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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2�#49879670)

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2�#49880470)

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?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2�#49880516)

So, how do you do it in the context of the constitution?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2�#49880530)

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2�#49880277)

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5863212&forum_id=2�#49880440)