#left wing protesters

[secular-jew]

Darwin Award winner of the week:

Germany: Protester glued his hand to the road. Very strong glue. Very big idiot. Instead of ripping his hand off the road, the police cut out a piece of the road out and released him with his hand still stuck to the pavement. Let him deal with it!

[guerrillatech]

Your tax dollars hard at work

[griefsinternalflower]

Rio de Janeiro, 1998

[doviesangelwings]

repost from my bluesky. action is important🫶

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Robert Reich:

Friends, Demonstrations against Trump are getting larger and louder. Fabulous. This is absolutely essential. But at some point we’ll need to demonstrate not just against Trump but also for the America we want. Trump’s regressive populism — cruel, tyrannical, bigoted, authoritarian — must be met by a bold progressive populism that strengthens democracy and shares the wealth. We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump. Even then, big money was taking over our democracy and siphoning off most of the economy’s gains. [...] Instead, lawmakers responded to the demands of wealthy individuals (typically corporate executives and Wall Street moguls) and big corporations — those with the most lobbying prowess and deepest pockets to bankroll campaigns. And “when a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose.” Notably, Gilens and Page’s research data was gathered before the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to big money in Citizens United. After that, the voices of typical Americans were entirely drowned.

In the election cycle of 2016, which first delivered the White House to Trump, the richest one hundredth of one percent of Americans accounted for a record-breaking 40 percent of all campaign donations. (By contrast, in 1980, the top 0.01 percent accounted for only 15 percent of all contributions.) The direction we were heading was unsustainable. Even before Trump’s first regime, trust in every major institution of society was plummeting — including Congress, the courts, corporations, Wall Street, universities, the legal establishment, and the media. The entire system seemed rigged for the benefit of the establishment — and in many ways, it was. The typical family’s inflation-adjusted income had barely risen for decades. Most of the economy’s gains had gone to the top. Wall Street got bailed out when its gambling addiction caused it enormous losses, but homeowners who were underwater did not. Nor did people who lost their jobs and savings. Not a single top Wall Street executive went to jail. A populist — antiestablishment — revolution was inevitable. But it didn’t have to be a tyrannical one. It didn’t have to be regressive populism. [...] Strengthening democracy by busting up big corporations. Stopping Wall Street’s gambling (e.g., replicating the Glass-Steagall Act). Getting big money out of politics, even if this requires amending the Constitution. Requiring big corporations to share their profits with their average workers. Strengthening unions. And raising taxes on the super-wealthy to finance a universal basic income, Medicare for all, and paid family leave. Hopefully, demonstrations against Trump’s regressive, tyrannical populism will continue to grow. But we must also be demonstrating for a better future beyond Trump — one that strengthens democracy and works on behalf of all Americans rather than a privileged few.

Demonstrations against Tyrant 47 show a vision for a better America.

[aroacesocialist]

I know this happened a while ago, but a content creator I love and support released a documentary style video on the LA protests. They were on the ground, and in this they show accurately what occurred, beyond what appeared in the news. They also were able to get an interview with a national guard member! The reason I am sharing this is because the YouTube algorithm is not supporting their video, and I want to try and give them a larger platform. I don’t know how much one random tumblr post will do, but I’d really appreciate it if you guys went and checked out the video I linked! They have a lot of other political content that is also very interesting.

I highly recommend this video, and if you enjoy it too, please share it to other people you know.

[the-ships-to-rule-them-all]

the level at which people are misusing the term "Never Again" in the far left absolutely infuriates me.

"Never Again" doesn't refer to the idea of no more genocides -- unfortunately people are evil and corrupt and seek scapegoats and destruction, there were genocides in the years following the Holocaust, there were genocides 10 years ago, there are multiple genocides going on as we speak

"Never Again" means we as Jews will pay attention to the warning signs, will not mindlessly allow antisemitism to fester and take over our communities, we will fight back. it means we will be proud. it means we will not let you hate us without a word of refusal.

"Never Again" is a warning for us, it is a reminder that what happened then can happen now -- is happening now. The Far Left doesn't get to use it against us. You don't get to turn our tragedies into hate-speech and antisemitic rhetoric.

