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Decline of the Progressive Moment in Global Politics
The Progressive Moment in Global Politics Is Over: A Satirical Deep Dive Into 25 Observations Berlin, Germany The progressive wave that defined global politics for decades has begun to ebb, leaving in its wake a tide of nationalism, populism, and skepticism. With record immigration, low economic growth, and cultural clashes dominating headlines, the political pendulum has swung decisively…
#AfD#anti-establishment movements#anti-immigration sentiment#Canada Conservative Party#carbon tax criticism#climate change policies#Donald Trump#Dr. Lisa Kraft#Dr. Ursula Münch#economic stagnation#European Union#far-right parties#Germany political drama#global politics#identity politics#Italian populism#Jimmy Fallon#John Oliver#Justin Trudeau#MAGA voters#mainstream political parties#Marine Le Pen#nationalism#Pierre Poilievre#political elites#political memes#political shifts#populism’s multiracial moment.#populist rhetoric#Progressive politics
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One of my favorite pastimes is thinking about how Dooku's politics would change if Sidious vanished. Like what type of authoritarian would he become without his Master breathing down his neck and whispering plans in his ear. I'm under zero illusions that Clone Wars era Dooku would turn into some sort of woke commie if he were suddenly Sidious-free, probably quite the opposite, but I'd love to see how much of his original idealism survived in that shriveled soul of his anyway. (btw I'm only referencing the movies and shows he appeared in, idc what certain books might have to say about this topic)
#count dooku#if you give him some years to recover from the sith lifestyle and mindset i can see him setting up something vaguely like italian fascism#maybe shrouded in populist/socialist rhetoric#the fun thing abt his canon opinions is that i don't know how seriously to take any of them#he's the king of unreliable statements
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I've not felt this incredibly angry and hopeless in a long time
#i am already trying to avoid the news but there's not really much of a choice#it's not like i didn't see any of it coming#because as much as you want to stay hopeful and have some faith in humanity the signs were there#people have been flocking to populist rhetoric for years#every year there's a survey where they ask questions about politics and one being if people want one strong men in charge#and the approval of that statement was concerningly high even before the pandemic#hungary was a concerning example of what might be in our future and now i guess it's becoming reality#it's frightening and it's concerning and it's awful#there'd be so many more pressing concerns to deal with but no#we'd rather make our own crisis
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Pssssssttt. Donald trump got less votes this time around than he did in 2020 (popular vote obvi). This wasn’t a huge shift to the right. It was that clip with Kamala from the View. This is the first year since WWII where in every developed western country the political party in power lost vote share. People wanted something different and Kamala said “I’m Biden 2.0”. Look I didn’t think that clip would ruin her either but here we are.
#election 2024#all i hear are screams#god i’m so tired#could the DNC wake up#like people want populist rhetoric#and they’re only getting it from the fascists#policy doesn’t matter the average voter will not understand even if you explain it#rhetoric matters#people want a narrative#Kamala was so popular because she was a breath of fresh air#and then she fucking#I wouldn’t change anything#that isn’t what people want to hear#they want to hear that you’re going to change their lives#but nooooooo we gotta adhere to the status quo even with our rhetoric#well look where we are now
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i desperately need people to understand how fascism started because i am seeing many on the left gleefully walk assbackwards into goosestepping.
fascism did not start out as a far right ideology even though that is the endpoint. in order to gain power, there was a deliberate false synthesis of left and right populist ideals in order to gain a wide base from people upset with the political status quo. this is why the nazis were called national socialists. because they stole rhetoric and language from socialist movements and twisted them to their own ends.
this is why average people supported the nazis. not because they were stupid or incredibly bigoted but because the nazi party promised we will provide just as soon as we deal with the Bad People. however once nazi control was assured, the entire left wing of the party were purged. Gregor Strasser who was the leader of the left wing was assassinated in the night of the long knives.
his whole political ideology was nazism but anti capitalist. pro trade union, anti banker, pro wealth redistrubution, pro socialised housing and medicine. all of which ended in them being slughtered when they were no longer necessary. these people existed and were the useful idiots that aided in hitler taking full power.
you need to pay attention to who is saying what and why. easy answers, scapegoating, portraying whoever the outgroup of the moment as being behind every ill in the world, surface level anticapitalism and anticolonialism, reactionary leanings in problem solving. anything to get you to point at a group and declare them they enemy.
this is why you need to learn history, pay attention to the sources you get your information from and what narrative they are trying to weave out of the situation.
