I agree if *we* are the intended audience but El-Sayed's intended audience are the Tommys of Michigan they will see that critique as whataboutism. I think his calculation here is not to drive a wedge between himself and the bigots but instead to get the bigots to recognize their shared humanity.

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This answer is why El-Sayed, Nixon, Mamdani, Kiros, Rabb and others are succeeding so damn well in their races, and why a bozo like Platner crashed and burned despite getting all the fucking white leftist glowup possible. They don't agree with the man's politics, but they understand what he did.

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Police tactics are changing, and specifically, the US is exporting our policing tactics elsewhere.

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it's frankly also overestimating how much anime the audience for the malfoid stuff is actually watching.

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Tonight we read the heartrending words of those who lost Israeli loved ones on Oct 7th — and Palestinian loved ones in the three years since. We said kaddish for all of them. We refused to compromise on anyone’s humanity. No amount of shouting stopped us. May their memory be for a blessing.

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