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I was reading the DSA platform and amazed to find out, that while it has a lot of attacks on Democrats, it doesn't mention socialism or socialist economics at all!!
#dsa #uspolitics #fakeleft

I was reading the DSA platform and amazed to find out, that while it has a lot of attacks on Democrats, it doesn't mention socialism or socialist economics at all!!
#dsa #uspolitics #fakeleft

I was reading the DSA platform and amazed to find out, that while it has a lot of attacks on Democrats, it doesn't mention socialism or socialist economics at all!!
#dsa #uspolitics #fakeleft

I was reading the DSA platform and amazed to find out, that while it has a lot of attacks on Democrats, it doesn't mention socialism or socialist economics at all!!
#dsa #uspolitics #fakeleft

I was reading the DSA platform and amazed to find out, that while it has a lot of attacks on Democrats, it doesn't mention socialism or socialist economics at all!!
#dsa #uspolitics #fakeleft

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It turns class into optics, struggle into hashtags, and solidarity into curated bios.
The Left builds from material conditions.
Woke builds from vibes and verification ticks.
It’s allergic to contradiction — which is ironic for a movement that claims to love dialectics.
Woke doesn’t dismantle whiteness.
It performs it.
It is the white savior complex with a rainbow flag cape and a DEI badge.
#FakeLeft #DialecticalDisaster #ClassPolitics #AestheticRadicalism

Well done Jazie! :antifa:

Jazie Veldhuyzen, independent radical left member of the municipality council of Amsterdam, shows his antifa shirt. The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema (from the so-called GreenLeft party) rejects this and says that it offends people who disagree with him. Offending fascists is not allowed according to Halsema. 🤔 I rest my case, again! 😭

#fascism #antifascism #antifa #Halsema #FemkeHalsema #GroenLinks #FakeLeft #JazieVeldhuyzen #Amsterdam

Well done Jazie! :antifa:

Jazie Veldhuyzen, independent radical left member of the municipality council of Amsterdam, shows his antifa shirt. The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema (from the so-called GreenLeft party) rejects this and says that it offends people who disagree with him. Offending fascists is not allowed according to Halsema. 🤔 I rest my case, again! 😭

#fascism #antifascism #antifa #Halsema #FemkeHalsema #GroenLinks #FakeLeft #JazieVeldhuyzen #Amsterdam

Well done Jazie! :antifa:

Jazie Veldhuyzen, independent radical left member of the municipality council of Amsterdam, shows his antifa shirt. The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema (from the so-called GreenLeft party) rejects this and says that it offends people who disagree with him. Offending fascists is not allowed according to Halsema. 🤔 I rest my case, again! 😭

#fascism #antifascism #antifa #Halsema #FemkeHalsema #GroenLinks #FakeLeft #JazieVeldhuyzen #Amsterdam

Well done Jazie! :antifa:

Jazie Veldhuyzen, independent radical left member of the municipality council of Amsterdam, shows his antifa shirt. The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema (from the so-called GreenLeft party) rejects this and says that it offends people who disagree with him. Offending fascists is not allowed according to Halsema. 🤔 I rest my case, again! 😭

#fascism #antifascism #antifa #Halsema #FemkeHalsema #GroenLinks #FakeLeft #JazieVeldhuyzen #Amsterdam

Well done Jazie! :antifa:

Jazie Veldhuyzen, independent radical left member of the municipality council of Amsterdam, shows his antifa shirt. The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema (from the so-called GreenLeft party) rejects this and says that it offends people who disagree with him. Offending fascists is not allowed according to Halsema. 🤔 I rest my case, again! 😭

#fascism #antifascism #antifa #Halsema #FemkeHalsema #GroenLinks #FakeLeft #JazieVeldhuyzen #Amsterdam

Given that I woke up this morning to some obnoxious rando publicly smearing me as a crypto-fascist (implied) and foreign agent (directly), let's take a quick look at this December 2023 article on In These Times to better understand what people promoting fascism and fascist ideology, while grifting "left," actually look like:

https://inthesetimes.com/article/former-left-right-fascism-capitalism-horseshoe-theory

