#ideological left

[nightmaretour]

Anti-technology people who insist they're not ableist crack me up. What about people who rely on machines to breathe, eat, keep their heart functioning, or otherwise stay alive? "Well not that technology, obviously!" Ok what about AAC users, people who use hearing aids, or otherwise use technology to interact with the world in ways they otherwise couldn't? "Not that technology, obviously." Okay, my mobile phone is my memory, my sense of time, my sense of direction when I get lost, my ability to contact someone when I need help. It is my personal freedom because without it I would need full time care and supervision. But yes, that technology, right?

I hate how technology is made and utilised under capitalism as much as the next guy, but to pretend that technology doesn't greatly improve the lives of countless people, or even allow them to continue being alive, is to be willfully ignorant to the existence of disabled people. A world without technology is a world where a lot of disabled people don't get to survive. Capitalism is the problem, not the technology. Technology can (and should) exist just fine without capitalism.

#cripplepunk #cripple punk #disability #anti tech #actually disabled #don't even get me started on how technology is necessary to synthesise a lot of vital medicines #A whole lot of supposedly left wing ideologies rely on just pretending that disabled people don't exist #Or even outright admitting that we would no longer exist in their 'ideal' future #Apparently eugenics is fine if you put an anti-capitalist badge on it #Anti tech is ecofascism you can't change my mind #(Side note I forgot the word activism for a solid 5 minutes writing this and I'm scared) #eco fascism #1k #2k #3k

[ruporas]

i killed. i murdered. i'm nothing like these sleepy people here… nevertheless, you can actually be grateful? bastard… i’m saying… thank you. because you spilled blood, you saved all of these people’s lives. i couldn’t have done it without you. (ID in alt)

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #participated in altades' dance collab :3 very grateful for the opportunity and many thanks to them for organizing this! #there was a lot of vw arc choices... but i went for the leonof arc bc it's a dear vw moment to me #i think a lot of the leonof arc further breaks down vash's ideology and for the readers - together with ww- to learn that his ideals aren't #pure naivety and that vash knows he's at an odd standpoint with himself. he's criticized ww for shooting rai-dei just prior when ww had don #so on the behalf of vash but here he thanks him for killing on behalf of his home and its genuine. bc vash's presence - although it's not #his fault - he was the reason leonof and gray had gotten to the ship and killed people there. that's the guilt he has to live with and #despite his anger he'd still resolute not to kill. meanwhile ww just did what he had to - beating down on a seemingly immortal monster but #at the core made up of many lives he had to take and i feel as the fight dragged on - his own mentality waned. committing active carnage #while remembering the orphanage... and bearing that guilt alongside the words vash left with him during rai-dei's death #only for vash to thank him afterwards what he's done and for apologizing for pushing his beliefs on ww when he had no solutions of his own #anyway. i just have so an immense love for this arc bc they just got around to appreciating each other in weird ways. though ofc its still #weird and confusing for ww bc every new info on vash it'll just be strange to him as someone who's human #ruporas art

[corpsentry]

a love like burning

#my art #my stuff #art #comics #comic #original art #WOAH i have nothing to tag for this since it's just mine!!!! so cool #revolutionary concept even #already went ham in the instagram caption (@ corpsentry same username) so i dont rlly wanna ham again #i would prefer to Tofu Based Substitute in the words of the ideological west #tofu is really just its own thing i dont know why theyre obsessed with making it a Healthy Vegan Food #your Mom is vegan shut the fuck up karen #anyway . we will do a shortened version of it #i am from a place and community and society wherein being vaguely unintentionally homophobic Is the norm #i am also Gay #what this means is if i cut off everyone who was even a little in disagreement with my identity i would have like 1 person left in my life #and that kinda fuckin sucks. but i also love them. my grandma is cool af #And So. we Carry These Contradictions In Us And We Keep Peeing or whatever #ill leave you folks now adoo adeu adobe acrobat etc #its summer im drawing again! thats right baby #bye #updating this to say if you’re not from southeast asia and you call this hypocritical in any way ill cleave your ass in half with my tongue

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I have one consistency, which is being against the totalitarian - on the left and on the right. The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy; the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

- Christopher Hitchens

#hitchens #christopher hitchens #quote #politics #ideology #totalitarianism #left vs right #left totalitarianism #right totalitarianism #totalitarian state #freedom #liberty #freedom of speech #society #culture #icon

