#antifa bullshit

[liberalsarecool]

So Trump wanted to go to the Capitol to lead the crowd. Which he claimed was antifa. 🤥

And the story is that antifa was there because they were upset Biden won. 🤥

All the bullshit and lies are so pathetic.

[spot-the-antisemitism]

I think current wave of antisemitism shows why lot of people were distrustful towards organizations and movements who claimed they want to punch/kill Nazis.

Because said people get to define who Nazi is based on their feelings instead of using concrete definition based on actual history.

And now we are seeing peak of that ridiculous idea, "antifascists" claiming Jews Zionists are all Nazis. Jews literally cannot be Nazis because goal of Nazi ideology is extermination of Jews. But that doesn't matter when you can't even be bothered to open a history book.

Thanks to those morons, word Nazi has lost most of its meaning and now just mean "very bad person." It's ironic that those people are larping as original ANTIFA, when ANTIFA did the same shit in 1930s and claimed social democrats were fascists.

Are the antifa veterans from the 30s in room with us are are you having fun calling the french resistance the real nazis like the right wing chud you are

no please fuck right off to your boards witj your actually trans/gay/jews/commies are the real nazis because they woke left won’t let me call people slurs bullshit

Like no right wing trump adjacent chuds I’m not your shield against leftists in your crusade against ‘woke dei trangederism’ which is what you call people you hate instead of calling them nazis

fuck off,

Cecil

[fairuzfan]

They aren't saying "people should be nice to zionist Jews like they are to antizionist Jews" they're saying "rebukes of zionist Jews should not be antisemitic." If someone leans on antisemitic tropes to tear down zionists instead of genuinely tearing down their shitty ideology, that person is being antisemitic, and if that person is perfectly pleasant to antizionist Jews it doesn't change the fact that antisemitism is their go-to strat for dealing with Jews they don't like. Zionism has to be torn down with truth, not bigotry. And honestly I think most Palestinians I see are doing this correctly. But there are plenty of White American Gentiles who support Palestine but lazily lean on antisemitism in their arguments. Or who ARE antisemites and only support Palestine because it's one of the more convenient movements to inject their bullshit into at the moment. But both of those kinds of people are bigoted assholes and they should be held accountable for their antisemitism both because antisemitism is wrong period and because their bullshit poisons the movement for a free Palestine - there is no place for bigotry in a movement for truth and justice

my point with that post specifically is that its much, much too vague. yes, i agree, dont be antisemitic. for a variety of reasons. but the post itself says "How quickly is that person treated as the worst sort of example of what the other camp hates?"

i agree, if the post itself focused on antisemitism/antisemtic cannard i wouldn't have minded. but to ignore the fact that the "pro-israel" rally is actively encouraging the death and destruction of my people, and saying "well you're just treating that Jewish person as the worst example of a zionist" when it is *zionist jews* who are in the IDF and the ones who are killing my friends and family, then yeah i'm going to treat a zionist jew with abhorance. i'm not going to throw antisemitic cannards at them, but they *are* the primary oppressors of Palestinians. To ignore that and paint it as a "disagreement" is fundamentally re-narrating what is going on in these protests.

And as i mention in my earlier post, what you say is not in vacuum when protesting for Palestine. the overwhelming narrative right now is that the protests are fueled by antisemitism.

they straight up say: "People who are loudly and visibly Jewish are often the most cheered on by those who agree with them, especially in movements where they are a minority. The flipside is that people who are loudly and visibly Jewish are often the most virulently harassed by those who disagree with them."

this is not a disagreement. one side want me and my people DEAD and GONE. that's like saying nazis and antifa are disagreeing. its such a clumsily worded post and ignores that the people WHO ARE KILLING PALESTINIANS RIGHT NOW are zionist jews. so yeah, it is quite annoying to say "you're only being rude to them because they're visibly jewish" as if they have no rights over me as a palestinian inherently. they can go to 'israel' and serve in the idf whenever they want because they're jewish and zionist. so yeah, i don't trust them and i think they ARE the worst example of zionism.

