#good news for leftists

[personal-blog243]

Holy shit this is huge! We need to follow this to hopefully see this is carried out successfully but this sounds awesome!

#immigrant rights #inmigración #immigrants they get the job done #families belong together #close the camps #progressive #stop separating families #abolish ice #abolish cbp #fuck ice #immigration rights #immigration reform #Sí se puede #las familias pertenecen juntas #Familias Unidas No Divididas #good news #positivity #positive news #good news for leftists #good news for progressives #good news for immigrants

[archaeologysucks]

The Madwoman of the Rockies

For those who are interested in the saga of my research into the life of my great-great-great aunt Nellie Howard Philbrick (1861-1910), aka "the Madwoman of the Rockies", author of such books as The Idiot and the Insane and Aunt Helen's Love Letters, I am in the process of compiling a google doc (currently 40 pages) of links and transcriptions of various court records, news items, journal entries, and Nellie's submissions to leftist magazines, as well as photos of her family members. It's still a long way from done, but I think it's at least coherent enough to follow. I've contacted my aunt, and she says she will send me some scanned photos of Nellie and her daughter Fae soon.

cw: involuntary institutionalizaton, child murder, suicide

Also, due to the nature of leftist politics of that era:

cw: eugenics, racism, ableism, slurs

I will reblog this post when the document is more complete.

#1900s #women's history #new thought movement #socialist history #leftist history #she doesn't believe in god #and thinks women should be given good information about sex? #LOCK HER UP! #if she was crazy #it was the rest of the world that made her that way #sometimes going crazy is the only option

[lordadmiralfarsight]

So, this is something I've been sitting on for a good while. Mainly because I got too heated each time to write a post about it.

On the 7th of February 2024, France organized a memorial service for the Franco-Israeli killed in the 7/10 attack. That was a good thing but, like many people in France, I personnally felt that it was a bit late. Still, better a memorial service than nothing at all. A nice touch was inviting the famillies of hostages and putting them front and center. That was positive, in my opinion, and a good show of solidarity.

So, you might be wondering what about this has me heated. Two words : Far left. or, in three words : La France Insoumise. LFI is a far left party that has a worrying amount of weight in France, right now. They have some of the common hallmarks : revolution fetishism, radicalist talking points, repeated attempts to delegitimize the election system (like Mélenchon claiming the 2022 presidential election was "stolen" when he ranked 3rd), etc... Recently they have also refused to condemn Hamas' attack. While they didn't openly support it like some fring trotskyist parties, they refused to condemn it, and at least one of their PMs went to Tunisia to basically parrot Islamist talking points blaming Israel for everything. They have overwhelmingly expressed support for "Palestinian liberation", because saying they support Hamas wouldn't be good press, so they skirt around it. But everyone gets the message, really. So, what did they do for that memorial service ? Well first off they participated against the wishes of the famillies of the victims and hostages. That's bad, but it gets worse. Because of course. See, their main representative in Parliament, Mathilde Panot, felt the need to also put front and center Palestinian victims. Now, I do believe Palestinian victims of this war should be remembered, and honored (provided they weren't terrorists). But ... is the memorial fro the 7/10 victims really the place ? No, no it fucking isn't. And that's what has me heated : this was a memorial for Jewish victims, and they were looking to appropriate it. And it gets even worse ! Because you see, Miss Panot had the perfect exemple : two Franco-Palestinian kids from her constituency that had died in Gaza. Why is that worse ? Because of why the kids were there. They were there because their mother fled to Gaza, from ISIS, after embezzeling money meant for Syrian refugees. Let me rephrase : the mother created a charity to support the victims of the Syrian civil war and of ISIS attacks, then made off with the money to deliver it entirely to ISIS. Then had kids with her ISIS assigned jihadi husband. And when ISIS collapsed, she sought refuge with Hamas. And because of that, her kids were in harm's way when Hamas launched a pogrom. And LFI thought that THIS was the correct exemple to bring to that memorial service. Is it tragic the kids died ? Yes. But maybe, just maybe, putting their terrorism enabling mother up as an exemple of martyred mother, during a memorial for the victims of an antisemitic pogrom perpetrated by said terrorism enabler's allies is a profoundly shitty thing to do. And that, among other things, is why most of France considers LFI to be antisemitic.

