Sami Gold
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Writer/essayist @ Liberal Currents. Eventual Twitter refugee
@souljagoyteller on Twitter, for all who’ve abandoned hope
- Reposted by Sami GoldWow a legend passes…
- Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez outflanking Ritchie Torres lmfao
- Here are the 51 House Dems who do not yet appear to have co-sponsored @robinkelly.house.gov's resolution to impeach Kristi Noem. I stress "appear" because congress.gov's list of co-sponsors does not update in real time. Full list of where all members stand here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Thanks Sulu!
- Reposted by Sami GoldCaptive Dreamer famously told Sami Gold his family should've died in the Holocaust.
- Reposted by Sami GoldYears from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.
- Reposted by Sami GoldI spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.
- So happy about Zohran
- Brigitte Bardot and William F. Buckley Jr., 1965
- The bigger issue is that Biden was partially elected as a throwback to a more stable, calm world order, and he failed at that. The facade really cracked with Afghanistan, but it was his utter impotence in dealing with Israel’s genocide that sealed the deal
- To be fair, Biden didn’t help his case by nakedly supporting one of the most horrific genocides in modern memory, and Kamala refused to even pander to voters affected by their genocide
- A map of some of the most prominent people the late Norman Podhoretz beefed with
- Reposted by Sami GoldI hear there's discourse about race and employment in the US
- Idk, according to Letterboxd he’s acted in bunches of things
- Reposted by Sami GoldNight Fishing at Antibes botfrens.com/collections/111/con…
- This happened to my buddy Greg
- For the 900th time: I shall try to post on here too, probably to no avail. Silencio
- They posting anything on Hinge these days
- Shantih Shantih Shantih
- Reposted by Sami Gold"Such are the vagaries of the liberal conscience" lmao
- Reposted by Sami GoldIn the event that tomorrow’s speech is a declaration of further aggression against Venezuela, you should respond in a way that will let you hold your head high years from now, even if it is difficult in the present.
- I am hearing that on his deathbed Norman Podhoretz received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
- When will Dems realize that no one is buying them doing Ronald Reagan shtick lol
- One of those 4-D chess moves that fails upon first thought. Reagan exists as a signifier, not as an actual demarcator of conservative positions
- Reposted by Sami GoldSo, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
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- Happy birthday to me
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- I got Vanguard Wafdist! How about you?
- NEW from my Substack: Why I voted for Zohran Mamdani open.substack.com/pub/shmuliks...
- Reposted by Sami Goldthe worst chickenshit in American history www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
- Thinking about the time I was in a Sarajevo hostel this summer and I somehow mentioned I was Jewish to this Turkish guy there and he politely asked me for financial advice and to increase his credit score. Probably the most wholesome form of antisemitism I’ve ever experienced
- What the fuck is that hairdo bro
- Sorry, seeing the Yankees lose to the Jays was my own personal Afghanistan. Not going through this
- Reposted by Sami Goldthis is completely inarguable to anyone who actually *looks* at the data we have
- Incredible
- Reposted by Sami GoldTwo main conclusions from this Fuentes-Carlson interview: 1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n
- I’m terrible at math. What’s the TLDR behind this being a facepalm
- It’s especially aggravating because it acts as if the reaction to these policies would be the exact same if they were propagated by a president who could actually speak and talk and think
- This nearly total retconning, by Dems themselves, of what the Democratic Party was actually doing between 2017 and 2024 is becoming really pervasive (esp in policy world) and I honestly don't have a good explanation for why the party is treating the babies (ARP, BIL, IRA) as if they're the bathwater
- The entire Biden presidency is something that can’t be generally mapped out statistically, there are so many qualifiers to everything he did based on the simple fact that he was old
- Reposted by Sami GoldThis is a good example of what I mean when I talk about how discourse about Israel/Palestine in the US (and especially in Liberal Zionist circles) treats the Occupation itself and Israeli state policy as entirely incidental to the entire situation. It's very weird.
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“When you drill down on the actual task of reforming the NYPD, the enormity—and complexity—of the task becomes apparent.” - What the hell are you talking about
- The fact that Biden was the most unpopular president in polling and was constantly losing in the polls isn’t enough for you?
- Beyond being a war criminal, Biden wrecked American democracy for his own lousy ego. The fact that this isn’t conventional wisdom on this website is insane
- Reposted by Sami Gold“Well, this is getting nowhere fast.”
- It also acts as if the Democratic Party is a stronger institution than it actually is
- American political parties are incredibly weak and diffuse. In no other major Western system could a figure like Donald Trump come out of nowhere to take an entrenched party the way he did.
- “Talk about popular policies, don’t talk about unpopular ones”
- This stuff is genuinely anti-intellectual, I swear to god
- Then they’ll just break the law. Who’s going to stop them? Who has the guns?
- This is why it’s necessary to read Carl Schmitt
- Reposted by Sami GoldView and plan of Toledo wikiart.org/en/el-greco/view-an…
- Tag yourself in Who You’d Be in 1917 Russia, I got Menshevik-Internationalist
- If you took a shot every time an interwar dictator said they were “neither right or left”, you’d die of alcohol poisoning within 30 minutes
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- Gotta be honest, as someone who prefers Twitter, the BlueSky haters are absolutely coping
- What’s up Bluesky
- Me and the boys ended history last night and none of y’all were there
