#anti social justice warriors

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B*tch McConnell, Cuck Schumer and Bernie The Cuck Sanders = Corruption

Written By - Ninja-X³ on February 14, 2025

When you have Bernie Sanders agreeing with TWO of the most CORRUPT politicians in Washington DC, you know Bernie is absolutely CORRUPT! He stabbed Tulsi Gabbard in the back even after she ENDORSED Bernie for President back in 2016. RFK Jr EXPOSED Bernie of being bought and paid for by Big Pharma. So of course Bernie would vote against both Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr.

Schumer, McConnell and Sanders are the three stooges of corruption and it shows when they voted against Tulsi and RFK Jr. The Democrats and the Woke Cult want to talk about a "party switch"? Well Tulsi went Republican and RFK Jr went independent and both of them are supported by Trump!

The so-called "Party Switch" version of the Republican Party is either dead(no more Neo-cons, RINOS or Pro-Establishment Republicans) or the party switched back to the party of Lincoln! Take your pick, but you can no longer use the "Party Switch" excuse. Especially since RFK Jr and Trump are on the same side! Yes RFK Jr is part of the Kennedy family, you know the family that caused the "Party Switch"? Yeah, that family.

B*tch McConnell is so frickin' pissed and it's hilarious. The RINOS are defeated, corruption has come to an end and very soon America is going to be great again. The lies that Democrats keep spewing no longer works on voters, they are getting smarter with their choices of who to vote for.

With Voter ID laws being enforced, Democrats can't even cheat in elections anymore. Very soon the Democrat Party will die. Hopefully third parties will rise and compete to take their place, because after all the United States needs more than one party leading this nation. The brainwashed won't like this article I wrote, they will seethe as always. But smarter individuals will agree with my point.

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Tuesday Thoughts

How're ya' doin' poozers? Ya' hydratin'? Takin' yer meds? Bein' kind ta' yerself?

I been thinkin' about community. I talk about it a lot, but with my disabilities it's hard ta' do what I'd like. Actually goin' out ta' regular meetin's takes a lotta spoons, an' I'm pretty low on spoons most days.

But then I think, I'm runnin' these accounts! Over on Facebook I'm reachin' tens a' thousands, sometimes even hundreds a thousands fer really good posts with bespoke leftist propaganda.

An' that reminds me that we all got roles we can fill in the left.

Now don't get me wrong, organizin' in person an' locally is vitally important. It's the only way we can fix this world. I do it whenever I got the spoons, an' I encourage everyone ta' find a community and join it whenever they can. But if ya' can't do it as much as ya' want, or ya' can't do it at all, that don't make ya' a failure ta' the left. We need all kinds in the revolution, an' there's a spot fer ya. Just find yer niche.

Even if it's somethin' silly like turnin' comic panels inta propaganda.

Lemme know how yer helpin' the revolution, poozers! An' don't worry if it seems trivial, or if it seems ordinary. It's still a wonderful thing, an' I wanna hear about it! Don't break OpSec or nothin', though!

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I love this fic!

Young Sasuke Uchiha becomes a social justice warrior, this somehow leading to: his clan not being massacred and succeeding in their coup, the Hyuga branch family being freed and having their own coup, and Naruto gaining a supportive best friend and parental figure.

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Brainwashed Woke Coward Blocks Me!

So recently I received a message from a Commie Groomer Incel who was too afraid to debate me. Instead he ends up blocking me. But unlike him, I confront cowards like him and put they/them on blast!

Let's see what this groomer said...

So @cottoncandy-icecream got triggered by my blog, as well as getting triggered by my banner. I don't think he grasps the concept of the word "Anti-Totalitarian". Meaning I'm against both Nazis and Commies.

I don't have to choose one side or the other, they're both guilty of committing huge sins against mankind. Hitler, Stalin and Mao were all mass murderers and dictators. I oppose mass murderers and dictators.

So I'm Anti-Totalitarian. Not a Nazi. Definitely not a Commie. Consider Anti-Totalitarianism the atheist equivalent of political ideology. Calling me a "Nazi" is like calling me a "Democrat" despite me being an independent voter who isn't registered to either party.

I say "Democrat" instead of "Republican" because Democrats and Nazis are SOCIALISTS. I'm against socialists and communists. Therefore I'm against Nazis, Commies and Democrats. Very simple math. Guess who else is against Nazis, Commies and Democrats? MAGA Republicans.

So if anyone's a Nazi, it's you pal! By the way, Poland is also against Nazis and Commies. They're certainly not Nazis. So better luck next time loser!

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The Truth is Out About Stan Lees Woke XMen and the Civil Rights Movement!

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This has absolutely been discussed far more intelligently by people actually affected by the issue but nonetheless it grinds the absolute living fuck out of my gears how blatantly people never even attempt to entertain the idea of not shortening omegaverse into a certain three letter acronym that sounds like an anti Indigenous slur. Because it's SO unbelievably fucking obvious that people can't bother to imagine that there's any Aboriginal Australians on the internet at all, let alone that anyone might fucking see it and not be happy about it. When it does get brought up it's just seen as "social justice warriors white knighting for people who won't see it." Because again, the fact that Aboriginal Australians A) exist, B) are people and C) use the internet is fucking unfathomable to people and any reminder to the contrary is just ~ruining their innocent fun~.

Like the omegaverse thing really is just the tip of the fucking iceberg, and it's often the one fucking time a lot of people outside "australia" ever even have to learn Aboriginal Australians exist (and needless to say people here are fucking evil too), because it's something that actually "affects" them via the absurd and outrageous request of uh.....getting asked not to say a slur.

