#Right Wing

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was getting coffee with my coworker, who is kind of right-wing and I said jokingly, "You know, I'm awfully leftist," and he said, "Yeah, I figured that the moment I learned you're a fan of the Lord of the Rings."

#dream #coworker #coffee #right wing #politics #leftist #lord of the rings #lotr

[commiepinkofag]

The 'Kids Online Safety Act' [KOSA] continues to move forward

Microsoft now endorses this legislation, which will likely help garner political support. Help counter this bill!

HELP STOP KOSA

Contact your representatives

KOSA is a bipartisan bill introduced to censor content on the internet deemed 'inappropriate' for minors. This bill is intended to target the LGBTQIA+ community and otherwise cause harm to minors.

Access to any supportive resources like queer-youth support groups, suicide hotlines, and important health information can be targeted.

#stop kosa #kosa #Kids Online Safety Act #internet #queer #trans #lgbtq #lgbqti #lgbt #anti trans legislation #richard blumenthal #the transgender #marsha blackburn #censorship #right wing #puritanical nationalism #heritage foundation #us politics #2024

[probablyasocialecologist]

Adopting rightwing policies on issues such as immigration and the economy does not help centre-left parties win votes, according to new analysis of European electoral and polling data. Faced with a 20-year decline in their vote share, accompanied by rising support for the right, far right and sometimes the far left, social democratic parties across Europe have increasingly sought salvation by moving towards the political centre. However the analysis, published on Wednesday, shows that centre-left parties promising, for example, to be tough on immigration or unrelenting on public spending are both unlikely to attract potential voters on the right, and risk alienating existing progressive supporters.

[...]

One of the key lessons was that “trying to imitate rightwing positions is just not a successful strategy for the left”, he said. Two studies in particular, looking at so-called welfare chauvinism and fiscal policy, illustrated the point, the researchers said. Björn Bremer of the Central European University in Vienna said a survey in Spain, Italy, the UK and Germany and larger datasets from 12 EU countries showed that since the financial crisis of 2008, “fiscal orthodoxy” had been a vote loser for the centre left. “Social democratic parties that have backed austerity fail to win the support of voters worried about public debt, and lose the backing of those who oppose austerity,” Bremer said. “Centre-left parties that actually impose austerity lose votes.”

[...]

The data strongly suggests centre-left parties can build a coalition of voters who believe a strong welfare state, effective public services and real investment, for example in the green transition, are essential,” Bremer said. “But doing the opposite – offering a contradictory programme that promotes austerity but promises to protect public services and the welfare state, and hoping voters will swallow such fairytales – failed in the 2010s, and is likely to fail again.” Similarly, said Matthias Enggist of the University of Lausanne, analysis of data from eight European countries showed no evidence that welfare chauvinism – broadly, restricting immigrants’ access to welfare – was a successful strategy for the left.

#politics #right wing #electoral data #social democracy #quelle surprise

[blackcat-brazil]

#politics #right wing #left wing #socialism #capitalism #anarchism #anarchy #libertarian socialism

[animentality]

#twitter #star trek #leftism #right wing

[calabria-mediterranea]

Italy: Public service RAI becomes a “megaphone” of the government

Public service broadcaster RAI has decided to grant ministers and undersecretaries unrestricted airtime on its programs when referring to institutional matters. On 11 April, journalists and news hosts on the main channels of RAI interrupted news programs to read a statement from the Rai Union of Journalists (USIGRai) statement explaining RAI’s new policy, and condemning it, comparing RAI to the government’s “megaphone”. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) together with their affiliate the Federazione Nazionale Stampa Italiana (FNSI) condemn this further attempt to politicise public information services for propaganda purposes and demand that RAI respects fundamental journalistic principles.

“The government majority has decided to transform RAI into its own megaphone,” so began the speech of USIGrai journalists in the aftermath of the policies announced by RAI’s Supervisory Commission. This approved a rule allowing government representatives to “speak in talks without time constraints and cross-examination”.

The statement continued: “This is not our idea of public service broadcasting. Journalists’ work should be central, where they ask questions, even uncomfortable ones, verify what has been said, and point out inconsistencies. For this reason, dear viewers, we inform you that we are ready to mobilise to guarantee you independent, balanced and plural information."

Another rule will allow Rai News to broadcast political rallies at any time, and in full, announced only by a short introduction and without journalistic mediation

RAI’s decision illustrates once again Italy’s government's attempts to make use of public service for personal and propagandistic purposes, and in contravention of the main pillars of journalists' work.

President of FNSI, Vittorio di Trapanisaid: “RAI News risks becoming a deluge of electoral rallies, trampling on the editorial autonomy of its journalists and its editorial team.”

The IFJ/EFJ stated: “We stand in full solidarity with RAI journalists, whose press freedom and ethical principles are being undermined by the Italian government. We remind RAI of its need to respect fundamental journalistic principles as they are stated in the IFJ Global Charter of Ethics for journalists. We ask the Supervisory Commission to review its decision and to allow transparent and pluralistic information in compliance with the principles of cross-examination and the public interest.”l

Source: IFJ

#italy #italia #politics #protest #journalism #journalists #public service #fascism #censorship #april 2024 #2024 #giorgia meloni #governo meloni #press #italian press #rai news #rai #rai 1 #rai 2 #rai 3 #right wing extremism #right wing #right wing politics

[macleod]

source

#trans #right wing #fascism #control #mastodon #mine #progressivism

[queerism1969]

#intersectional feminism #radical feminism #liberal feminism #feminism #patriarchy #intersectionality #male entitlement #misandry #right wing media #right wing politics #right wing terrorism #right wing women #right wing #right wing propaganda #right wing statists #right wingers #right wing violence #right wing bullshit

[pet-shop-of-horror-fan]

I don't know how to explain this to a lot of you but acting like any and all criticism is dangerous and the same book burning or governmental censorship is not owning the right-wingers, it's acting like one.

