General mobilization against white nationalism needed

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Sunday August 04, 2019 · 9:47 PM PDT

2019/08/04 · 21:47

Dear friends,

In a way never seen before on this side of the world our country is facing a growing movement of fascism. The epidemic of vitriol from Tim McVeigh, Don Black, and Eric Harris to Brenton Tarrant and Charlottsville will not end with Patrick Crusius. The idea that can no longer be dealt with by simply calling these people terrorists.

Authoritarian figures are now leading some of the largest countries in the world, USA, Russia, China, Brazil, Hungary, Italy, Turkey, the Philippines, and others. The European project is faltering in the hands of a monetarist leadership and the centrifugal forces have resulted in the Brexit chaos that has enveloped the UK.

It’s time that a US leader calls for a general mobilization of the compassionate and the enlightened to march to the White House and peacefully confront the enablers of white nationalists. We marched against the war in Iraq and we marched for women’s rights. Isn’t it time that a US leader calls for such a mobilization?

We need inspiration, not machinations

ystasino

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Wednesday November 09, 2016 · 5:05 PM PST

2016/11/09 · 17:05

To win the presidency the Dems need to win many more votes that the competing Republicans:

Dem Nominee	Popular Vote	ElectorAL ColleGe
Gore	50,999,897 (+0.5 M)	Loss
Kerry	59,028,444 (-3.0 M)	Loss
Obama	69,498,516 (+9.5 M)	Win
Obama	65,915,796 (+5.0 M)	Win
H.R. Clinton	~59,814,018 votes (+0.2 M)	Loss

Source: en.wikipedia.org/...

The republicans got their voters to the polls, Gore, Kerry, and Hillary couldn’t pass the electoral college map which favors the Republicans.

As an immigrant who arrived in the US on Nov 9, 2000, volunteered for Obama in Iowa in 2008, and cast his first vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016, I’m disappointed in many ways.

But the math is simple, the Dems need inspiration, rather than managers or machination.

Apples approves "gay conversion" app

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Monday March 21, 2011 · 10:53 AM PDT

2011/03/21 · 10:53

So Apple has slashed tons of useful apps from the App Store, but is cool with a 'gay conversion' app?

ystasino

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Friday December 10, 2010 · 2:23 PM PST

2010/12/10 · 14:23

Why didn't we vote for the real triangulation masters if that's all we were going to get? Read below, Mark Penn knows the mid-west and Ohio better than Sherrod Brown. And to boot check the link towards the end for the names of the Bill Clinton staffers populating the W.H.

Maybe the journalist from the Des Moines register had it right when she asked Obama about the people he would employ in his white house.

http://www.youtube.com/...

Remember that?

ystasino

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Monday December 06, 2010 · 12:26 PM PST

2010/12/06 · 12:26

Let's see, we have

Groping by T.S.A. agents

Trying to destroy wikileaks

Not prosecuting torture

Still maintaining 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq

and now we have an "if you see something, say something" initiative at Walmart?

ystasino

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Sunday November 21, 2010 · 10:15 PM PST

2010/11/21 · 22:15

I don't have a beef with your fight against Cenk. But you too are missing some points which I outlined below.

Before you get upset have a read about what Krugman wrote about Obama today

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/...

More and more, it’s becoming clear that progressives who had their hearts set on Obama were engaged in a huge act of self-delusion. Once you got past the soaring rhetoric you noticed, if you actually paid attention to what he said, that he largely accepted the conservative storyline, a view of the world, including a mythological history, that bears little resemblance to the facts.

ystasino

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Tuesday November 16, 2010 · 9:55 AM PST

2010/11/16 · 09:55

Being better than Fox news in not enough for an independent voter like me. I have stopped watching cable news, because all they care about is to stir up emotion so you can watch and buy their ad products. There is no time for reasoned argument because you and others have to sell advertisements. So we reduced the quality of the process so much that useful conclusions are had to come by.

Russert was the last methodical interviewer on TV, and that's why forgive his mistakes. You however rely on stirring up emotion.

ystasino

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Thursday November 04, 2010 · 10:16 PM PDT

2010/11/04 · 22:16

Politico features an article by the sometimes incisive and sometimes irrelevant Roger Simon who says that Obama's people do not trust Dean and fear Dean might challenge him for the presidency should Obama make too many compromises to republicans...

The parallels with Jesse Jackson's '96 campaign that never was are in the article.

But the Clinton White House was extremely worried that Jesse Jackson would run against Clinton in the primaries. Clinton looked somewhat vulnerable: There was Whitewater, Hillary Clinton’s commodities trading, Travelgate, Troopergate and Paula Jones. The labor unions were still furious over the North American Free Trade Agreement, and many African-Americans had not forgiven Clinton for his treatment of Lani Guinier, a black woman whose nomination he withdrew for assistant attorney general for civil rights.
Team Clinton, especially Harold Ickes and Rahm Emanuel, worked hard, using both carrots and sticks, to keep Jackson out. (For a full account, see my article in the Feb. 24, 1997, New Republic, “Primary Care: How Bill Sandbagged Jesse.”)

http://www.politico.com/...

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Wednesday November 03, 2010 · 10:31 AM PDT

2010/11/03 · 10:31

As Dick would say, simply put there's no doubt that the Citizens United decision heavily influenced the 2010 midterm elections.

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Wednesday March 31, 2010 · 5:29 PM PDT

2010/03/31 · 17:29

It would be really useful to publish the names of democrats (particularly house members) for whom our contributions would be the most useful.

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Monday January 25, 2010 · 9:26 PM PST

2010/01/25 · 21:26

I am getting tired of Obama's lack of fight and leadership. I supported before most of you, but I thought I was supporting him for president, not moral leader in chief. That's what I thought we were doing in the snows of Iowa 2 years ago.

These are the issues I care about in no particular order:

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Thursday December 17, 2009 · 3:36 PM PST

2009/12/17 · 15:36

I have run out of reasonable arguments for supporting this bill particularly the idea of future improvement. I don't see how this is the case when this bill makes insurance companies stronger. Then every supporter of the Senate bill including presidents Obama and Clinton argue that if health care is not passed now it will never be attempted again. I don't know that either.

Having said that I am not ready to oppose this bill.

My only reason to not oppose this bill is to avoid Lieberman's real goal from being achieved. His goal isn't to sink the bill. It's to sink Obama.

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