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& while networking remember to stay as far away as possible from the political social justice warrior fuck the system cancel king virtue signalling godess with paragraphs about a celebrity they've never met change the world paper straw for climate activist whatever. The second someone makes an external locus point their personality pack your bags and walk, that's a losers table you're being set up for failure.

Now I want you to be very careful, I'm not saying stay away from people that care about these things, anyone with a working brain cell knows most of these are noble, I'm saying acting like you care about the world will do nothing but bite you in the behind later. You're a woman. You're a woman in a man's world. You're a matriach in a patriarchy. How does this not click to women, every single thing you ever say and do will be used against you in the high court of life- and not just by men. By women, too. When your level up gurus says be mean she's on to everything, be mean. Be a carnivore and be materialistic and be an overconsumer- that will do you a billion times more favors than trying to identify with some good cause. You can never be good. The world will never let you, so be bad. Be shitty.

First of all it's a fumbling of your bag- gravely so- to think you can fix the world. Unless the thing directly affects you and yours it makes absolutely no sense to loudly and publicly care about it unless you're a pickmeisha . I remember when the Palestine and Israel made news 24/7 for their whatever and I had this one socialite friend that decided it's her time to be humane. I'm not in social media so I'm always falling behind in the news. One day this other girl texts me asks do you see what (Lets call her Sara) has been posting on Instagram? Obviously no I haven't so I get screenshots. It's noble to support a cause but as a social media influencer whose entire brand is based on sponsorships by major brands its important you maintain political neutrality, this is just common sense. So I say yes it's stupid to have all your pinned posts highlighting a struggle that is not only not yours but you also benefit from but how is this my business? Why is this something you wanted me to know? They work at the same agency so she tells me Sara was supposed to do an ad for CocaCola and run a campaign for a sizeable amount of money but just lost it because Coca Cola is, according to the public, pro-Israel, and the agency as a whole has been disconsidered for any future brands that are pro-Israel (And we know these are the big billions) , can I talk to her about this because if she does it'll look like workplace competition? I wear my mother boots and alright, let us save a career. I see Sara over lunch and say hey so how's the going? I was lurking on your Instagram the other day, how come you didn't tell me you're Palestinian? She laughs because she's actually full European but it doesn't hurt to care, does it? I say yeah I get the point but you need to take all that shit down for the sake of your career and post positive quotes that focus on humanity if you're so concerned but we don't pick sides? She says well Bella Hadid is Pro Palestine- Okay but a) Are you Bella Hadid? and b) Are you Palestinian? It makes perfect sense for Bella Hadid to loudly be Pro Palestine she IS Palestinian and she's Bella Hadid, Versace will still want her on their runway even if she wrote a ten-billion-page anti Italy manifesto. SHE is the brand. You have 300k followers and most are bots, let's not. SO now you're costing your agency that pay YOUR bills brand deals while you walk around in Levi's and Bulgari how tone deaf are you? Obviously we fall out and her agency drops her, except agencies are a network so if A drops you B doesn't want you all the way to D, and they WILL withdraw the bot followers they used to bump you up it is in fact that serious. The way this industry works if you get blacklisted by A you're blacklisted by them all, and where are the Palestinians you fought so much for? The way upper society works if you fall out with A you've fallen out with them all- no one wants to shoulder the burden of you.

I remember watching this clip of this lady explaining how capitalism sucks and the comments was everyone calling her out on her iPhone and watch all the things capitalism has given her.

Being a social justice warrior will always backfire because

a) it's an outward locus point so it marks you as a lower-class person. Caring about things that do not directly affect you or you aren't getting paid to care about immediately marks you for someone to get bullied because you are a pickmeisha seeking approval outside yourself.

b) YOU benefit from injustice. Your phone was made by the exploitation of laborers in China. Your human hair wig comes from a ten year old Asian kid that had to sell it for 10$ to feed her family. Your favorite jeans are filling landfills and your gold watch exists because some kid almost died in a mine. Your favorite dessert- you benefit from injustice. You are quite literally biting the hand that feeds you.

So it's better to Kim Kardashian post your jet and walk in closet and say yes, I'm rich yes i took a five-minute flight that raised global warming to Europe to try a dessert than it is to Greta Whatshername campaign for the planet because no one cares. Donate to charities and care for what you care about but do not make it your personality- and given birds of the same feather flock together stay away from Knightess In Dumb Armor about to save the world through the power of a social media post and a hashtag. Unless you're JK Rowling so rich it can not affect you mind your business. Be strategic about what you publicly care about. As a feminist yes I care about survivors and victims and will donate give a platform but as someone navigating high society why would I tell Epstein Junior actually you'll go to hell for being a pedophile when he can just have me dropped off the streets tomorrow? Did that end pedophilia? Are the kids now safe? Is he in hell? Exactly what did I accomplish? Could've kept my mouth shut and scored a million dollar deal then donated and paid for what needs to be paid for and stayed alive?

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Posting screenshots as due to a bug issue I couldn’t reblog!!!!

What the fuck is wrong with tumblr radfems??? It's outrageous that leftist ideologues are willfully blind to the underlying reasons behind anti-immigration protests in Europe, and instead shamelessly peddling their own brand of racist propaganda. Do y'all have any idea why Europeans are demanding mass deportation of the male immigrants???

Their reasons stem from concerns over sexual violence, harassment and grooming gangs that are largely represented by immigrant men from ethnic minority backgrounds, particularly south asian and African men whose victims are overwhelmingly young white girls and white women.

