#progressivism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #progressivism, aggregated by home.social.
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True progressive, or not?
https://youtube.com/shorts/aNxOa9N8Mgk?si=lcx43w8XB-Ihh-rG
@zeteo #zeteo @mehdihasan @premthakker #mehdihasan #premthakker #progressive #progressivism #freepalestine #ice #fuckice #racism #fuckracism #uspol #uspolitics #democraticparty #hypocrisy #allpowertothepeople #nopowertothepigs -
True progressive, or not?
https://youtube.com/shorts/aNxOa9N8Mgk?si=lcx43w8XB-Ihh-rG
@zeteo #zeteo @mehdihasan @premthakker #mehdihasan #premthakker #progressive #progressivism #freepalestine #ice #fuckice #racism #fuckracism #uspol #uspolitics #democraticparty #hypocrisy #allpowertothepeople #nopowertothepigs -
True progressive, or not?
https://youtube.com/shorts/aNxOa9N8Mgk?si=lcx43w8XB-Ihh-rG
@zeteo #zeteo @mehdihasan @premthakker #mehdihasan #premthakker #progressive #progressivism #freepalestine #ice #fuckice #racism #fuckracism #uspol #uspolitics #democraticparty #hypocrisy #allpowertothepeople #nopowertothepigs -
"We can tell ourselves that explaining away barbarism is a form of inoculation, a hard‑headed way of keeping worse things at bay. But that is not what is happening. We are not inoculating ourselves; we are drinking the poison."
https://tdunlop.substack.com/p/escalating-to-capitulate
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What if a loss is actually a win for progressives? G. Elliott Morris, exploring Jon Green's analysis of the IL-09 primary, argues that Kat Abughazaleh's strong finish reveals shifting Democratic Party dynamics that demand a closer look. Dive into G. Elliott Morris's insightful analysis here: https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-a-close-loss #DemocraticParty #ElectionAnalysis #Progressivism #PrimaryElection
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What if a loss is actually a win for progressives? G. Elliott Morris, exploring Jon Green's analysis of the IL-09 primary, argues that Kat Abughazaleh's strong finish reveals shifting Democratic Party dynamics that demand a closer look. Dive into G. Elliott Morris's insightful analysis here: https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-a-close-loss #DemocraticParty #ElectionAnalysis #Progressivism #PrimaryElection
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Europeans understand "liberalism" better than do Americans. It's the one word in American English whose misuse vexes me more than any other political lexeme. Like the Europeans, I view the "liber" part as meaning "free to work and live one's life without government interference, except to defend those freedoms". All the public-good "liberals" would do well to start calling themselves what they are: progressives.
#liberalism #classicalLiberalism #modernLiberalism #progressivism #socialLiberalism
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As a progressive liberal that used to be libtarted.
By which i mean socially progressive but largely unaware of the wider systems which perpetuated systemic inequality.
There is a lot to learn within progressivism from the dialectic between the communal necessity of communist theory and the just individualistic focus of anarchist theory.
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Help foster good anti-SLAPP laws in #Germany by signing this petition.
#environment #progressivism
https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1313/intimidation-threats-lawsuits-we-need-a-law-with-teeth-to-stop-legal-bullies -
What is the moral difference between the oil industry and companies pushing generative-AI?
Both industries are using neoliberalism to make profits at the expense of negative externalities which they push on society.
Liberals need to realiase that “Capitalism” itself incentives extraction.
Whether that be directly in the case of imperialism, or indirectly in the case of appropriation of social goods that economic models fail to cost.
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Damn! This interview with Clara Mattei was absolute fire! 🔥
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When I first got onto social media, I imagined it would be a space where I would speak my mind without inhibition.
in fact, I have not engaged in that uninhibited expression. Some of those inhibitions might well be salutary; I have opinions about all sorts of topics on which I am not that well informed, and on some topics on which I am reasonably well informed, the expression of my opinions might well not contribute to thoughtful discussion but just cause hurt and confusion instead.
On the other hand, I wonder if some of my inhibitions amount to little more than cowardice on my part.
Yet again, I've also wondered whether I should have exercised more restraint in some of my posting. Will I wince with shame or at least embarrassment as I look back at my posting history?
On one topic I do not regret taking a stance which I believe is unpopular on Mastodon, or at least unpopular amongst the Mastodon accounts I see - Israel/ Palestine.
