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I’d say fuckers problem isn’t that we are organized but maybe; we’re not a bunch of rock sucker’s mixed in with a bag’o’rascists.
Is “rock” a typo? Don’t get me wrong not cursing is cool too, just curious.
I assumed it was slang for crack cocaine users.
Organized left = isn’t part of the cult
What’s the old Trotskyite joke? Two members, three parties?
I agree with Tucker Charlatan on this one, at least in the USA the left voting populace are united on policy stances.
Unfortunately in this case, it’s projection. The right falls in line and they accomplish stuff because of that. The left could really learn from that.
A lack of free and critical thinking is probably the reason the Right have such an easy time falling in line with whatever their figurehead happens to be peddling at the time.
They definitely can. It’s been off putting lately that the left has a check list that I have to hit every mark on to not be seen as a right winger.
There are leftist who are Christian. There are leftists who are against abortion, but understand that education and reproductive health (including allowing abortions) is an important and productive way to reduce abortions, instead of bans. There are leftists who are still traditional, holding morals and ethics that aren’t fluid but also not rigid.
No one is truly happy about their political choices. Except for the insane 1/3 of Americans on the Maga train maybe.
What left?
The 1% of American politics who are ignored, Look for the pouty guy in the corner of a democratic campaign stop and you found him
This should show everyone clearly, unambiguously, without a doubt that conservatives in America have zero idea what progressivism or leftism is about at all.
It’s just words to them. They do NOT care. It’s WWE wrestlemania. They want to paint their faces and get swept away in a stageplay and die as heartbroken as the hero if they don’t succeed and make all their enemies pay.
We need to like, mass-spam the entire Midwest america with historical romance novels with bodice-ripping sex scenes. I think if more guys just got lost in that shit, we would have a lot less tension and pain in the world.
We need to like, mass-spam the entire Midwest america with historical romance novels with bodice-ripping sex scenes. I think if more guys just got lost in that shit, we would have a lot less tension and pain in the world.
Doing that to somewhat compensate for harm from romantic chatbots and porn would be absolutely beneficial.
I think this generally is true of American liberal / centrist politicians, which is what Carlson probably means when he says “the Left”. There’s no great public discord in the Democrat Party’s representatives, certainly not when compared to the Republican Party.
The actual Left, on the other hand…
Are you actually out of your mind? Joe Biden stumbled over himself in one debate like an old man past his prime and the DNC/left lost their shit and exploded until he dropped out.
Donald Trump has made his whole career rambling like a senile moron, with his only cogent statements being blatant lies, while shitting himself and racing from one scandal to the next so fast the consequences can’t keep up, and Republicans would rather murder their neighbors than see him lose an election.
The comment you replied to is deleted, but yours is gold all on its own.
Yeah, I guess we do have one common goal, make life better for everyone?
Somewhere…a gaggle of dickless, peaked-in-highschool, douchenozzles wearing underarmor fReEdOm tshirts popped a blood vessel in their eye from getting so enraged that someone suggested minorities get closer to the number of rights and freedoms they have.
No, it’s make everyone’s quality of life better! /j
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Since nobody here has said anything about IMPROVING life for everyone, only making life better and other “Better centric” topics, I’m going to throw my vote in a shredder and actively tell everyone how awful you are.
I might be infuriated by your empty symbolic act, but I’m going to make DAMN sure you have every right to do it.
You still haven’t said anything about Improving life, so now I’m going to vote for the person who wants to throw me into a wood chipper, as a protest.
To be more realistic, in that case you would vote for the wildly irrelevant 3rd party ruskpuppet of the week in smug superiority
Oh damn yo, I do hate me some Facist assnuggets
Every sane person does
Honestly I expect life to get worse for 0.1% of people.
Meanwhile there are 3 fractions for each 2 left wing people.
Handing my cat a bowl of vegan cat food as I read this.
That sounds like something somebody would say if they knew absolutely nothing about the Left (or were just trying to scare/motivate their own base). The Left are ok-ish at organizing when they’re motivated enough, but they can barely agree on anything and will find any excuse to get into a fight with each other. You’ve got people on the Left willing to virtue-signal about Israel, vote third party and lose the presidency to Trump, a candidate who would make things demonstrably worse for Palestinians and would likely increase aid to Israel and remove any lukewarm constraints that the current administration is limp-wristidly raising. Meanwhile, Republicans will overlook any of the hundreds of things wrong with their candidate and compromise any values they’ve had, just to elect the biggest shit stain in history because they know he’ll make the other side feel bad.
(or were just trying to scare/motivate their own base)
DingDingDing we have a WINNER!
Wtf dude 😆
If that were true, Trump would have never had a chance to become president in the first place.
I think this just generally highlights the importance of opening a book and reading. There have been centuries of Leftist thought, questions have been raised and they have been answered. Many considering themselves “left” can sympathize with Leftist goals, or even jab at the sources of modern struggles structurally, but lack the organizational and practical knowledge obtained from Theory and applying theory to practice.
The more you read, the more you realize how little you actually know.
What books specifically would you recommend?
What are you familiar with, what do you feel weak in? I’m a Marxist, so I can recommend some generally good introductory works, but if you have specific interests or pre-existing knowledge I can make specific recommendations.
Otherwise, I will always recommend the famous Yellow Parenti Speech.
To me, the most influential contribution in the last few decades would be “Capitalist realism: is there any alternative?”
Its very heavily influenced by Marx but it’s more like a philosophical intervention where I would see das kapital as more of a historical intervention. As in “erm no, this is the story of how we got here” (das kapital). Although, there’s plenty of philosophy of course. Its only about 5 pages long and there’s free readings of it on YouTube.
Although, imo, the real origin story of capitalism covered in das kapital, on a national scale, is something everyone should be much more aware of.