the pro-israel side also has people who have served in the IDF, so like to say "you hate them because they're jewish" in this scenario is willfully misconstruing the real harm the pro-israel side does.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

David Rowe

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Fuck the media explanations that Trump won because he was talking to them about the economy, because he was talking to them primarily about himself in his bizarre monologues that also covered the dick size of a dead golfer whose career peaked sixty years ago, windmills killing birds, kids coming home from school having had their gender changed maybe during recess, and a whole lot of Hannibal Lecter apparently because in the broken jelly of his brain there was some kind of association between insane asylums and refugees seeking asylum, and on top of that a lot of threats against and menace to women and anyone who opposed him, juvenile insults, and a whole thing about sharks and batteries, and a certain amount of slurring words and a whole lot of words in no particular order conveying no particular meaning, along with the promise to put the world's richest man in charge of the economy, who in turn promises to wreck it.

I get that there's a lot of economic unhappiness and real struggle, but that didn't start with the Biden Administration, which gave people pandemic relief at the beginning of its term, but Republicans wouldn't let them renew it, which is why people remember being better off four years ago. Meanwhile the Harris campaign promised to help with in-home healthcare, the cost of housing, and raising the minimum wage, and I know no one knew that any of these campaigns had content because the media was too busy rewarming frozen scandals. But also a lot of people got good green jobs from the Inflation Reduction Act and a lot of people got debt forgiveness, both Biden administration things that began as, respectively, the Sunrise Movement's Green New Deal and the debt activism that emerged from Occupy Wall Street (I've been thinking back to Occupy Wall and how it created space in 2011 for people to reveal how crushed by housing, medical, and student debt they were--Harris went after predatory housing lenders after Occupy, when she was California's attorney general.) Biden, who clearly modeled himself after FDR, was hailed in some quarters as the first non-neoliberal president since Reagan came 44 years ago to destroy the New Deal and the Great Society and make the poor poorer and the rich richer.

It is its own form of disinformation, how the mainstream media settles on explanations about what just happened and why when they happen not to be true. And we heard the same bullshit in 2016 when mostly white people voted against their own economic interest for a racist, sexist, incompetent member of the 1% and middle class people claiming to speak for the working class insisted this was all economic dissatisfaction. Trump is a puppet for forces that will make ordinary peoples' lives far harder and then they will blame Antifa or immigrants or something and the media will repeat these ridiculous allegations as though they deserve serious consideration.

One point no one should forget: abortion is an economic issue for anyone who can get pregnant. Immigrant rights are not just an economic issue for immigrants but for the whole economy, which would fall apart without them.

Brookings Institute: "The Trump campaign decided that Harris’ stance on transgender issues was the Willie Horton of 2024 and invested heavily in negative advertising that dominated the airwaves throughout the South.1 Anecdotal evidence suggests that this campaign helped weaken Harris’ effort to portray herself as a common-sense center-left candidate rather than an emissary from San Francisco."

Wired: "Trump ran a campaign that stoked culture war grievances and divisions, and was defined by lies, a desire for vengeance, and, at times, threatening rhetoric. In social media posts he threatened mass arrests of his political opponents in revenge for “stealing the election” in 2020 (though evidence conclusively shows the 2020 election was not stolen). Lawmakers, election workers, school board members, federal agents, and judges have been repeatedly targeted over the years with violent threats by his supporters who believe they were acting on his behalf. Trump repeatedly promised his supporters he would “destroy” the deep state, invoking the popular conspiracy theory of a nefarious web of faceless bureaucrats working to destroy the US from within. He cast himself, alongside the people who stormed the Capitol on January 6 over election lies, as “political prisoners,” even “hostages” who were being persecuted by a “tyrannical” Biden administration."

Robert Hubbell: "Just as the media normalized Trump before the election, there is a wholesale effort to “normalize” the election results. Pundits are claiming the election was decided by voters’ concerns over inflation, immigration, or crime. Those issues are post-facto rationalizations offered by voters to conceal their real reasons for voting for a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual abuser over an eminently qualified candidate."

