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Oomox when did you get into politics? U weren’t before iirc
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 4:05 PM Author: aggressive mind-boggling ladyboy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49861995) |
Date: May 3rd, 2026 4:26 PM Author: Multi-colored Adulterous Newt Gaza woke me up tbh. I mean I was already disillusioned before that, like in 2021 I decided I'm not even gonna vote anymore because it doesn't matter, corporations control everything, etc. But when a genocide was all over my newsfeed, I started following the Middle East closely and learning about the history. And I started following the money. Knowing politicians are corrupt is one thing. But seeing all these babies exploded by U.S. bombs and then watching Congress give Netanyahu a fucking standing ovation... I started to see how truly compromised our government is by Israel and the MIC. How truly evil the ruling class is. And since then, I've kept up consistently as well as done some political stuff irl that I won't go into bc outing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49862053) |
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Date: May 10th, 2026 6:54 PM Author: hasidic kike (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49879002) |
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Date: May 10th, 2026 9:50 PM Author: Fucking Fuckface Won't go into? What, you don't trust us? I can't believe it! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49879312) |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 2:48 AM Author: oomox Sometimes I think about how I might have considered running for something later in life but I fully compromised myself by oversharing on the internet for years. I always wonder how many other millennials are in a similar situation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49879564) |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 3:51 AM Author: ....,....,.......,.........,....,.,.... Graham Platner poasted about dumb blacks and had a Nazi tattoo ljl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49879595) |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 3:59 AM Author: oomox Pretty sure he just posted lefty stuff, at least that's what I've heard about his Reddit history. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49879598) |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 4:02 AM Author: ....,....,.......,.........,....,.,.... He literally wrote about how blacks behave in public, how they don't tip etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49879600) |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 4:02 AM Author: oomox Damn that's crazy if true (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49879601) |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 8:25 AM Author: Fucking Fuckface It was something I briefly considered, but I knew it would need to be determined by whether Americans proved worthy of sacrificing for
We're not, so I won't. These motherfuckers are going to let it all collapse into outright authoritarianism. And thanks to our school system, even if they surprise me by having a revolution, it's going to be to install authoritarianism without realizing it |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 3:03 PM Author: oomox Good point. I do often sigh and say, "I guess we deserve this" when there's a terrible consequence of our repeatedly electing awful leaders. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49880252) |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 3:08 PM Author: Fucking Fuckface If you had to summarize your values when it comes to governance and the purpose of government, how would you summarize it? It's really that answer that determines whether politics would be a waste of time/effort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49880261) |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 4:37 PM Author: oomox It sounds obvious but it comes down to representing the people rather than donors. Anyone who has that one principle of "I genuinely intend to serve my constituents above all else" is already a 95th %ile candidate IMO. If I ran it'd just be to take the seat from someone who DIDN'T intend to serve the people.
For policy I'd summarize my views as progressive populism, closest to someone like Bernie. Personally my #1 thing would be divesting from war, that's really important to me. IMO the future of the entire world, but especially the U.S., depends on it. Second most important thing would be fighting corruption and trying to save electoral politics. I'd want publicly-funded elections, term limits for Congress, and anything else to decrease the influence of money in politics because that's the #1 reason things are so garbage for everyday people here IMO. Beyond that, I'd want common-sense shit that everyone across the political spectrum supports when asked in plain English without words like "socialized," like having ultra rich people pay a tiny bit more in taxes so we can have XYZ benefit. |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 5:00 PM Author: Fucking Fuckface Better than what we have by virtue of seeking to actually represent instead of enrich and self-aggrandize
Key for me: what do you do when your constituents want things that are contrary to the constitution/constitutional limits? Do you try to do it anyway, or do you push for, and require, an amendment before acting?
On a similar angle, is it a living/breathing document in the sense that its contours change along with popular [judicial?] sentiment, or does it live and breathe only by being amended? |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 5:14 PM Author: oomox I actually hadn't thought about constitutionality. It really depends on the issue, but I think I'm more like, "As long as it's obviously in line with the spirit of the Constitution we don't need an Amendment." I'm not a lawmo though so I can't say for sure. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49880525) |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 5:21 PM Author: Fucking Fuckface This isn't about a right/wrong answer (though obviously I think there is a right answer). If you're elected, you don't get a 3 year sabbatical to get a JD
So, how do you do it in the context of the constitution? |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 5:43 PM Author: oomox Do you have an example because idk what a situation would look like where something is a good idea but unconstitutional. Thinking about it, if I imagine a scenario where I'm like "yes this law sounds great" and then someone raises a constitutional objection and their case is convincing, I think I'd say "oh shit you're right let's rework this." It seems like the principled take. But in practice maybe it's more complicated than that because of whatever archaic stuff is in there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49880547) |
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Date: May 12th, 2026 9:37 AM Author: Fucking Fuckface There are a bunch of examples that don't require legal understanding of things like the commerce clause, particularly around police powers (FISA, NSA surveillance, FBI parallel construction to prosecute, etc.) and the regulatory state (ceding Congressional authority to regulatory bodies like EPA, SEC, etc.). But the specifics aren't really important. The idea is whether or not you recognize hard limits on power regardless of whatever constituents or donors want
The "whatever archaic stuff is in there" is the actual compact between the government and the people. It's the single, tenuous thread that makes bearable being born into a legal regime you had no say in creating or shaping. Pushing it aside when inconvenient debases politics and makes it impossible for people to explore what is right and wrong in society, and how to change things. It's also authoritarian to unilaterally change the compact out of convenience
You seem to mean well, and I wouldn't recommend that you ever get legal training. Con law in particular is a total fraud. But part of the reason things are falling apart is because of the malleability of "reality." We need to turn away from that instead of leaning into it
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Date: May 12th, 2026 12:42 PM Author: oomox Yeah my final answer is my intuition in the last poast. If someone convinced me that there was a constitutional issue with a law that I otherwise liked, I wouldn't vote for it; I'd advocate for changing it.
