kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The GI bill radically changed the make-up of colleges around the nation and made a college education a possibility for millions that otherwise wouldn’t have gone. We need to do that again. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We need make K-12 funding more equal…significantly more equal. We need to make college affordable for everyone. We need to end this idea that college is for the cream of the crop of HS students. It needs to be for anyone that wants to give it a go. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We are not failing all kids. Wealthy kids are doing fine, but we are leaving a lot of good minds behind, because their parents are poor or lower middle class. K-12 inequality is an embarrassment. We talk about equality of opportunity but make the race so unfair that it isn’t a race at all. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We have spent years trying to improve education without dealing with the primary problem…funding it. Unequal funding in K-12 and a funding crisis in college. Our success as a country depends on how well we educate our kids and we are failing. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This California Educational Juggernaut Doesn’t Need the SAT www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o... The thought that universities need to be selective needs to end. We need to invest in education. We need to stop judging universities based on the kids that enter and judge them on how well they teachnytimes.comOpinion | The University of California Dumped the SAT. Let’s Not Bring It Back.There are more intractable underlying issues to tackle. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 13/07/2026MCS - Most Craven Senator! It will be like Jordan/Lebron debate, but between Graham and Vance. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 13/07/2026How come I don’t believe this? I guess I am just a cynic. 1110
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Ugly tennis…reminds of the 90’s. Hit serve walk to other side, repeat #wimbledon 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026In my opinion, socialism is government that does just that. It puts society above money. It protects individual rights, but limits the rights of ownership when it threatens the rights of others. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026It is just totalitarian authoritarianism with some Marxist dogma slapped on for the sake of propaganda. Nordic countries hew closer to socialism than capitalism, but global forces are causing inequalities there as well. We need a solution that limits the power of money. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I don’t think that you have a very nuanced understanding of capitalism, free market economies and socialism. Not a criticism. Socialism is not a single ideology and not all socialists are against free markets or private ownership. Soviet style government is not socialism, 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The problem is that it leads to a fractured party that cannot make change. I am no fan of ideological purity, but this Democratic Party has zero convictions except collecting money. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Honestly, I think we all are at a loss for what to do. I have a job and a family and 12 hour days don’t lend themselves to activity. I always vote and donate, but running in Ohio is a waste of energy. Ohio is a lost cause (not in the civil war sense) . 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026offer nothing new. They don’t change people’s lives. They support the current free market ideology and they are comfy in their seats of power. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I have been absolutely consistent from 2016 until now. The party is rooted in fund raising from the wealthy and they fear economically radical positions (radical for 2026, middle of the road in 1970). This party will never change the win/lose/win/lose pattern that we have seen, because they 300
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I never negotiated down. I hate the process that allows people to be tried and convicted on twitter. I think metoo was a mistake, because attacking individuals was counterproductive. I wonder if the DNC was motivated not to properly vet Platner, because it will cool the outsider trend. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026She is a safe, institutionally minded Dem. She has challenged the leadership at times. Most notably when she took up for Bernie when the DNC gave him the short shrift because they supported Hillary…which is just one example of the DNC taking sides with moderates. You are boring me. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Sure…and your evidence is Warren? A 77 year old Keynesian that oversaw Tarp which saved the banks and left home owners out to dry? Strong call. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026They didn’t support him b4 that. As is commonplace for non-hand selected moderate candidates. 200
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Listen, I am not giving you a history lesson, but there are plenty of examples. Progressives aren’t allowed to caucus in the Dem wing, any group can decide to form a caucus. They don’t need permission. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026My comment did not say I support Platner. It was a comment about the DNC attitude toward the progressive side of the party. 200
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026That is not true. The DNC has done everything to kill the more progressive wing of the party. They were openly hostile toward Platner, and that is one of the reasons that he became so popular. 240
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Just keep attacking allies. Moderate democrats are going to be the only thing left when the rotting corpse of the Democratic Party is buried. I will never vote for your party again…I would rather see it all burn down than support you smug upper middle class suburbanites. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Keep the celebrations going folks. Every article sounds like a happy dem saying “I told you so”…hey guess what assholes…we just lost a seat in the senate and we did it to ourselves because “our” party didn’t vet the outsider because they didn’t like him. Well done. 010
