#progressives

[kosmic-apothecary]

None of the civilian deaths have been accidental.

[grayheartart]

Biden-Harris Administration Tries to Gaslight American Public on Poor Handling of Hurricane Helene.

While North Carolina residents impacted by this hurricane suffer, Democrats are more concerned with shifting blame onto the guy who hasn't been calling the shots in the last 4 years instead of getting help to the victims of this natural disaster.

Democrats wasted your tax dollars on funding a war on the other side of the world Democrat wasted your tax dollars giving illegal immigrants necessities they gladly deny you. Democrats wasted your tax dollars on social programs that provided Americans no tangible benefits. Democrats don't fucking care one bit about you outside of your vote and even then, they don't try to earn it if they can fearmonger you over it.

[leecountydems]

DON'T SIT HOME IN 2024 https://VOTE.GOV

[fatphobiabusters]

Fighting for fat liberation while self-proclaimed progressives refuse to even admit that fat people are oppressed is constantly hearing:

"We support accessibility! Just not for you."

"We support the right to adoption! Just not for you."

"We support ending eugenics! Just not for you."

"We support the end of capitalism! Just not for you."

"We support treating people of different appearances equally! Just not for you."

"We support celebrating all human bodies! Just not for you."

"We support equal pay for all! Just not for you."

"We support the end of medical abuse and discrimination! Just not for you."

"We support the fight against police brutality! Just not for you."

"We support more positive representation of marginalized groups! Just not for you."

"We support listening to sexual assault victims! Just not for you."

"We support ending job discrimination! Just not for you."

"We support not being left to die in terrifying and fatal hurricanes, like what the fuck who deserves to be left to die in a fucking hurricane?! Juuuuuuuust not for y–"

-Mod Worthy

[animentality]

[mysharona1987]

Imagine being Joe Biden and knowing *this* guy and Trump are the biggest threats to your political career.

Literally, at this point, all the guy has to is not die.

[deadpresidents]

A decade ago, the world had a brief fascination with José Mujica. He was the folksy president of Uruguay who had shunned his nation's presidential palace to live in a tiny tin-roof home with his wife and three-legged dog.

In speeches to world leaders, interviews with foreign journalists and documentaries on Netflix, Pepe Mujica, as he is universally known, shared countless tales from a life story fit for film. He had robbed banks as a leftist urban guerrilla; survived 15 years as a prisoner, including by befriending a frog while kept in a hole in the ground; and helped lead the transformation of his small South American nation into one of the world's healthiest and most socially liberal democracies.

But Mr. Mujica's legacy will be more than his colorful history and commitment to austerity. He became one of Latin America's most influential and important figures in large part for his plain-spoken philosophy on the path to a better society and happier life.

-- Here's a gift link from me to bypass the paywall and read this wonderful New York Times interview of lifelong activist, revolutionary, and former Uruguayan President José "Pepe" Mujica, who is still trying to pass along his hard-earned wisdom and political philosophy even as he's likely dying from cancer.

[eretzyisrael]

by Brendan O'Neill

In his stride now, Rushdie chides the radicals who have failed to distance themselves from Hamas. This is a ‘terrorist organisation’, he reminds them, and it is ‘very strange for young progressive student [activists] to kind of support a fascist terrorist group’. Indeed. It’s been mindblowing to watch the self-styled anti-fascists of the bourgeois left either stay schtum or even try to rationalise Hamas’s fascistic attack on the Jews of Southern Israel. These are the kind of people who think everything is ‘like the 1930s’ – Brexit, Trump, gender-critical feminism – and yet when there was a pogrom that was genuinely reminiscent of the 1930s they essentially said: ‘Well, what do you expect…?’

Rushdie then commits a secular blasphemy – he questions the chant of our times: ‘Free Palestine.’ He himself supports the creation of a Palestinian state, but what would a ‘Free Palestine’ look like in 2024, he wonders? ‘Right now, if there was a Palestinian state, it would be run by Hamas and that would make it a Taliban-like state…It would be a client state of Iran. And is that what the progressive movements of the Western left wish to create?’

