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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of my most favorite 1980s childhood heroes. She had a heart of gold. RIP Dolly Parton 😢

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of my childhood heroes. She still had so much love and joy to share. RIP Dolly Parton 😢

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Nick Hanauer @nickhanauer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you are Catholic, I urge you to read this terrific article on the intersection of Market Humanism with Pope Leo's new Encyclical. betterpolitics.substack.com/p/magnifica-...

betterpolitics.substack.com

Magnifica Humanitas and Markets Built for Humans

An initial look how a new "market humanism" can foster the reception of MH

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What is even “The Establishment” anymore? The code du jour creating a permission structure for anti-Black and anti-Jew sentiment. How will leaving our principles behind create the power needed to effectuate positive change? Progressivism requires pragmatism and organizing, not vapid emotionalism.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The intense hate for and projection onto @neeratanden.bsky.social and @shannonrwatts.bsky.social from the left over on the Bad Place seem dripped in heavy misogyny. Wasn’t surprised by the usual bleaters — but honestly feel disappointed prominent influencers that should know better are partaking.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Yeah not sure what happened, or maybe I’m not super active 😅 Also, while I’m an avid reader, this is just free knowledge out there. It just so happens that the far left cryers are fucking privileged babies who accept being spoon fed by mentally disturbed people thus don’t use critical thinking.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"Entryism," a communist tactic to hijack bigger political parties since 1919 Third International. DSA founders set anti-communist guardrails. After 2016 entry communist factions successfully removed the rules in 2025 ousting original anti-communist members. What happened in 2016? *cough* Bernie Bros

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Online far leftists who’ve been fed a diluted form of Marxist-Leninism, most recently by the post-2016 DSA, mistakenly believe in powerful central committees in the shadows because that’s how communist “democratic centralism” works to set policy directives and provide orders to indoctrinated cadres.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The Democratic "establishment" is such a nebulous and disorganized thing they very often aren't even on the same page with each other. Consider how many contested primaries have senators, not just Sanders but other totally mainstream liberals, endorsing different opposing candidates.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The way the far left since inception solves the incoherency of contradictory *simultaneous demands* is by forcing purity tests, then excommunicating all who don’t toe the new party line.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This seemingly incoherent communist ideological doctrine 180 tactic is called “the party line,” which “doctrinaires” repeat over and over to people until it becomes “truth.” DSA, which is not democratic socialist anymore as it’s captured by communists, does this, most recently in the Fox interviews.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

As I was saying about USSR pivot after 1967 due to Israeli joining the West, the USSR weaponized Jewish “whiteness” as a propaganda wedge, while switching support to the Arabs starting in 1955 who they previously opposed. Pretty much the entire modern far left vocabulary comes from Soviet proganda.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Okay, I’ll share that when I was there the PLO already were using civilians as human shields to score propaganda wins. PLO started off as a terrorist group, then moderated. Hamas terrorists took over Gaza from Fatah (main PLO faction) in 2007 in the Gaza Civil War, and it’s been a worse from there.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Okay, then will you stop buying pretty much every Made In China consumer good because the money you’re handing over is funding the (actual) genocide of the Uyghurs and Tibetans? Look, I too don’t enjoy innocent Palestinians being killed because Hamas uses them as human shields.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hi, you’re incorrect again. Palestinians were offered Two State peace deals by Israel in 1937, 1947, 2000, 2001, 2008. Every single time Palestinian leadership rejected the offers (90% Gaza/West bank + 10% land swap to make them whole). Rabin was assassinated in 1995 because his was the 6th attempt.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

South Sudan separated from Sudan because the Sudanese were being killed in a (actual) genocide by the Rapid Support Forces and Arab Janjaweed militias, who are supported by UAE.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I guess you’ve never been to Israel, nor Gaza (been to both, NGO/humanitarian work). Jews being characterized as “White” was also Soviet propaganda. Many Palestinians are also not “Brown.” And I’ve always supported a Two State solution where both sides can live in peace.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Again you are confusing Jewishness the ethnicity with Judaism the religion. Also: there are 100 countries younger than modern Israel out of 193 total UN members. A country was just born out of an indigenous ethnic group just in 2011 (South Sudan). Jews are indigenous to the area now known as Israel.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

secularism: the belief that religion should not be involved in organization of society and other public domains. ethnicity: belonging to a particular ethnic group, which is a community of people that share a common cultural tradition, nation, or background. You are confusing Jewish with Judaism.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’m stating easily verifiable facts. Re religious states: Israel is a secular state where Islam is practiced/tolerated while many Muslim countries have some form of religious police with authority to beat “offenders” publicly— you don’t feel alive until being chased by Saudi Mutaween as I have been.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

USSR had deep anti-Jewish policy; Lenin attacked Jews as "bourgeois nationalists." In 1948 USSR courted Israel hoping Zionism’s socialist roots would align to the East. When Israel chose the West in 1967 USSR weaponized anti-Zionism. Modern anti-Zionism derives heavily from literal Soviet propaganda

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Framing the ideological “party line” as a moral shield emotionally resonant with naive fellow travelers is nothing new for communists. Communist “intellectualism” has been disingenuous since the start. I encourage all read Black thinker Richard Wright’s own journey: bsky.app/profile/hoan...

