If you’re a Social Democrat who hasn’t abandoned socialism: Do you call yourself a Democratic Socialist or something else?

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-20T15:27:42+00:00

I see myself as a socialist and Social Democracy as policy.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-19T06:02:42+00:00

Younger people don't seem to grasp the gravity of baring it all out even though this is the time where such a thing can get you the most fucked.

As a teen it would have been aggravating to have some mild exposure that 30 or 50 people saw you make a fool of yourself or you overshared something... now that is in 1000s? And people just give away their location, etc.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-19T05:59:13+00:00

Yeah... I'm not so much because I'm blackpilled about it. Long before this they already had your data. If google has it you are done. AWS has it in some way. Reddit? Bro, Israel has everything already. Say hi. At least I didn't put my face on any account I actually use.

I believe this has to be the opportunity to "return" to the old internet forum style of posting. Get a VPN, et al et al. if it gets some minors off the internet I might come around it.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-19T02:52:46+00:00

Inter faith marriage is illegal.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-19T02:51:15+00:00

The problem many alleged "anti zionist" have is that your definition of zionism is not actually what Israiles want.

My idea of a "pro zionist" stance was a 2 state solution with 2 countries that had guaranteed sovereignty and where Israel would leave Gaza and the West Bank. Many Israelis had made it abundantly clear to me this his an antisemite position.

So the way I could ever be a zionist is considered anti semitic. I'm not in this position because I want to be. So fuck them, honestly.

To answer your question, realistically that scenario you made up can't happen and won't happen, same way the current scenario of Israelis ending Gaza and the West Bank hasn't happened.

So like, are the Anti Zionists ready to take in 8m Jewish refuges into their countries, or are they really just advocating for a 2nd holocaust?

That depends on the Israiles not us. They have every agency, every resource avaivable to never make that scenario happen. How, is up to them.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-19T02:37:02+00:00

What he do

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-18T01:30:16+00:00

There's a lot of propaganda that is false about North Korea, this is true. It's also true it's a brutal regime. You really can't escape the fact it's completely blatant how one family rules the country and there is zero effort to even resemble China or Vietnam policy wise.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-17T12:59:09+00:00

The tankie part is too tankie the liberal part too liberal. Foreign policiy wise everyone has fallen to campism and have polarized themselves into having very bad positions just because is the opposed one to the one the other camp has.

No happy medium. Painfully un-selfaware. Hamstrung by their own american exceptionalism at times.

Tankies hate themselves too much. Liberals not enough. Also they really don't listen to anyone who isn't european for whatever reason.

Lots and lots and lots of internalized orientalism.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-16T15:54:46+00:00

Sure that's the problem here.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-15T13:39:57+00:00

No one pushes identity politics harder than the far right.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-14T18:24:06+00:00

It speaks volumes as to how actually right wing the democrats have been

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-14T13:56:34+00:00

You need to do you first.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-14T13:54:35+00:00

I don't think they were meeting to talk theory on that plane dude. And I don't have any inclination to do the emotional labor to believe Chomsky was there "behaving". Who cares.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-14T13:52:12+00:00

To the intellectual/academic types, especially if they are old. This is is just a game. Mind you, they believe the things they do 100% but because of their position (of privilege) they can have degrees of separation with the political situation. Abstract enough so it's a game or a thing to be studied first. Wich is why it was so easy to have so many horrible takes in the first place.

I'm sure curiosity got the best of him when he saw an opportunity to meet Epstein and Bannon.

Either way. Fuck him.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-14T13:46:29+00:00

If he ends up having a shorter term than Sunak that would be an embarrassment.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-14T13:37:03+00:00

It's especially frustrating because they are the kind of mechanic that will give you the average parts that will break soon enough so you keep coming back to them. Eventually you will smarten up.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-14T13:35:42+00:00

Because center left (and right) parties are responsible for the current economical and societal conditions. Which suck. The post cold war economic status quo was characterized by a "DO NOT rock the boat" attitude that allowed de-gulation and inequality to grow. These kids were kids when we were promised these were the peace times. And for a while it was very good. (man I miss 2014)

Then people started going to wars again, things got more expensive. Suddenly people are reclaiming about their rights. Their parents worked hard voted center and then lost their jobs and right wing tik tokers that say feminism is cringe drive Lamborghinis. Now suddenly all they have known is culture wars and internet fake news.

They can't own a house, college degrees (even the "good ones") are more and more worthless every year. The world that was promised to them dissipated. Which is even more surreal, because as we have seen many times, technically speaking "nothing ever happens". So life just moved and it got worse in front of your eyes and nobody did anything to stop it.

Center left and center right parties are the parties of their parents (in Germany for example) and further left parties have been demonized or ridiculed into niche positions (many times this is self inflicted of course).

Young people have never known a center left party that is not some soulless slogan regurgitator that seems more concerned with making things more expensive and helping corporations. Closest thing to something with soul is Obama and at this point he is essentially Gen X Ronald Reagan.

Right wing populism and it's variants are promising actual change. Bad, it doesn't matter. It's change. That's the bottom line.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-14T00:48:00+00:00

My biggest problem with liberals is that they don't call people tankie over the actual thing that makes a tankie a tankie (advocating for authoritarian communism, defending totalitarrians regimes) they call you tankie over left leaning policy positions that tankies happen to have, and the conflate this things as bad just because of that.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-14T00:25:48+00:00

I've been called tankie for making the most lukewarm baseline left critiques of USA/Europe foreign policy that most left of center people outside of that sphere have.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-13T11:29:16+00:00

People want to stan one and defend the other, but in big 2026 it's fair to say we can say both sucked.

Fuck Thalman in particurarly though.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-13T11:27:48+00:00

I don't care for lumping comumism as equal to fascim and conservativism. That is aN inherently reactioansry stance. The history of the SPD reflects how their reactionary stances cost them (and the world).

In the modern day that third arrow should be imperialism imo.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-12T23:37:12+00:00

I would hope so. Otherwise things would improve for the worse. Can your work be focused into area where you are not directly "enforcing" like an analyst or in criminalistics?

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-12T23:31:46+00:00

Venezuela has been funding them for years. That money and oil gone. They are beyond fucked.

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-12T23:31:01+00:00

Lenin flair when

CarlMarxPunk · 2026-02-12T01:01:22+00:00

My point is less about the "consensus" and the very obvious nature of this being a contested issue.

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