I find myself wondering this all the time. What did it mean when so-called progressives waved the Palestinian flag in the immediate aftermath of 7 October? Was that solidarity with the people of Gaza or Israelophobic triumphalism following Hamas’s vile, bloody invasion of kibbutzim? And when activists holler ‘Globalise the intifada’, what are they saying? The only ‘intifada’ we’ve seen in recent years was the racist pogrom of 7 October. Globalise that? Rushdie is right to call for deeper thought, to muddy with pesky nuance the juvenile rage against Israel that has swept the Western world.

There is something undeniably haunting about Rushdie making his plea for reason from his battered, injured face. In the interview the right lens in his spectacles is blacked out, hiding the eye he lost to the savage knife attack he suffered in August 2022. There’s scar tissue on his face. His lower lip droops to one side. When it comes to radical Islam, this man knows whereof he speaks. The inhumanity of this ideology is literally etched on his face. These are the punishments for ‘blasphemy’ in the 21st century: a severed eye, a deformed mouth. And yet still he sees, still he speaks.

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

Well, the worst-case scenario has come to pass. I see a lot of you are taking this pretty rough, and that's valid. Shit sucks. It was gonna suck either way, but this way is certainly more overt. But don't let it defeat you. Do your part to keep and/or build your community's organization. Always fight for labor in your workplace. Always stand up for and support your neighbors in the face of legal authority. Healthy societies save themselves thru collective action, not elected "saviors." You make society run, not them. Build your collective power to meet fascism head-on. I know I will have many new comrades from this day forth. I can't wait to help you along.

[rendakuenthusiast]

It is a mistake to conceive of progressives as soft on crime. They’re actually psychotic about punishing crime, it’s just that they disagree with ordinary people about which offenses qualify. They’re the sleeping Shaq when it’s a home invasion, but they are hardliners on, say, racism. Observe that: 1) They love it when racists face consequences for racist actions. 2) They’re passionate about punishing racists to send a message to other racists that their racism is not acceptable. 3) They know that having a racist around increases the chances that racist ideas will spread, so they argue repeatedly that you have to root racists out of institutions to prevent further racism. These are straightforwardly the criminal justice concepts of retribution, deterrence, and incapacitation, respectively.

[kosmic-apothecary]

No he’s not. Don’t fall for this. Biden will never stop arming Israel. This is a lie to boost his poll numbers.

There are already US soldiers on the ground in Gaza that he’s lying to us about (which is what Aaron Bushnell self-immolated over). He may one day say he’s stopped arming them but you can be GUARANTEED those weapons will continue to pour in. Not until AIPAC is registered as a foreign agent and we have an antizionist president and antizionist congress will we be truly divested from these genocidal freaks.

[grayheartart]

White House Democrat Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Outright Lies! Claims White House Never Used FEMA Funds to Support Migrants, Video Proof Says Otherwise.

Karin Jean-Pierre is such a shameless lying piece of fucking shit its no wonder shes a scumbag Democrat.

[leecountydems]

MAGA Republicans think that Americans don't need healthcare rights and crucial programs should be cut to give tax breaks for the rich. President Biden knows what's at stake and will defend the freedoms of all Americans including their healthcare they've more than earned.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

[angee1011]

Please don’t lose hope. I know things are very bad and will probably get worse. But do not lose hope.

We will preserve.

We will survive.

And I know, surviving is not living. But it’s enough to get through.

I know so many of you are tired of fighting. But we have to keep fighting.

And the truth of it is, the Democratic Party is done. It has to be replaced. The Progressive party ideology is stronger. And I swear to God, come hell or high water, we are going to change this country. We will do it because there is no other option.

Stay strong and please, please, please… do not lost hope.