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HE WAS REPORTEDLY RECORDED WHILE IN THE COUNTRY OF LIBERIA

https://twitter.com/Sophie_Mokoena/status/1749088640314032629

https://truthout.org/articles/kentucky-gops-new-bill-decriminalizes-use-of-deadly-force-against-the-unhoused/

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/19/middleeast/eisenkot-netanyahu-israel-war-politics-gaza-intl/index.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/venezuelan-immigrants-far-right-candidates-argentina-shape-us-politics-rcna134621

Adelys Ferro is a member of the group Venezolanos con Biden and a resident of the Miami suburb of Weston — dubbed Westonzuela because of its sizable Venezuelan community. In the immediate lead-up to the 2020 election, it had become difficult for her to wear a Biden T-shirt to the supermarket without feeling uncomfortable, a brush with social stigma others also reported.

Still, Ferro is more hopeful about the Democratic message in 2024 because “Biden has been in power for three years, and there’s no socialism here.”

It's possible that people can actually be former leftists/socialists/communists/etc and have "left the left" so to speak. I've been noticing here that the common response to this will be "they were never really leftists/socialists/etc. anyways" or "they were never really serious to begin with." It's possible that it could be the case, or maybe they actually were on the left, but they just didn't have the stomach for the real shit I guess.

I think we shouldn't be too quick to jump to using the "no true scotsman" fallacy in these cases. For those who don't know, it's basically saying "you weren't REALLY a leftist, cuz otherwise you never would have left." The same argument is used by religious people when someone leaves the faith: "oh they were never a REAL christian, otherwise they wouldn't have become atheist/agnostic."

To give some concrete examples, take Eldridge Cleaver. He actually was a Black Panther, radical, communist, etc. but then later in life became a Reagan conservative. Or Angela Davis. She actually was a radical but now she tells people to vote for Biden.

TL;DR: People can and do change, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1646784

Apparently, Charlie Kirk wants to start a campaign against the Civil Rights Act and MLK?

I think this is why we need to guard against the ultra-right.

There's the right-wing and then there's the ultra-right.

This is a new low, however, and it portents bad changes in the body politic of the United States.

It seems they even want to do away with these concessions as well, that was fought for by the working-class.

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linky but source video is deleted, so maybe fakenews (?)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/12/bernardo-arevalo-guatemala-inauguration-biden/

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