Mastodon seems to me to be largely progressive space. Unfortunately, many here seem to believe that progressive political thinking implies a denial of the right of Israel to exist, in other words antizionism. Sometimes this denial is expressed in ugly and intemperate terms.
I believe that Israel has a right to exist, living alongside an independent Palestine. I believe in the two-state solution to this long and painful conflict. A refusal on the part of progressives to recognize Israel's right to exist has been one amongst many obstacles to peace in the region.
Consequently, I will not be silent about this issue, however difficult the odious policies and pronouncements of the current Israeli government make it for the two-state solution to get a hearing amongst progressives, and however many progressives here think I should be ostracized on account of my Zionist convictions .
#SocialMedia #IsraelPalestine #Mastodon #Progressivism #Zionism #Antizionism #TwoStateSolution
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When I first got onto social media, I imagined it would be a space where I would speak my mind without inhibition.
in fact, I have not engaged in that uninhibited expression. Some of those inhibitions might well be salutary; I have opinions about all sorts of topics on which I am not that well informed, and on some topics on which I am reasonably well informed, the expression of my opinions might well not contribute to thoughtful discussion but just cause hurt and confusion instead.
On the other hand, I wonder if some of my inhibitions amount to little more than cowardice on my part.
Yet again, I've also wondered whether I should have exercised more restraint in some of my posting. Will I wince with shame or at least embarrassment as I look back at my posting history?
On one topic I do not regret taking a stance which I believe is unpopular on Mastodon, or at least unpopular amongst the Mastodon accounts I see - Israel/ Palestine.
Mastodon seems to me to be largely progressive space. Unfortunately, many here seem to believe that progressive political thinking implies a denial of the right of Israel to exist, in other words antizionism. Sometimes this denial is expressed in ugly and intemperate terms.
I believe that Israel has a right to exist, living alongside an independent Palestine. I believe in the two-state solution to this long and painful conflict. A refusal on the part of progressives to recognize Israel's right to exist has been one amongst many obstacles to peace in the region.
Consequently, I will not be silent about this issue, however difficult the odious policies and pronouncements of the current Israeli government make it for the two-state solution to get a hearing amongst progressives, and however many progressives here think I should be ostracized on account of my Zionist convictions .
#SocialMedia #IsraelPalestine #Mastodon #Progressivism #Zionism #Antizionism #TwoStateSolution
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UK Labour and US democrats both seem to mistakenly believe they can win more swing voters through capitulation than counter messaging.
As chamberlain showed: appeasing extremists does not work.
The success of Zohran is a prime example of how an authentic progressive vision will not only galvanise the base but also win support amongst non-voters and disenfranchised conservatives.
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"You were born gay, and you 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘵 gay" seems very antithetical to the whole purpose of the LGBTQ movement: increased sexual/marriage freedom.
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Trump's "peace plan" for #Ukraine is really about the #US and #Russia gutting it like a trout. And kicking the #EU in the balls to boot. It's demeaning, insulting, and malevolent. IOW, classic Trump/Putin.
#progressivism #politics
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The Left’s Shameful Hypocrisy in the Government Shutdown: Anti-Worker Politics Disguised as Progressivism
The current government shutdown has exposed something deeply disturbing about the state of so-called progressivism in America. As the federal government teeters on the brink of chaos, there are voices, voices that claim to be on the left, calling for the shutdown to continue. They present it as some kind of moral or political strategy, a way to "punish" the administration or make a political statement. But what they fail—or refuse—to acknowledge is the human cost of this so-called […] -
The Left’s Shameful Hypocrisy in the Government Shutdown: Anti-Worker Politics Disguised as Progressivism
The current government shutdown has exposed something deeply disturbing about the state of so-called progressivism in America. As the federal government teeters on the brink of chaos, there are voices, voices that claim to be on the left, calling for the shutdown to continue. They present it as some kind of moral or political strategy, a way to "punish" the administration or make a political statement. But what they fail—or refuse—to acknowledge is the human cost of this so-called […] -
The Left’s Shameful Hypocrisy in the Government Shutdown: Anti-Worker Politics Disguised as Progressivism
The current government shutdown has exposed something deeply disturbing about the state of so-called progressivism in America. As the federal government teeters on the brink of chaos, there are voices, voices that claim to be on the left, calling for the shutdown to continue. They present it as some kind of moral or political strategy, a way to "punish" the administration or make a political statement. But what they fail—or refuse—to acknowledge is the human cost of this so-called […] -
The Left’s Shameful Hypocrisy in the Government Shutdown: Anti-Worker Politics Disguised as Progressivism
The current government shutdown has exposed something deeply disturbing about the state of so-called progressivism in America. As the federal government teeters on the brink of chaos, there are voices, voices that claim to be on the left, calling for the shutdown to continue. They present it as some kind of moral or political strategy, a way to "punish" the administration or make a political statement. But what they fail—or refuse—to acknowledge is the human cost of this so-called […] -
The Left’s Shameful Hypocrisy in the Government Shutdown: Anti-Worker Politics Disguised as Progressivism
The current government shutdown has exposed something deeply disturbing about the state of so-called progressivism in America. As the federal government teeters on the brink of chaos, there are voices, voices that claim to be on the left, calling for the shutdown to continue. They present it as some kind of moral or political strategy, a way to "punish" the administration or make a political statement. But what they fail—or refuse—to acknowledge is the human cost of this so-called […] -
One thing that annoys me about UK Labour right now is their continuing acceptance of reactionary rhetoric.
