or the other. Successful statecraft at the superpower level requires both to be excellent.

El-Sayed: "It means holding people like RFK Jr accountable for the DOGE-ing of our public health, for which we now need to be dodging lettuce across the state of Michigan for fear of getting explosive diarrhea, which nobody ever thought you be a consequence of electing Donald Trump, but here we are"

credit where it's due, he tries to dodge it with the billionaire answer at first, but acknowledging that taxes would go up for everyone (at least a little) is the first step toward having an actual grown-up realistic conversation about universal health care in this country

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"

I want El-Sayed to win for a lot of reasons but id be lying if i said getting the “sure it works in New York and California but it can’t work in middle America” people to shut the fuck up wasn’t high on my list.