boric,,,hello
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 01:39 (two years ago) link
Honduras elects democratic socialist as first female president, unseating conservative ruling party
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 04:07 (two years ago) link
Hillary Clinton in shambles
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 04:52 (two years ago) link
If you need a good excuse to cry, here you go https://t.co/6CzBd2zizS— Carter Moon (@CarterDMoon) December 9, 2021
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
Nice
It's been called by Chilean media:Gabriel Boric will be Chile's next president. pic.twitter.com/3NYB00iSOc— Taniel (@Taniel) December 19, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 19 December 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
I've always liked Pablo Pascal as an actor and he publicly supported Boric and is Allende's great nephew.
― calzino, Sunday, 19 December 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
based
― class project pat (m bison), Sunday, 19 December 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
Mind-blowing scenes in Santiago, where hundreds of thousands have flocked onto the streets to celebrate Gabriel Boric's victory pic.twitter.com/uirvG1mVBg— John Bartlett (@jwbartlett92) December 20, 2021
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 20 December 2021 21:47 (two years ago) link
🇨🇱 Y bien si votaron los chilenos. Gabriel Boric, nuevo presidente de Chile. #compol pic.twitter.com/EzH3Lkvr39— Sergio Paz (@sergiopazc) December 19, 2021
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 25 December 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
The exact moment the German health minister became legendary on philosophy Twitter pic.twitter.com/R4HgWIohMs— Anthony Ballas (@tonyjballas) January 27, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 January 2022 05:26 (two years ago) link
holy shit
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Thursday, 27 January 2022 06:29 (two years ago) link
sorry, that just connected a lot of dots for me
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Thursday, 27 January 2022 06:41 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/portugal-general-election-pm-antonio-costa-wins-surprise-outright-majority
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Monday, 31 January 2022 12:01 (two years ago) link
it really grates on me to see Starmer congratulating the Portuguese centre-left social democrats of the type who are not welcome anywhere near his fucking Labour party.
― calzino, Monday, 31 January 2022 12:11 (two years ago) link
Not worth getting angry about calz, the PS are p much melts and Costa a blatant careerist.
Entirely one for the right-wing drift, I'm afraid: Chega (actual fascists) and Iniciativa Liberal (free market fundamentalists) surpassed the BE (Leftist Block) and the communists for the first time, votes that would've gone to the left instead ended up at the PS because of polls suggesting that the centre left and centre right were neck to neck, which turned out to be total bullshit. PS now has no pressure whatsoever to swerve left and the amount of virulent racist scum MPs has moved from one to eleven.
Really wish that anglos (not Tom in this thread, to be clear) would stop shooting off rockets every time a party with "socialist" or "social democrat" in its name triumphs in Europe.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 31 January 2022 13:43 (two years ago) link
ah right, I thought they were amongst the better class of Euro-melts but now I think I recall you posting before that they aren't any good.
― calzino, Monday, 31 January 2022 13:54 (two years ago) link
yeah I mean better than Starmer labour of course but that's not the highest ceiling
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 31 January 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link
tbh I was taking a shot in the dark there, I'm not in the least surprised to find out they're not very left.
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Monday, 31 January 2022 14:00 (two years ago) link
Yeah, as I said, the main story here really is the fringe right parties surpassing the left for the first time. A party that openly advocates for the forced sterilization of paedophiles now the third largest political power in the country, not great.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 31 January 2022 14:03 (two years ago) link
Ajamu Baraka on BPM right now, talking Ukraine and domestic matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLn45wQ2Beo
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 21:50 (two years ago) link
“Leftism” is when my opinions somehow always coincidentally align with the geo-political agenda of the world’s premier exporter of fascism
― Dan I., Tuesday, 15 February 2022 23:05 (two years ago) link
.. the us?
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
Well, sure, since half the politicians in the US are openly in cahoots with Russia. But those aren’t the politicians that guys like the dude in the video ever object to.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:06 (two years ago) link
Do you check under the bed for the Red Menace before you go to bed?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:14 (two years ago) link
You bring up a good point. Why would people on the left behave like old-school tankies when Russia isn’t even nominally communist anymore?
― Dan I., Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
lol yeah dude not wanting another US military intervention is def behaving like an old school tankie, good luck with that
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 10:57 (two years ago) link
Always incredible when Americans on ilx mistake the acts of America in its own interests as neutral and apolitical.
― mardheamac (gyac), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 11:01 (two years ago) link
You, an old-school tankie: I don’t think war is in the interests of civilians on either side of the borderMe, a shrewd political commentator: uhhhhhh you know the Soviet Union broke up right, COMЯ ADE?!
― mardheamac (gyac), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 11:05 (two years ago) link
lol
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 11:09 (two years ago) link
also libs who think fascism is just the republican party and not like the entire us imperial project are idiotic
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
Gunna go out on a limb and say there’s one country in particular that is funding and arming the Azov Battalion and you’ll never guess who it is!
