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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Phrasing matters. The US didn’t ‘get left behind’, it chose to be backward.

    Others advertised loud and clear they were pulling ahead; the US slammed the brakes. Consciously and rationally. Others invited the US to lead or at least just join. Nope.

    The US is too busy pulling itself apart. Power to you my friends, but the world is moving on. Without you. It will take pain and time, but we will.

    In the meantime, please forgo passive aggressive phrasing like ‘getting left behind’. It’s not being done to you, it’s your own choosing.




  • This is kinda Jocobins main point:

    Centrist Democrat leaders like Jeffries and Schumer are spending this moment emphasizing that the shutdown is Trump’s fault because he was inflexible about negotiating. Meanwhile, left-wing leaders like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are emphasizing that it’s already a moral obscenity that America doesn’t guarantee health care to all its people as a right, and they’ll be damned if they vote for anything that will make our health care system even more cruel than it already is.