#leftism

[hussyknee]

Trying to explain what the fuck just happened in Lankan politics today.

The leftist party has won 159 seats out of 218 in the Parliamentary elections. The single biggest landslide win since we broke from the British and achieved universal franchise in 1948.

Any party achieving a super majority in the executive and legislative is, objectively speaking, bad. It disables checks and balances, which is a catastrophic thing for any democracy, and the only two other times it's happened for us has irrevocably eroded the fabric of civic rights and democratic freedom. Also, the reason the NPP won the North and East is that the colonized, genocided and subjugated people there have no faith in electoralism anymore. The way this government has engaged minority issues has been utterly abysmal and now they've been rewarded for it.

On the other hand:

The winners. Are all. Grassroots. Candidates.¹

We have voted out every single career criminal that's been barnacled into the Lankan political arena since before I've been alive. The fascist party has only three seats.² The other fascists didn't win a single seat. The neoliberal legacy party won none. There are only forty people in Parliament that represent any sort of dynastic political legacy. After 76 solid years of nothing but political dynasties.

This is barely five years after the Rajapaksas swept in and absolutely glutted the Parliament with their family members and cronies end to end.

This is the illegitimate interim government we had for most of the last 18 months. We literally, physically, chased the Rajapaksas out of the country and this fucking demon set up a puppet government just so he could finally sit in that goddamn chair and be the despot he'd always dreamed of in exchange for letting them all come back. He's now gone. His entire circle is gone.

THEY ARE ALL FUCKING GONE.

In US terms, just imagine that, five years from now, when Trump's GOP has control of everything, the entire GOP and the worst of the Dems are all purged from Congress and Senate, the Green Party in control of all three branches of government under a pro-union left-wing President and an unmarried female LGBT rights activist Vice President, and the Dems reduced to barely 20% of the House.

This is my anthropology professor. She joined politics from the small nascent leftist coalition to help keep the government accountable. She's now the Prime Minister and the most popular Parliamentary candidate in the nation's history. (Edit: She was knocked off first place by a dude in the final result. Boo.)

(On the other hand— the woman who helped make me a radical anarchist and literally helped write a book on political dissent and resistance...now is the state. Uh.)

But there are so many women in Parliament! We had the lowest female representation in a South Asian Parliament and some of them were from the list of seats reserved for parties rather than elected ones. Most were either anti-feminist conservative embarrassments, widows and daughters of elite politicians and neoliberal shills. It's still only an increase of a few percentage points (Edit: from the previous 5% to 10% in the final result!) but now we have elected academics, feminist advocates, activists! There Is a representative for Malaiyaha Tamils in the Central Province for the first time in history and it's a young woman! (Edit: now it's two female Malaiyaha MPS!!) This is the plantation community that still live in conditions closest to the slavery the British forced upon them two hundred years ago!

I'm like. Completely mindfucked. To be very very clear, the NPP coalition formed around the nucleus of the JVP that used to be communist but haven't been in 30 years, they're now just social democrats who are left of places like the US and UK, whose "left" is now center-right. They're only threatening to the Western mainstream media for some reason who can't stop bleating about how we have a "Marxist" government now. In reality, the actual chances for radical reform are still quite low, and the opportunity for further erosion is quite high with a super majority government regardless of affiliation.

On the other hand:

What the fuck.

Sometimes living through historical events is really damn amazing.

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¹ Well, nearly. There are a few career politicians and a nepo baby but they aren't so bad either.

² Goddamn it, Baby Rajapaksa and Sri Lanka's answer to JD Vance have wormed their way in using the list of Constitutionally reserved party seats for non-elected members. FUCK the National List.

[relaxedstyles]

[ultramaga]

Ok, so let me get this straight. Centuries ago, the Maori ate their way across the people of many lands.

Finally, the English proved too difficult to conquer, so they accepted a treaty which still set up a caste system, with race being the determination.

If you are Maori, you are a full citizen. Every other is inferior.

Now, if whites had done this, it would be denounced as racist, but because it is done by people with brown skin, it is applauded by Leftists.

Most of whom are white and who would be ingested if the English had not gotten in the way.

So when this mp starts declaring war on whitey, I have to wonder what is the point of the parliament.

