The big tent has room for nazis and bigots, but scalpers is where they draw the line?

Donald Trump murdered this woman, and did so during the intentional, knowing commission of other major crimes. Never, ever forget. Never, ever forgive.

Guess who was a CIA asset.

https://lemmy.world/post/39388117

“Look, this is only politically corrupt, which is perfectly fine. If the blacks get disenfranchised coincidentally, then that’s fine, too. It’s only a problem if someone admits that they were intentionally targeting those people. On record, repeatedly. And even then it’s okay if you can get SCOTUS to weigh in.”

The US is terminally ill and morally bankrupt.

Stalin was extreme right, using leftist trappings to seize and consolidate power for himself as Lenin withered away.

Trotsky was leftist, but still a believer in the ML vanguard gamble that resulted in Stalin seizing power. Rightist means will almost always lead to rightist ends.

Tolstoy, being generally anti-state and anti-capitalist, was also leftist. His famous quote philosophically addresses the stability of any leftist movement.

There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

The path to leftism and the methods to preserve it against rightism are very much the realm of philosophy.

The political compass is worse than an oversimplification, it’s propaganda.

The political compass is propaganda. There is no such thing as auth-left or lib-right. There is no division between social and economic axes.

The definition of the right-left spectrum is rooted in the french revolution. Rightism is about consolidating power and creating strict socio-economic hierarchies so the more-privileged can subject their will on the less-privileged, while leftism is about flattening those hierarchies to prevent anyone from subjugating others and ensuring equality and egalitarianism are maintained.

Whoever has power controls economy and vice-versa. Period. So rightism will always be authoritarian, hierarchal, and have a functionally captive economy. How benevolent this authoritarianism is toward the populace is meaningless as any liberty is an illusion provided at the pleasure of the more wealthy-powerful classes.

Liberalism arises from the willing abuse of an under-regulated economy that allows consolidation of wealth and, therefore, accumulation of power. Therefore the end result of unchecked liberalism is always rightism.

There are many forms of leftism, because leftism is about tearing down and preventing accumulation and consolidation of power. The goal is to prevent runaway snowballing of wealth or power that would allow any person or group to subjugate others, ideally in a way that is sustainable and stable. Therefore leftism is about personal liberty and freedom as long as it does not threaten to diminish or supersede the liberty or freedom of others.

The concepts cannot be separated. They travel together and influence each other directly. The political compass is merely an attempt to make “both sides” seem equivalent without addressing the actual cause-effect of wealth and power accumulation, which serves who? Rightists. Capitalists. Liberals. Those who would seek to selfishly hoard more power, privilege, comfort, and authority than everyone else at the expense of anyone else.

Yes.

And of course the illegitimate, corrupt SCROTUS stepped in to allow the Republicans racist disenfranchisement.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/22/us-supreme-court-samuel-alito-grants-stay-in-texas-redistricting-lawsuit/87412332007/

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He’s also murdering Venezuelan fishermen, aiding the Palestinian and Ukrainian genocides, and inflicting death by starvation and disease mostly on children the world over. He is a mass murderer.

It sounds like Fox News licensed it from another company called Gulf Stream Studios. She probably had no idea.

I’m sure they’ve finished using white-out on every instance of his name and hastily scribbled “cliNtoN” over the top.

The Democrats shot themselves in the face. Again. Like they always do. And let the entire country know that they are just as spineless, unreliable, duplicitous, and useless as everyone thinks they are.

One bad apple spoils the barrel, and the Democratic party tolerates embraces a lot of very bad apples.

Is there a civilized world left anywhere? Ireland maybe?

We just don’t want neoliberals running. We’re done with that. Everyone is. I hope AOC runs.

PEDOTUS

China actually has a viable space program, so being an astronaut actually seems attainable. And do teachers in China actually make a fair living wage?

Called it.