This lengthy piece by Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Shartlet takes an in-depth look at what selling reactionary, right wing, and even ultimately fascist politics with a thin left-wing veener, actually looks like in practice, and over time; in the process it exposes numerous influencers, podcasters, writers, and social media personalities who are dragging perhaps millions of unsophisticated, disaffected (typically young) left-leaning Americans to the far right. These personalities include, but are not limited to, folks like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal, RFK Jr., Naomi Wolf, Jackson Hinkle, Aimee Terese, Anna Khachiyan, and Dasha Nekrasova.

To understand this article, it's important to realize that what the authors are talking about here has virtually nothing to do with "Horseshoe Theory;" the idea (popular with liberals) that you can go so far left that you come out on the right. Although the authors describe this crypto-fascist movement as a sort of process (dubious, in my opinion) they're very clear that this is fundamentally the same thing I call "modern strasserism." These folks are advocating for right wing, if not fascist political ideas, and merely representing them as the one true leftism using cribbed and often corrupted, left-ish economic theory. Frankly, I think the authors are being quite charitable regarding the origin stories of many of these people as in my view, they've always been raging reactionaries able to hide themselves inside a primarily American left that hasn't done the reading, and rarely engages in decolonization. Regardless, this piece provides a clear map for what that looks like in real time, and names many of the folks trying to crowbar the most basic, often flawed illusion of economic leftism, into an objectively fascist worldview.

Finally I'd like to note that unlikely many latecomers to this struggle, I have been battling this movement, and indeed many of these exact same people online, since 2017; precisely the moment I started writing articles explaining why Trump is a fascist and I believed he'd eventually attempt a coup. That battle had significant costs in my life, as many of my friends and readers were not prepared to give up their "problematic faves," had no real idea of what fascism actually is, and were far too attached to their own reactionary upbringing in a proto-fascist society like America, to engage in the decolonization I was undertaking at the time; a process which is what ALLOWED me to see what these crypto-fascists were and what they were selling. I still have scars from this battle, which is why I don't take too kindly to mainline liberals running amateur flak operations on social media, calling *me* a crypto-fascist or accusing me of supporting a billionaire murderbot oil thug like Vladdy Putin.

The simple truth is that leftists and leftism is *always* anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and anti-racist; if they can't check all three boxes, they aren't "the left" and they never were.

*brushes shoulder off*

#Cryptofascism #FakeLeft #Propaganda #Influencers

Given that I woke up this morning to some obnoxious rando publicly smearing me as a crypto-fascist (implied) and foreign agent (directly), let's take a quick look at this December 2023 article on In These Times to better understand what people promoting fascism and fascist ideology, while grifting "left," actually look like:

https://inthesetimes.com/article/former-left-right-fascism-capitalism-horseshoe-theory

This lengthy piece by Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Shartlet takes an in-depth look at what selling reactionary, right wing, and even ultimately fascist politics with a thin left-wing veener, actually looks like in practice, and over time; in the process it exposes numerous influencers, podcasters, writers, and social media personalities who are dragging perhaps millions of unsophisticated, disaffected (typically young) left-leaning Americans to the far right. These personalities include, but are not limited to, folks like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal, RFK Jr., Naomi Wolf, Jackson Hinkle, Aimee Terese, Anna Khachiyan, and Dasha Nekrasova.

To understand this article, it's important to realize that what the authors are talking about here has virtually nothing to do with "Horseshoe Theory;" the idea (popular with liberals) that you can go so far left that you come out on the right. Although the authors describe this crypto-fascist movement as a sort of process (dubious, in my opinion) they're very clear that this is fundamentally the same thing I call "modern strasserism." These folks are advocating for right wing, if not fascist political ideas, and merely representing them as the one true leftism using cribbed and often corrupted, left-ish economic theory. Frankly, I think the authors are being quite charitable regarding the origin stories of many of these people as in my view, they've always been raging reactionaries able to hide themselves inside a primarily American left that hasn't done the reading, and rarely engages in decolonization. Regardless, this piece provides a clear map for what that looks like in real time, and names many of the folks trying to crowbar the most basic, often flawed illusion of economic leftism, into an objectively fascist worldview.

