We talk a lot about how therapy speak has been coopted by manipulators, but not enough about how social justice language gets used by people "advocating" for shit that isn't an actual injustice.
Outta your fucking mind if you think Jacobin is controlled by DSA. You take any excuse to lie to shit on us and then ask for our help canvassing. Fuck off, this is a big reason nobody wanted to endorse you this time around.
Good chance “Warrenism” goes down in history, not as a suite of antitrust policies, but as a political tendency to kneecap the more competitive candidate to your left.
“People are getting more conservative” 1) no they’re not; and 2) it hardly matters—most people’s political understanding is a cloudy composite of the last three tweets or ads that told them what to think. People can still be reached by respectful, compelling political education!
Too many communists are still poisoned by pathetic liberal browbeating over identity. Like I obviously am woke on these things but it does get to a point where “lived experience” or whatever being used in an argument just starts to become wrecker behaviour
It’s hard to feel joyful during Pride Month when gay and queer non-profits are supporting establishment Democratic politicians and blocking pro-trans legislation out of worry about losing donors and grants.
You’ll see a great deal more contrition from the western media when one of theirs is politely asked to leave China than when a Palestinian photographer in their employ is killed by the IDF.