Europeans are entitled to oust these ugly and dangerous foreign males from their territories regardless of whether they are poor marginalised refugees or opportunistic economic migrants. These men exhibit aggressive and arrogant behavior, as if convinced of their prerogative to violently intrude upon western nations and exact vengeance upon their ancestors' behalf by brutalizing white women.

Before you start with your whataboutism regarding white male misogyny, allow me to drive a point home: men from patriarchal cultures in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East often harbor a deeply ingrained and dangerous form of misogyny. This is not to dismiss the harm caused by white male misogyny, but rather to recognize that cultural and societal factors can worsen misogynistic attitudes and behaviors.

You cannot ignore the correlation between immigration from these countries and the rise of sexual violence against European women. You're the one dismissing the misogyny faced by white women at the hands of MOC. Does the presence of misogynistic men in their own country justify tolerating more? This attitude is like blaming a woman for not wanting her misogynistic relatives in her home just because her own family members share similar views.

Europe is full of white women grappling with self-loathing, shame and guilt because of their forefathers' history of colonisation. And these immigrants, including many brown muslim women, take advantage of this vulnerability by playing the racism card and deflect any criticism of their misogynistic religious or cultural practices they bring with themselves in the west.

This is what happens when extreme left social justice warriors prioritise racism over misogyny. Y'all seriously need to stop being overly sensitive about racism. Europeans have every right to protest the immigration of these dangerous men in their countries. It’s their homeland so they can kick out anyone they see as a threat to their safety and they don’t owe anyone an explanation for wanting to keep themselves safe. So it’s time y'all check your ego at the door — you don’t dictate how others should run their countries.

I fully support European women's anti-immigration protests. They are not even targeting female immigrants but they shouldn’t have to put up with all these misogynistic MOC who make up the majority of the immigrants just to accommodate the WOC who make up the minority. If anti-immigration is anti-women then so is pro-immigration. But unfortunately you’re too biased with your feminism to see things from white women's perspective as well.

And besides, these female immigrants fleeing their home countries don't even find the freedom they seek in the West. Because they end up back under the thumb of the same oppressive men and cultural expectations that drove them to leave in the first place. I've got a Pakistani friend who moved to Germany and she's fed up with the Pakistani male immigrant community dominating the scene and stifling her freedom. Germany has literally become a mini-Pakistan, meanwhile some of you on tumblr seem more concerned with sympathizing with these dudes. 🙄

As a feminist, you are supposed to encourage European women to shed their guilt over their male ancestors' actions because they are not responsible for it and motivate them to stand up against the misogyny they face from MOC. But here you are childishly implying "if you don’t support the immigrants, then you are trump 🫵🏽👹". So you’re saying that Trump is right?? It’s clear you’re projecting your frustration with American immigration policies and racism onto European women but wtf??!!! You can’t be seriously equating TRUMP’s reasoning with that of women’s.

Also, the idea that colonised people should get a free pass to the coloniser's country is flawed. If we apply this logic consistently, then it should also apply to Islamic countries. After all, Islamic expansion has been a centuries-long process, displacing indigenous groups like Jews and Zoroastrians in the Middle East. By your logic, if white Jewish people were to move into these countries and commit crimes against women, the local population should just accept it as a consequence of their own history of colonisation.

Do you see how absurd this sounds??? I am sure in that situation you wouldn’t back your own stance. Every war is a genocide against women on all sides. Your proposed ✨free pass✨ for colonised groups essentially grants them permission to infringe on the rights of white women. Think critically before you speak!

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— I agree with @radfemcroatia in this thread! 💙

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Aqualtune was an African princess, military leader, and freedom fighter who played a crucial role in the foundation of Quilombo dos Palmares, the largest and most significant maroon community of escaped enslaved Africans in colonial Brazil. She is believed to have been the mother of Zumbi dos Palmares, one of the most legendary figures in the fight against Portuguese slavery. Aqualtune represents Black resistance, leadership, and the enduring strength of African women in the diaspora.

Originally a princess and military commander from the Kingdom of Kongo (in present-day Angola and the DemocrAqualtuneatic Republic of Congo), Aqualtune is said to have led a battalion of 10,000 warriors in battle against the Portuguese. After being captured in war, she was enslaved and transported to Brazil, where she was sold at a slave market in Recife. She endured brutal treatment and was forced into sexual slavery, yet she refused to submit to oppression.

Determined to reclaim her freedom, Aqualtune escaped from enslavement and joined the Quilombo dos Palmares, a self-sufficient African community in the jungles of northeastern Brazil that resisted Portuguese rule for over a century. She quickly became one of its key leaders, organizing strategic defences, training warriors, and reinforcing the quilombo’s resistance against repeated colonial attacks.

It is widely believed that she was the mother or grandmother of Zumbi dos Palmares, the most famous leader of the quilombo, indicating that her legacy of resistance was passed down to future generations. Under her leadership, Palmares expanded, providing a refuge for thousands of escaped enslaved Africans and Indigenous allies, proving that Black people could build and sustain independent societies despite colonial oppression.

Though the exact details of her death remain unclear, Aqualtune’s name is immortalized as one of the greatest African warrior-queens in Brazilian history. She remains a powerful symbol of Black female strength, leadership, and anti-colonial resistance, inspiring Afro-Brazilian movements for cultural pride, social justice, and historical recognition.

Her story highlights the indispensable role of African women in liberation movements, proving that resistance against slavery and colonialism was not just led by men, but by fearless women warriors like Aqualtune, who fought for the survival, dignity, and freedom of their people.

