Thank you for the headline photo. Ten solid years of CM Sawant ends with a banner (begging?), "Build the People's Movement!"

That may well have been the most damning critique of her ever published.

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Fuck the space needle? Buddy, they don't even let me fuck it.

The Space Needle, a boot of oppression on our necks.

Ugh, “Free Palestine.” Give it a rest, lefties, nobody wants another Islamic terror state. 😆

Entropy isn't what it used to be.

The anti-Space Needle person looks like a whiny little bitch. Move back to Helena, or wherever they come from.

Thumpus dear, the "left" did more than its share to guarantee there will never be a Free Palestine, but they'll continue to advocate for it, even as The West Bank gets annexed and Gaza becomes the next trump Golf resort (until it becomes the next 70's era Beiruit)

Oh dear. That should be "Beirut"

Mrs. Vel-DuRay regrets the error.

This is a very homogenous looking crowd. They might need to start by finding a DEI consultant.

@7: "...Gaza becomes the next trump Golf resort (until it becomes the next 70's era [Beirut])".

Difference being the Lebanese capital required a long civil war (partially fought by the PLO) to level it, whereas Trump's tacky, overpriced, cheaply-built constructions will all soon collapse in the first stiff breeze off the Mediterranean.

Of course, these folks probably sat out the last election or voted for someone like Jill Stein.

"The calls to action—“resist, organize, fight”—felt too vague, especially when the left has had so little success organizing on the national stage. "

That is both the strength and the Achille's Hell of the left, Hannah dear. How do you craft a message that will appeal to the broader public without a bunch of hangers-on diluting it? How do you make your message accessible without being either condescending or "my-way-or-the-highway"? How do you eliminate the purity tests?

"The Left" used to be pretty good at all of that, but - like "The Right" - its gotten smug and self-satisfied. The difference is the right has the infrastructure, and has convinced the working class and elderly that they are on their side.

We need a Joe Rogan. By that, I don't mean a middle-aged, drug-addicted bro boy, but rather a media figure who is not dogmatic, and doesn't care about purity tests. Rogan's talent is that he presents himself as an everyman, he invites conservatives on, asks a few lame questions that his audience would probably ask, and his message is "I guess that sounds good, but what do I know?" He's not trying to be the smartest kid in the room.

“ Seattle lefties gathered at the Space Needle this weekend to hype themselves up for what promises to be a rough four years under a second Trump administration.”

Still no mention in The Stranger that this “rough four years” is exactly what Kshama Sawant wanted. Maybe the protestors aren’t super energized because the people they thought were there leaders turned out in the end to be Trump supporters.

pretty sure
the donold'll give
the Left plenty enough
repression to re-Energize it

after they've turned in all the Lefties
which way will the Center go?
will they become the
New left?

Buyer's remorse?

@13: For ten years, Stranger commenters wondered what force in the universe could possibly have the power to make the Stranger stop promoting Sawant. Turns out it was her openly being exactly what we commenters had always said she’d been, “Seattle’s Very Own Trump of the Left.” Who’da thot, huh?

I’m sure this will be every bit as effective as your rallies to end the war in Israel

you want "The War"
to End? me Too!

Israeli Court
Rejects Netanyahu’s Bid
to Delay Corruption Trial Testimony

The court ruled that Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu must take
the stand on Dec. 2 in a trial
that has stretched out for
more than four years.

Oodles, baby:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/world/middleeast/israel-netanyahu-trial.html

perhaps
bibi's keep-
the-Fuck-outta-
Prison gambit may
Soon be Ending. hallelujah!

@18

looks like that
fawking Year you've
spent calling for bibi's
Comeuppance has Finally
Paid Off. Great fucking JOB, me!

@19

THANK
YOU!

and you
Idiots said
it COULDN'T
be Done. wtf do
You idjts even Know?