If they truly can't tolerate the existence of other races in New Zealand, either they should be expelled as a hate movement, or the idiot white Leftists should pack bags and leave.

By their principles, whites must be "decolonised" from every country. So I say they should lead by example.

White Leftists say we must travel to the ancestral lands of whites, but at the same time they say we are indigenous to nowhere.

So let's push them to make up their minds - which country should we go back to, if we don't belong here?

They never have an answer. White Leftists want us dead, but imagine that there will be a loophole where they are not white, that they will somehow be transformed into the correct colour...

Maori supremacists are gaining support, but the outcome won't be the Wakanda they imagine. Zimbabwe collapsed after expelling its white population, and south Africa appears to be heading the same way.

And those countries are far better defended against Chinese invasion. An invasion which would be of Han Supremacists in turn, but ruthless and legion, and eager to seize new lands by cleansing them of all other life.

Maori were brutal conquerors, but after purging NZ of those they seem inferior, I think the Chinese will just watch the economy implode, and march in as rescuers like they did to Tibet.

And now in Tibet the people survive in the gutters of their own civilisation.

Tibetans are not very different to the mainland Han, who have a profound disgust for the dark skinned.

What would Xi and his successors do to the Maori? I think they will be carefully unpeopled, erased, and forgotten.

Like Stalin and his comrades, scratched out of photos once their usefulness was over.

Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

[box-in-a-cage]

my 'for you' page is wild. I like and reblog some posts about antisemitism or Jewish history or Jewish anything, and my FYP reflects that. It suggests me posts about Judaism or Jewish history or antisemitism, etc.

Then I like and reblog some general leftist posts about engaging with and taking care of your community, universal basic income, stuff like that. My FYP is suddenly so fucking antisemitic. I get posts about how evil (((Zionists))) are, misinformation about Israel, even misinformation about, denial of, or justification for antisemitic violence happening today across Europe. It's appalling.

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My conclusion from the facts in front of me is that the for-you algorithm seems to go:

- "you like posts about antisemitism being bad? You might like Jewish stuff!" (which is fine and pretty sensible imo. i do in fact enjoy those posts too) - "you like posts about leftist economic policy and action? You might also like antisemitism!"

..and that's super fucked up and not OK

[cormancatacombs]

[Image ID: A screenshot of a Blue Sky post by user Max Berger @ maxberger.bsky.social. It reads,

“Elections matter a great deal in semi-authoritarian regimes—especially the early ones before the authoritarian has destroyed legal institutions and free elections.

The 2026 election is going to matter an enormous amount.”

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[madame-helen]

[cleargladiatorchild]

Kamala definitely did not run a beautiful campaign, her campaign was objectively shitty. Our modern democrats are just diet republicans, basically the same policies just a little lighter, just look at all the new commercials, supposed democrats running on conservative talking points like the border, and anti-trans rhetoric all over the place, her campaign was catered toward suburban white woman which is not the majority of the democratic base. Right now the democratic party is so elitist and her campaign didn’t even challenge that, and that’s not just her fault, it’s also her campaign managers and advisors faults. The people who voted for him didn’t do it in spite of him being a racist, misogynistic, homophobic, lying, bigoted shithole, they’re doing it because they like that shit. The democratic party is getting too soft, they no longer want to fight with republicans and they want to make up with them, and yes that plays into unity, but if you’re facing a party that has gone so batshit crazy you don’t have to try and gentle parent them, you have to fight them and you have to win in the eyes of the people, because that’s who you have to convince.

[cayde-orcat]

Hey btw the alt right pipeline begins with the belief that you are entitled to judge, condemn, and keep people from doing things that you do not partake in or like.

Even as simple as “that’s cringe, stop doing that.” Is an example of this harmful ideology.

(Obligatory: I’m only talking about things that don’t harm people, like hobbies, sexualities, interests, kinks, identities, etc.)

[some-israeli-guy]

I think the western left forgot the meaning of the word "ally".

If the pro-pal movement demends support from LGBTQ groups, minorities, natives, climate activists, etc etc etc, but NEVER supports any of their allies' causes, this isn't an ally relationship. It's a parasite-host relationship.