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Hey, I’ve been reading your posts, and while I appreciate your analysis of the characters, I don’t fully agree with your interpretation of Lily and the Marauders. It feels like you're projecting your personal experiences with privileged figures onto them, which leads to fundamentally misunderstanding them at their core. These characters are all human and layered, just like Snape, and reducing them to a single aspect is oversimplifying them.

I also feel like your view of Lily is influenced by your dislike of James. Marrying someone wealthy doesn’t automatically make her a “social climber.” Especially not when she is actually consistently acting on her morals and values throughout the few memories we see of her. You draw a parallel between Lily and Petunia and assume they have the same “agenda,” but you overlook their vastly different personalities that directly contradict the idea that they had the same goals.

Regarding James; while he certainly had flaws, he was also a decent person with strong values, beyond his arrogant school years and bullying of Snape. James and Lily were in the same house, and it's not far-fetched to assume that she saw a different side to him, one with qualities she admired, which is likely what drew her to him, even if his arrogance initially repulsed her.

Sorry but no. A big NO.

First of all, I analyze things based on how social issues are reflected in group dynamics. And yes, I use personal examples, but just as I’ve met rich people who are complete idiots, I’ve also met wealthy people who are absolutely lovely. That’s not the case with James or Sirius. Following a certain political ideology, no matter how positive or good it may be, doesn’t automatically make you a good person. For example, what’s the point of being anti-racist if, in your day-to-day life, you go to a restaurant and treat the staff poorly? Or what’s the use of proclaiming yourself a feminist if you then display behaviors that perpetuate gender hegemony? Sure, your vote will help implement certain institutional policies that benefit minorities, but that won’t mean much in day-to-day life if you’re incapable of deconstructing your biases, recognizing your privileges, and engaging in social self-criticism about them.

And that’s essentially what happens with James: he talks a big game, but when it comes down to it (and this is undeniable because it happens canonically in the books), on the very first day of school, he took an instant dislike to a boy who was much poorer, much more vulnerable, and lacked even a fraction of the resources he had—and he decided to torment him for seven years. This is indefensible. Minimizing the violence exerted from a position of privilege toward someone in a much weaker position, by appealing to some kind of moral high ground is a dirty tactic. It reeks of internalized classism and an astonishing lack of understanding about social dynamics and power inequities.

The fact that Lily’s morals and values aligned with ending up with a bully isn’t incompatible with her character. That bully was a social justice warrior (when it suited him), and the very causes he claimed to advocate for were those that benefited Lily. He represented a faction of the magical elite that defended people like Lily, so it’s consistent for her to choose someone whose ideology worked in her favor. But the fact that she constantly downplayed the violence the Marauders inflicted on other students, using the excuse that they didn’t use “dark magic,” reveals cognitive dissonance in her moral judgments. Violence in schools is violence, no matter where it comes from. You might find the bigoted, violent ones worse, but that doesn’t mean the others—no matter how good their ideas might be—aren’t also abusers.

Let’s be clear: no one with any sense would see a group of guys deliberately targeting others to the point of stripping someone in public and ever consider dating one of them. If Lily did (and if we accept Rowling’s own claim that she liked James before he “matured”), two conclusions emerge: either she was a complete dick, or James had something beyond his terrible personality that interested her. And in the early stages of a war where people like her were going to be a primary target of one side, it’s clear that “something” was security. And that doesn’t make her a bad person—it just makes her human. It’s human for a working-class teenager who’s suddenly thrust into a world where many people believe she doesn’t belong to feel attracted to the rich, socially powerful guy who’s willing to defend her rights and validate her as a member of that society.

And the fact that she and her sister had very different personalities doesn’t mean anything. Both grew up in a lower-middle-class neighborhood and received the same values from their parents. Just as Sirius shares many traits with his cousin Bellatrix and his own mother, Walburga, Lily shares many traits with her sister (which makes sense given the social context they grew up in). Ignoring this is to ignore how class dynamics and social expectations work, especially in certain European contexts of the 60s and 70s, where societies were still heavily influenced by classism rooted in deeply ingrained monarchical and aristocratic systems.

As for James, I’m sorry, but he didn’t just have “flaws.” James was a bully and an abuser who used his social and economic security—and that of his best friend, Sirius—to attack other people. And instead of targeting pure-blood Slytherins from wealthy, influential families, he conveniently chose a half-blood with no money or connections. That’s not arrogance; that’s violence. Even after promising Lily that he had changed, he continued doing the same thing behind her back.

I think I’ve provided enough arguments and evidence to support my stance, which is more than I can say for you. Your analysis is utterly superficial, and you still see James as a jokester rather than the abusive bully he was. Stripping someone naked in front of the entire school isn’t arrogance—it’s sexual abuse. Full stop.

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Bigotry in the Woke Cult?

Written by - Ninja-X³ on February 23, 2025

You've ever notice whenever the Left accuses right-wingers of bigotry, it's usually Leftists who are the actual bigots? They often resort to using offensive slurs and yet I never have to. See unlike them, I'm mature and smart enough to expose the Left of using those slurs. He was full of rage. He used a homophobic and racist slur, as underlined in this screen shot you see here below...

Now this isn't the first time I've seen the Left using slurs like this. There's also these screenshots...

With this amount of evidence I've gathered, it's quite clear to me that the Left are hypocrites and hasn't changed at all, despite their bogus claim about a "Party Switch" or that "Republicans are bigots". The Left are PROJECTING, they don't give a sh*t about racism, antisemitism or homophobia.