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Second major case since 2025 of an African American found hanging in a tree in Mississippi since Trey Reed at Delta State University. In both cases authorities were quick to dismiss as suicide before pushback. RIP Tasia Fortune @phillewis.bsky.social www.mississippifreepress.org/tasia-fortun...

mississippifreepress.org

Tasia Fortune Identified as Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Jackson Home

The woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home is 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, the Hinds County Coroner’s Office said.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"They were fanatically demanding that I accept their doctrine... They were like blind men trying to guide the blind." — Richard Wright. "The God That Failed [or 'I Tried to Be a Communist']." 1949 Part1 archive.is/202410141532... Part2 archive.is/202505192237...

theatlantic.com

I Tried to Be a Communist

“I asked for a definition of what was expected from the writers—books or political activity. Both, was the answer.”

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In communication, words matter. Empty sloganeering doesn’t work on the actual working class. A certain cohort act like fantasists when what we need is practical pragmatism.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Even the Tea Party (which caused my final break with the GOP) was more organized than this lol.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed probably holds more progressive as opposed to far-left views. Pandering to far-left during the primary now looks like to be a big mistake. Words matter in communication. There are more ways than one to say something, FDR figured it out — but the far-left cadres probably won’t let him.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

DSA trajectory seems eerily similar to the Tea Party which later morphed into the MAGA cult. Makes me a bit sad because on my journey left after leaving GOP I met some genuinely well-meaning old guard DSAers who have all since left after being pushed out by the communist MUG and Red Star entryists.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I am so sick of how the far left has co-opted the progressive label, FDR, LBJ, etc. Shame on their sympathizers and fellow travelers on our side too. Progressivism is about progress, which means reform. Trying to destroy everything in order to rebuild around an exclusionary ideology is not progress.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I think people often think accounts online are bots when they're just human beings with so little ability to reason that they have reduced themselves to something indistinguishable from a machine.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

James Burnham, Frank Meyer, Whittaker Chambers all over again. Amazing how the modern GOP has major elements of Trotskyist and Marxist strategy that melded with Straussianism. They all started off as unrealistic youthful hyper-idealists before descending into becoming reactionaries.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

People in the replies who do not know the difference between the small-r *republicanism,* which is the belief in popular sovereignty, civic virtue, and the rule of law, and the Republican Party as a political party’s *brand name,* yet reply with total confidence. Peak online ultracrepidarianism.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I support PETA — People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 30/07/2026

This case infuriates me so much bc it’s a case of marginalized trans people being recruited and groomed by violent cis men into throwing away their lives to accomplish nothing,and people have presented the prosecution as if it could happen to anyone in an express effort to create more such radicalsc

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So by attacking allies and potential allies, that helps trans people somehow? The bone you have to pick is not with me. I’m one of the converted.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Literally said I’m pro trans rights, including trans sports.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Most instances of not understanding is not evidence of a -phobia. 20 years ago I didn’t understand trans people — then a close friend came out as a transwoman, which I accepted gladly after the initial shock. Need to meet people where they are. I find the continued openness to dialogue encouraging.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yeah no worries! We are on the same page that all people deserve equality, and we should ensure that happens sooner rather than later!

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We’re on the same page here.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Power — LBJ had a massive Senate supermajority and House margin, as well as an allied Warren Court. Need power to do something. The way to get to power is through pragmatism in order to get elected into power, which is not inherently moderatism. Power allows room for change.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It seems we actually believe something quite similar but are putting it into different words. But yes, once LBJ made up his mind to go with pragmatism (the moral authority route, Cold War, MLK’s counsel, etc.) he went all in — including against it the Dixiecrat faction.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

You’re absolutely correct on your examples. However the way they got there was still by pragmatic action. I support trans rights and equality for all.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Acton did meet with them: “we have updated Dr. Acton’s status in our 2026 Candidate Scorecard from an ‘A’ to ‘Pending’. This reflects our belief that accountability is still possible, and that the door remains open at this time.” They are still in conversation. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/07/28/e...

thebuckeyeflame.com

Equality Ohio changes grade for Dr. Amy Acton from ‘A’ to ‘Pending’

Decision comes after Acton failed to support transgender athletes during an interview with the Toledo Blade

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Johnson was a famous pragmatist and coalition builder, so no on LBJ being a maximalist. CRA got passed by coalition building and flipping votes through persuasion, not demands.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The most true thing I’ve learned about politics over the last decade is that people who revel in cruelty are untrustworthy allies of the left. If you follow someone who engages in and celebrates cruelty, even on social media, because you like their politics, they will betray you and those politics.

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