[polyvinyl-acolyte]

so the dust has settled now.

tw// us politics, bigotry, nick fuentes

election ‘24 is over, and it seems he’s doing exactly what we all said he would. exactly what everyone was calling us crazy for saying he would do.

and what is the rhetoric about?

how “the left has failed men.”

barring how we’re making the assumption that the democrats are the left (lmao), i feel like we give this too much credit here. i genuinely am of the opinion that a lot of men just actually hate women or don’t see them as people. we’re seeing this now with the “your body my choice” shit. all it took was some weedy little gremlin on twitter to say something like that, boom. a massive anti-woman movement explodes overnight.

here’s the thing. the boomer mentality of raising boys to be little sociopaths never really went away, it just got painted over. what we’re seeing in maga zoomers is that entitlement finally coming to the forefront. yeah man, sorry, you were only given a little bit less than your daddy and granddaddy got. here’s your equal attention candidate, now go blow up democracy forever.

you ask them about why they hold the beliefs they do, and you get a lot of “you told me i was evil, i just wanted to be left alone, and you came for my hobbies because we couldn’t even have that.”

seriously?

i have no fucking empathy for these people, and neither should you. they’re a bunch of sad, scared little boys who are throwing a tantrum and breaking everything because star wars is woke now or whatever. fuck them.

here’s the thing

trump didn’t gain any votes meaningfully. the dems just lost a bunch. we know who’s taken what side at this point. why are we gunning for claimed territory?

the left never “failed” men. the democrats failed everyone else. they tried capitulating to a demographic that would have never in a million years have voted for them. minimum 18 years of male socialization coupled with andrew tate brain worms has resulted in a non-negligible portion of men that see themselves as living in a world that owes them everything. we cannot change their mind for them, that has to come from them.

this is what you do over the next four years.

you’re going to be hearing a lot of disgusting things from men for a while. nick fuentes’ bullshit was only the tip of the iceberg. if you are male or even male presenting, i beg of you, call this shit out. make men ashamed again. make sexists afraid to speak out again. for the good of everyone else in this country.

and maybe accept that some people are just political lost causes.

[janhetjoch]

Does it count as mutual if they follow one of my sideblogs? When I get a notification that they interacted with one of my posts I see the indicator saying we're mutuals. But they don't know we're mutuals (because the blog they follow doesn't show up in their following list)

reblog ONLY if prev is a mutual, i want to see how far this post can go

say in the tags what part of tumblr you’re on i’m so curious so see how this goes

[dailyanarchistposts]

Brainstorming: Choose a project and devise a plan

Brainstorming can start with a problem you want to solve, or a social contribution you want to make; it can be informed by the resources you have, the kind of experience you desire, or the people you want to work with. You can plot a single short adventure or a long-term campaign. Often, the best brainstorming occurs in the course of daydreams and informal conversations—it’s good policy to trust that your craziest ideas can become reality and try them out.

By the same token, even when attending events organized by others, it’s best to bring a plan so you can contribute in your own way.

If it makes sense for your action to be organized openly, establish a format, such as a public assembly, in which to work out a strategy and tactics. Invite friends, or circulate fliers, or go from door to door announcing it. Come up with your own proposals ahead of time, in case no one else does.

For more clandestine actions, brainstorm in a secure environment with a trusted friend or two. Keep your ideas to yourselves as you hash them out so you won’t have already given them away when you’re ready to try them.

[cormancatacombs]

We killed HR 9495 once & we can do it again!

Don’t stop bugging your representatives this week!

Or leave a message over the weekend if you don’t wanna directly deal with humans!

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Screenshot showing the House schedule for the week of November 20th, 2024. It reads: 'WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH AND THE BALANCE OF THE WEEK. On Wednesday, the House will meet at 10:00 a.m. for morning hour and noon for legislative business. On Thursday, the House will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business. Last votes expected no later than 3:00 p.m.' Under 'Legislation Considered Pursuant to a Rule,' it lists: 'H.R. 9495 – Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act (Sponsored by Rep. Tenney / Ways and Means Committee).’

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[viktor-the-leshen]

[themadorchid]

To all the conservatives out there reading this post. If you ever want a safe space, my blog will always be free to make you feel the way trans kids feel in the world. 🥰🥰

it's always so strange to see conservatives on tumblr like do you know where u are? ur in enemy territory man. go back to reddit or something