So it leads me to believe that the Left don't care about white supremacy or Nazism because the Left are the white supremacist Nazis themselves! Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be using these offensive slurs at all. They used the N-word, they use the S-word and they are anti-Semitic.

Wokeism isn't about combating Nazism, racism or homophobia. They support Nazism through supporting Palestine and voting blue no matter who(Democrats, the modern day National Socialists a.k.a. Nazis), they are racists when they use these slurs(as seen in the screenshots), and they are certainly homophobic trying to force gay men to date biological women who identify as men or trying to force lesbian women into dating biological men who identify as women. Wouldn't that be called straight conversion therapy? Plus they used homophobic slurs, as seen in these screenshots.

Now why do I consider Democrats the modern day Nazis? Their policy positions and the fact that they're both SOCIALISTS is the reason why. Only idiots who don't do research would conflate conservatism with Nazism. Hitler was a hardcore socialist, he would have hated conservatives, especially with how conservatives support Israel(a Jewish country).

Conclusion: The Left are full of mentally unstable idiots who can't think for themselves, they've been brainwashed to believe the most insane sh*t and they think they're so self-righteous and yet they turn out to be the biggest hypocrites and the real bigots. I have no desire to hate anyone based on their race, sexuality, religion, gender or sexual orientation. Just as long as you're not harming anyone innocent, you're good in my book.

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Olivia Little at MMFA:

Scandal, school board election failures, and a disastrous 60 Minutes interview appear to have diminished Moms for Liberty’s once powerful influence, and last weekend’s summit provided plenty of additional evidence that the group is currently flailing.  Nearly every Republican presidential hopeful and a number of right-wing giants spoke at Moms for Liberty’s lively summit last year. But this year’s gathering was comparatively small, with far fewer panels and a weaker speaker lineup. In fact, Glenn Beck and D-list comedian Rob Schneider were advertised as the star headliners until the exceptionally late addition of former President Donald Trump just days before the event.  This is the second year that my colleague Madeline Peltz and I attended Moms for Liberty’s summit. It was immediately apparent to us that the small crowd had seemingly been reduced to largely die-hard members who, unlike many, remained loyal to Moms for Liberty through its year of scandal and failure. Co-founder Tina Descovich acknowledged that the organization was losing some support while presenting an award, saying, “You have been a friend to Moms for Liberty when some have stepped away.”

[...]

Invoking transgender panic

Much of the conference was spent attempting to terrify parents into believing that schools are secretly grooming, manipulating, and transitioning students. The bag handed to us at registration included an illustrated flyer laying out the ridiculous “school to clinic pipeline,” which, according to the flyer, begins at “pronouns” and ends in a hospital. Almost every speaker we listened to incorporated transgender panic into their speech. One panel was even titled “Protecting Kids from Secret Gender Transitions in Schools.” 

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Spiritual warfare is anything you want it to be

“This is spiritual warfare,” said far-right political commentator Sebastian Gorka at Friday’s lunch session, “and they are on the side of the devil.” Speakers repeated vague accusations of “spiritual warfare” throughout the weekend. Even comedian-turned-conservative-activist Rob Schneider accused the pharmaceutical industry of engaging in spiritual warfare.  [...] The summit’s itinerary included the March for Kids, an event promoting parental rights with coalition partners such as Gays Against Groomers and PragerU. (It’s worth noting that the March for Kids wasn’t actually a march, but a largely empty assembly at DAR Constitution Hall.) March for Kids speaker Naomi Van Wyk used the rhetoric of spiritual warfare to describe homosexuality and encouraged intervention to alter same-sex attraction, promoting a form of conversion therapy. 

[...] The Heritage Foundation was one of the earliest supporters of Moms for Liberty and, in turn, the group fell in line with Heritage’s policy priorities and shepherded members toward the think tank’s “resources for parents.” In 2022, Moms for Liberty was the recipient of Heritage’s Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship and Heritage President Kevin Roberts spoke at the group’s 2023 summit. In a breakout session last year, anti-trans activist “Billboard Chris” Elston revealed that The Heritage Foundation had identified and brought together 40 people, including him, in March 2022 to “fight gender ideology.” 

Olivia Little of Media Matters For America went to the 2024 Joyful Warriors National Summit hosted by right-wing extremist “parental rights” group Moms For Liberty.

Little revealed that M4L’s influence has waned over the past year or so.

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Stellantis wants to make scabbing woke

I'm coming to Minneapolis! Oct 15: Presenting The Internet Con at Moon Palace Books. Oct 16: Keynoting the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.

I know, I know, it's weird when the worst people you know are right, even when they're right for the wrong reasons: like, the "Intelligence Community" is genuinely terrible, pharma companies are murderous crooks, and Big Tech really does have a dangerous grip on public debate. The swivel-eyed loons have a point, is what I'm saying:

https://locusmag.com/2023/05/commentary-cory-doctorow-the-swivel-eyed-loons-have-a-point/

When conspiratorialists and reactionaries holler about how the FBI are dirty-tricking creeps who are framing Trump, it's tempting to say, "well, if Trumpists hate the FBI, then I will love the FBI. Who cares about COINTELPRO and what they did to Martin Luther King?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_letter

It's a process called "schizmogenesis": forming new group identity beliefs based on saying the opposite of what your enemies say, and as tempting as that is, it's extraordinarily foolish and dangerous:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/18/schizmogenesis/

It means that canny reactionaries like Steve Bannon can trick you into taking any position merely by taking the opposite one. Bannon's followers are even more easily led, so it's easy for him to convince them that we have always been at war with Oceania. The right has created an entire mirror world of "I know you are but what am I?" politics.

