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I kinda don't blame them when that was just straight up how history was taught

2025 is the year of "the fucking lefties cried wolf for years and now there's a entire pack of them"

truly a masterclass of being right too early.

yeah man, i dont care if a tea party style primary wave loses us a couple of winnable seats. whats the fuckin point in winning them if were putting these same people back in them anyway.

Hahahahah they were just playing a trick on us where they’d pretend to fight back until we voted for them, and then immediately cave www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Charles Dickens was truly the quintessential leftist man, huh

That's not true. The rest of society is telling them "grow up and become a better human being" and the fascists tell you "you don't have to, because you're not the problem no matter what you do"

reactionaries think that hierarchy and conformity and homogeneity equal strength, but... that's a lie, actually. in the modern world all that this is *luxuries*

They way I take something like this is considering how we'd respond with other marginalized groups in his place.

If Newsom starts dropping some explicit racism and black people all say "yeah we won't vote for him," would there be a concerted "well if he's the nominee you have to" kind of effort?

The reason red-brown alliances happen at all is because fascism is because fascism is an aesthetics-focused ideology and a lot of people on the left also have an aesthetics-focused ideology that happens to overlap significantly with fascism. They both agree “Blue-collar coded manly man is best man”

Defending Platner’s tattoo and dismissing his Reddit posts as insignificant is a kind of identity politics for privileged douchebags who believe that casual expressions of bigotry should not prevent a butch white man from getting the position of power, prestige, and authority that he is entitled to.

He was still popular here in great part because cishet white male leftists dismiss anything to do with IdEnTiTy PoLiTiCs

The "stopped hitting yourself first" Century

I lean towards the latter but if they ever do a New Deal, or even scarier - do a little liberalization - then uh oh

They can absolutely pivot much easier than the Soviets could.

Oh wait wait let me jump into your thread. You mean that the right are shitty fucking humans, they’re always shitty fucking humans and they firmly believe in being shitty fucking humans and the left is always making excuses for them and pretending like they don’t have agency or accountability?

I'll believe we need to move to the center on trans rights when I hear it suggested as electoral strategy by a Tumblr user who's preferred outcome is eradicating the patriarchy by force-femming every living man

The thing is the craterbrained centrists largely believe the same things as the reactionary right, they just want to do so in a covert as opposed to overt way

the difference, as ever, between the radical right and the craterbrained centrists is that the reactionary right decided what they believed and fought to make it popular

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The more evidence mounts that Platner is lying, the more convinced I become that he is lying not only about his past but also about his current views.

Told y’all

“After hearing Platner's statement defending past remarks, 45% said it made them more likely to support him”

When in doubt, always bet on people being extra forgiving to white men. It endeared voters like I predicted

don't use a source that talks about "exposing Jihadists in the Biden administration"

using fascist sources is bad, even if the information is true

the primary argument for shein is that nearly all the clothes you get in America is sourced from the same unethical sources shein is; shein just skips the brand markup because they're essentially a glorified warehouse

correction: a white man rape apologist who wore a totenkopf death's head for 20 years knowing what it was and thinking it was cool

so maybe we should try more left leaning female personalities??? Maybe we should stop chasing the whole insane notion of getting back white men that has shackled the center left for 40 years?

really feeling politically homeless rn

I want an explicitly and avowedly feminist, anti-racist and pro-trans political party but instead we have a centrist faction making excuses for a white man rapist and a leftist faction making excuses for a white man rape apologist

I know a lot of foreign policy people like to present liberals as defenders of the system, but in this day and age, I think it's more accurate for us to take the mantle of disrupters. The international order was never our own, and it is even less so now. The work of 1848 is unfinished.

It is not a rules-based order until there is actual enforced international law. It is not a liberal world order until every state is liberal. Let us not cling to a fundamentally conservative characterisation of ourselves; we are still a radical movement with radical goals not yet realised.

If they really felt they were winning, they wouldn't be opening accounts on BlueSky.

sorry but this is hard disqualifying and progressives need to rethink why we're so insistent on tripling down on the failed white male conversion strategy while abandoning our principles to do it

its bad when centrists ask us to vote for misogynists, its worse when progressives do it

no, he should drop out

this guy is fetterman 2.0 at BEST, with considerable downside

stop chasing the white male hope