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-> tags are not from prev, i found them in the notes
i usually don't add onto posts like this responding to tags, but like, how do you miss the point that badly
the point of this isn’t even parasocial relationships, it's people going "ohh new candidate who didn't badly mess up yet so i can definitely 100% support her!" that's not parasocial, that's naive, it's being politically uneducated. they didn't see their saviour or best friend in harris, they saw a viable option to support based in 0 information. now there's information that she's just as awful, end of story. sure, some definitely were on the parasocial level, but that's a smaller number, and not the focus of the post. the post disproves the rhetoric that harris is a better candidate than biden
also i don't know how you didn't figure this out, but you do vote that politician if you vote for the democrats. if harris is the head of the party and gets made presidential candidate then guess what, it means she represents the partys current values.
said values align very well with what harris put out here. said values recently have been presented in supporting genocides and not listening to their voters moreso than before (biden resigning is not the dems listening to their voters, it's him having become just a literal embarassment for the party and a 100% sure election loss). if the possible presidential candidate of the party behaves like this, calls peaceful protests by jews unpatriotic and antisemitic, then she represents her party. if they after this statement make her the candudate, then they alogn themselves with these views.
also nice populist rhetoric you got going there! "vote harris bc trump is worse!" first of all, you send your beautiful lovely blue party a big signal with this: they can put out whatever candidate they like, disregard their voters opinions and wishes, and support as much evil as they like. as long as they're slightly lesser evil than the republicans, they'll get elected. that's a surefire way to make your party listen to what you want them to do, great way to make them represent your values.
if harris gets elected, that won't just stop trump. what, you think project 2025 will just go up in the air and disappear? no, they'll simply put a 9 instead of a 5 and the plan is back on. trump will be the candidate again, or perhaps someone just like him.
don't get me wrong, i get that it's scary. he's planning on becomkng a dictator, he's rndangering queer youth, people of colour, women's rights. i get it, it's scary. but repeating populist mantras, supporting a party that does evil too is not a long tearm solution. it's not even a short term solution. all you end up doing is making people outside of the us get massacred so that you can possibly avoid that fate.
i'll be real, the democrats need to change their structure. they need to listen to their voters, put out candidates that are actually up for debate to be elected. and chances are high that they will lose this election (and that's completely their fault), chances are they'll refuse to learn from it. however if they win this election, it'll just cause an even bigger disaster for the next election. it will not save anyone outside of the usa, it's not a viable solution for the usa.
bpth candidates are horrid, but neither are electable. and be aware, if you do decide to elect one of the two anyways, i can't stop you even if i wanted to, the blood of the people from congo, palestine, sudan, etc. is on your hands too. because you decided your life matters more than theirs. and while wanting personal safety is a human instinct, you will still have indirectly supported this gemocide with that
Harris is now condemning the 'unpatriotic" protests against Netanyahu
#tags are NOT from prev to be clear#i just didnt wanna tag the dude im tired#free palestine#salmon rants#not-so-dead-salmon#i'll probably get canceled for this lol#my apologies to anyone who came upon this lingass rant#but im sick of the vote blue no matter what crowd fuck that populist rhetoric#it's 1am i did not proofread this sorry for any typos#the parasocial point is definitely the weakest argument in here lol#don't mind this im just ranting#not a native speaker forgive grammatical errors#my powi teacher would have sm to criticize about this#i also won't bother responding any more to this i just had to get my anger out#BOOM now im done#no one will read this anyway the bonus of being a unpopular blog🦭
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really what the wizard of oz is about is a plucky young sjw new deal democrat and her pet dog (useless VP nominee) getting even the brainless (reactionary southerners) heartless (yankee political machinists) and cowardly (white collar liberal bourgeois) (new deal coalition) to work together to defeat wizard jennings bryan who is trying to crucify oz on a cross of gold (yellow brick) who commands them to defeat the wicked witch of the west (industrialist union-busters) and her flying monkeys (thats evolution.) Before it is of course ultimately revealed that the Glinda the good witch (wilsonian liberalism) and wizard jennings bryan are of course charlatans with no electoral power beyond populist rhetoric. And what does Dorothy do? Click her ruby (red for the blood of the working man) heels together three times and realize that the power (expansion of executive authority) was in her purview (supply-side economics) all along. and then of course she gets home and reports her father to the proper authorities for planting an extra acre of wheat.