Brian Merchant, tech journalist extraordinaire: "Apart from Trump himself, there are few more obvious victors that Elon Musk; for $100 million or so and a few months’ display of unrestrained fealty, he just bought himself some real estate in the inner sanctum of Trumpworld. It may be the most fruitful investment he ever made, a bargain really. ...Suffice to say that Elon Musk is the closest that a Silicon Valley tech titan has been to the White House, in a position of overt and direct power. There is of course a long lineage of the Valley linking up with Washington for defense contracts, help in avoiding regulations, and other forms of material support—see: Malcolm Harris’s Palo Alto—but this is the next level. It could even, perhaps, be considered a logical culmination. It’s time to face facts. In Trump, Silicon Valley got what it wanted: A president that will kneecap antitrust efforts, embrace deregulation, and defang labor laws."

[Rebecca Solnit]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Frank Vyan Walton at Dark Skies on the Horizon:

Among the many MAGA myths, this may be one of the most enduring and at the same time the most ridiculous.  Even though they have deliberately chosen not to watch the January 6 hearings, they have plenty of opinions about them.  Antifa implemented the attack, it was part of a false-flag plot by the FBI using informants, it was all Nancy Pelosi’s fault because she didn’t call the National Guard. And the hearings are a “Which Hunt” with a “Narrative.” They have no regrets for the Insurrection, they have no apologies to give. They think that they are the ones who have been wronged, they believe that they were justified. [Even though they totally weren’t.] [...]

There is no way that Trump didn’t know that these people did not “Stay” peaceful, thousands of them weren’t peaceful at all.  This was part of him constructing a narrative, he had said at the ellipse we're going to “peacefully march” but that was bullshit because he already knew there were weapons in the crowd.  He already knew how angry they were. His saying “Stay peaceful” here was part of his plot to blame that violence on Antifa, or whoever — which he did during a phone call with Kevin McCarthy — and pretend that his supporters didn’t enter the Capitol and didn't fight with police. But they did.  Trump supporters were the ones who gave Officer Fanone a concussion, a heart attack and tased him repeatedly.  They were the ones who attacked Sgt Gonell and gave him a permanent shoulder injury. They were the ones who caused Officer Sicknick to have a stroke, and several other officers to commit suicide. They were the ones who injured 150 Officers leading to five of them dying, and also four protestors dying during the attack.

This is the final straw, with this statement he made it clear that he was on the same side as the rioters.  And they were on his side. He initiated the rally.  He instigated the attack.  He picked the time, date and place. He used the people and the MAGA members of Congress as tools in his two-pronged assault on democracy. He didn't care that they were armed and dangerous.  He didn't lift a finger to *stop* the attack while it was in progress until he was satisfied that they had stopped the vote and couldn't accomplish anything more. He said “Peacefully” just to cover his ass and set up the narrative that the violence was from someone else. But then if it really was Antifa, why is it that he’s since offered to pardon and offer a governmental apology to the rioters if he gets re-elected. Why would he do that for the “Violent Leftists?”

And he’s not just offering this pardon to the people who were actually “peaceful” and stood outside the Capitol. [Even though just being past the sidewalk and on the Capitol grounds was a crime, since the facility was closed to the public at that time.]  He wants to pardon the people who are currently in jail for violent acts, who fought with the police, who vandalized the building and smashed their way inside, who were trying to hunt down and kill Nancy Pelosi, who wanted to “Hang Mike Pence.”  This is a reward, and those the people he wants to give it too. He’s on the side of the worst of the crowd, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the III Percenters, the racists and the domestic terrorists. And they’re on his side. This was not a boating accident. None of this happens, not the rally, not the march, not the attack, not the attempt to implement the fake electors, without Trump being behind all of it.  Every step of the way.

Frank Vyan Walton debunks the myths MAGA extremist spew out in regards to the Donald Trump-incited January 6th Insurrection.

[kharmii]

So “Trump” (aka Israel) wants the “US” (aka Israel) to take over Gaza and leftists complain as if this isn’t exactly what they’re preaching. “Importing foreigners to a society is healthy and helps the society to survive!! Racist!!!”

