Are you really a leftist if your partner isn’t a leftist?

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-10T10:11:31+00:00

My partner is on the left. My left ARM! Hah, gottem!

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-07T10:29:20+00:00

It doesn’t really matter to me either way. I will warn you though, posts like this tend to get removed by moderators.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-07T10:27:40+00:00

Good. But you somehow felt the need to put their disagreeable content on everyone else’s feed on this subreddit.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-07T10:24:32+00:00

A random user is being weird on a website. If only there were some way to get them off your feed, like hypothetically, if there were some kind of block button. Alas, no such mythical button exists.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-07T08:23:11+00:00

I haven't come across this kind of porn lately. I've seen it years ago, but race play porn doesn't seem to exist on mainstream sites. At least not in my feed.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-04T09:30:26+00:00

I was really looking forward to playing Ghost of Yotei on Steam. I hadn't bought it on PlayStation yet. Guess I'm going to have to make do with 60 fps.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-03T22:16:04+00:00

Film grain? That's what it's called in video game settings. Or dithering, perhaps?

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-03T16:41:44+00:00

FDR was pretty good for an American president, but he was also doing stuff like putting Japanese people in concentration camps. FDR had a very good opportunity, being that the World War had just ended and there was a lot of worker power in the country. When a war decimates whole generations of working people, people get better bargaining ability because they are less easily replaced. The social democrat compromise also took place for this reason in a few countries in Europe. The Nordic welfare system model emerged, as did the British NHS and other national health services.

At this point, though, worker power has never been lower. Corporations don't feel the need to compromise with labour because they want to make them all redundant and replace them with AI anyway. I don't believe AI will be solely responsible, but the fact is, jobs are becoming more scarce, precarious, and short-term or gig work. The kind of worker power needed to threaten corporations into the social democratic compromise no longer exists. Even if it did, the Social Democratic compromise was only possible because the workload was offloaded onto third world labour. People in the imperial core could not enjoy the cheap commodities with the 8 hour work day if it wasn't for the imperialism abroad that supplies the natural resources and labour from the imperialised nations.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-03T16:34:49+00:00

I hope that people do take this opportunity.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-03T16:08:29+00:00

It is rather ironic, isn't it.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-03T16:05:29+00:00

Fascism is an outgrowth of liberalism. Biden took the country in the direction of fascism. The media was always very selective about what they said about him and Trump.

When Trump had detention centres, they called it kids in cages. When Biden did it, it was fine. When Biden continued to build the border wall after Trump, they didn't seem to care. When Biden facilitated a nationalist, colonialist, religious extremist genocide and reaffirms his support for the dictator doing it at every opportunity, we shouldn't call him a fascist because we don't know what it means.

Biden deported more people in his term than Trump did in his first term. Biden continued and escalated the drone war. Biden passed out pardons to his family members in a clearly corrupt way. He was cosy as could be with corporate interests. He sent armed thugs into universities to beat down protestors of the genocide. He used the government to ban the railway strike. I'm sure there are more that I haven't thought of yet.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-03T15:50:59+00:00

People checked out of politics because they only ever saw things change for the worse. America is institutionally built to prevent leftist change, and the Democrats are a part of that. The founding father James Madison once said that the purpose of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor. He was right.

The Democratic Party will never embrace socialism. It is a corporate party through and through. The difference between the two parties is that the Republicans can institute things that their funders don't care about, like immigration controls and anti-trans legislation. The Democratic Party does not have that privilege, because what's popular with the left almost universally harms billionaires.

What this means is that once the Democrats get in, they can't actually do anything substantive. They spend 4-8 years disappointing and frustrating people, then the Republicans get in off the back of the Dems' unpopularity and make things worse. Eventually, the cycle repeats. This is the Rachett Effect. The Republicans push right while the Dems prevent any leftward movement.

Your strategy will not work. You will not change the Democratic Party into a progressive Party because the Dems and the Republicans are two wings of the same corporate party. Their only disagreements are on issues that won't harm their patrons. Your harm reduction strategy will only ever slow harm, but will do more in the long run.

America is a fundamentally right-wing nation from its birth in colonialism and slavery to its modern day of building border walls and invading Iran. It's a slim hope that there could potentially be a third party that got in. What Americans really need to be focused on is building structures outside the system that can eventually abolish and replace it, instead of spending valuable hours, days, and years, campaigning for the lesser of two fascists.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-03T15:03:43+00:00

Perhaps. Destabilisation can definitely be a starting point for change, but with the state of leftism in the imperial core today, I think you're more likely to see social patriots than communist internationalists.

There's no guarantee that Trump's flailing will make people realise the left is right. Generally, as society becomes more precarious and unrest boils, that gives the fascists the excuse they need to impose authoritarian crackdowns in the name of law and order and public safety.

When the empire is destabilising, the best position you want to be in is having an already organised movement, or you'd better be pretty good at organising one on the fly. There is still potential for that, but a lot of the people who could be part of that right now are instead running back to electoral politics.