#idk why this is a post I should have just texted this to will#none of this holds up to any scrutiny i’m just arranging words in an order they have not yet been put
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Hello, qqueenofhades!
I just want to say, that ever since I discovered you in the week following Biden stepping down, you've actually made me not dread talking about politics. I look forward to your thoughts on what's going on, and I want to thank you for that.
I would love to know: What do you think of the apparent exhaustion from Republicans/MAGA about Trump? People leaving his rallies (and that's not even covering how few are even coming at all or his supposedly needing to pay people to come), and the slew of formers we see at the DNC openly talking about their change in sides. Do you have any ideas about what might be causing this shift? Was it Harris? Was it Jan. 6th? Was it one singular reason, or multiple at once?
Hope you're having a good day.
I think it's a lot of reasons. First, as I said earlier, the whole theme of the DNC is about reclaiming the USA FREEDOM message from the Republicans, who have had a monopoly on it for the past three decades at least and used it to justify even more antidemocratic fascist militant theocratic hard-right turns. The scenes of joyful people talking rousingly about hope, compassion, morning in America, and breaking out into regular USA! USA! chants appeals a lot to the average American, who doesn't want to hear constant violent and negative bile from the Orange Felonious Traitor, because that is literally the only thing he has to offer and it's getting openly more deranged and dangerous every day. The whole Tough Talking Populist Outsider shtick worked in 2016, when Trump didn't have four years of incompetent chaos as the actual president and was just a theoretical concept who a lot of people thought would "smarten up" and take it seriously if he actually won. Likewise, the backlash of white grievance against Obama and the complacency that Trump didn't actually stand a chance was able to be leveraged against the decades of smears that the GOP had already leveled on HRC. Of course, Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million-plus, but the Electoral College did what it's designed to do and he snuck in anyway. But it wasn't a rousing landslide or a thumping victory.
As such, a lot of Reagan Republicans are now turning to the Democrats as the actual pro-USA party, because Trump trash-talks America, calls it a shithole third-world country, bellows about WWIII and the Great Depression, cozies up to foreign dictators, etc etc. Reagan also pitched the sunny message of America as the shining moral hero of the world (he in fact used the Make America Great Again slogan that Trump repurposed), and that likewise resonated with people after the chaos and unrest of the 1970s. Now, we all know that I hate Reagan's ass and I hope he's burning in hell for so many reasons, but his message was effective because it gave people a soaring rhetorical vision to believe in (even while he was often stripping away their economic prosperity in particular behind the scenes, all together now, FUCK REAGAN). But the Republicans who joined the 1980s party are now seeing Republicanism become a tawdry cult centered on, as Geoff Duncan (GOP former Lt. Gov. of Georgia) put it yesterday, the worship of a felonious thug. Trump is wildly anti-America; he only uses it as a vehicle to get what he wants, because Donald Trump is all that Donald Trump cares about. Yes, there are still plenty of brainwashed cultists in numbers great enough to make this election far, far closer than it should ever be in any sane universe, but increasingly even his own cultists don't want to hear it anymore. They keep leaving before the event is over and he's drawing far smaller crowd sizes than in 2016, which as we know is pretty much all he cares about. He has a desperate need for attention and approval to feed his damaged narcissistic-sociopath dementia-riddled brain, and he's just not getting it, while the very real prospect looms that if he loses this election (and it looks more and more like he will) he will go to jail for the rest of his life. Terrifying.
