Seattle's star socialist, Kshama Sawant, said she wanted a revolution. Now she's trying to get one by campaigning to take Kamala Harris down in Michigan, columnist Danny Westneat writes.
“The Democrats were the party of slavery, and of slave owners — that’s in their history,” Sawant raged at one point.
The absurdity and lack of context in this statement is so fucking absurd that it made curse words that have caused me to get temporarily banned from communities on lemmy before.
Context: I live in Seattle, consider myself super left, but have despised this woman for a decade or more.
“The Democrats were the party of slavery, and of slave owners — that’s in their history,” Sawant raged at one point.
The absurdity and lack of context in this statement is so fucking absurd that it made curse words that have caused me to get temporarily banned from communities on lemmy before.
Context: I live in Seattle, consider myself super left, but have despised this woman for a decade or more.
That particular factoid is a great litmus test to tell if somebody is an absolute complete fucking moron.