Doesn't matter anyways cuz I compromised myself and will never run |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 6:26 PM Author: Multi-colored Adulterous Newt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49862356) |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 3:18 PM Author: a rich inner world (luis) oomox tp's return as a Jewish Anti-Zionist poster is a 180 development.
I've felt sympathy for the palestinians since i started reading about Israel-Palestine at age 18. Back then, I remember going to a screening of a documentary called "occupation 101" on campus, which was mostly about how the occupation of gaza and the west bank impacted palestinians iirc. After the screening, there was a Q&A panel led by some professors and a bunch of angry unhinged Zionists from some jewish student organization showed up to scream at the panel about how anti-semitic and wrong it was to screen a movie critical of Israel. lol. Decided to avoid talking about the topic with most people IRL after that.
The Gaza Genocide made me speak up about it more IRL, and i even strained a few IRL relationships but who cares.
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Date: May 11th, 2026 4:18 PM Author: oomox 180000 history of solidarity. I'm so sorry that that group of fucking psychos succeeded in silencing you for a while. Yes I've also been loud as fuck about it IRL since the genocide and it's definitely worth the people I've alienated.
I wish I'd known earlier. I had never thought about Israel in my life, let alone what they were doing to their neighbors. I had the vague impression that they were bad in some way because I remembered early on in college meeting someone who said they were Jewish but didn't support Israel. I just never had much interest in world affairs so I never looked into wtf they were talking about. I had zero knowledge of the history, not even the idea that it was established as a Jewish state after the Holocaust, let alone the fact that it was stolen land. I just thought of it as a place where Jewish people lived; the possibility that it was an ethnostate never occurred to me.
I'm embarrassed to admit to my ignorance but at least I'm thankful I didn't grow up with Jewish culture brainwashing me about the "state" of "Israel." I've mentioned this here before but my mom told me a couple years ago that in Hebrew school they taught them songs about how Israel was an empty desert and then Jews came and made it fertile and built a thriving culture. That's the story they tell Jewish kids, that it was "a land without people for a people without a land." I'd sent her a clip of an interview with Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's (180000 anti-Israel Jew) where he described that propaganda. She confirmed that she was taught the same thing and linked some songs. I asked her when she found out that it was stolen land and there were 750,000 Palestinians there that they displaced or murdered. All she wrote was "recently" so I think it might have been just then. |
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Date: May 12th, 2026 12:18 AM Author: a rich inner world (luis) Very interesting. Doesn’t surprise me that there are some obvious Zionist myths/lies that are passed down like that. Gabor mate often talks about that too. What the last few years in Gaza woke me up about is the fact that there is a very loud and obnoxious minority of Zionist Iranians out there who really love Israel. It almost makes me feel like being anti-genocide as an Iranian is somewhat like being a Jewish person speaking up against Israel lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49881185) |
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Date: May 12th, 2026 12:43 AM Author: oomox Yep, Zionism is propagated by hasbara almost as much as by white supremacy. Wow, I'm surprised it's a popular enough opinion for them to make a lot of noise. You mean Iranians here or in Iran or both? Ugh the Zios are fucking everywhere.
Speaking of them being everywhere, did you know about how Argentina is about to take 300K Israeli refugees and give them their own area that no one else is allowed to live in? It's the area where the fires burned everything down... https://youtu.be/ibOiyun6TP8 |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: Paralegal Marandi (Death, death to the IDF!) oomox? is this box tp? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49880443) |
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Date: May 11th, 2026 4:39 PM Author: Bow tie niggas always have very strong opinions (Arkan and Historical American's eyes suddenly bolt open) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2...id#49880474) |
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Date: May 12th, 2026 12:26 AM Author: UN peacekeeper Date: May 11th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: Paralegal Marandi (Death, death to the IDF!)
oomox? is this box tp?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2#49880443) |