2026-11-04 06:52 UTC
weepy less because of El-Sayed specifically and more that remembering how bad it really, actually was during the Bush Administration, how vicious and islamophobic and just hickishly xenophobic, I don't know if I ever believed we could possibly get to this point
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@marronvulpes@pawb.fun 2026-11-04 12:32
@samkeeper@slime.global It really annoys me that so many people now downplay how bad the Bush Administration was. I was a naive kid back then, but even I remember...
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@samkeeper@slime.global 2026-11-04 20:52
I said to Kate last night that looking at the DSA roster, and looking at El-Sayed and his backers, and so on, it feels like there IS this Jesse Jackson-esque Rainbow Coalition legacy here. that was just this butt of ridicule and scorn in a lot of places during the Bush years, as I remember it. no coincidence the FUD around El-Sayed's win (he "underperformed"? you don't get to warp to the Bonus Stage and get extra lives if you get an 8% swing lol) come from former war on terror ghouls