#antisemitism #france #israel #palestine #israel/palestine #terrorism enabling #hamas attack #leftist antisemitism #jihadism isn't a good thing #yes even with lefty buzzwords #stop simping for terrorists #lfi #far left #terrorism apologia #and lfi people wonder why I consider their party dangerous #“jonluc isn't dangerous” fuck off he simps for terrorists #and it's not new #among his inner circle he has an author #of a lovely book #called "the Whites #but apparently there's nothing to worry about #because the author is a Muslim woman #so of course she can't be racist #and there's a while fucking lot of other things #but sure I'm just imagining things #and treating them unfairly #fucking tankies

[troythecatfish]

#threads #threads app #threads account #threads an instagram app #threads post #good news #great news #decolonialism #decolonisation #decolonize #decolonization #brazil #indigenous #indigenous rights #native rights #first peoples #leftist #leftisim #leftism #news #international news #amazon #climate news #good climate news #environmental news #first nations

[intern-seraph]

so now that there has been a spike in antisemitic hate crimes (in some areas rising over 1000%), synagogues have been vandalized, firebombed, and literally razed, jews have been assaulted in public, jewish businesses have been vandalized, jewish homes and businesses have been marked with the star of david, and a man broke into his jewish neighbor's home intending to murder the entire family for being jewish, are we gonna get an apology from the people who were mocking jews for being afraid of an increase in antisemitism after oct. 7th?

(this is, of course, a rhetorical question. we all know that those people never cared about jews.)

#seraph speaks #people were literally more upset abt the wizard game goblins than synagogues being bombed #unsurprising really. #disappointing but unsurprising. #sorry but i'm not gonna shut up about this #bc jews around the world are currently fearing for our lives (again) #and gentiles have been dead silent about it #so like... maybe start caring about antisemitism eh? #and maybe start tamping down on antisemitic rhetoric in your leftist spaces. #bc i got news for you. u are not immune to being antisemitic. #as much as you may want to say you are One Of The Good Ones #we cannot trust you unless you actually make good on that #and take an active role in calling out and combating antisemitism

[mcnuggyy]

sorry its late and i dont wanna ramble too much about the glory but like.... im just really thinking about how people who have been bullied will always always always remember and be more affected by what happened than by the people who did the bullying (or abuse, or assault, etc.)... like that will be something that we will always carry with us for the rest of our lives... and we have no way of knowing if those people even remember doing what they did... like i can remember exact sentences and the exact expressions of disgust made towards me... like that really does just stay with you forever... but for them, they might not even remember, and if they did, would they regret it? anyways i very much do love revenge stories where the revenge IS the answer, and some people just really do deserve to have karma served to them for the abuse they have enacted on others amen <3 

#like obviously as a leftist from a moral standpoint i am against revenge #but in fiction... ohhhhhh babyyyyyyyyyyyy i will gobble that up #there is nothing more cathartic for me <3 #like i get that the best revenge is living a good life and succeeding but like... #but like as Paramore says in their new song <3 living well is not my kinda revenge #living well is just a privilege <3 #amen #the glory #callate guero

[knowlesian]

shows like ofmd and the good place give me hope for mass media as a place to deconstruct the status quo vs just examine and then ultimately enforce it

#i think people who see these two shows as Silly Little Comedies miss the point #like: the good place was dealing openly with our system of carceral punishment from the jump #ofmd is challenging colonizer narratives #these are heavy shows with a candy joke coating #in the last decade i have seen two funny haha shows make the case for reparative justice v punitive mindsets #that is new and cool and different and i want more #looking at you marvel with your ‘what if a leftist was TOO left and also violent!!!’ trend

[thirdmagic]

everytime i look at how people compare the way russian citizens are treated in light of the russian invasion of ukraine and the way israeli people and jews are treated after oct 7th and it just.... you know, as a person who belongs to all of these cultures, it always feels extremely disingenuous to me and very untruthful

#just bc slavic xenophobia isnt as extreme and doesnt exist on the scale that antisemitism exists in doesnt like... make it okay #or justified. or means you get to dismiss it. #or that you get to pretend it hasnt been extremely ugly and in fact has existed long before the war!!!! #especially wrt people forgetting that russia's evil government is running an actual country where real human beings live in and suffer #and yes. they do. life is russia for the average person is uh. not good and hasnt been good for decades. #and no i dont think most of these people are any more pro ukranian than the antisemitic leftists are Really pro palestinian #and i think again people like to prop up their egoes by making themselves feel progressive and good. that much is similair. #i think they have just found a new and justified way to hate what they always hated but coated in progressive language #yeah the reaction to the rus-ukr war wasnt nearly as vile as to oct 7th. mostly bc nothing is as vile as the reaction to oct 7th. #yeah its not remotely the same kind of conflict. but that doesnt make it right? or okay? doesnt mean it didnt happen?

