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Somebody has 3 tickets to see Machine Girl in NYC tomorrow they can sell me, right?
He’s explored the galaxy, now he’s onto exploring the immortal plains 😭
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This guy is on what is essentially DSA’s national board. If you wonder why NYC DSA seems so organized and successful, but national isn’t, it’s because deeply embarrassing papers like Cliff control national
Can’t wait to vote them out next year at convention
People like Cliff don’t want power. They fear being in real power and the hard choices that have to be made in office. Real power requires one to move beyond purity politics. Cliff wants to endlessly critique power from the safety of the sidelines, so signal his moral superiority
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Someone call Cardi. I need a @KathyHochul & @iamcardib GOTV commercial
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Eisenkot’s dilemma:
1. His failed “change coalition” will be crushed at a second election if they use the Jihadi-supporting Joint List to “stick it to the right” and temporarily get their Bibi scalp.
2. If he doesn’t, but also doesn’t partake in some form of unity coalition, Netanyahu, from the comfort of the Prime Minister’s chair, will run out the clock and call new elections in May, in which he will do better, since he lost 5% of the right-wing votes to Winter’s and Hendel’s failed start-up parties. Also, events in the region—war with Iran, and perhaps peace with the Saudis—will likely play to Netanyahu’s favour.
3. So the smart play for him is to offer Netanyahu his party in a unity coalition, but he comes with a very weak hand, since he won’t be able to bring the leftists under Golan with him, or Liberman’s party (whose entire career is focused on unseating Netanyahu).
And what would be in it for Netanyahu? Netanyahu is aware of points 1 and 2 above. He could simply play out the clock, let the negotiations fail, blame Eisenkot, and come back with the extra few seats he needs in May. Would he betray his reliable hard-right and Haredi allies for what could be a short-term coalition? Unlikely.
The problem is that when someone has the choice of who gets to extort them, nobody gets to do it. And that is the definition of power. Optionality. All Eisenkot’s options are bad, all Netanyahu’s are good.
Yair Golan—former IDF deputy chief of staff and leader of the “Democrats”, a hard-left party formed of the cumulative mergers over decades of a series of far-left, even Stalinist groups into Israel’s once-hegemonic Labor Party—wants his erstwhile allies in the failed (for it has indeed failed) “anti-Netanyahu anti-Haredi change coalition”, Eisenkot, Lapid, Bennett and Lieberman, to use these Hamas sympathisers of the Joint List, who here dedicate their results “to Gaza”, to oust the Zionist right and Netanyahu, even as the IDF battles to mop up the remnants of Hamas in Gaza.
This eventuality would be Netanyahu’s fever dream—a martyrdom at the hands of a left-Islamist alliance he could paint as traitors—to be followed inevitably by a Jesus-like revival after three months.
They failed in their attempt to build a “change coalition” because they didn’t have a positive message. “We hate the Haredi and Netanyahu and we are gonna stick it to ’em” isn’t enough to win a majority. It also won’t be enough to justify to their electorates at the next election—which will be very soon if Yair Golan’s plan wins out—why they allied with actual enemies.
This is a choice they actually can’t make anyway, since a number in their 48-ish-sized bloc won’t go along with it. So it’s just moot, and the merely performative act of floating it is damaging to their cause. But amazingly, this man who, but for a speech comparing IDF soldiers to the Third Reich on Memorial Day, would have replaced Eisenkot as IDF chief of staff in 2019, is no great strategic thinker.
Somebody recently told me that “guilty pleasures” tend to be feminine coded, and I didn’t know how to express that my biggest guilty pleasure is Norwegian black metal
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Remember to vote between now and Tuesday, and when you do, VOTE YES on all 5 ballot questions! Let’s let government do things, let stuff get built, and get government contracts paid on time!
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Either Eisenkot and Golan accept arabs as equals or they can wave goodbye to any chance of ever ousting Netanyahu.
If they miss this once in a lifetime chance, it's over for Israel, and for good
Putting the last touches on this years Halloween costume, and fear I’ll never recreate the raw power of last year’s flower demon costume
How is it that getting on ADHD meds have simultaneously made me more productive at work BUT ALSO increased my Twitter addiction? I need to figure this out
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not to be that guy but Nithya Raman does not have time to meet with DSA leaders a week out from the election, what are we doing here?
The resolution on rescinding her endorsement (which narrowly passed 14-13) calls on Raman to meet with DSA-LA leaders on Oct. 31 to explain her position on BDS. If she does not satisfactorily affirm her support for BDS, the NPC will vote on Nov. 1 to force DSA-LA to withdraw its endorsement of her. docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Thank you all so so so much! I managed to tie for 3rd most rank 1 ballots in the branch, and it’s by no means disappointing to be behind the amazing @EmilyAssembly and @AbbyChavaStein!
This was a major win for mass politics in this chapter, & a real sign of great things to come!