196cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/69592
Abdul El-Sayed Triumphs Over Haley Stevens in $60M Loss for AIPAC, Corporations
Former public health official Abdul El-Sayed has achieved a dominant win in Michigan’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, winning by a narrow margin over Rep. Haley Stevens in a ground-shaking triumph over the $60 million spent by AIPAC and corporations to oppose him. With over 95 percent of the vote counted, El-Sayed had 48.5 percent of the vote, compared to Stevens’s 47.5…
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That's a fucking insane level of spending to not win.
Uh, 48.5 to 47.5 isn't a "triumph" or a "dominant win".
It's surprising and seismic, but it was a narrow victory. I hear Piker's livestream was full of people screaming at each other last night when they were starting the night expecting to romp.
Last minute, El-Sayed also definitely seemed cocky.
If you're not going to help row the boat jump off and start swimming back to shore.
Demagogues aren't left📣
No true scottsma📣
Glad you can admit then🤣
Demagogues predate the left/right conception of politics by about 2200 years
I am unsure your point here.
Slavery predates democracies.
Does this mean we should keep slavery?
Likewise, senates are not civilian empowering and intersecting positions.
I've been thinking and wondering about this sort of thing. Are demagogues not left because they're authority figures, and true left-right spectrum is anarchism vs. authoritarianism?
Depends 1) who is saying this 2) and for what means.
Truthout is an established neoliberal news corporation (1). They have the vested interest to maintain dominance of your attention on what they want you to focus on (2). For this particular case, they are lying to the audience that Abdul El-Sayed will vote in the Senate toward leftist agendas, all the while not actually doing leftist work.
I am a black anarchist (1). I go out of my way to feed people, house people, intersect issues, etc.. My interest is empowering you and me to ensure our needs are met. Thus I have vested interest in maintaining honest relationships, speaking truthfully, and earning your camaraderie (2). When I say a senator is not the left, I mean it in what constitutes actions that empower our lives. Demagogues only empower their agendas, while we have to empower ourselves.
Liberals in this network downrank comments that point out this hypocrisy. They hate the truth, because it is not in their interest to support each other. They want us squabbling over if the senate will return our stolen wealth.