[ellynneversweet]

‘Person who thinks the whole thing is a hoax’ is a vastly under-explored urban fantasy plot line.

Imagine if you turned on the news today and the headline was ‘fairies/vampires/werewolves exist.’ The social media civil war in the lefty skeptic science fan crowd would be incredible. People making deepfakes to prove the proof of life footage were themselves deepfakes which split the ‘deepfakes are unethical’ and ‘AI will destroy humanity crowd’ over whether this is a greater good/ends justify the means issue. YouTubers doing three hour long takedowns of each other after a notable YouTuber comes out as 1/32 fae on his mother’s side and another comes out as 1/2 fae and calls the first a cultural appropriator whose only fae-related issue is that he can’t use a steel shell laptop without getting a mild rash. Environmentalist groups schisming over whether it’s okay to be a vegetarian now we know trees have sentient souls. The fans of last week’s headline going ‘this is all a distraction from the disaster that is drone strikes!’ Long time LARPers vs neo cultural enthusiasts vs people arguing that that’s Vampface now, bigots, vs the vampires who were larping as vampires this whole time because it’s a great way to get an easy meal. Someone would go ‘isn’t this just the lizard people hollow earth antisemite QANON crowd in a new shirt?’ and be immediately attacked from every side.

It would be delicious.

#i mean every single political position would be outraged #but 90% of ‘humans reacting badly to the supernatural’ is about conservative Americans finding a new thing to be upset about #as I lefty myself I would like to see the Deranged Leftist angle explored #it’s fresh ground #and yes I know the history of the Supernatural Other as a metaphor for the Mundane Other #but please it would be so funny #this may be inspired by my reading a fic which is almost painful in its shoehorning of a set of Very Contemporary Leftist Issues into #the narrative in the role of Uncomplicated Good Guy extras

[personal-blog243]

#legalize marijuana #legalize weed #legalize it #decriminalize weed #war on drugs #end the war on drugs #good news for leftists #good news #positive news #good news for progressives #good news for the left

[alphacrone]

it’s been ten years and i have still not gotten over my ex boyfriend who explained bisexuality to me, a bisexual woman whom he knew was bisexual

#he was a new democrat so sometimes he would explain basic leftist ideas to me and i’d be like….: #babe yeah i’ve been a radical leftist since my father explained to me #how the iraq war was started based on the lie of WMDs #i was like ten i shouldn’t have been thinking about that but alas #he was a good kid but my god did he mansplain #and i was NOT nice about it

[sometimesraven]

I understand that we can still criticise things we like, and that positive shows with positive representation can still be flawed

However I will not be criticising Quantum Leap (2022) unless they SUPER fuck up (which I doubt they will)

Trans people deserve to have a show that represents us that we can love uncritically for once.

Idgaf if it’s breaking the original “canon”, fuck your canon I have a nonbinary main character.

Idgaf if it’s clunky or cheesy, fuck your standards I have a nonbinary main character (and the original was pretty fuckin cheesy and clunky don’t lie to yourselves).

Fuck your negativity, I have a nonbinary main character and a show that preaches and speaks with the voices and stories of the marginalised and did I mention the nonbinary main character?

#idk if QL is or has ever actually been objectively 'good' #if boomers get to bring up 'i'm a r*tard???' every time they talk about woke leftists #i get to talk about new!QL being the best show ever and entirely flawless actually #quantum leap #quantum leap 2022

[rotzaprachim]

a wild flavor of tumblr user is a certain kind of white American self id’d leftist or commie who reblogs and posts things about I just think all liberals and centrists should DIE (*guillotine* meme) and then posts things needing to be nicer to demographics that vote 80% Republican and are very systemically involved in the structural and practical oppression of people of color and the whole US hegemony like brooo I get having a seriously messy relationship with your own cultural background but who are you talking about? Guillotining everyone at mawmaw’s thanksgiving?