WELL, in that case Israel is just substituting the Palestinians with Israelis which helps Palestine survive. Lmao.

Trump was probably irl trolling, same as he did with the tariffs and Panama Canal deal. He's throwing out an outrageous threat hoping that it will result in other countries making good decisions on their own.

Speaking of 'importing foreigners', the debacle with USAID is making me come up with some conspiracy theories I'm predicting might come to light as investigations into where all the money went proceed.

Since USAID is an arm of the CIA that does intel ops the government wouldn't normally approve of, or so the stories on Twitter say, there was an instance of fraud where money earmarked for Pakistan was instead sent to Cuba. They created a Cuban Twitter called ZunZuneo in order to organize flash mobs and cause social unrest. People are now wondering if they were using those same tactics in our own country with destructive flash mobs of BLM/Antifa people.

It makes me wonder if they earmarked money for one thing but actually used it to fund many of the problems happening in the world. IE: What if that grant for a 'gay opera in Ireland' was instead used to bring in welfare dependent migrants from Nigeria? What if it isn't just European countries being traitors against their own people, but the United States in collaboration?

The other thing I've been wondering about might have more to do with NGOs than USAID, but it's in regard to farmland in the Midwest, US. The price of land in Midwestern blue states has been really expensive for a while. If someone wants to build on a quarter acre of land, it's like 90K minimum for the lot, and then they also have to pay to build the actual house on top of exorbitant property, income, sales, etc taxes found in blue states. If someone wants to buy a house that's been already built sitting on an established farm, they're looking at a minimum of half a million dollars.

Suddenly last couple years, foreign companies from China and India are coming in, buying up farmland, and covering them with gaudy solar arrays. Sometimes the local citizens will go to the county meetings and protest. In most states, if a company wants to put up any sort of structure, -whether it's a solar panel or a pole barn- they have to send two certified letters to all their neighbors notifying them they can attend a county meeting and protest. People do this, but a lot of times, the panels go up anyway.

Also, sometimes a farm will sit for sale because nobody can afford to buy it, but then suddenly a bunch of Muslims from the other side of the planet are able to come in, buy it, then immediately be given a contract to send produce to a local grocery store. It's my suspicion that NGOs are funding the effort to bring people in from foreign countries to work on our farmland because....get it? Kids these days are too fat and lazy to work on farms in their own communities, just like how they don't want to get good paying jobs in their own communities, so we have to hire people from 50+ miles away or bring them in on H1B visas.

I'm sure if any NGO walked into any highschool in rural area and asked how many kids would work on farms if they fckn BOUGHT it for them and let them jump right into a profitable contract, they'd have a line of kids clamoring for the opportunity, but our government hates its own populace and wants to import better serfs. When it's all said and done, I'll bet they find enough dirty deeds to warrant a military tribunal and Gitmo for some of these scumbag crooks, but I'm satisfied with the current progress. Hopefully once the funding dries up for all the Marxist bullshit, a lot of the evil happening in the world will be scaled back somewhat. I get we're not the only rich country in the world, but we do a large part.

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

You were asked when antifa burned any books and you answered that it depends on how you define antifa but you didn't give any examples. Trying to argue with my leftist friends is hard when the White House bans press for not using the right words, bans certain words they consider too woke from official documents and Elon the Shadow President suspends accounts of journos and surpresses posts that use the word transgender.

Bans press is bad faith. And an outright lie.

The White House did not BAN press. They said that the AP, is no longer allowed at Air Force 1, and in the Oval Office. The Oval office for those of us that have never set foot in it, is small as hell. And only so many people are allowed in at once. Those people then give any information given to them, to the rest of the press core. See the following.

Also I don't believe that you have leftist friends you argue with if you are referring to elon as the "Shadow President" unless you are paraphrasing your friends. And that is as deluded a take as "Trumps the real president, he just wants Biden to think he lost. He's going to seize power and come back in June. July. I meant August." Elon is conducting and Audit. That's literally it. Trump makes the final choices on what happens. And him and Trump have disagreed on things before to both their admissions. Elon can't get richer, and Trump is already well past set for life.