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 10/07/2026It is though? I will not vote for anyone that does not commit to ending sales of arms and financial support to Israel, period. I will not support genocide. I also won’t vote for anyone that does not commit to using the legislature’s power to end the war in Iran. I will not support murdering Iranians 310
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Nice to see someone being charged and we aren’t just letting twitter convict him. 010
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Piling on…as the party burns. I have never seen moderate democrats so happy. I have never seen so many “I told you so” posts on this site in its history. Damn, celebrating a lost seat while thousand die (USAID) and who knows how many are being deported by ICE and our military is murdering Iranians 010
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Do you think it is a failure from the perspective of the DNC? This just ensured that nobody will back a non-DNC backed interloper ever again. The reaction to it in moderate land is joy. This app is full of it. This couldn’t have been better for them if they had planned it. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Thousands are dying because of the destruction of USAID and how many are being deported and we are gloating about losing a seat in the Senate. I get that he needed to go, but goddamn the party is giddy about it. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Cold hearted and it wouldn’t work. Political suicide for Beshear…maybe. Not worth the risk. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026You are real piece of work and it your age. Sad that you wasted your whole life and didn’t learn kindness or decency. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I feel bad for doing that and I apologize. Grouchy mood and you seemed to be setting me up with “gotcha questions”. I am sure that you are a very intelligent person. Sorry for being a real asshole. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Ew…you learned a complex…good for you…it doesn’t apply in this context, but I am glad you are expanding your vocabulary. Go back to school. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026You called me a predator. Why would you do that? Then I call you on it and that is your reply? You should be ashamed of yourself and work on a sense of decency. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Not you! The beginning of the thread that you jumped on. I have enjoyed talking to you. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Sense of humor = zero. That was clearly a joke and humorous argument about dogmatism. I love when people prove my point. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Sorry, I am not allowed to criticize a movement. I can’t even critique the arguments that I have had. You are saying feminism and/or feminists cannot be criticized. Do you not see how funny that is? What is the main characteristic of dogmatists? BTW…I am a humanist and non-theist Quaker. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Hahaha…oh you are putting me on trial! Nice! Even though I am 100% innocent! Jesus you people are amazing. Prove my point for me! I have committed many crimes in my head and should be shunned. Puritan much…what bunch of clowns. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Sure if that is how you want to read it. I don’t want to argue semantics with people that have no ability to see the link with show trials. What do you think happens on twitter…moral outrage…shunning and digital execution. Damn I argued anyway! Grrrr. 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I was a virgin when I met my wife and had only kissed two girls before that. So wrong! And the patriarchy made me feel like a failure for that until I realized how stupid that was. So, maybe you should learn not to judge without evidence. Huh? 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Material…not materialist. Why don’t we just skip ahead…I will say this person lost X….and your reply will be “well they deserved it”. Then I will say sure, whatever and you won’t reply. Stop wasting my time with gotcha questions. If you want to discuss this then let’s discuss it. 200
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I fear that groups on the left have forgotten how to make a convincing argument. They can’t handle pushback without ad hominem attacks…misogynist! racist! or other dishonest rhetorical tricks. They also have no sense of humor or of the absurdity of it all. It pains me. Cold human-less righteousness 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I don’t care about my comfort. Call me whatever you want, but know it is fallacy and runs people off. I want honest discussions with humans not graduate level feminism texts books. Even Marxists are more flexible, but not evangelicals, they are worse. “HIS word!!!!” Yikes! 100
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/20269 accusers, he must be guilty. How many people lined up to hang Salem witches. How many accusers were lying? How many jumped on the bandwagon even when they knew it would lead to peoples’ deaths? Have you read all of the accusations? Did you go through them? No you just quote a # self-righteously. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Jesus…a literalist. Just like one of my kids. 300
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026YES! Thank you! You are the first who hasn’t followed the dogmatic “you have to believe” gospel. We need to get him out of the race, but we have a problem with how this happens. We should try to do better. 000
kafkasghost.bsky.social @kafkasghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Do you think that is what your (our?) movement needs? I have argued with so many different people, but feminists are the most dogmatic and inflexible people I have ever argued with. Not to paint with too broad a brush, but man you have great doctrinal adherence. Not a complement. Not that you care. 200
