Costco, our electrician, Darn Tough socks, the guys that did our brick repointing. That little hardware store at 45th and Walnut. Doc Martens, at least until private equity dug its claws in

"i am engaging in capitalism"

bsky: shut yo bitch ass up!!

"i am engaging in capitalism, At Costco."

bsky: ALL GLORY TO THE KIRKLAND BRAND AND OUR COSTCO OVERLORDS.

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.

wrote about class first leftism here. Ben Burgis completely lost his shit and acted like I was slandering him...which is not what the essay is doing. medium.com/arc-digital/...

and you shouldn't trust either of them, imo.

anyway. the point is that it's a quite deliberate strategy for ryan grim to go on bannon's show.

they generally think this in part because they're white people who dislike the idea that they might be participating in oppression, and/or dislike the idea that other people may have experiences of oppression they should listen to.

basically some people on the "left"—Jimmy Dore for example—believe that white populist class first leftism is the true ideology of the oppressed, and think that concern about racism, sexism, homophobia, etc, is an elite boondoggle meant to distract from class oppression.

horseshoe theory isn't really a thing...except to the extent that certain fash curious folks on the left and right want it to exist or to bring it into being.

BUT!

When he gets to the part that's always quoted, he's not admitting that the Reagan-era GOP was an extension of that. Indeed, at one point he directly denies Reagan-era
Republicans have any connection to it.

He's not affirming Lamis. He's mocking him as a conspiracy theorist.

As I noted here, if you listen to the full interview, Atwater readily admits that the Nixon-era southern strategy was a very real thing and based on "coded racism"

Grim, like many people, seizes on this key passage where Atwater is apparently confessing the dark secret about the Southern Strategy: