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The ruling class WANTS you to believe violence is counterproductive because that's how they keep us from fighting back

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leftism would be a lot more efficient if people realized this: the working class and the lower class is not the same thing.

as a child, my family was middle class. dad made $100,000 nzd per year. we moved and bought a new house without renting at any point, simply so we would be in a convenient place closer to dads workplace. dad bought a $10,000 dollar motorbike just because he wanted to. we were well off and if we had better budgeting skills our family could save a million bucks by the time my parents retired.

we lost everything.

middle class people still need unions. they still need to deal with abusive bosses. they can still lose all that financial security just by divorcing the worker of the family or making a bad decision.

now im lower class, as are both my parents.

upper class people dont work. they are ceos, upper millionares, and billionares. people work for them and they dont answer to anyone. there is a huge difference between a very well paid worker (hollywood actors for instance) and a ceo who never has to negotiate his pay with a superior.

dont get it mixed up. an upper middle class person is not the same as the billionare who can buy his way into a goverment or fund a goverment to change the way the law works.

just because someone is well off does not mean you have no shared experiences. they may or may not be out of touch, but you should organize with those who also answer to a boss.

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In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court has affirmed tennessees trans healthcare ban today

Today the trump administration announced the shutdown of the LGBTQ suicide hotline in starting July 17th. (In the press release it was called the LGB+ hotline)

If anyone has any hope, I really need some right now

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Something I’ve noticed is that leftist movements tend to turn practical, thought out tactics that were part of a larger plan for liberation, and remove them from their context. Then we often use these tactics as symbolic ways to mark our distaste for empire and harken back to older movements. However, these tactics are often already accounted for by the system, and sometimes are actively encouraged as ways to harm our people and defang our processes.

Here is an example;

In the Civil Rights struggle, getting arrested en mass was seen as an important part of the process of freedom. The civil rights leaders realized that the areas they were in did not have large enough jails to confine them all, and that if they filled the jails up, the police simply could not confine everyone else in the movement. Getting arrested in coordinated ways was a noble and helpful sacrifice that kept your brothers and sisters from getting arrested. Due to less strict sentencing at the time, and the ability of the movement to scare the police into releasing people, getting arrested often wasn’t the utterly disabling and free-life ending process it is today. (That’s not to say getting arrested was easy on people; the police brutality of the time was incredibly intense.)

Those who spent time in jail were given almost a reverent status. That had gone through much suffering to keep others from the same fate. Often, their ability to taking confinement completely off the table for the rest of the activists is precisely what allowed for certain other actions to be successful. Paying for legal defense and moderate bail costs was something of a drain on the movements scant, resources but it could often be worth it due to the role arrests played.

However, the state responded to this, and turned it to their benefit. The next fifty years saw a prison boom. Now, economically deprived small towns were made to bid and beg for prisons to be built in there areas; not only to lock people up, but also because working at the prison was presented as one of the only jobs left in rural America. Additionally, thisdrove the labor minded population to be further in conflict with other movements in some areas.

As the capacity of the government to capture and confine increased, the capacity of the movement to fill up the jails and prevent further arrests did not. Now, the system was hungry for more and more bodies for its endless rooms. It further instilled and mechanized the capacity of prisons to force labor, undercutting labor movements. Sentences became longer, parole became stricter, fines and restitutions increased to exorbitant amounts. Those who went in for petty arrests often never came out.

But, the feeling that getting arrested was a noble and venerable goal did not leave the movement. Some transitioned tactics; instead of filling up the jails to allow others to act without recourse, they sought to get arrested in test cases, as they had seen work occasionally before. But this too became more and more difficult, as the legal system realized it did not have to play by its own rules. Slowly but surely, the legal mythology that because it is written and because it is fair, it will be ruled so, began to overtake the minds of activists; even as they failed time and time again to win this way, they still threw countless of their friends into the mouth of the enemy, and condemned them to life in prison.

Even this had become a shadow of itself by the 2000s and 2010s. Arrest became an aesthetic goal instead of a practical one. The most radical in the movements were culturally encouraged to throw their lives away for petty protests that none would see, and would have no material impact on the operations of the system of dominion. The reality that getting kettled at a non violent protest could land you with the same jail time as a political assassination did not dawn upon these activists until long after hey were already in jail, and already disconnected from the movement. Their friends would gather all their meager savings towards bail funds, oftentimes going into debt, or otherwise extracting money from the rest of the marginalized communities supportive of the activism. Those funds would then go to the government in the form of bail, and then right back towards operating the same policing systems that targeted them. In this way, the main economic output of the leftists movement of the time was to fund the very systems of policing that they sought to destroy; and to get themselves and each other locked in cages in the process. Instead of developing practical systems of change, radicals were taught to emulate key aspects of the tactics of prior generations that had specifically been recuperated into the goals of the state.

Those who saw the futility in this were readily pushed towards the defanged and self acknowledged pointless marches of the nonviolent liberal movement, which never had any goal other than to once again emulate the visual aesthetics and personal emotional fulfillment of past movements.

We see this pattern play out all the time. People insisting on the radical importance of a leftist print newspaper in a time when print journalism is dead. A fetishization of industrial unionism in a town where no factory has been for three generations. Arguments over whether to support long defunct governments and long dead leaders for some tactical benefit which will never arise from reality.

It is long past time for us to realize that the process of achieving human liberation does not come from symbolic actions, nor from following the playbook of past movements. We must learn our history, yes, but not to emulate it; instead we must learn it to understand its failures and its successes, and, most importantly, how our movement ancestors interacted with the material conditions of their time to create multifaceted plans that met the needs of their people and made successful guerrilla war upon dominion.

We need to imagine ways of making change that are suited to the times that we are living in, the problems we face, and the opportunities that we have. This utterly necessitates that we get deeply embedded into the places and communities around us, that we listen with open ears to the problems our people are facing, and that we fold those ever more towards opportunities of liberation and care for one another.

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im so tired and im never going to understand the people on here who are still insisting that everything would have been the same under kamala as if the elimination of USAID and imperilment of PEPFAR hasn't already affected the lives of millions of HIV-positive people in the global south - as if biden wasnt one of the most proactive presidents on climate change, as if no connection exists between changing weather patterns, deaths from natural disasters in the world's poorest countries, food scarcity, and resulting political instability...it must feel exceptionally self-affirming to not have to think about environmental justice at all and to accept the gutting of protective acts and our legal systems that provided the recourse for brown and black people to prosecute big companies for poisoning their communities...must be incredible to inhabit a mindset where any collateral damage along the path to the fabled revolution doesn't matter

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Americans, I know we're going through it, but why do I keep seeing stuff like "I'm sorry world, we'll fix this in 4 years"? But like... what do you mean "4 years"?

We have midterm in 2026, yearly local elections, special elections, primaries, etc.

We have the right (dare I say responsibility) to contact our representatives and the right to organize and protest if/when they don't listen.

We need to find a meaningful way to educate people about propaganda and media literacy. We need to convince people to be willing to educate themselves. The habit of only checking in to politics on presidential election years needs broken.

I understand how defeating today feels, but we, especially those of us who could conceivably make it through these four years unscathed, need to stop this proactive surrender.

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“Majoring in gender studies to become a barista”

The right’s notion that the humanities are unimportant compared to stem ultimately comes down to the fact that there’s less money in those fields. Capitalism breeds anti intellectualism

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One family's lawyer said that the child, 4 years old with stage-4 metastatic cancer, was deported without medication or access to their doctors. None of the children were afforded due process rights.

This is another blatantly illegal move in the Trump administration's rush to overwhelm the country's legal immigration / deportation apparatus.

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IMHO a properly delivered “Who raised you?” is waaay more effective on Bigots than any amount of lecturing.

Folks don’t end up as Bigots because they have well-researched and nuanced opinions on things. They end up as Bigots because it’s emotionally satisfying to have people to blame for your problems. Who needs self-reflection and growth when you can point a finger and go “your fault!”

A lot of Bigotry stems from a set of Narratives that could be neatly summarized as “isn’t it terrible how Good People such as ourselves are getting deprioritized in favor of [Queers/Coloreds/Women/Jews]?”

If you engage directly with their hateful opinions, you have not meaningfully deconstructed their illusory narrative about Being A Good Person Who Is Oppressed.

By going “Who raised you?” You have invalidated their stance. You call the onus of their behavior onto their heads, or the heads of their parents. Suddenly, they’re not a Good Person, they’re a Shithead; and since these kinds of folks so often also believe that Rights should be taken away from people for Bad Behavior, they have to scramble to re-prove their position as a Good Person before they can start attacking again.

Obviously this is gonna be contingent on them giving a fuck about your opinion, but for Allies who want to emotionally punch back against this wave of Fascism, I really want to reiterate that the anger and hate is so often not really about whoever they’ve decided to blame for their failures; it’s usually about their high opinion of themselves, and world’s unwillingness to give them everything they want on a silver platter.

Don’t bother trying to educate someone who had no interest in researching their own opinion before deciding that an entire group needs to go. Just call them out as the Shitheads they are.

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Women's Day has been so heavily co-opted by bourgeois feminism but let's never forget that it originated from the labor movement under the organization of socialists like Theresa Malkiel and Clara Zetkin. It was always meant to be the International WORKING Women's Day.

Theresa Malkiel was a Jewish refugee & sweatshop worker turned head of the Socialist Party of America's Women's National Committee, and Clara Zetkin was a prominent leader of the German socialist movement.

It was a Women's Day gathering in Petrograd that snowballed into the Russian Revolution, a fact often erased.

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waiting for the day that people realise the jokes about Americans being idiots is actually intentional. uneducated people are the best kind of people for fascist governments to control. education is becoming a privilege and we are moving backwards. knowledge is power and the less people know the more power others have over them. them being ‘stupid’ is just them being easier to control.

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Don't be a slave to your own ignorance. Know where your opinions, especially the strongly held ones, came from and be brave enough to question them.

Dean Van Drasek

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Luigi Mangione could be getting the death penalty…

This man is innocent, his appearance and build doesn’t match that of the killers, the only “motive” he had was a convenient written confession showing that he supposedly viewed healthcare companies as “parasitic” and too expensive (which does somewhat contradict the actual killers actions) he had said note and the murder weapon conveniently on him while living his ordinary life, the killer held the gun in his right hand while Luigi is left-handed, Luigi and the Killer were potentially seen simultaneously, they wore slightly different coats.

The NYPD KNOW these are different people, they know the evidence is lacking, this isn’t a mistaken identity, it’s framing, they are trying to make themself appear to still be control by catching this man, humiliating him, killing him, when they know full well that the person they are prosecuting ISNT EVEN THE RIGHT GUY! This is an injustice! This is not a fair trial! This is downright tyranny!

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