Am Yisrael Chai

[riserebelresistxx]

[everyponie]

Tiktok is something else...

I know this may seem like a good idea, to some people atleast, but inciting violence against a HOSPITAL is absolutely batshit crazy. Directly targeting a hospital during war is a war crime, so why should we not be holding ourselves to the same standards?? This kind of stuff is genuinely so fucking dangerous.

This is the fault of the government. Not the doctors, not the nurses, not the family, the GOVERNMENT. Please do not incite violence against a literal hospital. Do not bring a large crowd around a hospital. A hospital is quite literally life or death for some people, interfering with that can cause disastrous consequences.

I am glad to see a very small shift to people calling for much harsher kinds of protest, but for the love of GOD.... USE CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS...

[guerrillatech]

Meanwhile in LA

[comrade-onion]

A Critique of the Western Left

The Western Left has been marred by infighting in recent years, effectively crippling any capacity it has to fight back against the vicious capitalist system it rightfully opposes.

In my eyes, I see two main contributing factors to the general incompetency of the Left in the Western world. Infighting and ineffective campaigning.

Infighting between sects within the left along niche ideological lines stunts its ability to grow its membership and influence by making the movement look irrelevant, hostile, and elitist. The right isn't divided along small ideological lines. They can and will cooperate to spread their collective hateful ideologies. To combat this effectively, we need to put our differences aside and unite along our common enemy: the capitalist system. Only when the abolition of capitalism has been undertaken can we afford to disagree on minor policy and theoretical differences.

Secondly, Leftist campaigning is so focused on ideological niches that it no longer appeals to the working people. The average worker is not concerned about who Gonzalo was. They are too busy worrying about food, about rent, about utilities and education, and safety. We need to campaign issues that are affecting the people the most. We NEED to appeal to the masses and embrace left-wing populism to garner the popular support needed to oppose fascism if we want any chance of facilitating positive and lasting change.

We have a common enemy, and we must not fight each other. Instead, we must work together for the good of the people and for the good of the planet.

[makymakvrchat]

Anti Hamas Protest at Gaza

[tcfryn]

Canada Isn't Perfect, So Stop Pretending It Is.

Yes, I get the desire to beat the US's rising claim to fascism and republican values, but that doesn't mean we need to base our entire image off of them. Our display of leftism and being 'progressive' is so insanely performative it makes me sick. How many times have you seen our government "apologizing", and "acknowledging" instead of actually doing shit to help the people Canada has literally killed. Yet, here we sit, content with "sticking it to american's" while thousands of indigenous women die, tortured, raped, are sex trafficked, etc. Please for the love of god, TALK about these things with your community - teachers, friends, students, neighbours, family, even online like I'm doing right now. - just start with spreading the news, which can lead to organizing, protesting, riots, getting our government to actually DO SOMETHING. If we want to fix our problems we have to first acknowledge them.

[im-not-here-achitchuchaly]

Hey to all my fellow lefties planning on getting into altercations with the police according to the tear gas used by police patent (found here)

Tear gas contains a chemical called modaferin. It's only mildly carcinogenic, the real issue is that it makes it much, MUCH harder to get out of eyes. Our tears have enzymes in them that are designed to deal with contaminants and they do a good job of it, so the engine of capitalism made a compound that mutilates those enzymes. Lovely! Modaferin breaks down after a few hours but you can speed that up with a quick and easy step: Apply milk! Plain water won't work very well, but milk does, for the same reason it works better on washing out capsaicin.

It's not a good idea to keep milk stuff in your eyes for longer than necessary so be sure to flush out the milk with water, or just by blinking a lot.

Anyway, no fun, but you'll survive 😜 good luck and ACAB.

[f4ggydog]

why do my fellow whites at protests love to have quirky signs or get the opportunity to have a funny moment? its so annoying. none of this is quirky or for shits and giggles. “my tummy hurts and im mad at the government🥺🥺🥺🥺” ur not funny

[leftisttiktok]

Watch out for Larry Ellison