Anti-vax co-opts "bodily autonomy." Climate denial becomes environmentalism ("wind turbines kill birds"). Transphobia becomes feminism ("keep women-only spaces for real women"). Support for strongmen becomes anti-imperialism ("don't feed the war machine in Ukraine"). These are the doppelgangers Naomi Klein warns us against:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/#if-the-naomi-be-klein-youre-doing-just-fine

The far right has even managed to co-opt anti-corporate rhetoric. Culture warriors rail against "woke capitalism," insisting that when big businesses take socially progressive positions, it's just empty "virtue signalling." And you know what? They've got a point. Partially.

As with all mirror-world politics, the anti-woke-capitalism shuck is designed to convince low-information right-wing pismires into buying "anti-woke pillows" and demanding the right to pay junk fees to "own the libs":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/04/owning-the-libs/#swiper-no-swiping

But woke capitalism is bullshit. Corporations – profit-maximizing immortal transhuman colony organisms that view workers and customers as inconvenient gut-flora – do not care about social justice. They don't care about anything, except for minimizing compensation for workers while maximizing the risk those workers bear; and locking in and gouging customers for products that are as low-quality as can be profitably sold.

Take DEI, a favored target of the right. It's undoubtably true that diversity, inclusion and equity initiatives have made some inroads on correcting bias in hiring decisions, with the result that companies get better employees who would have been excluded without this explicit corrective.

However, corporations don't value DEI because they abhor their history of hiring bias. Instead, DEI is how corporate management demonstrates to workers that their grievances are best addressed by trusting corporate leadership to correct their error of their ways – and not by forming a union.

Before the passage of the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, corporations would create fake "Company Unions" whose leadership were beholden to the company executives. These were decoy unions: they looked and sounded like unions, but when they negotiated with management, they were actually working for the bosses, not the workers.

This is more mirror-world tactics. They're the labor equivalent of the "crisis pregnancy centers" that masquerade as abortion clinics in order to fool pregnant people and trap them with endless delays until it's too late to terminate their pregnancies. Company unions get workers to trust in negotiators who are secretly working for the bosses, who emerge from the bargaining table with one-sided, abusive contracts and insist that this is the best deal workers can hope for.

Company unions were outlawed 90 years ago, and for decades, labor had a seat at the table, with wages tracking productivity gains and workers getting protection for discrimination, unsafe labor conditions, and wage-theft. Then came the neoliberal turn, and 40 years of wage stagnation, increased inequality, and corporate rule.

Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. Finally, finally, we have reached a turning point in labor, with public approval for unions at levels not seen since the Carter administration and thousands of strikes and protests breaking out across the country:

https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/

It's not just the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA, either. For the first time in history, the UAW is striking against all the major automakers, and they are winning:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/10/striking-uaw-workers-win-key-battery-plant-concession-from-general-motors/

The automakers are getting desperate. Stellantis – Chrysler's latest alias, reflecting the company's absorbtion into corporate-human-centipede of global carmakers – has mobilized its DEI programs, trying to get marginalized people to believe that scabbing is a liberatory activity:

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/10/uaw-auto-strike-stellantis/

Stellantis calls each of its DEI silos a "Business Resource Group" (BRG): there's a "Working Parents Network," an "African Ancestry Network," "Asians Connected Together," a "DiverseAbilities Network," a "Gay & Lesbian Alliance" and more:

https://blog.stellantisnorthamerica.com/2021/07/20/business-resource-groups-drive-inclusion-and-diversity/

The corporate managers who lead these BRGs have established a scab rotation for each subgroup, calling on members to cross a UAW picket-line at a Michigan Parts Distribution Center run by Stellantis subsidiary Mopar:

Each BRG will pick a specific day of the week/weekend to volunteer as a team. Help continue to be the RESOURCE the BUSINESS can count on! Stellantis needs your help in running the Parts Distribution Centers (PDC) to ensure a steady supply of parts to our customers while negotiations continue. Working Parents Network has identified Friday, October 13 as WPN’s BRG Day at the PDCs!"

Now, these BRGs weren't invented by marginalized workers facing discrimination in the workplace. They come from literal union-busting playbooks produced by giant "union avoidance" firms that charge bosses millions for advice on skirting – or breaking – the law to keep workplace democracy at bay. All the biggest anti-union consultancies love BRGs, from Littler Mendelson to Jackson Lewis. IRI Strategies touts BRGs as a way to "union-proof" a business by absorbing workers' grievances in a decoy committee that will let them feel listened to.

BRGs, in other words, are the Crisis Pregnancy Centers of workplace discrimination. They're a Big Store Con, a company union dressed up as corporate social responsibility.

Now, let's not pretend that unions have a sterling record on race and gender issues. Giant labor organizations like the AFL had to be dragged into racial integration, and trade unions have sometimes been on the wrong side of anti-immigration panics:

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/summer/american-labor-movement.html

But unions have also been the most reliable way for people of color and women to win better workplace treatment. The struggle for racial and gender justice was fought through labor organizing. Remember that MLK's "I've Been To the Mountaintop" speech was given in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis:

https://www.afscme.org/about/history/mlk/mountaintop

Black organizers have always been militant labor organizers. Labor Day commemorates the victory of the long, hard-fought Pullman strike, where Black workers brought one of the most powerful companies in America to its knees:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike

And women have always fought for gender justice through the labor movement: the New York shirtwaist strike is the Ur-example, when women-led unions fought thugs and scabs on icy New York streets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_shirtwaist_strike_of_1909

It's no surprise that labor activism, anti-racism and feminism go together. Since the earliest days, the labor justice struggle was also a social justice struggle. To learn more check out Kim Kelly's Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fight-Like-Hell/Kim-Kelly/9781982171063

The most exploited, underpaid, and abused workers in America are also the most marginalized (duh).