#My mom was bitter about white middle American farmers and like it made me kind of ….. #but also they do fucking vote 70-80% Republican and horrifically abuse the millions of undocumented laborers who run the system #But I see this kind of thing with a lot of white working class American groups #It’s not an argument against empathy we any group we all need more empathy #It’s that a) I think white Americans who got into leftism by themselves often end up #In this violence-centric ideas of reform that are still intensely conservative and culturally Christian #Like bro you just want to kill everyone to make a better shiny world of good people bro #And b) they have exceedingly little empathy with why people from any other background might have family or complex relationships #To conservative ideology #The white leftist culturally xtian relationship to many diasporic groups etc #Idk it’s interesting…… #Also like I’m not letting anyone off the hook but uh some of the language that gets pulled up in these talks #Can be a weird reflection of Fox News rhetoric #The Real WorkinG Class (from predominantly white and rural areas) #Versus the Coastal *Liberals* and *urban people* at fault for income inequality #Or the death of American working class leftism or something #Like blaming that specifically on California and New York and or some of the areas with the highest proportions of people of color and Jews #It’s just like hmmmmm sussssss to me

[lnter-net]

Feel good good news of the day: Big W for Cuba today who has demonstrated a great model for the socialist democratic process of directly involving the people in the creation, voting and adopting of its laws and constitution! This comes after a referendum in 2019 where 90% of voters (with a 90% electoral turnout rate) voted to amend Cuba's constitution. :-)

It codifies the protection of lgbt individuals and families from free gender affirming care for trans folks to same sex marriage, reproductive rights for all people, greater protections against domestic abuse, protections for the elderly and disable, and workers rights for full-time carers!!!

#some feel good news since all ive been seeing today has been the results of the italian election.......... #marxism #leftist #socialism #cuba

[butchfeygela]

i feel like some of the white goyim on here are like overcompensating by focusing on the nuances of how the settler violence of Israel is somehow different than the settler violence of the land theyre on. like sorry i dont think we need to get caught up on how Oh the Israelie cannot be a civillian bc of how they are also a settler and i agree with most of that.

but they often contrast it with like how russian civillians being killed is different bc its not an active settler state (ignoring like an insane amount of russia history and current issues for tht point) so they have civilians that arent perpetrating tht violence

like? have u not been paying attention to any of the Land Back fights happening globally? is that the best way to critique the concept of civillian? not by interrogating who is worthy of the title Civillian Deaths (would the unhoused, the poor, the racial minority, the sex worker, the addict be considered a civillian when they are killed by the state?) but by defining civillian in such a way that they dont have to mourn any of the current violence (with all civillian deaths in and out of gaza being firmly Israel and the Wests fault)

idk it just feels like a way to seperate their own context from this genocide and keep in the back of their heads that 'this wouldnt happen here or to me' but like if u live on colonoized land and you position yourself against the fight of the colonized than you are a perpetrator of tht settler violence and your death in the fight for freedom would be justifiable and maybe thats a scary concept bc your not sure if you can walk the talk of fighting in solidarity for the complete upheaval of your (relatively) comfortable life

but like stop overcompensating for your discomfort by going into a blood lust over all the death that would not be occuring if not for Israel and the West

#ive seen a few leftists fall for graphic misinfo campaigns by zionists but under the guise of 'good im glad they did that to those jews' #which assumes the same barbarism of the Palestinians that is the goal of said zionist propoganda #but as if its a positive funny thing to have happened to the jews #news flash its still islamphobic af to think theyre killing babies and raping people even if you think its a good thing theyre doing tht #nikanie

[cock-holliday]

Kinda wild to still see people learning for the first time that like Vaush or Tim Pool or others are massive pieces of shit. I feel like every few months for years some so-called leftist is like “huh…kinda getting a bad vibe on this guy.” Why are you still listening to grifting ass youtubers even before they start hurling slurs?

#like 5 years ago I first saw something from Tim #and he made a good point but I was put off by his attitude and the presentation of his show #that I super didn’t trust him OR the way people would put him on a pedestal for saying the exact same shit as hundreds of less shady folks #like I hate how often he’s in the ‘worst person you know made a great point’ meme #like fellas he aint saying something new #if you like the argument why don’t you find someone not dogshit to quote instead of memeing on a dipshit #gotta get all my leftist theory from coffeshop podcasts