That's why we have the unprecedented spectacle of lifelong Republicans and former Trump voters flocking to Harris in large numbers. We've had Republican speakers at the DNC every night, and they keep playing video montages of former Trump voters disavowing him or explaining that they won't vote for him. If you consider what propelled Trump in 2016 -- conservative white grievance against a black guy named Barack Obama -- the willingness to unhesitatingly embrace a black/mixed-race WOMAN named Kamala Harris is incredible. Many of them were already planning to vote for Biden before he dropped out, but it was no certain thing that they would move from being willing to vote for an establishment old white guy to also being willing to vote for a woman and a person of color. The fact that we've had so many high-profile affinity group Zoom events for Harris, including from truly unbelievable quarters (Republicans for Harris, Mormons for Harris, EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS for Harris), shows that there is a country-wide exhaustion with Trump's poisonous selfish grievance performances, where he's willing to do anything to anyone and turn the USA into a fascist dictatorship if it will exempt him, personally, from the consequences of his odious actions. That is not a message that any sane person can support, and more and more, they don't. As I have said before, that is why fascist movements always sow the seeds of their own destruction. They work for a while, but eventually they're boring, they're mean, they're exhausting, and they offer nothing for anyone but being angry all the time at everyone. Most humans don't like that, and eventually, they drift away.
I also think that part of the reason Kamala absolutely nailed it with Tim Walz as VP is because Walz is the literal anti-MAGA in every way. We have seen a lot of similar straight white military-vet football-coach-type Middle America older men drift into MAGA grievance politics because it offers a home for guys like them and feeds on fear of the future and fear of the other. They feel like they're being heard and understood, even if they aren't, and they vote Republican because they've grown up with Republicans being the pro-America party (however defined). But because Walz is a straight white married military-vet football-coach guy who actually models a joyful and compassionate masculinity, an openly emotional and supportive masculinity, who talks movingly about his love for his wife and children, who is a hunter and gun owner who nonetheless loves kids more than guns, who has taken his small-town rural-America values and become an effective and genuinely progressive politician focused on making ordinary people's lives better, he offers a total antidote to MAGAism. He shows that it is possible to be a traditionally manly American straight white guy who is not a gibbering conspiracy theory-addled shitbag dedicated to trampling on everyone else out of reactionary fear. He shows those guys that they can embrace the diverse future and not have to fear it, and he gives them a permission structure to vote for Democrats because it's the right thing to do AND feel that the Democrats are now the real pro-America party.
Basically, right now, Walz is the most popular member on either ticket, and he's crushing Vance into oblivion (there's something like a 27-point difference in their favorable/unfavorable spreads) because Vance is a horrible robotic hateful gremlin and Walz is an authentic and genuine person who a lot of traditionally Republican-affiliated men (and women!) can identify with. He's also the guy who came up with the devastating "weird" attack line that the GOP can do nothing with except splutter and whine, like playground bullies, that no YOU'RE THE WEIRD ONE. He models that it's actually normal to want your leaders to be compassionate human beings who want to use power to make your lives better, and not hateful fascist alt-righters dedicated to making you also hate everyone and be steeped in doom and gloom. That is why people responded so well to Obama in 2008 after the turmoil of the Bush Jr. years, and why this feels even more monumental than Obama. We won't know until the votes are counted, but this giant tsunami just rose out of nowhere when Harris took over, and it's speeding forward in a really incredible way. We've got to do the work and we've got to vote, but if we do, we could absolutely pulverize Trump and MAGA to smithereens in a way that means it wouldn't be able to come back for a good long while, and oh, what a glorious day that would be. So yes.