From nurses:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/kaiser-healthcare-union-says-week-long-strike-possible-early-next-month-2023-10-09/

To teachers:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-18/l-a-teachers-win-21-wage-increase-in-new-lausd-contract

To Amazon warehouse workers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Labor_Union

To publishing assistants:

https://apnews.com/article/harpercollins-union-strike-ends-0a94238718879066d9b21af6266be526

To baristas:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/business/starbucks-union-wages/index.html

To fast-food workers:

https://www.ufcw.org/about/

The vanguard of today's labor surge is Black, brown, female and queer. Without a union, workers who face discrimination are on their own, hoping that their bosses will voluntarily do something about it. Black workers in Tesla's rabidly anti-union shops face vicious racism, from slurs to threats to violence. Without a union, they have to rely on the shifting whims of an Apartheid emerald mine space-Karen for relief, or hope for help from the NLRB or a class-action lawyer:

https://apnews.com/article/tesla-racism-black-lawsuit-class-action-21c88bddf60eca702560be58429495de

The far right isn't wrong when they holler that woke capitalism is bullshit. As with so many of their mirror-world causes, they've got a point, but only a limited one. The problem with woke capitalism is that it's no substitute for a union. The problem with relying on Business Resource Groups to fight racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia is that these struggles are all class struggles, and a BRG is never going to fight against the company that created it.

To understand how bankrupt woke capitalism is, conside this: Stellantis is calling on its "Working Parents Network" to scab this Friday. Stellantis is also being sanctioned by the Department Of Labor for discriminating against nursing mothers – the same "working parents" that the BRG is meant to protect:

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/02/08/investigation-finds-stellantis-violated-rights-of-nursing-mothers-at-sterling-heights-plant/

Woke capitalism is just another kind of "predatory inclusion," like Intuit's campaign defending its "Free File" tax-prep scam, where they're claiming that ending this ripoff is racist because it denies Black families the right to be tricked into paying for something they are entitled to get for free:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/27/predatory-inclusion/#equal-opportunity-scammers

When I learned about Intuit's wokewashing, I thought I'd found woke capitalism's rock bottom, but I was wrong. Stellantis's call for woke scabbing is a new low.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/11/equal-opportunity-class-war/#inclusive-scabbing

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

[mightypurplethunder]

I don't want to see any of you usamericans talk about "punching nazis" ever again. I don't want to hear yall pat each other on the back and say shit like "If I had been alive during the holocaust I would have done something about it", or any other white savior shit like that.

You don't care about jews, you didn't care about them back then, just as you don't care about palestinians now. Yall repeat and repeat "the holocaust was terrible, we should condemn it", not because you care, but because it lifts yourselves up. Because it's the only war that the US won where they just happened to be on "the good side", so it portrays you as heroes, warriors of justice, which happens to be excelent propaganda material, so you exploit it. You make memorials, you make films, hundreds of them, fetishizing the jewish suffering and portraying yourselves as the force of good that saved them all. Meanwhile, dozens of other genocides - many of them even bigger and bloddier than the holocaust - happen around the world, many of them endorsed or supported by your government. But yall don't care. It's not the holocaust. You're not the good guys in this one so why bother making a movie, why pay atention to it at all? It's hard to keep track of everything happening in the world, it has nothing to do with you. So you just keep scrolling your socials paying no mind to whatever fucked up shit is happening out there, until you run into some fucker from the global south posting something mildly critical of israel, or about how the United States shamelessly exploits jewish history for the sake of warfare, or how victim mentality is a dangerous thing for a marginalized group to hold on to, and you get furious. How dare they say things that don't align with the narrative I've been fed my whole life?? They are anti-semitic!! They hate jews!! They are nazis!! And you tell them so, you put them in their place, because you are a democrat and a good guy and you won't tolerate nazis. And then you reblog "support our troops" posts and write letters to your president begging him to bomb brown people on the other side of the planet because they are terrorists, I think. And I'm here to tell you that you are not the good guy, you are not a hero. You are a victim of indoctrination and an idiot, and your domestic white politics mean absolutely nothing to the rest of the world.

Yes, I did watch Schindler's list. No, I don't hate jewish people. Yes, I'll aggresively condemn Israel's actions and anyone blind enough to say that one genocide justifies another, and I will always support palestinian people. And if you happen to be a jewish person that has somehow found themselves in the center of a conversation that isn't even about you, and getting negative attention you don't deserve, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that no matter what you do or where you live, you keep being used as a scapegoat and your life and history exploited for colonialist propaganda, your heritage is worth more than that.

So keep calling yourselves the good guys, keep pulling the anti-semite card or the "Palestine is homophobic" argument. Keep playing your white politics in your white country that you stole from non-white people. The rest of the world is watching you and history will remember you as what you are and always have been; fucking colonizers.

[dertaglichedan]

Pope Francis’s possible replacements: The good, bad, and the DISASTERS…

As you’ve likely heard by now, Pope Francis has died. The 88-year-old progressive Pope had been battling pneumonia and passed away just one day after Easter. Many viewed Francis as “Obama’s Pope,” a nickname he got thanks to long-running rumors that Obama played a role in replacing traditionalist Pope Benedict with the more liberal Francis. And let’s be honest—after the Wikileaks Podesta/DNC dump exposed the Dem Party’s obsession with infiltrating the Catholic Church, those rumors didn’t seem so far-fetched.