Yes it politically squeezes the tories out of existence, but it also pushes the opposition to Reform.
I'd much rather a labour party that ceases the centre-right even at the expense of conservatives ceasing back ground.
Labour need to focus on a progressive vision that appeals to the base and can garner support from the disillusioned right.
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"Along the way design lost its ethical intent. Channelling its frustrations with the world as it is and its compromising entanglements of toxicities, it has retreated into protest and insularity rather than attempting to seriously address the big issues. All the algae and fungi, the recycled water bottles and seaborne-plastics have made not a blind bit of difference to the planetary crisis, and design as a profession and an industry knows it.
The crisis is in its impotence. Design was once understood as a tool to improve lives. To some extent it did. We are still living in a world the modernists made, albeit not the one they imagined. A corporate interior, a coffee bar, a new apartment tower and the furniture inside it will all be the fruits of the designs of a century ago. The iPhone, which has flattened our lives, is the essence of minimal modernism. But the social equity somehow did not follow. That seems too big a task, too big an ask for now. It is a painful irony that in a world increasingly objectified and obsessed with design in every form — from fashion and graphics to supercars, watches, phones, apps and luxury interiors — that design has seemed to relinquish its desire to change the world. Instead it desperately clings to a few final moments of spectacle, effect and affect."
https://www.ft.com/content/e6373dc6-e1f4-462a-8d63-1580c876c3c4
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"Project Ontario" is just the US "Project 2025", tuned to #Ontario #politics
I say all the #RWNJs can go f*ck themselves.
#progressivism #elbowsuphttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/project-ontario-doug-ford-pc-party-conservatives-1.7556576
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@alerque @romin The people on the #Fediverse who in years past I would have voted for have become deeply partisan and polarizing over time, scooting from reasonable moderacy to either #BlueAnon #Liberalism, radical #Anarchy, #progressivism or far right #extremism. And the people who are left that I agree with on most things, I disagree with them enough that I wouldn’t trust them enough to vote for them.
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@alerque @romin The people on the #Fediverse who in years past I would have voted for have become deeply partisan and polarizing over time, scooting from reasonable moderacy to either #BlueAnon #Liberalism, radical #Anarchy, #progressivism or far right #extremism. And the people who are left that I agree with on most things, I disagree with them enough that I wouldn’t trust them enough to vote for them.
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@alerque @romin The people on the #Fediverse who in years past I would have voted for have become deeply partisan and polarizing over time, scooting from reasonable moderacy to either #BlueAnon #Liberalism, radical #Anarchy, #progressivism or far right #extremism. And the people who are left that I agree with on most things, I disagree with them enough that I wouldn’t trust them enough to vote for them.
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"The record goes back centuries, and in every case, the pattern is the same. As recently as 2010, Barack Obama was “unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage,” considering it a bridge too far. Only when it became politically safe did he side with the LGBTQ activists who had been fighting for their rights all along. Before that, it was leftists who led the charge to end apartheid in South Africa through a boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, similar to the one they propose against Israel today, while everyone from Ronald Reagan to the editors of the National Review opposed them and defended the apartheid. Likewise, the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s was considered far too radical by the American mainstream, with 61 percent of Gallup poll respondents saying they disapproved of the Freedom Riders. Today, despite Republican attempts to rewrite history, we know the protesters were in the right. So were the supporters of women’s suffrage, who were condemned for breaking windows and chaining themselves to things using language strikingly similar to what’s currently used to condemn Black Lives Matter or Palestine Action.