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on refugees in europe
this post feels necessary because of how pervasive far-right populist rhetoric is, including in supposed “radical feminist” spaces, where such rhetoric is becoming more and more normalised in the name of “protecting european women”. these posts include a lot of misinformation about the reality of refugees. i will preface this by saying i am a woman of colour, an immigrant, and live in germany. for work, i help traumatised refugees receive psychological support. this means in more ways than one, i am quite familiar with refugees in germany.
plenty of people seem to be under the impression that being a refugee is easy, that they’re just “illegal immigrants” too lazy to fix issues in their countries. this is false. refugees are overwhelmingly people being specifically targeted *for trying to fix the oppression in their nations*. an overwhelming portion of the refugees i have worked with were political prisoners, meaning they were active in opposition political parties or actively speaking against their governments. as a result, many have experienced torture, sexual violence, police brutality, and have felt their lives were under threat. after facing immense trauma and danger, they had to flee to preserve their lives. that’s part of what being a refugee means.
another bit of misinformation is the implication that refugees are just “illegal immigrants” with “nothing to lose”. this is also false. refugees flee their countries because they face imminent danger. many of them, if deported to their countries, are bound to be killed. refugees without stable status in germany live in constant fear of their claim to asylum being rejected, because of the fear of being killed in their home countries. this means that to be deported from germany is to potentially lose the one thing no one can afford to lose: their lives. so no, refugees aren’t people with nothing to lose. they’re people who have already lost a lot and are afraid of losing even more. moreover, they’re not in the country illegally, they have their fingerprints taken and have heavy restrictions placed onto them by the government. they undergo a pretty tiresome, thorough legal process and often require lawyers to represent them. this process takes months, sometimes even longer than a year. their application being accepted does not mean their status in germany is safe for good, either.
i’ve also seen someone call refugees “illegal economic migrants”… also a myth. many refugees actually lived more luxuriously in their home-countries. sure, some lived in extreme poverty, but a significant amount say openly that they wish they could go back to their country. they say that they lived in a bigger home, and lived more comfortably, before having to flee for whatever reason. this is not the reality of economic migrants, who leave their countries to live in a country where they can have a better class status and earn more. there is no economic incentive for the majority of refugees. there is no secret luxuries to being a refugee.
claims that refugees are “undocumented”: untrue. as mentioned before, their fingerprints are taken. they are thoroughly investigated. many, even if their case is legitimate, have their claim to asylum rejected initially and then have to combat that. sometimes nothing works and they do have to be sent back to their countries, and potentially are killed once sent back.
another false belief is the idea that it’s very easy to be a refugee and anyone can just claim to be a refugee and then be allowed to stay in a european country, no questions asked. even in germany, one of the better countries to refugees, this is not the case. for example, 50-66% of refugees from iraq had their application rejected. in germany, you can appeal this decision, but most appeals are rejected, too. the people who receive the highest percentage of positive responses to their claims to asylum are syrians (0.1% rejection rate in 2023), afghans (1.0% rejection rate in 2023), and somalis (5-6% rejection rate in 2023). i hope it goes without saying why that is the case. IF their application is accepted, they receive a residence permit that is valid for 1-3 years (depending) and their stay is evaluated again upon the expiry of their residence permit. if their country is deemed safe enough to be sent back to, they lose the right to stay in germany. if, before coming to germany, their fingerprints were taken in another EU country, they are likely to be deported to that country even if that country will inevitably deport them back to their country.
there are many more false claims i’ve seen spread in “feminist” spaces, but the point of this post is: please stop blindly believing misinformation. please educate yourselves on what a refugee is and the actual process of asylum applications in the EU. if you’re european, maybe go outside more and try to volunteer somewhere to personally get to know some refugees. they are just human beings, like you and i. just because their skin colour is more likely to be brown does not mean they are walking caricatures of a disney villain.
