Fascists will always be able to get the establishment on board while anti-capitalists and progressives will always be on their own. Anti-capitalists and progressives threaten their wealth and privilege while fascists seek to preserve it. That's why we're still stuck tying our laces while fascists are halfway down the street.

Not excusing, just explaining. What are you doing to make a change? All I hear from you is complaining.

Right, white people aren't allowed to be activists. Instead they should bitch and moan in internet comment sections about activists not doing enough or not doing the right things while doing nothing themselves.

Liberals haven't been as easy to radicalize. Establishment dems had strong support and to a lesser degree still do. When MAGA took over the GOP the establishment Republicans were the least popular they had ever been.

This is ridiculous. What would Greta have to do to earn your respect, huh? You're really gonna ask "why wasn't she on the boat" as if she planned for the humanitarian aid vessel to be drone striked the day before she was going to board it? The fuck are you doing?

Progressives have been doing the most out of any political bloc, and certainly more than establishment Democrats. If the DNC leadership weren't acting as a barrier to getting anything done then progressives wouldn't have to split their time and efforts between fighting them and fighting the fascists.

If you think that the only thing progressives have been doing is "bitching" about Democrats you need to pull your head out of your ass (or perhaps Chuck Schumer's) and look at reality.

She is both a climate activist and advocate for Palestinian liberation, and framing her risking her life to demonstrate solidarity with the Palestinians as a shallow attempt at staying famous is incredibly ignorant and arrogant.

Biden won 2020, and I think it's safe to say he was fairly establishment.

Barely, and only coming out of Trump's first term that had many people looking for a "return to normal." The Democratic party will never succeed running another Biden every election. The people can see that the status quo is not working for them, and they're fed up with corporate dems telling them that we need to preserve the status quo at all costs.

Call me what you like, but I think you have more in common with me than with MAGA. And if your IFF is malfunctioning, well, I hope you get it checked out soon.

I didn't call you anything. I can see that you're my friend, but the establishment and all the politicians who fight to preserve it instead of fighting the fascists in power are foes, and the sooner you realize that the sooner we can work together to change it.

I highly doubt that the number of people who claim the fact that she's a woman is the reason they didn't vote for her is anywhere near high enough to swing the election. Even if it were, those people are not worth conceding to. There are far more people for whom her gender is irrelevant but did not vote for her due to a myriad of other reasons than there are brain-dead morons who think women just aren't cut out to be president.

This line is coming from neoliberals who can't understand why Hillary and Kamala lost and are blaming sexism because they can't come to terms with the fact that the American people are turning away from the establishment in its entirety.

Yes, sexism is a problem in America. No, it is not why liberals are losing.

Kamala's campaign wasn't fucked because she's a woman, it was fucked because she's a careerist who doesn't believe in anything.

I'm sure the velociraptors helped you stay focused too.

Yep, and it's easily memorable because if you learn to count in binary on your fingers 4 is 🖕.

In the sense that the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is visible from every point in space. No matter where you are you can determine your position relative to the CMB, making it a common reference point for the entire universe.

And you don't think it may have had more to do with what you were saying / the way you were behaving than your looks? I don't doubt that incel may be thrown around more as a basic insult these days - it's just reaching that level of ubiquity in everyday speech - but I have more often heard it used towards men who are saying or doing things that are misogynistic. The same kind of misogyny that betrays a deeper insecurity has long been common in adolescent boys who are going through puberty and dealing with feelings they don't know how to deal with yet, and the word incel has become a convenient way to call it out, but I do feel that when it comes to adolescents there should be some charitability and understanding. Andrew Tate and the rest of the Manosphere are giving these kids the opposite of what they need, though.

It's more like a cross between RimWorld and Stardew Valley, with a bit of Terraria-like RPG mechanics.

This is precisely the image Jesus uses when He speaks of the “eye of the needle.” Tradition holds that this phrase is in reference to a small gate that required a camel (or other pack animal) laden with goods to be unencumbered in order to pass through.

There has never existed in all of history a gate in Jerusalem called the "eye of the needle." This interpretation was made up by some rich prick in the 11th century and repeated by other rich pricks through to the modern day in order to avoid the uncomfortable truth that Jesus said in no uncertain terms that they weren't getting into heaven.

Trans are less than 1% of the population

And that makes protecting their rights unimportant?

But yeah, please tell me how trans is literally worse than the holocaust and slavery.

Did I say that, or did you imagine that I did?

Btw, do you think civil rights would have gone better or worse if someone more closely aligned with Hitler gained power before WW2?

I assume you're saying this because you believe that Democrats advocating for trans rights cost them the election, giving it to Trump. The only way you could have come to this conclusion is if you heard it from some talking head and believed it without critical thought because it feels right to you. The thing is, it's just completely false. The Democrats' advocacy for trans rights has been lukewarm at best and overtly hostile at worst. Most of them have the same mindset as you, where they prefer to retreat from difficult topics like trans rights, ceding the narrative to conservatives while failing to create any consistent narrative of their own. That's what cost them the election.

Again my point was that I would want any opposition party in the USA to have enough awareness of global politics to know The Houthi Militia will not get US support

And again, there's a whole lot of room between giving the Houthis US support and bombing every civilian who happens to be in close proximity to them.

The Houthi are not making a blockade. They are murdering sailors on boats and claiming solidarity with Palestine.

Which is worse, violently resisting a genocide or enacting one? I don't think the Houthis should be murdering sailors, but even though they are overzealous in this instance they still clearly have the moral high ground, not because they are particularly moral but because the bar has been set so low.

You wait for the right moment, with the right issues.

MLK Jr. had a lot to say about this position. Desegregation and civil rights were once just as unpopular as trans rights are now. If you're feeling impatient skip to the last passage, though that would be quite ironic given you are calling on trans people to be patient waiting for their rights.

While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas.

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But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

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You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city’s white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.

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One of the basic points in your statement is that the action that I and my associates have taken in Birmingham is untimely. Some have asked: “Why didn’t you give the new city administration time to act?” The only answer that I can give to this query is that the new Birmingham administration must be prodded about as much as the outgoing one, before it will act. We are sadly mistaken if we feel that the election of Albert Boutwell as mayor will bring the millennium to Birmingham. While Mr. Boutwell is a much more gentle person than Mr. Connor, they are both segregationists, dedicated to maintenance of the status quo. I have hope that Mr. Boutwell will be reasonable enough to see the futility of massive resistance to desegregation. But he will not see this without pressure from devotees of civil rights. My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

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I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.