[rotzaprachim]

they certainly WERE radical and often socialist in many ways but I don’t think people who want to hold up bundists really get that there was a lot about the bund that was pretty normie too. Like one of the big arguments was about the language for Jewish public elementary schools and how to run Jewish public elementary schools, how to run libraries. Their thing was about living in a multiethnic socialist state - that’s politically and economically leftist but socially liberal. If we want to find a modern equivalent I think it’s in groups like omdim byachad and hand in hand schooling and whatever the local polticial organizations are in the places Jews already live. The whole society and politics are inherently fallen we need to go leave capitalist destination for a socialist agricultural commune? We need to build a new unfallen culture from scratch? THAT WAS THE ZIONISTS.

#I think a lot of liberal Zionists today are closer to bundists ideologically and a lot of diasporist hardcore antizionists are more like the #early left Zionists #Just. 2 cents on that

[azurendays]

Who would’ve thought a Furry Event is how we get good Jason Todd writing??

#days speaks #jason todd #like the author gets it Jason is haunted about coming back not his death #and it connects to how he’s just kinda aimless right now in the hero landscape and he’s again become disillusioned but now with his own #ideology and methods #or at the very least has questioned them #As Jason said he was nothing left but time I wonder how he’ll use it and what he’ll become from that #I don’t think this will connect to his new series but I hope it does #I hope Felker-Martian gets another shot at writing Jason her take is so refreshing

[junadeo]

btw antisemitism is still bad in spite of what israel is doing in gaza and in spite of everything it has done towards palestinians. every once in a while ill see an unambiguously antisemitic post that directly squares the blame on jewish people, or praises explicitly antisemitic organizations. sometimes i find known antisemites' posts circulate around because of whats happening right now.

the fact that theres a genocide in gaza and the fact that antisemitism is bad do not conflict with another. dont use a genocide to justify or excuse bigotry.

#palestine #admittedly i am a bit worried that antisemitic ideas and ideologies will encroach into left-wing and progressive spaces because of israel. #post

[ilynpilled]

jb barak obama lore au where brienne is bisexual marxist but jaime actually commits to it (becoming both bisexual and marxist)

#ask #finally a realistic jb college au #anyways brienne’s politics would also suck ill be real w u #shes too naive and an ideological purist in an unpragmatic way and she keeps falling for state propaganda 😔 #her heart is in the right place tho shell get there #u have to hand it to jaime he will always consistently be pro monarch murder #jaime in asos when the cringe lib is drowning him: ‘so much for the tolerant left’

[txttletale]

what’s the difference between Marxism and Marxism-leninism

lenin, mostly

#ask #real answer: lenin's specific formulations of marx & engel's theories of e.g. the dotp #& lenin's analysis of imperialism #are the two primary ideological factors i think differentiate marxism-leninism from e.g. left-communism #i included that option on my poll as a catch-all option for people who consider themselves marxists but not leninists #but i do very much think that lenin's developments of marxism (and the developments after him) are still v. v. much marxism #tbc

[posletsvet]

Nothing from what I've learnt this morning is true, I'm gonna cuddle up with my cats and stay in bed all day and daydream about everyone being alive and happy

#jjk #jjk leaks #jjk 236 #the most cruel thing of all is that gojo never got to claim the happiness of his youth back #all he ever knew in his life was being the strongest and fighting #gege goes around saying things like what gojo truly lacks is the sense of self #meanwhile gojo was othered throughout his entire life for what he is #he was slaughtered for what he is #he was sealed for what he is #he was left fighting alone because of what he is #gojo coveted change but he himself remains a static symbol etched into the narrative #and now he dies and his death is nothing but a symbol a cautionary tale for others to derive meaning from #at the end of the day gojo is a case study of a romantic hero archetype #he rejects established conventions because they suffocate him as much as his strength does only to be rejected by his society in return #he is the center of his own existence but still carries ideology which has others placed at its core #and he dies for his ideal forever estranged from the world he's put in #and it is all in vain #and it is the cruelest thing of all #and it can't be true it's not true it's not true it's not true it's not true #i need to go scream in the woods #me: it's devastating and terrible and makes me feel sick. i'm emotionally overwhelmed and would not be prepared to talk about it for weeks #my brain: okay but what if we analyze it– #apparently my coping machanism is compartmentalizing #the narrative never pretended to care about gojo as a person his character introduces a body of meaning and that's it #and it's how it's supposed to be honestly since he's not the main character he adds to the narrative but he isn't supposed to drive it #but it still aches so bad #he dies so that his ideal can live on he is not a person he is a narrative's symbol and this is as far as objectification can go

[epicvirgin-5]

DILDO (Dude, I Love Destroying the Oligarchy!)

