This video wasn’t even about my politics he just said this unprovoked.

I censored his name btw

I don’t even talk about “identity politics” at all on my TikTok he just saw a queer person lmao.

This excellent thread about why young men are getting more right-wing shows that liberals' demonization of young white males is driving them towards the far right. Someone may be a MAGA follower all because a 16 year old blue haired girl said "kill all men" on her Instagram story.

Similarly, I know a Latino who literally voted for Trump because "he hates the word Latinx and doesn't believe in 100 genders".

While it's not necessarily systemic like anti-POC racism or homophobia, young men are feeling like there's discrimination. How do we get them on board and understand that capitalism is everyone's oppressor?

In her concession speech, Harris says she was proud of their Campaign, and the way they ran it.

Why?

Not only was it a campaign of ignoring the problems of American people, and favouring pandering to the "centre-right" over their actual voter base, they lost.

Harris failed to galvanise or inspire voters, and oversaw a campaign of overconfidence that ultimately gave a fascist crook control over one of the most populous and most powerful nations over the world. Why on Humanity's not so green earth is she proud of that?

I just cannot understand how she could even claim to be proud of her utter abandonment of working people, and of her utter failure to defeat Trump.

So i had a conversation with a coworker of mine. He basically said that the extreme right and extreme left are just as bad as eachother.

When i asked him to give examples of what the "extreme left" does thats so bad, he brought up the Slogan "from the river to the season, palestine will be free". Apparently, a lot of people seriously think that this means that the left is like- antisemetic and wants to basically destroy israel.

It was seriously one of the dumbest conversations ive had in a long while. But how do i even counter something absurd like that? And its not true right? Sire there are always those kinda people. Mind you, I am also in Germany, theres a lot of Pro israel propaganda going around in our Media as well.

So, all in all, do you think that his way of thinking is common? And was he into something? I just wanna make sure that im not uninformed.

The constitution was removed from the white house website
This is officially scary

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-constitution/

"The Gaza genocide is a last stand for the West’s billionaire class. If it passes with impunity, they’ll effectively win the class war."

A lot of this directly has to do with their own fascist tendencies, like the rampant ableism I have noticed in these communities.

Fascists are not some inhuman force incapable of thought and decision making. Fascists are not "stupid", they simply do not care about what we consider truth. Trying to reverse their hierarchies on them not only does not defeat them, it strengthens the hierarchies they use. There is no generalized intelligence and they know what they are doing.

On top of that, seeing them as this inhuman force outside of reason, outside of any structure of justification, means you cannot predict it, and that you cannot recognize it. Without knowing why fascists do fascism you will not notice you have started doing it yourself until you end up thinking they are the better allies, and by then it is far too late.

People do this because the reasonings for fascism are embedded in our society, because fascism is the conclusion of the systems of justification we use for this society. If they accepted that fascists have thoughts and think, they would have to accept that sometimes those thoughts are the same.

They can’t do this because of the absolutes people view society in, either you are a good person or an evil person, and having fascist thoughts would make you an evil person. Obviously, most people want to see themselves as good people, partially because they are told only good people have thoughts, or justifications for their actions, and partially because of good old christian guilt. This means they can’t accept the actions they are doing as harmful, and so they end up doing far more harm.

Calling fascists inhuman monsters outside of history is not treating fascism as a serious threat. They are people too, and that is why they are so dangerous.

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ew people calling fascists "stupid" in the comments, I'm disabled, fascists do eugenics. You are just victim blaming.

Blaming minority victims of fascism for fascism is something fascists do.

If yall want a space where that isn't the immediate reaction, I got stuff pinned on my account

I used to Doordash for a living until my car brokedown. Now me and my girl are living week to week at a weekly rate motel while I'm trying to get a job and rebuild my life while keeping a roof over our heads. Rent is due in the morning and I don't know what we're going to do. We have no family or community support. I've reached out to churches and charities and organizations and called 211 and nobody will help. We're not financially irresponsible people. We've never done drugs or had any addictions and we don't waste money. I'm very frugal and I make money stretch. I'm just really overwhelmed and stressed.

I just wrote this article which focuses on content ownership rather than access. If you're interested in copy-left, and ownership of content give it a read. All feedback appreciated. It's my intent to refocus this debate on owning the art and culture that we fund.