#liberalism

[kropotkindersurprise]

#ruha benjamin #spelman college #liberalism #identity politics #video #intersectionality #2024 #usa #atlanta #stop cop #stop cop city #anti-imperialism

[queerism1969]

This is what happens when we don’t teach people which books it was that the Nazis burned.

#far right #nonbinary #sapphic #lesbian #lgbt pride #lgbtq community #gay girls #nonbinary lesbian #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #extremism #liberalism #auschwitz #hypocrisy #trans #transfemme #trans pride #transgender #trans positivity #trans man #history #history lesson #world history #culture #tiktok #videos

[unbossed]

If someone is calling for others to help them murder you how many people do you let them recruit before you try to shut them up?

#excerpts from the novel that I'll never write #liberals #liberalism #fuck constitutions

[memingursa]

Democratic Liberal baby boomers have not gotten enough shit

#Joe biden #genocide #genocide joe #free gaza #free palestine #palestine #gaza #israel #liberalism

[probablyasocialecologist]

We have inherited rights-based institutions. Do we need to, for that reason, demand rights, struggle for them and place our futures in its power of promise, knowing the promises are empty for most people most of the time? What did the socialists and the freedom fighters in anticolonial movements do? They demanded the real thing—food not right to food, national independence not right to independence, peace not right to peace, debt-repudiation not forgiveness.

Radha D'Souza, What's Wrong with Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations

#rights #human rights #liberalism

[culturevulturette]

Treason, straight up.

#joe biden #liberalism #wokism #illegal immigration #open borders

[politijohn]

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[whereserpentswalk]

Made this political cartoon. Feel free to share it around just don't remove the watermark.

#196 #my thougts #leftism #leftist #neoliberalism #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #libertarian socialism #neoliberal thought #liberalism #anarchist #anarchism #anarchocommunism #anarchopunk #tankie #tankies #marxist leninist #marxism #social issues #socialism

[tomorrowusa]

Don't risk a rerun of the 2000 election.

In the first presidential election of the 21st century many deluded progressives voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.

Their foolishness gave us eight years of George W. Bush who plagued the country with two recessions (including the Great Recession) and two wars (one totally unnecessary and one which could have been avoided if he heeded an intelligence brief 5 weeks before 9/11).

Oh yeah, Dubya also appointed one conservative and one batshit crazy reactionary to the US Supreme Court. Roberts and Alito are still there.

Paul Waldman of the Washington Post offers some thoughts.

Why leftists should work their hearts out for Biden in 2024

Ask a Democrat with a long memory what the numbers 97,488 and 537 represent, and their face will twist into a grimace. The first is the number of votes Ralph Nader received in Florida in 2000 as the nominee of the Green Party; the second is the margin by which George W. Bush was eventually certified the winner of the state, handing him the White House. Now, with President Biden gearing up for reelection, talk of a spoiler candidate from the left is again in the air. That’s unfortunate, because here’s the truth: The past 2½ years under Biden have been a triumph for progressivism, even if it’s not in most people’s interest to admit it. This was not what most people expected from Biden, who ran as a relative moderate in the 2020 Democratic primary. His nomination was a victory for pragmatism with its eyes directed toward the center. But today, no one can honestly deny that Biden is the most progressive president since at least Lyndon B. Johnson. His judicial appointments are more diverse than those of any of his predecessors. He has directed more resources to combating climate change than any other president. Notwithstanding the opposition from the Supreme Court, his administration has moved aggressively to forgive and restructure student loans.

Three years ago the economy was in horrible shape because of Trump's mishandling of the pandemic. Now unemployment is steadily below 4%, job creation continues to exceed expectations, and wages are rising as unions gain strength. The post-pandemic, post-Afghan War inflation rate has receded to near normal levels; people in the 1970s would have sold their souls for a 3.2% (and dropping) inflation rate. And many of the effects of "Bidenomics" have yet to kick in.

And in a story that is criminally underappreciated, his administration’s policy reaction to the covid-induced recession of 2020 was revolutionary in precisely the ways any good leftist should favor. It embraced massive government intervention to stave off the worst economic impacts, including handing millions of families monthly checks (by expanding the child tax credit), giving all kids in public schools free meals, boosting unemployment insurance and extending health coverage to millions.

It worked. While inflation rose (as it did worldwide), the economy’s recovery has been blisteringly fast. It took more than six years for employment rates to return to what they were before the Great Recession hit in 2008, but we surpassed January 2020 jobs levels by the spring of 2022 — and have kept adding jobs ever since. To the idealistic leftist, that might feel like both old news and a partial victory at best. What about everything supporters of Bernie Sanders have found so thrilling about the Vermont senator’s vision of the future, from universal health care to free college? It’s true Biden was never going to deliver that, but to be honest, neither would Sanders had he been elected president. And that brings me to the heart of how people on the left ought to think about Biden and his reelection.

Biden has gotten things done. The US economy is doing better than those of almost every other advanced industrialized country.