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once again proving that "harris is fighting for a ceasefire and will change the israel politics once she's in office if we demand it hard enough" is bullshit
Democratic VP candidate officially calls for the, and I quote, "expansion of Israel"
#vote blue no matter what can kiss my ass#y'all w your populist ass rhetoric not being aware you're acting like the same republicans you seem to despise oh so much#fuck trump#fuck harris
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I am not happy that Trump won. Not that I would prefer Kamala very much, but as a filthy Russian living in Europe, my main priority right now is Ukraine and I do believe Trump's victory lowers Ukraine's chances.
I do believe both would ultimately be unable to unfuck the American economy in one term. And I do believe Trump will worsen LGBT rights. Though I'm open to be surprised.
Ultimately, America will survive another Trump term. Even American democracy will. It's a shame, but it's not the end of the world.
My main prediction is that Trump will dial down the populist rhetoric now that he's in the office again. But we shall see.
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Centrist Democrats are slamming their far-left colleagues following Election Day, arguing that their emphasis on "identity politics" and other issues handed huge victories to the GOP.
Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., argued that President-elect Trump has "no greater friend than the far left." Like-minded Democrats say racial politics, anti-police rhetoric and gender hysteria are alienating millions of voters.
"There is more to lose than there is to gain politically from pandering to a far left that is more representative of Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than it is of the real world," Torres wrote on X. "The working class is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is selling."
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville put it more bluntly in a Sunday interview with the New York Times, calling "defund the police" the "three stupidest words in the English language."
"We could never wash off the stench of it," he said.
Torres is one of several Democratic lawmakers in both the House and the Senate who have called out his party's "nonsense." One centrist House Democrat complained to Axios on Monday that the "identity politics stuff is absolutely killing us."
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., argued on Sunday that Democrats are "out of touch with the crisis of meaning/purpose fueling MAGA."
"We don't listen enough; we tell people what's good for them. And when progressives like Bernie aggressively go after the elites that hold people down, they are shunned as dangerous populists. Why? Maybe because true economic populism is bad for our high-income base," Murphy wrote.
Not all Democrats are ready to make a change, however. When Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., broke with his party to condemn biological males playing in women's sports last week, he faced an avalanche of hate.
"Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face," Moulton said in a New York Times report. "I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that."
The statement resulted in calls for Moulton to resign, and at least one of his staffers quit in protest.
Massachusetts state Rep. Manny Cruz suggested Moulton's stance was "a betrayal" in a post on X.
"Congressman Moulton, your commitment then was protecting the LGBTQ community, standing up for their rights, and compassion. Now, on a political whim, our Congressman has betrayed the words he signed onto just last year by scapegoating transgender youth in sports for the failures of the national Democratic Party and leaders to win the presidential election. You said you 'would stand with Nagly and with all our community … against all forms of bigotry, discrimination, bullying, and harassment,'" Cruz wrote.
Salem city Councilor Kyle Davis, another Democrat, called for Moulton to resign.
"I’m not looking for an apology from [Moulton], I’m looking for a resignation," Davis wrote in a post on X.
Moulton refused to apologize and instead doubled down in a statement late last week.
"I will fight, as I always have, for the rights and safety of all citizens. These two ideas are not mutually exclusive, and we can even disagree on them. Yet there are many who, shouting from the extreme left corners of social media, believe I have failed the unspoken Democratic Party purity test," he said.
"We did not lose the 2024 election because of any trans person or issue. We lost, in part, because we shame and belittle too many opinions held by too many voters and that needs to stop. Let’s have these debates now, determine a new strategy for our party since our existing one failed, and then unite to oppose the Trump agenda wherever it imperils American values."
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It shouldn’t surprise me that the Arcane fandom has a hefty dose of internalized misogyny, but honestly, it’s exhausting to constantly see how female characters are judged, condemned, and demonized for the simple "sin" of being complex, layered, and morally questionable, while the fandom favorite is a drug lord who used a populist, nationalist rhetoric to justify child exploitation and drug trafficking that poisoned the very people he claimed to defend. Yes, I’m talking about Silco. The same Silco who threw a little girl in prison and took her younger sister, making her believe her older sister didn’t care about her anymore. The same Silco who projected his traumas onto a kid and manipulated her into being his weapon. The same Silco who posed as the "people’s champion" while being one of the main reasons the people were dying in the first place.
