#3518

I definitely think he was assassinated to stop him getting in the white house, for precisely the reasons you state. No idea WHO did it. but the official version makes no sense

Did you hear the rfk tapes podcast?

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#3519

oh shit i never heard of this. i’m going to check it out.

i wonder what a world with bobby k as president back in the day would look like now. would he have been co opted? made cynical? idk. i just don’t think they would have let him have it, there was no chance. even if he got in, i think something would have happened at some point. he wasn’t even that left wing, he just wanted to hit a lot of powerful people where it matters. which i can get behind i suppose. aldo moro/olaf palme type stuff would have happened at some point even if he became prez tho, i reckon. how i feel about corbyn too tbh, in a way i’m relieved he lost. he can just grow tomatoes and ride his bike now, no need to worry anymore.

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#3520

Can you imagine how the press would have spun this pandemic against Corbyn? I mean even with the Tories in they’re going on about socialism/Stalinism in terms of the money handed out and the lockdown. They’d have been completely off the leash at every attempt by Labour to make sure poor people didn’t die. Christ. I’m so torn about 2019’s result because of this…

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#3521

Oh enjoy the podcast man, it’s fantastic, and the soundtrack is :ok_hand:

I feel the same about rfk as president, there’s no way they would allow it, he’d have to show he’d fall in line before they’d let him have it. Same as Corbyn, same as Bernie (hey, I got it back on topic!)

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#3522

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#3523

Find Bobby Kennedy fascinating. Know there’s plenty of dubious shit around the family, but for some reason find him really engaging and an interesting subject.

Regularly find myself wondering how it must have felt to be around at a time when MLK and him were murdered within, what, weeks of eachother.

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#3524

I find it interesting to ponder on the sort of absolute misanthropic corporate scum who’d want to stand against her.

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#3525

Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was a republican til about 6 months ago

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#3526

But of course.

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#3527

Honestly assumed you knew about her based on your previous post

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#3528

Jeez they’re just so obvious aren’t they? :joy:

#3529

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was always going to win her primary.

More important is what happened in the Bronx’s 15th Congressional District, a safe seat for the Democrats. The most likely candidate initially to win the primary was Rubén Díaz Sr., a fixture of Bronx politics who has been a long-standing critic of gay rights. That risked a disaster not just for the left in general but the gay community in particular: a conservative Democrat winning one of the country’s most liberal districts.

To counter this, progressive Democratic strategists pounded voters with information about Díaz’s pro-Trump and anti-gay record. As a result, unless absentee ballots dramatically alter the count, Ritchie Torres - Afro-Latino and gay - has won the primary and is on course becoming one of the first two black, gay member of Congress, together with Mondaire Jones who has won the Democratic primary in New York’s 17th Congressional District (another safe seat).

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#3530

She won her contested primary by a larger margin than Biden did in the uncontested NY primary.

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#3531

Different set of voters though. The vote on Biden was state-wide, Ocasio-Cortez’s primary was only taking place in the 14th Congressional District.

And while Biden’s opponents may have withdrawn from the race, they were still on the ballot paper. The Sanders camp has been urging supporters to continue to vote for him, so that progressives can wield their influence at the upcoming Democratic National Congress.

#3532

…ok

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#3533

Oof, Trump is done for

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#3534

“Happy birthday to this future president” vibes

#3535

:smiley:

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#3536

if you’re an american you are currently witnessing a pandemic exacerbated by complete institutional failure, breadlines, riots, psyops and evictions. there’s also an uprising against the police state that is being ignored where it can’t be subverted and co-opted, a stock market that is publishing obviously falsified data to ward off a looming systemic collapse. the democrats are gonna solve this by stoking a war with china, shitting on iran and venezuela, and now, after fixing their own primary, they are running an anticommunist presidential campaign - funded by the little st james preservation society - against a billionaire president, while their propaganda outlets call you a traitor if you don’t uncritically swallow a bunch of thinly sourced babble about the taliban chasing russian bounties. that is their solution. i wish i knew more about sociology/psychology, i feel like there must be some analysis to be had of the toll this must take on anyone’s mind if they’re seeing this day after day. i keep hearing adam curtis talking about hypernnormalisation. i don’t even live there and i’m ready to chew my own face off at the state of it all. fucking hell.


#3537

A shining beacon of democracy:

https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/israel-antone-melton-meaux-ilhan-omar-minnesota-primary_n_5f0633a9c5b6480493caca13?ri18n=true&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jb25zZW50LnlhaG9vLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACPHgN5apTqR579cm2EP-4Q4NES8gE-3LvFD1VnbUa8KQqHwcr6j0O6w6vb_puUob-klAA9elNqlb8C5PHdHm0LQ-P02deQF-jMS1wS3KQnt1w7pUVvRyfbXjE_8LppXIohRBl54GhT0bbCPajeTUUfoci4q3grzkjnpjfcrmKcx