Well, voters do say time and time again that they value "authenticity" (something which, clearly, has no moral content) And the response of the center-Left always seems to be: "hmmm. How do we *fake* that to suck in the proles?"

I love going to Orwell and I also think we need to use the Newspeak words "blackwhite" and "crimestop" more

A lot of people I really respect are going to have to rethink a few basic principles if this is true Contrast this to what happened with the Corbyn campaign in the UK

The left misuses MLK's "white moderate" quote as much as the right misuses his "content of their character" quote.

Alejandra is a cloutfarmer and a grifter who is absolutely cavalier about the safety of trans folk if it'll get her a few clicks

shots fired

And sadly, more powerful stimulant drugs led to Nick Land's "dark enlightenment"

I only have a wikipedia page in Esperanto because I put a couple of versions of my songs in that language on my in-retrospect-embarassing 2001 album _Undinal Songs_ Wikidata has me down as "Generalist and Polymath", though, which is cool

I really enjoy thinking about the legacy of the Dirtbag Left every once in a while, to the extent that they accomplished nothing and left behind a host of nihilistic weirdos who love doing cocaine with alt-right podcasters

"what is right coded but actually left wing?" arguably the yimbys – they're calling for a dramatic reconfiguration of the economy at a pretty fundamental level!

Genderqueer sequel to "BlaKkK Klansman" called "Transman Klansman".

In the next post, AOC makes it clear what she means: that McBride and other Dems have been strong-armed into voting for odious things like the Charlie Kirk martyrdom thing by *Dem* leadership. This appears to be positioning.

One of the worst bullies on the NZ Left once asked me: what's the matter with you? Don't you LOVE being a rebel? And I had to answer: fuck no. I want to live in a world where people like me can flourish *without* a death struggle. Sadly, for a lot of radicals I admire, that makes me an insect

Yes, agreed. I had a brainwave hit a few days ago that “Move fast and break things” is an incredibly fascistic statement, because it rejects responsibility AND pro-social behavior in favor of profit and self-aggrandizement. And that’s at the root of that whole cultic system.

In 2016, a lot of people voted for Brexit and Trump - and a lot of edgy radicals counselled sitting out those votes - because "there's no way the impotent neoliberal establishment will allow them to win" This is what I mean by "decadent opposition"

Unfortunately several trans and lib reporters on here make their money by scaring the shit out of trans people

The middle class Left obsession with hating the liberals and with "listening to real workers" eventually leads here: full MAGA communism

Do I need to trot out that Orwell quote about the decadence of a "permanent and pensioned opposition" again

People who are “professional dissidents” in a reasonably free country (let’s say pre-2025 USA) are actually not experts on how to organize under an authoritarian regime. They are in fact people who definitionally do not know how to do mass mobilization!

My favourite example of this was when the local tankies "discovered" that my org's IT person worked for the NED. We didn't have an IT person. That didn't stop them bombing our online conference screaming about the NED.

Do think it is genuinely interesting how quickly Western liberal interest in the Syrian cause fell off after December 2024.

Actually works opposite for me. I wake up with sheer incoherent dread of what happened overnight, and this website *usually* tells me it wasn't that bad and chills me out

What you are seeing today is people who have been involved in social justice and anti-fascist organizing, sometimes for decades, realizing with a shock that normie libs who are steaming angry about Trump-fascism and are now ready to fight are not going to respect their authority

The number of times a corporate behemoth was able to survive authoritarianism through capitulation, and then pick up like nothing ever happened after the tyrant fell: Far too many

Bless his heart, he's REALLY trying

This is the dirty fucker who tried to get our Parliament to honor the memory of Tiny Face The best thing about his party (and the other, more openly fascist one) is that they've hitched themselves to our disintegrating Tory government and, God willing, will go down with it

Will is a man who will fight for your honor

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

Glory to the shuhada

A gem that my non-commie friends might not recognize. In 1985, G. Healy was expelled from the party he led for serial rape. Upon which the Central Committee split, leading to pro- and anti-Healey versions of the party newspaper. Vanessa Redgrave and her brother were in the pro-Healy vaction.

I built my goddamn vinyl collection in the 90s/00s when the bourgeoisie were all switching to CDs and no-one wanted that trash. Now vinyl is where the big money is and fuck that, I want the cheap second hand CDs

The thing about Chris-chan is that that utterly pitiable individual was so desperate for attention that they ended up in a symbiotic relationship with their trolls, leading to total self-destruction Something about what happens if you battle with monsters

If "Escaping the Vampire Castle" was a movie this should be the end-credits scene.

Establishment liberals is not going to cut it where we're going: God willing; the "liberals who mean it" and the "anti-authoritarian socialists" will realise they should be going to the same place and start putting a program together

small group GLOBAL leftism I've used up all my weapons and I'm helpless and bereaved

I increasingly think of myself as a syndicalist, in that "building the party" does nothing; building a party around a program does something, but if that program (no matter how Abolish The Cops and Bedtime it is) isn't based around independent working class bodies enacting it, you're Not. For. Real.

Yeah, but there's a problem where people start feeding the trolls They say things like this precisely to get reactions like thiat

Dumb fuck doesn't even pretend this is about Kirk. Not surprising, he's made it clear he never cared about the shooting. His own team are realising he's gone too far too fast.

It is very telling who among traditionally oppressed groups are welcoming the angry white/cis folks to the struggle, and which are telling the white/cis folks to stop thinking they can fight, "trust our lived experience"

MAH GOD! THE CARNAGE!

This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

When *I* was a student communist, we were Trots who said "yeah we want a classless society but no-one thinks the bureaucratic economy and the Berlin Wall were a good thing", and today's student commies mostly do think that

Lot of people on my feed right now going "omg did you see the stupidity that Corbyn just did" but the post was deleted? Explain?

"While no return date has been set, Disney is monitoring the situation and sees a path to the show potentially returning in the next several days, according to a person familiar with the situation." www.wsj.com/business/med...

Ha ha, remember how two weeks ago people on here were yelling that slimy transphobe Newsom's meme game was "the only real resistance to Trump" and so we all had to pledge allegiance to him for 2028

Nullification Crisis II: This Time, It's The Good Guys

Yeah. There is a line often used on here: "stupid pampered liberals don't understand that fascism is REAL, it's HERE, it will KILL THEM if they resist openly, and if they were smart and principled they'd shut up and learn from us how to live in the underground, dumpster-dive, etc"

There have been many comparisons to Horst Wessel - some more subtle, like me lol, have brought up the name of Sergei Kirov. But there's a non-zero chance that C. Kirk is actually the regime's Carrero Blanco.

What this is is that Carlson is like Max Blumenthal and Candace Owens, he's increasingly alienated from the regime's hyper-Zionism (for either campist or antisemitic reasons, not GOOD ones)

Once again, we're in a situation where fascists say OOGA BOOGA I'M GOING TO RAIN DOWN FIRE ON YOU ALL and liberals curl up and cry and wait for the fire to fall, rather than thinking about whether he actually has fire powers or whether they can just rush him and kick his ass