Also with the Antifa burning books, I have examples. But they are from years ago. And the amount of digging I'd have to do to find the videos is kinda stupid. Because leftists have one thing they are actually great at. Flooding the zone. Same bullshit the CIA has been doing for years. 1 person comes out asking honest questions. Hits too close to home, then what happens. Before it can get real traction they exaggerate the question by finding some lunatic to get "His opinion on the matter" IE: any junkie on the street willing to say he likes Trump, later becomes, "Sources familiar with Trump's thinking" This then buries the honest question. Same bullshit with leftists. Antifa act like a bunch of Fascistic bureaucrats wanting to implement hate speech laws, which is ANTITHETICAL to free speech, then say that Republicans are banning books, which they aren't, and the CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NYT, Guardian, etc, etc, etc, will then post dozens of articles and videos following the claims.

As such, the video of activist Teachers/Professors who were throwing out books to "De-White" their "Collection" were in line with Antifa. And their moral code. You'll almost never find a person CALL themselves Antifa then burn a book. Because they KNOW the issues it would cause. Why do you think they hide their faces? So they can do whatever heinous shit they want, and never be linked back to "The good guys TM".

[retroactivebakeries]

The Scriptures of the Maidens as Dril Tweets

The Eternal Maiden: pissed off by the idea of my ass becoming grass The Desirable Maiden: drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not, The Maiden at Sea: (witnessing the flaming wreckage of a 6-car pile up) ah. Respect. More power

The Maiden Entombed: my grave is just a huge tv displaying videos of me doing parkour in hell and it makes all the other graves look like shit The Maiden and Shadow: who the fuck is scraeming 'LOG OFF' at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off Lover and Maiden: damn it to piss. my wife replaced all of my anti-wife reading materials with Pro-Wife bullshit The Hunted Maiden: (dismissing waitress handing me the check with a hand wave) no thank you. i dont believe in any of that The Bride: i lvoe and cherish all of the girls of this site, and other websites. you all become my wife more and more with each passing day. Thank you The Dancer: my watch beeps whwich means its time to stand in front of my ex-wife's house and play "Hit THe Road Jack" while dacning and licking her mail The Desperate Maiden: ive signed a 1 Month Pact w/ my wife which grants her the right to viciously berate me online, as long as she watches & supports my Stream's The Clay Maiden: (playing russian roullette and its my turn) hasta the vista mother fucker (shoots the other guy The Drowning Maiden: joke's on you; i actually love being body slammed by one dozen perfect wrestlers. and my mouth isn't filled with bloodm, it's victory wine The Maiden on the Shelf: strongest blade in the world, howeve,r it is so fragile as to shatter when handled by any force other than the delicate touch of a lesbian . The One-Handed Maiden: BOSS TELLS ME I CAN KISS MY FERRETS AT WORK, BUT NO OPEN MOUTH. I PUNCH THE FLOOR SO HARD HIS SCREEN SAVER DEACTIVATES The Maiden at War: astrally projecting my brain into antifa head quarters and memorizing their combat patterns is the easiest shit i have ever done in my life That Old Thing: if someone posts something that is good then i will look at it and think its good. Simple The Savory Maiden: Your replies have been simply Fire. Love the energy but please do keep any talk of boiling me alive to a minimum as that is against the law The Maiden in Terror: big bird was obviously just a man in a suit. but the other ones were too small to contain men. so what the fuck The Maiden in Chains: i was tricked into sending $100000 to a man claiming to be DB Coopers son. and not a single one of my followers even bothered dialing 911 Absence: no The Maiden and the Dust: so long suckers! i rev up my motorcylce and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement The Maiden and the Scythe: people come up to me and say, "I will never use the bathroom. I will never shit" and i gotta tell them pal, sooner or later youre gonna shit The Maiden's Promise: the doctor reveals my blood pressure is 420 over 69. i hoot & holler outta the building while a bunch of losers try to tell me that im dying The Expectant Maiden: as far as im concerned the best revenge is ordering wolf piss online & pouring it into soneones car. "living well" is too hard The Maiden and the Road: obliviously driving m y car through chernobyl , absorbing lethal anmounts of radiation while looking for cute girls

[mysterioussinkhole]

What really struck me about the end of Succession 4x09, wasn’t just Roman’s self-destruction but the deep indignity of it. Prior to the ep airing there were rumors that he got beat up by “antifa” because of his election bullshit which could technically be considered true but also very much is not.

