Post Ay09CmJS5FXvGB4fjc by serverlessaoife@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Ay081Sj8Skw9NO7zcm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T15:58:40Z
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Jose Vega has announced that he will challenge my congressman Ritchie Torres. Unfortunately, he's a LaRouchie. So... yeah. Not thrilled about THAT.Jose Vega said he will not attempt to run for the Democratic nomination unless Torres has no Democratic challenger by January. If Torres has no challenger then he will enter the primary. Jose is 26 years old. He seems like a nice young man, but I need to talk to him about the problem with LaRouchies...
(DIR) Post #Ay08GSwlvYR0Ozf0zo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T16:01:22Z
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The particular part of the Bronx where I live has a long history of radical politics. Most people who live here and remember it don't have warm memories of some of the things that happened because it came during a time of historic disinvestment. LaRouchies are ostensibly "left wing" but sometimes they will traffic in total conspiratorial nonsense. These are people who are deeply alienated. And often with good reasons.
(DIR) Post #Ay08LRozXUoUMLOfGi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T16:02:16Z
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I, however am a relentless practical person and I just want us to have good representation. Someone who isn't owned by a PAC, an industry or a movement. Maybe it is too much to hope for.
(DIR) Post #Ay08WmVox4BliSpmUK by ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us
2025-09-08T16:04:17Z
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@futurebird You are being more polite than I could describing Lyndon Larouche and his acolytes.
(DIR) Post #Ay08fLsBMiaRhaNdZ2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T16:05:50Z
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There is a LaRouche foundation and I think Jose has raised a little money and has support from the rather modest, if sometimes loud and obnoxious non-profit. Torres is in big trouble so we need to find someone to run or this guy might get in. I do not want to hear about the left wing version of Jewish space lasers from my congressman. pleas. :(
(DIR) Post #Ay08pVXkGYZeadfDAu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T16:07:43Z
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@ohmu IDK why they won't go away. I guess it's the damn foundation.
(DIR) Post #Ay08qf9S1pvEg8qpIu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T16:07:54Z
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@goaty HELL NO
(DIR) Post #Ay08uiTfbWEe9XF1AO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T16:08:35Z
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@goaty Listen, if I find someone I can respect I'll do their stats and mailing lists for them. I will do it for free.
(DIR) Post #Ay095MpoPc6iDKg1JI by LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social
2025-09-08T16:10:33Z
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@futurebird This never made sense to me, because LaRouche himself ran as a Democrat but was to the right of Reagan.
(DIR) Post #Ay09CmJS5FXvGB4fjc by serverlessaoife@mastodon.social
2025-09-08T16:11:53Z
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@futurebird Not my district, but amazing that they managed to find a challenger so bad he'd make me vote for Torres.
(DIR) Post #Ay09PrbDjudpQ8coWe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T16:14:17Z
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@serverlessaoife I don't think anyone "found" him the LaRouchies have noticed that Torres runs unopposed and are using this to raise their profile and may even get a few dozen new members from this. The Democratic party has created a gap and they don't understand that SOMETHING will move in to fill it. and the something could be just ...ANYTHING.
(DIR) Post #Ay09VIZQtAS0WBNe1g by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T16:15:16Z
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@serverlessaoife If he enters the primary he'll get a lot of protest votes, then bigger media will need to discuss them. I think that's the goal.
(DIR) Post #Ay09escqCs7awlXko4 by ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us
2025-09-08T16:16:58Z
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@futurebird 💰💰
(DIR) Post #Ay09gQ1bVvNQp4rN5s by serverlessaoife@mastodon.social
2025-09-08T16:17:17Z
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@futurebird True, that was bad wording on my part. I've been seeing relatively alot of LaRouchite propaganda around lately and idk what to even think anymore.
(DIR) Post #Ay09oCIcQfNoZQWlX6 by JamesWidman@mastodon.social
2025-09-08T16:18:39Z
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@futurebird @goaty this is really close to the problem tho: everyone who actually has the traits that most people want & need in a politician would never dream of going into politics, and the kind of person who *wants* the job is way too likely to just feel attracted to positions of power (which doesn't help us).
(DIR) Post #Ay0AZWQtOJKgcixnlo by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-09-08T16:27:11Z
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@futurebird I would categorize most of their ideas as really more extreme-right, though many of the ideas eventually got folded into standard Republican Party politics. Their MO is usually to run Democratic primary candidates, though. They were ahead of the curve in endorsing completely whack ideas about science. The claim you hear sometimes that some recent volcanic eruption emitted more of pollutant [x] (where [x] varies--it's usually greenhouse gases today) than all of human civilization? Comes originally from one of LaRouche's crank science journals, though the claim keeps mutating. I think it was originally about ozone-destroying chemicals (but false either way).
(DIR) Post #Ay0AxFF2xUtqFxjc24 by funkula@goblin.camp
2025-09-08T16:31:28Z
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@futurebird I don't know where the "movement" is at now but there was never anything left about larouche himself. He was just a plain fascist doing entryism
(DIR) Post #Ay0B2Lla7wgbwNO3cG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T16:32:26Z
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@LinuxAndYarn They constantly claim they are "Marxist" I don't even know what that means when they say it or what they think it means.
(DIR) Post #Ay0B7zahUJwityzJFQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T16:33:27Z
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@mattmcirvin They were spreading COVID misinformation at my subway station too.
(DIR) Post #Ay0BOt4gy72tcC4Xr6 by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T16:36:21Z
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@futurebird I am not willing to dismiss all movements as bad. Depending on the movement, loyalty to a movement could be a good thing, or at least compatible with good things, and in all but the worst cases (such as end-times religions), loyalty to a movement is far preferable to a PAC or an industry.
(DIR) Post #Ay0BT1VpXUrewUjphI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T16:37:16Z
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@llewelly Maybe.
(DIR) Post #Ay0C5GDNKBuPXrL4bo by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-09-08T16:44:08Z
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@futurebird At the height of the AIDS pandemic they were spreading homophobic lies about that, claiming you could catch it as an airborne contagion and calling for gay people to be rounded up into camps.
(DIR) Post #Ay0CftwF6uBfAenTKy by YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world
2025-09-08T16:50:43Z
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@futurebird A "left libertarian" is too often a kreepy kloset klansman who wants legal pot to smoke while unironically spinning their collection of Grateful Dead shows.Just saying.
(DIR) Post #Ay0TYBuQ6vLdoGqzi4 by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-09-08T19:59:53Z
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@futurebird The LaRoucheies are climate deniers, fossil fuel industry stooges, and supporters of all manner of hard right nonsense. They haven't done anything "leftist" since the 1960s, and anyone who thinks they're still "leftist" has been living in a nonsense universe longer than I've been alive.
(DIR) Post #Ay0qRF6A9UVmcW0BKy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-09T00:16:20Z
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@bipolaron @ohmu ...You know I'm good. I don't want to know. (I haven't seen them for two years but they were active during COVID around my neighborhood.)