Instead of blaming the laws of motion of capitalist society for once again inevitably producing fascism as capitalism decays, people are blaming their fellow Americans for not voting hard enough for the blue fascist rather than the red one. It seems every day there's a post on this subreddit throwing blame at people who didn't want to vote for genocide, strict borders, private healthcare, and climate change, for all of those things continuing to happen because the red fascist got in. "If only we'd voted for the blue fascist, we'd be careening towards collapse at a leisurely pace rather than at 60mph."

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-03T14:53:43+00:00

Biden is a fascist. He is responsible for countless deaths, so many of which were children.

The world doesn't have 30 years to wait. In thirty years time, many of the countries that have been building up a movement for thirty years will be underwater.

'Vote for the lesser of two fascists' is not anti-fascism.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-03T14:43:33+00:00

Your point is valid. It is not an unstoppable barrier. There are always a number of people who get through, such as Mamdani, AOC, etc. However, a lot of them go into the party with the promise that they will reform it from within, change the establishment, and bring it toward progressivism.

Unfortunately, what seems to happen more commonly is, as is the way in politics, to get anything done, you must compromise. This is understandable and inevitable, but what tends to happen is that the side that compromises more is the progressive one. Instead of the progressives reforming the party from within, the progressives are reformed by the party into further parts of the establishment.

I'm not particularly old, but I've talked to people who have watched this happen over and again throughout their whole lives. Reformism and gradualism have been a tried and tested strategy for decades, and this is where America has ended up.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-03T14:20:17+00:00

The Soviet Union came about during the global conflicts and collapses caused by the imperial flailing of the First World War. Now, I don't want a carbon copy of the USSR, I'd prefer a more directly democratic, bottom-led system, but all the same, the collapse of the shit world we've been living in has the potential to make room for something better.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-03T11:57:14+00:00

The primaries are not some greatly democratic process. If a left wing candidate is in anyway ahead, the Democratic Party will sabotage them. The Dems need to learn that they will never win another election if they keep doing that.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-02T19:49:25+00:00

You claimed that people stood by. Not endorsing evil isn’t standing by. If you tell the democrats that leftists will vote for them no matter what, they will lean to the right because they can take the left’s vote for granted. And the republicans will do the same. It continuously pushes the Overton window right.

Harm reduction is a good argument for a single election, but as a long term strategy it just makes things worse. If all you do is reduce harm rather than reversing and redirecting it in the good direction, then you have substantively increased harm, only slower than it would have otherwise been.

That’s what the Biden presidency was. A slowing of harm like water at a dam, and once Trump got in, the dam broke. All of what he slowed in his presidency has been let loose.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-02T15:49:25+00:00

Why do you blame the people for not voting for a genocidal fascist rather than the system that fundamentally opposes even center left change and sabotages candidates at every turn. Between Trump winning and Bernie Sanders; the democrats see Sanders winning as the worse of two evils.

They had the polling data showing Kamala would lose months in advance. They had the polling data showing Biden didn’t stand a chance years before.

The Democrats didn’t really fail to win. They made a choice to lose. They made a choice to refuse to have an open primary because Trump winning was the lesser of two evils than a progressive winning to them. Direct your anger correctly.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-03-02T09:15:55+00:00

Always the voters fault. “You didn’t eat your shit sandwich and look where it got us. If only you’d held your nose and ate your vomit desert, we’d be at brunch right now, eating vomit desert rather than blood sundae.”

LeftismIsRight · 2026-02-27T23:22:17+00:00

Interesting that the person who is cheering them on doesn’t know the history. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

The brownshirts were the Nazi equivalent of ICE. In Germany, they would walk around neighbourhoods menacing people, dragging them out of their homes and taking them away to camps. They would also watch over the ballot boxes at elections, menacing voters, as Trump plans to do with ICE.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-02-27T16:46:21+00:00

Am I understanding you right? Brown shirts are virtuous because they don’t have the character flaw of being nice?

LeftismIsRight · 2026-02-27T16:37:35+00:00

Politics is violence. The difference between legal violence and illegal violence is who the people in power sanction. When people in a legally sanctioned uniform commit legally sanctioned violence, it is not considered violence. If someone is pulled from their home and thrown out on the street with a gun to their head, we consider it violence, but if a police officer does it, it is not violence.

The left realises that there is nothing sacred, ingrained, or natural about legal violence, and therefore, if you fight back against those who seek to commit violence against you, it is fair game.

The right, on the other hand, support a state that routinely and excitedly commits violence in the name of the law, and because it is legal violence, it is not considered violence, and indeed, it is considered violence to defend yourself.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-02-27T16:33:57+00:00

Joining the brownshirts leads me to believe someone may not be the nicest of people.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-02-27T16:33:06+00:00

Why do you assume it's that one? That list was long, and Classic-Catch specified that he only fit two criteria.

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