As angry of those protesters were, they didn't know him. They didn't recognize him as someone they should hate, didn’t pay him any mind. And even when Roman was screaming at them, the only time he got hit was actually them hitting back because he was goading them. They weren't circled around kicking the shit out of him, they were trying to get by and getting this dude away from them before he made shit worse.

Roman had to beg to be hated like he believed he deserved, and even then he wasn't much more than a momentary annoyance.

[tsunflowers]

on knowledge fight they covered one of alex's employees being fatally shot and alex going on air the next day to be like "it was probably Ukraine and george soros trying to kill me" and dan and jordan were like "I hope this is a wake-up call for the remaining employees" and I do too bc how goddamn callous can you be. everyone else working there must have some degree of removal from the things they do. like "yeah we fudge the truth sometimes and say cruel things but it's to fight the globalists." but then your own coworker dies, not just someone on your side but someone you know in real life, and your boss spins out a bullshit story about him just like he does about antifa protestors. even if you're someone who would willingly work for alex jones you must feel something about that behavior

[velvetvexations]

I saw a post recently deriding the take that superheroes are inherently fascist, but I think it's complicated.

They DID all come from that seed of vigilante bullshit where they all practically worshipped the cops (except early Superman who didn't spit on them but neither was he especially respectful) and warred against vague Crime as a concept, often represented by "the Underworld" conceptualized in a way that's very familiar to anyone whose seen people rant about antifa.

However, they started to inch away from that in the Bronze Age. It was a very, very gradual process, with some regressions like how post-Crisis Batman swung hard into Gotham being a nightmare of New York at it's worst in the 80s (although that came with plenty of criticism of the cops and elite), but by the time of the MCU it's notable that none of the Avengers fought crime. We could get into how it used a modified version of the Ultimates-set up (which was explicitly designed to be a little fucked, which is something I love about the first two Ultimates minis and especially the second) and that version of Hawkeye and Black Widow who are basically heroic CIA ("wOrLd SeCuRiTy CoUnCiL") assassins played totally straight that then shifts to being a billionaire's world shaping pet project, but at least in terms of vigilantism it takes until Spider-Man for someone to be like, going out at night to stop muggings like a "classic" superhero and I think his age does a lot to dial down the eyebrow you can raise at the fact that he's going up against a gang of ordinary criminals doing ordinary criminal things (just, you know, with scavenged alien tech).

Then we get Daredevil, which takes pains to portray the Kingpin as a very rich man gentrifying neighborhoods and terrorizing the underprivileged. Then season two introduces the Punisher, who I really thought would have already been absolved if you just limit his crusade to the specific mafiosos who killed his family, but despite killing a bunch of mafiosos anyway it still turns out to have been at the behest of a rogue element of the US military - I guess because they just needed a twist. It's hard to stretch out a Punisher story for too long for obvious reasons. Then in season one of the Punisher it's a PMC (including yet more rogue US military).

I didn't watch season two of the Punisher because I'd heard it was going to adapt The Slavers and got really excited, but then it turned out to not adapt The Slavers and I lost all interest. But that makes sense and fits into my thesis here, because even aside from how soul-crushingly bleak The Slavers was, THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY Netflix or Disney or ANYONE would EVER do the window scene, or at least not without changing it to a guy and that really feels like it'd drain the scene of half it's impact. But here we again see concern for optics.