And don’t get me wrong—I love Silco. He’s a fantastic villain, and his relationship with Jinx is as fascinating as it is deeply uncomfortable at times. But it feels incredibly cynical to see people excuse all the atrocities he committed, or at least try to understand them, while they spent all of season one attacking characters like Mel for being ambitious and power-hungry, doing morally questionable things. Sorry, but none of Mel’s actions in season one even come close to Silco’s level of ethical depravity with the whole shimmer situation, yet Mel got dragged.
Vi—perhaps the series’ ultimate punching bag of suffering—who lost her parents, stepped up to take care of her sister, carried the responsibility of being the eldest (as tasked by Vander to protect the group), lost her "siblings" and "father" in one night, got wrongfully imprisoned as a kid, spent years in jail for nothing, only to come out and see that her sister had turned into a monster and that the man responsible for their adoptive father’s death was now the kingpin of the Undercity—was treated like absolute crap by the fandom. Why? Because she didn’t understand or accept that her younger sister was suddenly cool with a man who was poisoning the city? The same man who killed their father figure? I remember people calling Silco the "Father of the Year" and Vi the "Worst Sister of the Decade," and I was genuinely floored. Like, as a meme, sure, it’s funny. But as an actual take? The level of cognitive dissonance is wild.
And now, in this season, of course, the hate is all directed at Caitlyn. Why? Because instead of being the idealistic nepo baby who dreams of coexistence like in season one, she’s dealing with severe PTSD after being kidnapped and witnessing a missile nearly obliterate her mother. And people just can’t seem to grasp that. They can understand a man going from revolutionary to drug lord, using the idea of freedom and the people’s anger to expand his shady business and exploit children, but they can’t understand a young woman becoming incredibly violent out of a thirst for revenge.
What these reactions tell me is that men can be the absolute worst scum narrative writing has ever birthed, and it’s fine because everyone will bend over backwards to understand their motivations or at least where they’re coming from. But if we’re talking about women who aren’t compliant, who overreact, who struggle to manage their emotions or trauma, or who don’t behave the way women are "supposed" to behave, there’s no room for understanding. No excuses, no empathy. They’re just bitches, villains, or—like people are now saying about Caitlyn—"fascists."
Look, the fact that people are calling Caitlyn a fascist while never using that term for Silco—who was literally a despot—isn’t just cognitive dissonance; it’s hypocrisy at its finest.
#arcane#arcane netflix#caitlyn kiramman#mel medarda#vi#arcane vi#arcane mel#arcane caitlyn#silco#arcane silco#Excusing shitty men while condemning shitty women is misogyny.#i'm very annoyed btw#some people in this fandom is just... ugh#i mean silco turns me on too but he was still a scumbag#well i'm done
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(sorry, disclaimer im not Jewish)
I'd like to add that the specific phrasing here, using "elite" & "cabal" in conjuction with "global" (i.e "global elite" or "global cabal" or "elite cabal") is explicitly an anti-semitic dogwhistle and has been for well over a hundred years. The very word "cabal" is drawn from "Kabbalah" which is a Jewish word that in English associations is often twisted to have nefarious occult meaning. The word combos get shuffled around to make them more palatable sometimes, but they are very recognizable to those who are "in the know" (or just those who know the red flags).
The conspiracy that they link back to as dogwhistles is often the blood libel conspiracy theory, and sometimes involves accusing Jewish people of sacrificing/eating babies for occult purposes (as you might recall, this is currently one of the Qanon accusations of the "global elites").