Being unable to accept criticism is not "fighting purity culture" or "owning the pruiteens." It's right-wing behavior. You are all just acting like the dudebros who think feminists are going to take their games away because they heard some anti-feminism claim it so. Or those who cry about cancel culture while their favorite celebrities get even more attention after their crimes have been brought to light.

And even if you have a point buried somewhere in your crying, acting like some "puritanical" children have the power to oppress you just shows how much of a whiny edge lord you are.

#left wing #right wing #purity culture #puritans #censorship #anti intellectualism #media critique #and all other kinds of critique

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #religion #christianity #right wing #nationalism #white christian nationalists

[artist-issues]

I’m starting to hate that podcasts, movies, and books are being marketed specifically as arguments. Calls to arms. “If you think we ruffled some feathers last year, watch out! This year we’re really going to bury the [woke/liberal/conservative/bigoted/pearl-clutchers/misogynists/feminists] and roll on their graves! If you think casting a [insert the definition of a person by their outward appearance/native country/gender/orientation/religion] in this role was groundbreaking, wait till you see what we’ve got next! Get ready to see [insert hot-button words like “a strong female role model” or “what a real man looks like”]

Stop making “aggressive punk-rock idealogical powerhouse” your marketing identity. Just be genuine.

Stop saying “HERE’S WHAT WE HATE! HERE’S WHAT WE’RE AGAINST!” and just say what is true. When you actually believe something is true, and believe that truth stands on its own, and needs no help, then you can shine a spotlight on it genuinely, lovingly, without all the bluster and insecurity of false confidence and making “coolly mocking the other side” your whole persona.

Don’t say “here’s what THEY’RE doing that’s so wrong.” Say, “look how great this true thing is.” Anything else is a vanity project. You’re making your podcast/movie/book about how you’re the best voice for a specific audience, and you know how we can tell you’re not genuine? Because you don’t actually talk about what makes truth good. You talk about what makes liars disgusting, and then applaud yourself for being the one to say it. It’s all about you. It’s not about the actual values you align yourself with.

#Be genuine #I’m tired of this #we’re all tired of this #we used to go to stories to find something genuine #instead it’s more politics and vanity #meta #me #state of the fandom #writing #movies #sick of politics #Liberals #conservatives #us politics #right wing #left wing #time for some name dropping #Rachel Maddow #Glenn Beck #Jason Farley #Disney #bentKey #the daily wire #the view #all ya’ll #both sides #stop all that

[lilithism1848]

#right wing #anti capitalism #leftism #socialism #communism #anarchy #theocracy #far right #domestic terrorism #corruption #conservatives #christofascism #republicans #xitter #democratic party #italy #italy 2023 #italytravel #leftists #ignorance #maga #extremism #right wing women #right wing politics #right wing terrorism #right wing extremism #right wing bullshit #evangelicals

[commiepinkofag]

Utah teachers could be criminally liable if banned books are found in their classrooms, new bill proposes

A proposed bill could make public school employees subject to misdemeanor charges if they keep materials deemed “objectively sensitive” available to students.

#how many states are we up to now? #utah #book bans #queer #trans #lgbqti #lgbtq #lgbt #section 28 #homophobia #transphobia #objectively sensitive #bigots #right wing #us politics

[probablyasocialecologist]

Evangelicals imagine their opponents as evangelicals-in-reverse. Instead of surrendering to God and spreading his message, they have surrendered to the power of sin and seek to spread its message. The field of struggle is the mass of confused and misinformed souls who have not yet been offered the chance to accept Christ. In neither case is there any possibility of legitimate disagreement—anyone who is not a member of the evangelical community is either a fool or a demon.

On the political level, this means that there is no reason to respect the democratic will of the people. Thus it is no coincidence that our last two Presidents to enjoy overwhelming evangelical support were also initially installed despite losing the popular vote. Nor is the evangelical focus on the Supreme Court merely a strategic political decision. Evangelicals’ reliance on the antidemocratic aspects of the American constitutional system fits perfectly with their refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the choices and values of anyone outside the evangelical community. After all, those choices and values represent only ignorance and sin. To the extent that they can impose their religious standards on others, evangelicals are saving these people from themselves—and depriving them of their ability to corrupt evangelical children.

Adam Kotsko, The Evangelical Mind

#evangelicalism #right wing #Christianity #usa

[rainbowpopeworld]

It is always time to move the Overton window as far to the left as possible. Do not compromise with fascists. Let’s reverse this bullshit violent trend.

#overton window #range of acceptable political ideas #leftist #left wing #it doesn’t exist in the formal political parties in #us politics #we have all #right wing #and centrist people who are called socialists #but they aren’t #anarchocommunism #anarchocommunist #ancom #politics #fascism #creeping fascism #don’t compromise with people who are ok with #genocide

[profeminist]

READ THIS THREAD AND SHARE - I EXCERPTED THE KEY POINTS ABOVE

#fascism #us fascism #fascism rising #anti fascist #antifa #democracy #fall of democracy #u.s. coup #politics #right wing #scotus