Our rivals China and Russia are both worse off than they were three years ago. And NATO is not just united, it's growing.

Sadly, we still need to deal with a far right MAGA cult at home who would wreck the country just to get its own way.

Biden may be elderly and unexciting, but that is one of the reasons he won in 2020. Many people just wanted an end to the daily drama of Trump's capricious and incompetent rule by tweet. And a good portion of those people live in places that count greatly in elections – suburbs and exurbs.

Superhero films seem to be slipping in popularity. Hopefully that's a sign that voters are less likely to embrace self-appointed political messiahs to save them from themselves.

Good governance is a steady process – not a collection of magic tricks. Experienced and competent individuals who are not too far removed from the lives of the people they represent are the best people to have in government.

Paul Waldman concludes his column speaking from the heart as a liberal...

I’ve been in and around politics for many years, and even among liberals, I’ve almost always been one of the most liberal people in the room. Yet only since Biden’s election have I realized that I will probably never see a president as liberal as I’d like. It’s not an easy idea to make peace with. But it suggests a different way of thinking about elections — as one necessary step in a long, difficult process. The further you are to the left, the more important Biden’s reelection ought to be to you. It might require emotional (and policy) compromise, but for now, it’s also the most important tool you have to achieve progressive ends.

Exactly. Rightwingers take the long view. It took them 49 years but they eventually got Roe v. Wade overturned. To succeed, we need to look upon politics as an extended marathon rather as one short sprint.

Republicans may currently be bickering, but they will most likely unite behind whichever anti-abortion extremist they nominate.

It's necessary to get the word out now that the only way to defeat climate-denying, abortion-restricting, assault weapon-loving, race-baiting, homophobic Republicans is to vote Democratic.

#paul waldman #liberalism #election 2000 #election 2024 #joe biden #third parties #vote blue no matter who #donald trump #dumpster fire #trumpster fire #fascism vs. democracy #nra republicans #abortion #climate change #lgbtq+ rights #race-baiting #take the political long view #phil hands

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Marginalized group: carries firearms and practices community self-defense literally to stay alive and protect community members from vicious fascist violence

Liberals: ooh this is so cool because maybe if Republicans see Black people/LGBT people/immigrants with guns it will trigger them into passing gun control laws so those communities can't defend themselves anymore and the police will have even more control over them I am a huge piece of shit and literally have the politics of Ronald Reagan in 1967

#gun control #liberalism #you fuckers are going to get us all killed

[nando161mando]

Liberal double standards

#spongebob squarepants #spongebob squarepants memes #liberals #liberalism #neoliberalism #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #neoliberal thought #neoliberal feminism #israel #israhell #palestine #gaza #double standards #double standard much? #anti liberalism #anti liberal feminism #class war #free palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸 #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #anthony albanese #albanese government #free gaza #gaza strip

[tikkunolamresistance]

Liberals are so insufferable, like please have a backbone. Approaching everything from a neutral perspective is so counterproductive, lazy and more oftentimes than not: siding with the aggressor. Every single time.

To constantly play devil’s advocate, to take a neutral position on genocide, murder, hatred, racism, all of the “isms” that destroy lives… it’s a blatant, obnoxious exercise of your privilege. You do not care enough to understand others, and you do not care enough to do research. Yet, these same liberals expect Politics to be comfortable and considerate of them.

#liberalism #centrists #political neutrality #thoughts

[ace7librarian]

I think the saddest part for me about this war is that I don't trust anyone that considers themselves liberal and progressive.

I used to. Seeing a pride flag on someone's profile was enough for me to trust them. I would assume I could be safe and comfortable with them. My family made fun of me for it, but I truly believed there were genuinely good people with a perfect way of living.

I've seen so much shit online. I see all of those blue haired liberals my uncle made fun of me for being tearing away photos of kidnapped Jews. I see people I considered friends posting harmful misinformation. People with cartoons characters I like as a profile picture say my people deserved this.

It feels bonkers to double check if someone wants me dead before talking to them. This shit makes me realise why my ancestors didn't mix with goy people. I know most people don't mean harm to me, but how can I know? Maybe that's why there are Jewish supremacists. Obviously we're all human, shitty people are everywhere, but when everyone tell your community to die, it's easy to hate everyone outside your community.

I don't hate people who disappointed me as a whole. I feel like I lost faith in the entire humanity. Except for my people. This is a fucking terrifying feeling. I've been marginalized my whole life- a queer autistic woman. I never hated men, I never hated cishet people, I never hated allistic people. I'm so close to hating goy people. I've never been closer to being just like the people I hate most. It's a horrible feeling. And I blame every goy person.

Tldr- I lost my faith in humanity and I feel my morals collapsing

#rambling in librarian #jewish #judaism #israel #jewblr #antisemitism #sjw #social justice #liberalism #ישראבלר

[animentality]

#twitter #us politics #liberalism

[politijohn]

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