You forgot to call me a Russian bot.

Rejecting that she’s a sellout because the example I’m giving you is one you don’t really care about is going to do you a deservice. You’re simply plugging your head and in the sand and refusing to humor the notion, and she will let you down too in due time.

Certainly a “lesser evil”, a liberal Zionist nonetheless. Can you call someone leftist if they support modern day Nazis for the benefit of the empire?

AOC rides the progressive image by talking positively about Palestine, but she consistently backs the liberal Zionist status quo. She propagates Israel “has a right to exist”, that criticizing Zionists is antisemitic, that resisting genocide is terrorism, that calling for freedom in Palestine is genocidal, etc.

They speak up about Palestinians being slaughtered, but they only frame it as Israel going too far in their legitimate response to being attacked. Like all Zionists, she pretends history started on October 7, She never addresses Palestinian’s right to self defense or resistance to 78 years of ethnic cleansing and colonization, she never condemns the root of the problem, just some individual headlines that will be forgotten.

She’s a neo liberal just like the lot of them, she’s slightly more “progressive” but she works hard to stop the wheel from turning too far left.

How exactly do you end up paying more in federal taxes if you don’t have to also pay state taxes?

Democratic voters (young left leaning) do care, have you not seen the protests? We made it loud and clear we won’t vote for KH if she insists on supporting the genocide and she responded by thanking Dick Satan Chaney for his service and calling for the most lethal military.

If you buy that she didn’t lose because of Gaza, you’re gonna have a lot more losing to witness.

And they removed it for no obvious reason.

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just because the rich are a small percentage of the population obviously doesn’t mean they should be taxed less, that’s a wild statement.

That is a wild statement. That’s not even remotely close to what I said.

King, president for life, same same

Rich people with summer homes in another state are likely not a major percentage of drivers, I’m guessing.

Tolls already handle the mileage part, and they already have different tolls per vehicle class, though the classes are outdated. But that can easily be adjusted.

The only downside of tolls is that they track your vehicle movement, but let’s not kid ourselves, flock cameras already track your movement to your neighborhood, and it’s run by an openly comically evil company.

This isn’t a reporter breaking the silence to reveal how laws are broken, this is “Democrats say Trump broke laws” but won’t do anything about it. The point is to continue portraying them as opposition.

It’s not their job to remind people of the laws, it’s their job to do something about it.

creation of a Jewish state in the middle of a muslim area.

That is not the issue with Israel. Jews lived peacefully among Muslims and Christians in Palestine, the problems started when they started immigrating from Europe to displace indigenous Palestinians on the bases of religious superiority and exclusivity.

The problem with Israel is not that they wanted to create a Jewish only state (that’s a different issue), it’s that they wanted to colonize and ethnically cleanse Palestine to do it.

Then kindly mash the letters on your keyboard randomly, perhaps it’ll form more words to explain what you’re trying to say than your previous attempts, because I’m honestly not clear on what points you’re attempting to make…

There is a difference between the claim that the workers aren’t pro capitalism when they make a good payout, alleging that I’m referring to the workers as capitalists, and me allegedly crediting capitalism itself.

What are you saying?

Workers wouldn’t be grateful for getting a “good” payout if they had the option to control the means of production and had the whole pot. They are grateful to have it within the confines of capitalism, if you’re saying they’re grateful for capitalism then you are crediting capitalism.

Yes, it is obvious that there is a group of people here deeply entrenched in the anglo-centristic world view of a 14 y/o kid who cannot fathom the concept of the average South Koran having a different view of capitalism than them, in light of South Korans having North Korea right across the border.

It is obvious that you think Koreans aren’t capable of thinking past surface level. Me see worst of North Korea, me grateful for capitalism. Good God.

SK Hynix workers are not capitalists either but payouts of $460,000-$477,000 per worker is not working class wage either.

Right, no one is happy to have to fight for a bigger share of the pot and still be shorted. Of course I’ll take $460K, but you’d be very stupid to credit capitalism for it…

You mean like South Korea where their poster child of anti-capitalism is North Korea, right across the border?

I don’t know what point you’re making.

You aren’t a capitalist if you’re paid well under capitalism, your labor is still being taking advantage of so the capitalist can buy a new summer mansion, you could still be fired for no reason, and you’re still one injury or automation or bad economic quarter away from being laid off.

