#leftism

[purrosie]

Remember kids, people with good stances don't need to make shit up to justify what they're saying. Anti-capitalists don't need to lie about poverty rates, anti-imperialists don't need to lie about war crimes and death tolls, anti-racists don't need to lie about the moral character of nonwhites, environmentalists don't need to fabricate evidence of global warming, so on and so forth.

If what you're saying hinges on misinformation, then you need to shut the fuck up, sit down, and reflect on your own confirmatory biases.

[culturevulturette]

That "movement" is one of the most hilarious in my lifetime, and I'm no spring chicken.

[candymoth-art]

Fellas, am I a far left radicalised commie for thinking that we shouldn't let fascism get to the point of public executions and gas chambers before doing something about it? Is killing a singular man with a gun so much more horribly wrong than killing thousands with pen and paper? Is it alt left of me to believe climate change is real and bad??? Am I evil for not wanting to compromise with the guys that want people like me dead?????

[theaberrantone]

This app is going to radicalize so many people before it gets shut down. Considering that, in addition to Rednote, it's name can be translated as "Little Red Book" this is what we call dramatic irony. The Tiktok ban, ostensibly done to limit foreign influence, but more realistically, was done in an attempt to limit Americans hearing from perspectives that truly could disrupt the status quo, such as those of Palestinians undergoing genocide, is instead driving people to an app that is just a normal Chinese social media app, but shares its name with a colloquial name for a collection of Mao's quotes and speeches, which is exposing Americans to economic truths. While I don't agree with many of Mao's solutions or his overall plan, and think he got too zealous in rooting out "counter-revolutionaries", his socioeconomic analysis of problems is fairly accurate, so this is quite ironic.

They are going to shut down this app

[dailyanarchistposts]

The Arditi del Popolo

The Fascist Offensive

The Italian anarchist, Errico Malatesta, commenting on the massive factory occupations in northern Italy in September 1920 which involved 600,000 workers, predicted “if we do not carry on to the end, we will pay with tears of blood for the fears we now instill in the bourgeoisie”. His words were to be prophetic as both the PSI and CGL, instead of expanding the struggle from the factories into the community, collaborated with the state to return the workers to their jobs. It was from this moment onwards that the state moved onto the offensive, and Mussolini’s ‘revolutionary action’ squads were supplied with enough arms to take to the streets.

Until the formation of the AdP, the fascists had things mostly their own way. Starting off with an attack on the town hall in Bologna, the fascist squads swept through the countryside like a scythe, undertaking ‘punitive expeditions’ against ‘red’ villages. Following their success there, they began attacking the cities. Labour unions, the offices of co-operatives and leftist papers were destroyed in Trieste, Modena, and Florence within the first few months of 1921. As Rossi writes, they had “an immense advantage over the labour movement in its facilities for transportation and concentration… The fascists are generally without ties…they can live anywhere…The workers, on the contrary, are bound to their homes…This system gives the enemy every advantage: that of the offensive over the defensive, and that of mobile warfare over a war of position [2].”

However by March 1921 there were growing signs of working class defence structures being put in place. In Livorno, when a working class district (Borgo dei Cappucini) came under attack by the fascists, the whole neighbourhood mobilised against them, routing them from the town. In April, when the fascists launched an assault on one of the union centres (Camero del Lavoro), the workers held strike action on the 14th and surrounded the fascist squad, only for the army to rush to the fascists’ defence. By July, the working class had created their own armed militia –the Arditi del Popolo.

[viktor-the-leshen]

[yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt]

In light of Brian Thompson being shot dead on my birthday (🎉🥳🎂) I'd like to share a personal story about UnitedHealthcare.

During the peak of COVID, my family all got sick. I couldn't be on my parents' insurance because they were both older and on Medicare. So, I had insurance through my University: UnitedHealthcare.

For some reason, rather than roll-over each year, I got a new plan each year that ended after May and didn't start until August, so I was uninsured for the summer months, but it was a weird situation that the university denied, and told us we were supposed to be insured year-round, it was messy.

Both of my parents went to the hospital, and I got sick too. I had to take care of my pets, and myself, and try to stay alive and keep my pets alive when I was so weak I could hardly move. When my parents came home, my condition got dramatically worse (I think my body knew it couldn't give out, because there was nobody to take care of me, so once my parents were okay, it completely crashed and failed.)