Luke Cage was interesting because by starring an underprivileged Black man on the run for crimes he didn't commit, he was able to fight criminals without it being weird, and what's more they were Black criminals, reinforcing Black people are perfectly capable of being both villains and heroes in a narrative without white people one way or another. This was crucial, since racism is another common element of the problematic soup of traditional superhero narratives.

But while I haven't really been paying attention to cape stuff at all lately, other than that I don't really think there's been a lot that wasn't total sci-fi fantasy bullshit, including the following two Spider-Man movies.

Except, I guess, The Batman (2022). But that movie fucking RULED so it's fine.

[partisan-by-default]

Rebecca Solnit / Facebook:

Fuck the media explanations that Trump won because he was talking to them about the economy, because he was talking to them primarily about himself in his bizarre monologues that also covered the dick size of a dead golfer whose career peaked sixty years ago, windmills killing birds, kids coming home from school having had their gender changed maybe during recess, and a whole lot of Hannibal Lecter apparently because in the broken jelly of his brain there was some kind of association between insane asylums and refugees seeking asylum, and on top of that a lot of threats against and menace to women and anyone who opposed him, juvenile insults, and a whole thing about sharks and batteries, and a certain amount of slurring words and a whole lot of words in no particular order conveying no particular meaning, along with the promise to put the world's richest man in charge of the economy, who in turn promises to wreck it.

I get that there's a lot of economic unhappiness and real struggle, but that didn't start with the Biden Administration, which gave people pandemic relief at the beginning of its term, but Republicans wouldn't let them renew it, which is why people remember being better off four years ago. Meanwhile the Harris campaign promised to help with in-home healthcare, the cost of housing, and raising the minimum wage, and I know no one knew that any of these campaigns had content because the media was too busy rewarming frozen scandals. But also a lot of people got good green jobs from the Inflation Reduction Act and a lot of people got debt forgiveness, both Biden administration things that began as, respectively, the Sunrise Movement's Green New Deal and the debt activism that emerged from Occupy Wall Street (I've been thinking back to Occupy Wall and how it created space in 2011 for people to reveal how crushed by housing, medical, and student debt they were--Harris went after predatory housing lenders after Occupy, when she was California's attorney general.) Biden, who clearly modeled himself after FDR, was hailed in some quarters as the first non-neoliberal president since Reagan came 44 years ago to destroy the New Deal and the Great Society and make the poor poorer and the rich richer.

It is its own form of disinformation, how the mainstream media settles on explanations about what just happened and why when they happen not to be true. And we heard the same bullshit in 2016 when mostly white people voted against their own economic interest for a racist, sexist, incompetent member of the 1% and middle class people claiming to speak for the working class insisted this was all economic dissatisfaction. Trump is a puppet for forces that will make ordinary peoples' lives far harder and then they will blame Antifa or immigrants or something and the media will repeat these ridiculous allegations as though they deserve serious consideration.

One point no one should forget: abortion is an economic issue for anyone who can get pregnant. Immigrant rights are not just an economic issue for immigrants but for the whole economy, which would fall apart without them.

Brookings Institute: "The Trump campaign decided that Harris’ stance on transgender issues was the Willie Horton of 2024 and invested heavily in negative advertising that dominated the airwaves throughout the South.1 Anecdotal evidence suggests that this campaign helped weaken Harris’ effort to portray herself as a common-sense center-left candidate rather than an emissary from San Francisco."

Wired: "Trump ran a campaign that stoked culture war grievances and divisions, and was defined by lies, a desire for vengeance, and, at times, threatening rhetoric. In social media posts he threatened mass arrests of his political opponents in revenge for “stealing the election” in 2020 (though evidence conclusively shows the 2020 election was not stolen). Lawmakers, election workers, school board members, federal agents, and judges have been repeatedly targeted over the years with violent threats by his supporters who believe they were acting on his behalf. Trump repeatedly promised his supporters he would “destroy” the deep state, invoking the popular conspiracy theory of a nefarious web of faceless bureaucrats working to destroy the US from within. He cast himself, alongside the people who stormed the Capitol on January 6 over election lies, as “political prisoners,” even “hostages” who were being persecuted by a “tyrannical” Biden administration."