Finally I'd like to note that unlikely many latecomers to this struggle, I have been battling this movement, and indeed many of these exact same people online, since 2017; precisely the moment I started writing articles explaining why Trump is a fascist and I believed he'd eventually attempt a coup. That battle had significant costs in my life, as many of my friends and readers were not prepared to give up their "problematic faves," had no real idea of what fascism actually is, and were far too attached to their own reactionary upbringing in a proto-fascist society like America, to engage in the decolonization I was undertaking at the time; a process which is what ALLOWED me to see what these crypto-fascists were and what they were selling. I still have scars from this battle, which is why I don't take too kindly to mainline liberals running amateur flak operations on social media, calling *me* a crypto-fascist or accusing me of supporting a billionaire murderbot oil thug like Vladdy Putin.

The simple truth is that leftists and leftism is *always* anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and anti-racist; if they can't check all three boxes, they aren't "the left" and they never were.

*brushes shoulder off*

#Cryptofascism #FakeLeft #Propaganda #Influencers

Given that I woke up this morning to some obnoxious rando publicly smearing me as a crypto-fascist (implied) and foreign agent (directly), let's take a quick look at this December 2023 article on In These Times to better understand what people promoting fascism and fascist ideology, while grifting "left," actually look like:

https://inthesetimes.com/article/former-left-right-fascism-capitalism-horseshoe-theory

This lengthy piece by Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Shartlet takes an in-depth look at what selling reactionary, right wing, and even ultimately fascist politics with a thin left-wing veener, actually looks like in practice, and over time; in the process it exposes numerous influencers, podcasters, writers, and social media personalities who are dragging perhaps millions of unsophisticated, disaffected (typically young) left-leaning Americans to the far right. These personalities include, but are not limited to, folks like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal, RFK Jr., Naomi Wolf, Jackson Hinkle, Aimee Terese, Anna Khachiyan, and Dasha Nekrasova.

To understand this article, it's important to realize that what the authors are talking about here has virtually nothing to do with "Horseshoe Theory;" the idea (popular with liberals) that you can go so far left that you come out on the right. Although the authors describe this crypto-fascist movement as a sort of process (dubious, in my opinion) they're very clear that this is fundamentally the same thing I call "modern strasserism." These folks are advocating for right wing, if not fascist political ideas, and merely representing them as the one true leftism using cribbed and often corrupted, left-ish economic theory. Frankly, I think the authors are being quite charitable regarding the origin stories of many of these people as in my view, they've always been raging reactionaries able to hide themselves inside a primarily American left that hasn't done the reading, and rarely engages in decolonization. Regardless, this piece provides a clear map for what that looks like in real time, and names many of the folks trying to crowbar the most basic, often flawed illusion of economic leftism, into an objectively fascist worldview.

Finally I'd like to note that unlikely many latecomers to this struggle, I have been battling this movement, and indeed many of these exact same people online, since 2017; precisely the moment I started writing articles explaining why Trump is a fascist and I believed he'd eventually attempt a coup. That battle had significant costs in my life, as many of my friends and readers were not prepared to give up their "problematic faves," had no real idea of what fascism actually is, and were far too attached to their own reactionary upbringing in a proto-fascist society like America, to engage in the decolonization I was undertaking at the time; a process which is what ALLOWED me to see what these crypto-fascists were and what they were selling. I still have scars from this battle, which is why I don't take too kindly to mainline liberals running amateur flak operations on social media, calling *me* a crypto-fascist or accusing me of supporting a billionaire murderbot oil thug like Vladdy Putin.

The simple truth is that leftists and leftism is *always* anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and anti-racist; if they can't check all three boxes, they aren't "the left" and they never were.