#gamers against weed #far left ideology #gaw #scp

[strange-aether]

Jewish People: Hey don’t support JKR or the HP franchise, her work is anti-Semitic.

BIPOC: Hey don’t support JKR or the HP franchise, she’s really racist.

Trans People: Hey don’t support JKR or the HP franchise, she’s transphobic and uses her platform in ways that directly harm trans people.

TERFS: Oh I Absolutely Must Buy This Racist, Anti-Semitic Video Game! Take That, Transes!

#it's just like :/// #when will these people learn #they're so on the wrong side of history it's genuinely painful to see #I feel bad for the people getting sucked into this ideology being told it's the only ''real feminism'' #meanwhile mainstream intersectional feminism is like... 30 years ahead of their bullshit #because they barely left the second wave feminism that spawned them #the feminists I know personally? intersectional solidarity through and through #recognizing that the patriarchy is just one of many systems of oppression #meanwhile terfs are copying the playbook of the racist white suffragettes who only cared about votes for white women #but they see anyone who disagrees with them as ''an evil male'' and don't seem to understand that a good chunk of criticism against them #comes from cis people and transmasculine people as well as transfeminine people #they just assume that every ''wombyn'' is on their side... honey no they are not #we are ALL sick of your dumb shit

[gregrulzok]

"Someone with Punk ideology that doesn't listen to the music is just a leftist!!!"

I'm sorry, did I miss the memo where we're supposed to be "just leftists"???

Are y'all JUST leftists that listen to shouty music and dress in leather?

Are y'all not anarchists and anti-capitalists? Are y'all not willing to FIGHT - physically or verbally - the assholes that created this system and fight to uphold it? Are y'all not going out of your way as often as you can to help the downtrodden people that have been rejected by the system and by society?

Having the ideology that everyone should have equal rights is nice, but are y'all not trying to actively do something about it? Do y'all not also believe that money is bullshit, that governmental structures are bullshit, that the world is run by careless assholes and the only way to escape it is to burn it down and start over?

And also LET'S NOT FORGET that American politics are not the only fucking form of politics. Where I'm from, we don't have the left and right wing - so I ain't a leftist. Or do punks not acknowledge the existence of second and third world countries with different governments and politics 🥺???

Like. The left-wing political system ... Is still a political system. A very American political system. If your punk ideology is just leftism And That's It, and you aren't actively PRACTICING what you preach (and many "just" leftists certainly don't), then you're still ... Supporting a system. You clicked the other option on the binary "Do you want people to be equal y/n" quiz that is American politics, either not knowing or ignoring the fact that left-wing politicians don't give a SHIT about us either - that ain't anarchy.

So no, someone with actual punk ideology that doesn't wear punk clothes and listen to punk music isn't just a leftist - and just a leftist that wears punk clothes and listens to punk music should certainly take a closer look at what their ideology actually is.

And don't get me STARTED on people that wear punk clothes and listen to punk music and have conservative political views.

#before yall come at me #yes i listen to punk #i try to match the aesthetic #because i LIKE IT #not because its necessary for me to be punk #also #yes i believe in equal rights #im bi trans and neurodivergent #i just KNOW some yahoo is gonna come at me for saying im not a leftist #so ONE MORE TIME for clarity #I BELIEVE IN EQUAL RIGHTS #I JUST LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE LEFT WING POLITICS DO NOT MEAN WHAT THEY MEAN IN AMERICA #OTHER FUCKING COUNTRIES EXIST !!!!!! #god #punk #punk culture #punk ideology #politics #anarchy #anarchism

[lifeonkylesfarm]

ngl every city building game highly emphasizes social services for a reason.

#leftist #leftism #socialist #socialism #communism #communist #anarchism #anarchist #left wing #eat the rich #simcity #cities skylines #leftist unity #leftist ideology #leftist politics #fuck conservatives #anarchocommunist #anarchocommunism #anti capitalist #anti consumerism #anti capitalism #anti conservative #antifascism #antifascist #human rights #social justice