🇵🇸Jim Gilbert-Walsh🇵🇸
@jgilberw
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Skier, coffee-drinker, political irritant, philosophy teacher (in that order)
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Joined June 2013
Jesse Jackson’s 1984 DNC speech feels like something from a different planet. Demanding a new form of foreign policy “characterized by mutual respect, not by gunboat diplomacy and threats,” he calls to end the nuclear arms race and condemns the US decision to “mine the harbors
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Socialism does not assume this and Hayek didn't know what he was talking about
Hayek: “Socialism assumes that all the available knowledge can be used by a single central authority.” “It overlooks that modern society is based on the utilization of widely dispersed knowledge of millions of men.”
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This will never register for VBNMW. They *need* the left to be their villain, so they can maintain the “political maturity” required to accept the party moving ever closer to the GOP. The left being simultaneously indispensable and 💯 dismissible is critical to their narrative.
Do I really have to post this again? Leftists voting third party did not cost Democrats the election. Even if Kamala Harris got EVERY vote cast for Jill Stein, de La Cruz, & West, she would not have won ANY of the swing states.
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Jesse Jackson could have been Obama before Obama, if only he'd been willing to put his career at the service of US imperialism, neoliberalism and white supremacy. History will record that he was not willing to sell out; that, for whatever dalliances with social democracy and
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"I was the leader in the fight against the pro-Palestinian [Jesse] Jackson plank at the Democratic Convention. And I got up on that platform & I said just what I thought." - Chuck Schumer RIP Jesse Jackson. The fight continues.
Here's a clip of Chuck Schumer bragging about blocking the "Jackson plank," which was a proposed 1988 DNC platform item by Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign supporting Palestinian self-determination. RIP Jesse Jackson https://t.co/505lkKvxqC
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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