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Gabriel_Boric_Font_%282018%29.jpg/512px-Gabriel_Boric_Font_%282018%29.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Retrato_Oficial_Presidente_Boric_Font.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 14 March 2022 22:39 (two years ago) link
rowr
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 14 March 2022 23:26 (two years ago) link
I have no idea whether this new government is left or not but it's one less right wing populist wanker in power.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/24/opposition-slovenian-liberal-party-on-course-for-landslide-win-say-exit-polls
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Monday, 25 April 2022 09:46 (two years ago) link
One thing that got lost in the (valid) panic over Le Pen is that Melenchon only got 1,5% less votes than her, it could've easily been a Macron vs Melenchon run-off.
My wife was actually dreading a Le Pen vs Melenchon run-off because she thinks that in that scenario Macron voters would go for Le Pen.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 April 2022 09:49 (two years ago) link
Nice chat happening today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpLX8T6phOQ
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 9 May 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
A significant shift via the @FoxNews national poll:Around this time in the Obama presidency, voters said by a +10 margin that government was "doing too much"Today voters say +17 that government "should do more" pic.twitter.com/VLcE89pp8a— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 15, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 15 September 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
swifties developing class consciousness bc they couldn’t get tickets is my favorite tiktok trend pic.twitter.com/SVhSSmMoyZ— reversecowgirl69 (@botticellibimbo) November 17, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 November 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
China Miéville talking right now for a Haymarket event and covering a lot of Q&A about his book on the Manifesto and organizing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKwxKR5-QKU
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 23:11 (one year ago) link
I was quite surprised to see this statement from this person. I haven't followed her work but I think she used to work with socialist writers and publishers. I have a Dawn Foster book for which she wrote a foreword. Now she's speaking at the National Conservatism event and talking about the need to 'seek God'? Surprised.
We need to seek God in each other. We're in a spiritual (and a material) crisis. But it's not over! Can't help but agree with Tim Stanley at #NatCon.— Nina Power (@Nina_Compact) May 16, 2023
― the pinefox, Thursday, 18 May 2023 09:03 (one year ago) link
If I remember correctly, she said if she was in the US she would have voted for Trump, with him being the antiwar candidate
― anvil, Thursday, 18 May 2023 09:39 (one year ago) link
power used to be on the left, yes, but went fascist around 2018-2019. she did a version of the usual routine - posted a bunch of transphobic shit on facebook (then it was the typical radfem ostensibly-from-the-left sort of stuff) then a year later she was paling around with outright fascists and denouncing feminism, then another year later she'd become a regular columnist for the telegraph churning out anti-woke nonsense.
now she's helping run compact, which basically advocates for fascism with a welfare state - it's staffed by a bunch of tradcaths and reactionary ex-leftists, a lot of the usual suspects.
― ufo, Thursday, 18 May 2023 10:38 (one year ago) link
"power used to be on the left, yes, but went fascist around 2018-2019"
Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017)
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 May 2023 10:56 (one year ago) link
Some people on ilx are closer than I was but I think in NP's case her L to R journey was complicated by a personal breakdown and significant issues with alcohol etc. I think her recovery was aided by a quasi-fascist edgelord so the personal is v mixed up with the usual stereotypes.
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 18 May 2023 11:46 (one year ago) link
Worthwhile panel talk from Haymarket Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ8LRtdeDZg
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 16 June 2023 00:04 (eleven months ago) link
tradcaths
Word of the day, I hadn't heard this before.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 June 2023 20:17 (eleven months ago) link
i "attended" a DSA meeting yesterday. They were nice.
― sarahell, Monday, 31 July 2023 16:32 (nine months ago) link
I forget the thread where we were discussing the cis-white-male dominance in re DSA ... but this chapter was pretty diverse in that regard.
There was a debate over endorsing a candidate for state Senate. All of the people "against" endorsing this person all said how much they "loved" her and how they would vote for her, but somehow "endorsement" was tied up with "heavy campaigning" and not having the capacity to organize a campaign of that scale, which didn't make sense to me as a "regular person"... fortunately, they actually did agree to endorse this candidate, which gave me some hope that this wasn't yet another absurdly dysfunctional organization.
― sarahell, Monday, 31 July 2023 16:38 (nine months ago) link
Yeah, “endorsement” with DSA chapters is a terrible choice of terms because it’s not just endorsing a candidate(“yeah we say you should vote for this candidate”), it’s folding into the campaign to actively work to get them elected.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 13:15 (nine months ago) link
An interview from the Liminauts with Matt Christman on more spiritual and metaphysical topics but how that eventually gets turned into something to work on IRL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aczSCRUdHHE
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:37 (nine months ago) link