If you're interested in how this line of conspiracy theory thinking began, was picked up and continued by the Nazis, and remains present in modern day conspiracies and how people talk about these things, I highly recommend the Occult Confessions podcast, particularly episode 9.6 (Protocols of the Elders of Zion) and 13.8 (The Satanic Panic Returns). Season 13 overall traces how accusations of sexual immorality and children murder has been consistently utilized over hundreds of years to demonize outgroups (especially the Jews).
had to unfollow yet another leftist on tik tok after i heard them say “oh those conspiracy theories that say there are a group of elites ruling the planet aren’t conspiracy theories they’re true there really is a group of elites running the planet” BESTIES YOU CAN BE ANTICAPITALIST WITHOUT USING ANTISEMITISM AS A TOOL. WHETHER OR NOT YOU PERSONALLY THINK JEWS ARE THE SECRET CABAL OF RICH PEOPLE RUNNING THE WORLD YOU ARE STILL PLAYING INTO ANTISEMITISM BY USING THAT RHETORIC. PLEASE USE UR BRAINS!!!!!!!!!!
#hope it isnt disrespectful to add this#but this shit is insidious#and its important to be aware#you can be anti-capitalist *without* falling into anti-semetic dogwhistles#the left has to be careful of this shit bc otherwise neonazis pass off antisemitic rhetoric as populist rhetoric
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Why, after every electoral loss, is the left always the scapegoat? It’s easier to blame activists for pushing a progressive agenda than confront the real issue: the Democratic Party has long been shaped by far more powerful forces—corporate interests, lobbyists, and consultants—whose influence has neglected the real crises facing everyday Americans. We see this cycle again and again. Contrary to establishment narratives, the Democratic leadership has often resisted advocacy organizations pushing for bold reforms on immigration, Big Tech, climate, debt, healthcare, rent, mass incarceration, Palestinian rights, and for policies like the Build Back Better agenda. This tension isn’t just about differing priorities—it reveals the actual balance of forces in the party. Corporate donors on Wall Street and Silicon Valley pour billions into campaigns, shaping agendas to suit their interests. A consultant class reaps millions from flawed strategies and failed candidates yet continues to fail upward, perpetuating a pattern of mediocrity. They, not progressives, are the roadblock preventing Democrats from becoming a populist force that could disrupt the status quo and win back voters of all stripes. It was these elements within the party that kneecapped the Democrats’ most ambitious efforts to help ordinary Americans. The Biden administration entered with huge plans, notably Build Back Better, which would have delivered immediate relief: expanded child tax credits, free community college, universal child care and pre-K, paid leave, and more. Progressives pushed mightily for Build Back Better to pass. It was centrist obstruction—namely Senators Manchin and Sinema—that blocked those policies. The result was a patchwork of long-term measures like the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal, whose benefits won’t be felt until 2025 at the earliest, if at all. By failing to pass Build Back Better, Democrats lost the chance to deliver easy-to-understand, tangible economic benefits and solidify their image as the party of working people. And it was corporate Democrats—particularly lobbyists like Harris’s brother-in-law, former Uber executive Tony West, and David Plouffe—who held the most sway over Harris’s campaign. They advised her to cozy up to ultra-wealthy celebrities, Liz and Dick Cheney, and Mark Cuban, and avoid populist rhetoric that could have distanced her from the corporate elites who dominate the party. In 2024, the biggest spenders in Democratic Party politics weren’t progressives—it was AIPAC, cryptocurrency PACs, and corporate giants like Uber, all of whom poured millions into Democratic campaigns without regard for public opinion or the will of the people.
18 November 2024
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I don’t think AOC is wrong for reaching out to constituents post election but it definitely does show they’re dumb asf
Like voting for Trump because of Palestine is so ridiculously stupid I can’t even imagine. Did these people pay attention at all during his first term? This is the person who authorised the move of the U.S. embasssy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. His son-in-law was the one who put forward the “Trump peace plan”, without the literal involvement of Palestinians!!!
That aside, it shows that voters are so susceptible to populist rhetoric that they don’t bother to look deep into the candidates and their policies. It doesn’t matter that Biden’s economic policies actually improved the livelihoods of working and middle class peoples, it matters only that Trump criticised the elites on the campaign trail.
How do you even begin to compete with this without putting forward a sociopathic populist à la Gavin Newsom who viciously hates homeless people?
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