*brushes shoulder off*

#Cryptofascism #FakeLeft #Propaganda #Influencers

Given that I woke up this morning to some obnoxious rando publicly smearing me as a crypto-fascist (implied) and foreign agent (directly), let's take a quick look at this December 2023 article on In These Times to better understand what people promoting fascism and fascist ideology, while grifting "left," actually look like:

https://inthesetimes.com/article/former-left-right-fascism-capitalism-horseshoe-theory

This lengthy piece by Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Shartlet takes an in-depth look at what selling reactionary, right wing, and even ultimately fascist politics with a thin left-wing veener, actually looks like in practice, and over time; in the process it exposes numerous influencers, podcasters, writers, and social media personalities who are dragging perhaps millions of unsophisticated, disaffected (typically young) left-leaning Americans to the far right. These personalities include, but are not limited to, folks like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal, RFK Jr., Naomi Wolf, Jackson Hinkle, Aimee Terese, Anna Khachiyan, and Dasha Nekrasova.

To understand this article, it's important to realize that what the authors are talking about here has virtually nothing to do with "Horseshoe Theory;" the idea (popular with liberals) that you can go so far left that you come out on the right. Although the authors describe this crypto-fascist movement as a sort of process (dubious, in my opinion) they're very clear that this is fundamentally the same thing I call "modern strasserism." These folks are advocating for right wing, if not fascist political ideas, and merely representing them as the one true leftism using cribbed and often corrupted, left-ish economic theory. Frankly, I think the authors are being quite charitable regarding the origin stories of many of these people as in my view, they've always been raging reactionaries able to hide themselves inside a primarily American left that hasn't done the reading, and rarely engages in decolonization. Regardless, this piece provides a clear map for what that looks like in real time, and names many of the folks trying to crowbar the most basic, often flawed illusion of economic leftism, into an objectively fascist worldview.

Finally I'd like to note that unlikely many latecomers to this struggle, I have been battling this movement, and indeed many of these exact same people online, since 2017; precisely the moment I started writing articles explaining why Trump is a fascist and I believed he'd eventually attempt a coup. That battle had significant costs in my life, as many of my friends and readers were not prepared to give up their "problematic faves," had no real idea of what fascism actually is, and were far too attached to their own reactionary upbringing in a proto-fascist society like America, to engage in the decolonization I was undertaking at the time; a process which is what ALLOWED me to see what these crypto-fascists were and what they were selling. I still have scars from this battle, which is why I don't take too kindly to mainline liberals running amateur flak operations on social media, calling *me* a crypto-fascist or accusing me of supporting a billionaire murderbot oil thug like Vladdy Putin.

The simple truth is that leftists and leftism is *always* anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and anti-racist; if they can't check all three boxes, they aren't "the left" and they never were.

*brushes shoulder off*

#Cryptofascism #FakeLeft #Propaganda #Influencers

#CenkUygur was irrational, hateful, disrespectful, dismissive, overly emotional and immature during that whole exchange. What's worse is he seemed to take every disagreement #BriahnaJoyGray had with him as a personal insult for which he had to rabidly defend himself. If he isn't embarrassed, he should be. It seems like she was invited to the show to be a whipping boy for the people he is truly angry with (Jimmy Dore, Aaron Mate, Glenn Greenwald, etc).
#TYT #foolishness #fakeleft

We've all seen them.

The small 'L' left who say they care and then say, but the #youngPeople, I see hope in #theNextGeneration to turn things around.

Its a common trope. We see #mediaTrained sophists use it all the time, too.

They are in there 30s, 40s and 50s. But are satisfied to not #beTheChange they want to see.

#usefulIdiots #hopeAndChange #rhetoric #lipstickLeft #wordSalad #identityLeft #fakeLeft #promisesOfABetterTomorrow #indoctrinated #sleepwalking #zombieLeft #corporateState

Please don't say you are a member of #GetUp.

#Australia #astroTurf #auspol #fakeLeft #identityLeft #GetUpAustralia