this could equally be #Meta running scared that they are losing users to the Fedi (or getting less data) from #left / #progressive communities and trying to convince businesses to stay with them.. (even if I was a furry I wouldn't shout about it on Meta anyway, let alone buy anything via that network)
@CStamp @ZDL @mikelovesbikes @wendinoakland @todymotmot @profdc9 @GutterPoetry @zakalwe
you would think people would notice the extensive #psyop to convince the #left to not vote, via various methods: #learnedHelplessness, #toxicIdealism, premature empty cynical capitulation, "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe" and other endless bullshit, and understand that what they should do is #vote
The problem with the #left is so many judgments out there are absolute
But the only way to get #progress in this world is to be relative:
Is someone moving in a good direction, regardless of where they are starting from?
Then you applaud that
That is true #morality
Absolutism is just ego masturbation. It doesn't change the world
So I mourn the passing of #PopeFrancis
I recognize the good he did in the confines he operated in, on issues dear to the left
And so should you
laying the groundwork finally for my newsletter, Impure Leftist. eventually, the goal is to have a pay-what-you-can subscription model that includes access to the Anarchist Book Club.
for now, you can sign up here
https://buttondown.com/impureleftist
and there's an option to do a paid subscription for $7/mo.
(image not mine, found on fb)
Esther Iverem on Trump, Global Tensions, and the Erosion of U.S. Law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHYtsnSlCg0
#blackmastodon @blackmastodon
@blackvoices
@BLKNewsNow
@blackgirlnerds
#racism #immigration #left #antiimperialism #africa
@grumble209 @MannyDexter @MrBirch @todymotmot @wendinoakland @profdc9 @zakalwe
do you know who votes constantly party line?
do you know who shows up for the #primaries?
MAGA
do you what the #GOP is today?
MAGA
can the left take over the dems like that?
yes
well no
as long as the #left is whiny voices making excuses for impotent cynicism
they don't show the fuck up
useless self-defeating assholes
bad #candidates are *an effect* of not enough voting not *a cause*
@GutterPoetry @grumble209 @todymotmot @wendinoakland @profdc9 @zakalwe
absolutely
#left candidates need to speak to hearts not just minds
illustration: #trump beat #harris
you can't depend upon mere strategy to turn the #vote out
we must have left leaning candidates that excite
however, i will still, in my bitterness, despise all the morons on the left who were not moved by the stakes and did not use their mind, and used only their hearts to *immobilize* themselves and help get us trump
@todymotmot @profdc9 @GutterPoetry @zakalwe
yeah the spineless cynicism on the #left is nothing but premature capitulation to malice
combined with #purityPolitics and #toxicIdealism, it's self-destruction
you need to fight
always
you need to be positive
always
and you need to accept better rather than whining about not getting perfect
always
@hacks4pancakes UNFTR Media --> How to Rebuild the Left as the Far Right Floods the Zone
Learn The Five Non-negotiable Demands for every Candidate
Bookmark --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvyNCILwiRA
"Unquestionably Unconstitutional": Harvard Law Prof Slams Cuts as School Rejects Trump Demands http://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/16/trump_vs_harvard
I try to accentuate the positive. That's been hard lately
This is a reach, but bear with me:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930
(non-paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20250415173350/https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930 )
These folks aren't necessarily #left leaning
But now they are on the outside, with us
Not just ex-#Pentagon, but from all over the #US #government
They have a grudge against the #bigot-#moron-#plutocrat #coup
Smart people who know things
Some of them may even be on #Mastodon
I say to them: "welcome" 
Lets do something about it
Nice local elections result in #Finland indeed!
And my candidate got through, for the first time! Yeehaa. Congrats, Paco Diop!
Relating: when checking the results, I noticed that my party Vasemmistoliitto (”The #Left Union") has the highest amount of immigrants in the new city council group. Both percentage-wise and in absolute numbers: three. This either a) is great news or b) tells something about latent #racism in #Finland.
I ’ll pick a) for now.
A common problem of the contemporary #liberal #left is not claiming the values of discipline, commitment and militancy back from the right.
Allowing the right to claim ownership of those values while doubling down on values like safety leads to giving up the tools to achieve it in the first place.
Those safe spaces won’t police themselves. They need tough & muscular nonbinaries and allies standing by, ready to punch any nazis coming in to disrupt them.
The narrative needs to #change.
REALLY don't care for lefty infighting. If you spend more energy fighting other lefties than organizing or agitating I'm just going to assume you're a plant.
(libs aren't #left and they can eat my shit)
Microsoft Worker Fired for Israel Protest: "Cloud & AI Are the Bombs & Bullets of the 21st Century" http://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/11/no_azure_for_apartheid
"The Democratic establishment seems to make decisions based on its immediate electoral horizons, regardless of the wider political context. Whereas Trump and his loyalists act like a vanguard, Democratic officialdom has been so conditioned by the strictures of the old constitutional compact that they appear signally incapable of deviating from it.
This creates a potential opening for the American left. While centrist Democrats try in vain to uphold the old constitutional order, and the far right fails to replace it with anything beyond predation and xenophobia, the role of democratic-socialist forces could be to advance a viable alternative. Such an effort must take many forms. It requires defending those especially vulnerable to Trumpist assault – noncitizens, transpersons and activists on behalf of Palestinian rights, among others. Centrist politicians and commentators have been notably willing to cast aside all these groups – in part out of genuine ideological suspicion, in part out of sheer electoral opportunism. But a longstanding lesson of political opposition under authoritarian conditions – whether in the segregation-era American South or outside the United States – is that a critical means for building cross-group trust and solidarity, including for election season, is a willingness to stand on principle. This means taking risks even when it is not in your immediate self-interest. And the failure of many Democrats to do just that is its own opening for leftwing formations."
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/constitutional-collapse
Irrational leftists advocating the destruction of anything not-left often via violence are banding up on the #fediverse and the community is silent because of their political leanings.
Advocating Violence is unacceptable, immoral, it's #terrorism.
A cancer within the #FOSS community.
Don't stay silent on left terror. They will eventually turn on you for being less left and non-violent.
SPEAK UP! #FOSS
#left #leftTerror #Violence #silence
Big turn out Thursday night and elsewhere
Fight #oligarchy
Take over the #Democrats from within
Third party will divide the #left
Not voting gives #Trump a win
SHOW THE FUCK UP #AMERICA
(bonus #Canada flag because there was a hockey game the night before)
Forgive me for never really understanding some (few) of my left comrades taking a stance for "base over superstructure". Somehow it always seems to rhyme with a love of power and especially the winning side. And also with sacrificing some other people. Sometimes I wish we could just sit down and have a long discussion. Instead of ending up making ourselves more stupid than we are, stupid enough in the end for the socialism of fools:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/former-left-right-fascism-capitalism-horseshoe-theory
I have just come from a #Council meeting not directly associated with my #Politics but facing similar #community #communication #Issues. On the '#Liberal #Left #Socialist ' wing we are fragmented, Many #narcisstic #Officers . I always argued for one #media #office to speak for all. 'We' had the £'s pre #StopBrexit & after to fund an office & the talent to staff it. Now? No one single voice speaking #Truth to #Power @NRM @PeterCorr
#RejoinEU #europeanunion #EuropeanMovement #ukpol #UK_politics