I started experiencing emergency symptoms. It was a bit hard to breathe, my chest hurt, and I was extremely delirious. I wanted to call my insurance to see if I was covered (this was during the summer) and I was connected to some nice person, probably making minimum wage, who told me with caution in her voice that my plan was expired. I had no active insurance, but she urged me to go to an emergency room. I remember saying something to the effect of "You just told me I don't have insurance, I can't go to the hospital, I can't afford it."

She sounded so genuinely worried and scared. I remember she said "You really don't sound good, you sound really sick, please call 9-1-1" and I think I just said "I can't afford it without insurance, don't worry, I think I'll be okay."

And she paused and said "I don't want to hang up the phone with you like this." And it sounded like she was holding back tears. And I don't remember what I said, I think that I would be okay, and I hung up.

I still think about her. I wonder if that phone call haunted her, or if she had dozens of calls like that a day. I wonder if she thinks about it at all, if she wonders if I died after she told me I didn't have insurance and therefore couldn't go to the hospital without incurring a tremendous financial burden. I wonder if she feels guilt or blame-- of course she shouldn't, it wouldn't have been her fault if anything had happened to me. Maybe it's self-centered to wonder if she thinks about it. I'm not the main character and it was just her job. But, still.

I think about how evil it was that we were put in that situation. Because offering year-long continuous coverage through the university plan would maybe cut into profits, maybe not benefit shareholders enough, maybe cut into Thompson's $10 million salary. While his minimum wage administrators have to feel afraid to hang up the phone, because on the other line someone might be dying, and they wouldn't know. While his patients hang up and decide to take their chances rather than put their family through that trauma.

This is UnitedHealthcare. This is Brian Thompson's legacy. This is why, understandably, an entire nation is jubilant that he was gunned down like the vermin he was. I don't care about his widow. I feel pity for his children, despite the fact that they will inherit millions, but I feel more pity for the children of his victims patients who are gone because they didn't want THEIR children to inherit crippling debt. Brian Thompson got what he fucking deserved. I pray that he not be the only one. I pray for continued safety, peace , and anonymity for his killer.

American healthcare is a disease.

[ultramaga]

Feminists: If a man lies about his income, that's rape! Man: And if a woman lies about appearance? Feminists: How dare you!

If feminists had to live by their own principles, they'd be dead before they even got a chance to bitch about the Patriarchy. What a wonderful thought. Men and women living in peace together, the last flatulent corpse of the feminists being devoured by obese wolves, not so much as a REEEEEE to be heard across the world.

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

just a handy little info chart on the spectrums of sexuality.

/Edit: I forgot to give credit this is a screenshot from a video made by a content creator called Lily Orchard you should check her channel out it's amazing

[fascistsarefreefood]

Daily reminder that we do not actually live in a dystopian movie put the apocalypse down and back away slowly. You know when your cleaning a room and you pull everything out of it's draws to sort through it and you're like "what the fuck have I done I'm never going to be able to tidy all of this" I think that's the stage we're at in the world. Thanks to social media we've pulled out all the messed up shit from the cupboards of the world, it was always there but now we can see it and we're going to have to sort it all out we made this mess and we can fix it. Falling to the floor sobbing will not clean a crusty room. A group of people working systematically (preferably with music in the background) will.

[neurotypicalabusesurvivor]

This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.

[thegreenlizard]

I’m ambidextrous, not lefty. My PE teacher made me play baseball and ice hockey for the right because “I was right handed” (according to whom? I wasn’t asked). I couldn’t for the life of me hit the ball swinging the club from the wrong side, and consequently never really learned to play either sport. Ambidextrous does not unfortunately mean “equally well on both sides for all tasks.”

(Also, oh that’s why the broom always unscrews. And oh wow, maybe I’m not just clumsy.)

and my personal favorite:

i love getting validation as a lefty but also learning about new fun ways it continues to suck

[porcelanitaa]

[hyperfixationinc]

So funny how Blue Cross basically went "You guys make a great point" and rolled back their anesthesia policy after the United CEO was killed

Seems like we might have found a form of protest that works

[molten222]