AnimeIsTrash posted:

I too love the lady who doesn't push back at Sam's lib takes.

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A recently released report by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst has added new evidence of the state Democratic Party’s involvement in the public attack on Alex Morse just ahead of his primary against Rep. Richard Neal. It also found that Morse, formerly an adjunct professor at the school, did not violate university policies, yet the report still delved deeply into Morse’s private dating life with other adults.

In early August, just a few weeks prior to the election against Neal, chair of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, a number of college students made vague accusations of impropriety against Morse, the youngest and first openly gay mayor of Holyoke.

The involvement of state party officials, who coordinated with the Massachusetts College Democrats to accuse Morse of sexual impropriety, was first revealed by The Intercept and later confirmed by an internal review by the Massachusetts Democratic Party. The new report, however, includes emails and text messages indicating that party attorney Jim Roosevelt took a more active role in the dissemination of the smear than previously known. It also reveals that party leaders were more involved in walking students through media and legal strategies than they had previously admitted. In an interview with The Intercept, Roosevelt denied the allegations; Mass Dems Executive Director Veronica Martinez implied in an email that the new report exonerated party leadership.

The UMass report, issued on January 13 by the law firm Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, found not only no evidence of wrongdoing by Morse, but also that he was not accused of anything that would have violated the school policy.

Shipon posted:

falling for that completely bad faith smear, lmao

Deified Data posted:

Didn't know Norm Finkelstein went to bat for David Irving though, had to double check that obviously. It's a shame as I did enjoy his interview on trueanon and came away from it pretty much 100% on his side.

gh0stpinballa posted:

That particular federal agent has written that exact article about 20 times now. Anarchists and self-described Antifa™️ people seem to fall for this redbrownanon horseshit the easiest, why is that?

Deified Data posted:

it owns that that article is pretty much just about Jimmy Dore and Red Scare, the alt-left is huge and quite menacing it seems

Didn't know Norm Finkelstein went to bat for David Irving though, had to double check that obviously. It's a shame as I did enjoy his interview on trueanon and came away from it pretty much 100% on his side. I don't think he's a holocaust denier of course but obviously his work has given him his own flavor of brain worms. I do not think we have anything meaningful to learn from David Irving lol, except maybe as an example of how not to advocate anti-zionism

gh0stpinballa posted:

That particular federal agent has written that exact article about 20 times now. Anarchists and self-described Antifa™️ people seem to fall for this redbrownanon horseshit the easiest, why is that?

Farm Frenzy posted:

aside from some confused tumblr teens the only people ive seen really talk about this poo poo are the dude that wrote that article, gwen snyder, antifash gordon and peter soeller. who are all definitely feds

Maximo Roboto posted:

Bruenig v. Cass

https://twitter.com/SolidarityWonk/status/1369004974227787779

Xaris posted:

on this particular anti-chapo crusade of sewage: yea it's very small handful they just rotate through. There's a larger tangentially relatively related group of late 00s/10s OWS "leaders" (i.e. Molly Crapapple) and interlayered vice/vox/medium/motherjones/buzzfeed/twitter bluecheck/tumblr superstars in-and-out of various think-tanks that all write or constantly boost Very Serious Journalism About The Dangers of Podcast Left in an satanic-panic equivalency and mostly exist solely to tut-tut and show how extremely woke they are. ozma would made them mods 100%

i don't like to call everything feds (beside bellingcat which is 100% the feds) because it mislays the blame of people being loving stupid as just being intentionally corrupted and not just people being willfully evil and stupid of their own volition.

Finicums Wake posted:

matt bruenig rules so i'll listen anyway

Protagorean posted:

idk bro what was your theory again?

Protagorean posted:

idk bro what was your theory again?

some plague rats posted:

I do not know how they could have made this sound less interesting

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A former adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, Cass and his newly founded think tank American Compass have spent the Trump era trying to develop an agenda for a genuinely pro-worker conservative party. At the heart of Cass’s vision is a call for providing collective-bargaining rights to virtually all U.S. workers. On Labor Day, American Compass released a more modest proposal: a resolution calling on conservatives to adopt the general goal of reforming and reinvigorating “the laws that govern organizing and collective bargaining” because “strong worker representation can make America stronger.” Florida senator Marco Rubio and an array of conservative thinkers have signed on to this statement.

Intelligencer recently spoke with Cass about his vision for a pro-worker conservatism and why he believes that, in the not-too-distant future, the Republican Party could embrace a labor agenda too radical for many present-day Democrats.

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So a quintessential example is very strict hours-related rules. In the U.S., we mandate time and a half for overtime. And yet, at the same time, firms are allowed to have all of these terrible scheduling practices — on-call scheduling, constant changes in scheduling, and so forth. It seems to me that workers and management would often want to agree that, for instance, overtime would not necessarily be paid at time and a half, especially if you have people who want more hours. But, in exchange for forfeiting that benefit from the framework agreement, the workers are going to get much more consistency and certainty about the scheduling of hours.

I think that kind of flexibility — and collaborative labor-management relationship — at the firm level is something both sides prefer. If you look at surveys of American workers — the seminal study of this is the one that Richard Freeman did in the ’90s called “What Workers Want” — by a huge majority, they say they would prefer a collaborative relationship with management to an adversarial one, even if that means having less power.

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The main exception to the prevailing vagueness was on the subject of “industrial policy,” or the idea that the U.S. government should take steps to promote (and in some cases subsidize) American firms in strategic industries. The most prominent name calling for an industrial policy was Oren Cass, Mitt Romney’s former policy adviser, who managed to convince a room full of Republicans that the government should, in fact, be taking steps to boost American industry. Yet Cass’s version of industrial policy is fairly tame, and not overly offensive to traditional GOP sensibilities — his big ideas are wage subsidies and a repeal of 1970s-era environmental regulations. The Apollo program, it is not.

Farm Frenzy posted:

yea im exaggerating a bit and theyre probably mostly morons but i think at least one of the big antifa news aggregator twitters has to be a fed. itd just be a really useful cover for playing both sides

some plague rats posted:

I've gotten very into the Bruenigs podcast lately. It's a good listen

Also very much enjoying the trashfuture Britainology spinoff, the Falklands one is incredible fun

AnEdgelord posted:

Found them

https://twitter.com/donaldp1917/status/1366525165941702661?s=19

HashtagGirlboss posted:

Probably not too different than GBS or FYAD or wherever, but C-Spam has a national reputation, and people who choose to post here often choose to based off of the national reputation (and also make up a pretty big portion of the population in the core parts of the forum), and when they get here they start to wear that reputation as part of their identity. Once "very lefty" is part of your identity because you post somewhere, you need to start to bend whatever that vague term means so that you continue to satisfy the definition.

Honest Thief posted:

that article is causing lots of drama on twitter where some are holding it over mutuals heads for listening to this and that pod, theres probably some marx quote about how drama is praxis but

crazy eyes mustafa posted:

a normal non-online person when I mention “praxis”:

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

https://twitter.com/lucassantobouge/status/1369129288306331649?s=21

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

Honest Thief posted:

that article is causing lots of drama on twitter where some are holding it over mutuals heads for listening to this and that pod, theres probably some marx quote about how drama is praxis but

V. Illych L. posted:

this is a joke, right

V. Illych L. posted:

this is a joke, right

Atrocious Joe posted:

these people sound like dummies'

Honest Thief posted:

thats his name alright