Pope Francis fit the left’s agenda a little too perfectly. Coincidence? Maybe—but a lot of people think it was calculated.

However, now it’s time to choose a new pope. Will the left-wing globalists keep their stranglehold on the Catholic Church—or will tradition finally prevail? There’s a viral thread making the rounds on X listing some of the top contenders for the job.

We went through the names and broke them down: the good, the bad, and the total disasters.

Please note: the thread didn’t include this first name, but we think he’s in the running—and honestly, he’d be a strong pick.

1. Cardinal Péter Erdo – GOOD Traditional, disciplined, not flashy, and no interest in turning the Church into a woke social club. Solid, serious pick who actually respects doctrine.

2. Cardinal Robert Sarah – GOOD The dream pope for traditional Catholics. Unapologetically bold, anti-woke, fiercely pro-life. But he’s 79 and way too real for the Vatican elites to ever back.

3. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa – GOOD Tough, grounded, and not playing globalist games. Doesn’t go full trad, but definitely not woke either. A respectable, stable choice.

4. Cardinal Charles Bo – BAD Too focused on social justice and “interfaith” outreach. Leans left when it counts. Not a warrior for tradition.

5. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith – GOOD Quiet, serious, and committed to old-school Catholicism. He respects tradition and isn’t chasing modern trends—but his age might work against him.

6. Cardinal Daniel Sturla – GOOD Orthodox, clear-headed, and not afraid to speak the truth in a secular culture. Underrated, but very solid.

7. Cardinal William Goh – BAD Way too weak. Talks tradition, but plays both sides. Not trustworthy when it comes to holding the line.

8. Cardinal Willem Eijk – GOOD He’s tough on the moral issues, speaks plain truth in a world that hates it, and doesn’t play games with Church teaching. No fluff. Just solid.

9. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo – MIXED Good on resisting the LGBT agenda, but leans too political and activist-heavy. Could go either way.

10. Cardinal Peter Turkson – BAD Globalist energy. Big on climate change and wealth redistribution. Not a defender of tradition—more of a “Vatican insider” type.

11. Cardinal Pietro Parolin – VERY BAD Deep State Vatican. Helped sell out Catholics to China. Globalist to the core. This guy would be a disaster.

12. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi – DISASTER Woke, progressive, and already trying to remake Church teaching. Basically Francis 2.0 with a faster, better-built motor. Hard no on this guy.

This next conclave is a big turning point for the Catholic Church.

If they choose someone like Sarah, Erdo, or Pizzaballa, there’s a real shot at bringing back tradition and morality. But if the globalists get their way again, it’ll be more of the same—confusion, compromise, and progressive politics.

For Catholics who still believe in the tradition of the Church, this new pope pick matters more than ever.

*** I don't know anything about this. It would be nice to have a conservative in the office.

[dinarosie]

Hi! I found your post on the growing hate toward Snape really thought provoking. Just curious are you planning to write a second part? I’d be super interested to see where you take it.

Hey! Thanks so much for your message.

When I first started writing this post, I actually planned for it to be a four part series. I wanted to go into how Snape’s genuine, pure love turned into an obsessive and somewhat dark emotion, or how he went from a strict, harsh teacher to someone whose behavior borders on criminal mistreatment of children. But honestly, I think there are far better posts out there that explain these transformations with much more clarity and depth. Since these shifts are often influenced by cultural perspectives, I worry my explanations might not come across as clearly. For instance, the concept of an 'incel' isn’t something commonly understood in my culture, so it’s hard for me to frame it accurately.

However, if you're interested, I did briefly touch on this in a reblog of this post, where I talked about how what was meant to represent Snape’s innocence, loyalty, and his ‘light side’ has, over time and with cultural shifts, been interpreted differently.. I came across a comment on Reddit under a post I wrote about Snape's hate, which I thought was really interesting, and I'd like to share it here as well:

u/WhisperedWhimsy: I think this is true. I read the books circa 2000 and then as they came out. I had internet access simultaneously. There was significantly less Snape hate during that time but also the quality was different. People hated Snape for his actual behavior and flaws and not exaggerated or made up things. And some people just loved to hate on him because mean teacher dungeon bat with his billowing cloak and drama is so easy to make a caricature of for laughs though I don't think those people in particular hated on him very seriously. And most telling about the time was that people who hated on Snape didn't automatically like Sirius, James, or Remus. Many people hated all across the board or maybe only liked 1 marauder but not the others and that was usually Sirius, sometimes Remus, but never James. I think we also need to consider the emergence of incel as a term widely used followed by social justice warriors and edge lords as part of internet culture and then more recently the anti v pro culture which is particularly targeted towards fandom. These shifts in perspective have over time influenced the fandom significantly imo. Particularly fans who are 30 and under seem most influenced in this way. Snape hate went from "I really don't like him but you do you" to vocal attacks on him as a character in a performative moral clout grabbing way similar to the SJWs with the mix of "he's an incel so he must be every possible kind of bigot and very creepy and a threat to women". The Rise in James' popularity felt very edge Lord when it started of bad faith arguments for why a guy who very obviously isn't so great is actually great. And then with the Anti v pro ship drama that is in every single fandom now it has become the norm to chalk certain questionable characters up to being pure evil and anyone who likes said characters is clearly also a horrible person and a predator.