Being pro capitalism when you don’t own capital is a result of a lifelong of propaganda and no understanding what capitalism is.

The core problem with the Working Families Party is not that it is “too left" as its mainstream apponents like to paint it, it is that it often uses left energy to discipline people back into the Democratic Party, then calls the cleanup “movement-building.” That can win some seats, but it can also teach leftists to accept candidates who later betray the movement.

WFP treated John Fetterman as a major 2022 battleground project. In its own 2022 memo, WFP called Pennsylvania “the best opportunity for a Democratic Senate pickup” and said it had built one of its largest voter-contact programs in the state for Fetterman against Dr. Oz.

But Fetterman’s later record exposed the danger of endorsing “vibes” over political discipline. Once in office, he moved sharply away from the left, especially on Palestine. The New Yorker described him as once being “a beacon for progressives” who then moved beyond even many centrist Democrats in his “unconditional support” for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Then WFP turned around and announced a future primary effort against him. In 2025, Pennsylvania WFP said Fetterman had “sold out working Pennsylvanians” and accused him of being the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that would strip health care from millions, including more than 400,000 Pennsylvanians.

That is the problem: WFP helped manufacture Fetterman’s progressive legitimacy, then asked the movement to spend years undoing the consequences. For left movements, this is exhausting. It turns organizing into a cycle of laundering candidates, being betrayed, then fundraising off the betrayal.

WFP endorsed Platner in March 2026 for the Maine Senate Democratic nomination, calling him a champion for working people who would fight billionaires, lobbyists, and corporate interests.

But Platner came with serious baggage. There’s his Nazi tattoo that he got to commemorate the great time he had murdering brown people, there’s the fact that he constantly reminisces about his time in the army and how much he enjoyed his war crimes, so much so that he decided a promotion that put him away from the action was not worth it and joined blackwater to do more war crimes instead. And his old online comments include dismissive remarks about military sexual assault, Black patrons, police officers, rural Americans, and anti-LGBTQ jokes. He’s an unapologetic racist war criminal, and is being pushed as a progressive anti-imperialist.

The left should absolutely believe in transformation, accountability, and people becoming better. But electoral organizations often convert that principle into something thinner: “ignore the contradictions because he has the right class aesthetic.” That is dangerous. A left movement cannot build durable solidarity if it asks women, Black people, queer people, Jews, or antifascists to subordinate their concerns to a candidate’s “working-class” branding.

Platner may be better than establishment Democrats on economic policy. But WFP’s endorsement illustrates a recurring weakness: the party often treats populist anti-billionaire language as enough, even when the candidate’s record raises questions about political judgment, accountability, and who gets asked to absorb harm for the sake of “the bigger fight.”

In 2014, WFP endorsed Cuomo after he promised progressive concessions, even though Zephyr Teachout represented a clearer anti-Cuomo left challenge.

WFP endorsed Elizabeth Warren over Bernie Sanders, after having backed Sanders in 2016, which intensified divisions on the left.

In 2021, WFP ranked Scott Stringer first, then rescinded the endorsement after sexual misconduct allegations, then shifted to Maya Wiley and Dianne Morales. The result was a fractured left and Eric Adams as NY mayor.

That’s what they do.

No, it’s made by swatch with a swatch movement and a plastic “bioceramic” body, it just has AP’s branding and signature look.

Nothing about that looks like it’s worth more than the cheap kits you find on Amazon. There’s really nothing special about that kit.

Depends on how far you want to go with the maintenance, buy a good caseback opener, a movement holder, a good set of watchmaker screwdrivers, some good tweezers, hand setter, and a good magnifier. If you want to full service with washing and lubricating and reluming etc, you’ll start going to specialty stores but you’d be far down the hobby at that point and you’ll come across the right sellers in your research.

Same thing happened a couple years ago when swatch partnered with Omega to release a quartz “MoonSwatch”, designed to look like a Speedmaster Moonwatch.

Lines were insane, it was sold out everywhere and eBay was flooded with them at insane prices.

There were some people that wanted a $300 “Omega”, a handful of actual Omega fans/owners who understood the novelty of it and actually wanted it, but the majority of sales went to scalpers and people who don’t know anything about watches that thought they were buying an investment.

It’s not a limited production, and you can now find it in pretty much all swatch boutiques just sitting and begging to be bought.

Mostly scalpers and FOMO buyers, that’s who buy it at launch.