Robert Hubbell: "Just as the media normalized Trump before the election, there is a wholesale effort to “normalize” the election results. Pundits are claiming the election was decided by voters’ concerns over inflation, immigration, or crime. Those issues are post-facto rationalizations offered by voters to conceal their real reasons for voting for a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual abuser over an eminently qualified candidate."

Brian Merchant, tech journalist extraordinaire: "Apart from Trump himself, there are few more obvious victors that Elon Musk; for $100 million or so and a few months’ display of unrestrained fealty, he just bought himself some real estate in the inner sanctum of Trumpworld. It may be the most fruitful investment he ever made, a bargain really. ...Suffice to say that Elon Musk is the closest that a Silicon Valley tech titan has been to the White House, in a position of overt and direct power. There is of course a long lineage of the Valley linking up with Washington for defense contracts, help in avoiding regulations, and other forms of material support—see: Malcolm Harris’s Palo Alto—but this is the next level. It could even, perhaps, be considered a logical culmination. It’s time to face facts. In Trump, Silicon Valley got what it wanted: A president that will kneecap antitrust efforts, embrace deregulation, and defang labor laws."

[christmasintheloonybin]

I think uniforms are cool in general. this is why protests are so boring it's a bunch of lame individuals. a protest would catch my eye if there was a uniform, and not just a color like the antifa bullshit I mean a group wearing a tailored uniform someone had to design. that shit is cool. always.

[taiwantalk]

Here’s my two cents. Prigozhin may sound like a big talking rebel leader but he’s still driving a narrative that putin was deceived by the top military commanders.

This to me is very typical mind bending russian bullshit. I say so because it smells like staged exit for putin but will remain untouched and then to be the shadow boss running everything. serious kgb theatrics. Russian version of reality political war like trump and antifa.

[ink-flavored]

Playlist Title Tag Game

Tagged by @jezifster a few days ago! thanks!

Rules: post a screenshot or a list of your playlist titles and tag some friends. If you're tagged, send op an ask about one of their playlists, then add your own.

well lucky for all of you people, i fucking love playlists!!! i also sort them into fun little folders :3 i have plenty saved that aren't created by me, but for the sake of brevity i'll only list the ones i've personally made:

to listen

personal

together

creation

songs that make me fuckibg lose it

gender songs

chores playlist

songs to ruin your voice to

spotify wrapped 2022 but good

spotify wrapped 2023 but good

chill moody

groove time

turn up

rock and/or roll

rock out

brand new sound

rock-adjacent

idk what genre but it vibes

on broadway

lofi beats to study/relax to

girls (evil)

get sillay

dance

choreo/warm-up

ballet soundtracks

the story

Other Cultures

kpop playlist

jrock playlist

انا احب تلك الأغنية

saharan blues

in french

WIP Playlists

songs that remind us of Cut Off

songs that remind us of HHSH

Angle of Appraoch

AOAdjacent

It Takes an Honest Man

yeehaw au

stripper au

domino's next hottest monster

100 Years of Gold

pride & justice

The God-Dragon's Wife

OC Playlists

pride

justice

fandom

anime OPs that go unreasonably hard

lio focaccia

motherfucking dragons

songs to get killed in hades to

songs that give me inexplicable ygo feelings

puzzleangst

puzzlehappy

Millennium: Golden Years

D&D Characters

sa'bath noxorus

zermus quest

SJW Bullshit

songs to be antifa to

shitposts

memes

songs that have blues in the name

Blues

shades of blues

Jazz

ya like jazz

Country

cowboy music

Tagging (no pressure!): @polyphonetic @elegant-paper-collection @duelistkingdom @sigridhawke @nofacednerd @zeenimf and anyone else who wants to! go nuts!

[spidergvven]

how are you antifa when you have rightwing nonsense like pronouns in your bio????????????? do you really think bullshit like gender will continue to exist when all fascist shit is eliminated? you want to be antifa but you're nothing but a fence sitting neolib in practice.

who let chatgpt loose in my inbox?