It’s the same with the protests against invading Vietnam: condemned at the time, now valorized in hindsight. Even earlier, the abolition of slavery was the territory of wild-eyed radicals like John Brown, who warned America that “the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood”—and of Karl Marx, who wrote that “Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.” The Civil War that followed bore that prophecy out. Even the most obvious propositions in the world, like ending child labor in factories, had to be dragged into the mainstream by socialists and trade unionists."
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-left-is-always-right-too-early
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>>The fastest way to grasp the inherent flaws of a politics rooted in racial and ethnic categorization is to have it weaponized by one’s political enemies.<<
Part of me sympathizes with Thomas Chatterton Williams in his dislike of identity politics. I too would rather see a focus in US progressive politics on tangible gains for all, such as Medicare For All.
Yet TCW does not pay sufficient attention in this column to two drivers of identity politics.
The first is history. Racialized politics existed in North America long before the United States came into existence; read, for example, about the 1675/6 Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia and its aftermath. As a result of this long history of racialized politics, the structures of wealth and power in the USA are racialized too, and the adoption of the "universalist" non-racial policies will not be able to remedy these structural injustices. Recognition of this truth partially explains the "grip" race and identity have on his students and many other Americans beyond the classroom.
The second factor TCW does not address lies in the present. Aside from encounters with explicit racism, the experience of everyday life in the USA of navigating school, work, relationships, consumption, dealings with officialdom, transport , and health care, can be perplexing, frustrating, and frightening, especially for members of minorities who do not enjoy TCW's education and socioeconomic status. For many, in a society filled with traps, scams, exploitation, disinformation, misinformation, and general confusion, answering the questions "Who can I trust? Who gets what's happening to me?" is a must. Race and ethnic identity will almost certainly figure in the answers. One should hardly be surprised if this pattern from everyday life is repeated in politics. For many members of minorities in the USA, racial identity is not a choice of politics but a condition of survival.
I don't know what sort of politics can best address the historical factor of baked in racial inequity, nor do I expect the nonracial policy measures I favour to work a swift miracle of interracial trust. I am not that Brit who thinks that Americans are simply too stupid or benighted to deal with their social and political problems.
Yet I am fairly sure that simply lecturing the young about the virtues of liberal universalism and the vices of identity politics is unlikely to make much headway, however much I might sympathize with the underlying sentiment.
I don't have a solution to the problems of progressive politics in the USA up my sleeve. All I can do is hope for the success of the Sanders/AOC/Mamdani current and protest against the outrages perpetrated by current administration.
#USPolitics #Race #IdentityPolitics #ThomasChattertonWilliams #TCW #Progressivism
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https://forward.com/opinion/734164/zohran-mamdani-israel-brad-lander/
“If we want to win, we can only win together.”
#USPolitics #IsraeliPolitics #IsraelPalestine #ZohranMamdani #BradLander #AymanOdeh #NewYork #Progressivism
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https://forward.com/opinion/734164/zohran-mamdani-israel-brad-lander/
“If we want to win, we can only win together.”
#USPolitics #IsraeliPolitics #IsraelPalestine #ZohranMamdani #BradLander #AymanOdeh #NewYork #Progressivism
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https://forward.com/opinion/734164/zohran-mamdani-israel-brad-lander/
“If we want to win, we can only win together.”
#USPolitics #IsraeliPolitics #IsraelPalestine #ZohranMamdani #BradLander #AymanOdeh #NewYork #Progressivism
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If you hate science, you hate humanity.
Yes, MAGA, I'm looking at you.
#vaccine #health #science #progressivismOriginal post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:swqgf7xx75sy4kn5azqetvh5/post/3lsf3nhtz522x
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What Sarah McBride says about progressive purism and maximalist rhetoric deserves careful consideration.
I was moved when she spoke of her personal and family history and surprised to learn that she is a Presbyterian elder.
Although the discussion lasts over an hour and a half, it doesn't drag and is worth your time
Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights | The Ezra Klein Show
https://youtu.be/KlbNFsAGFRc?si=yZ_rAz0XJOuiT-tw#USPolitics #TransRights #SarahMcBride #EzraKlein #Democrats #Progressivism #Liberalism
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Judicial violence is violence and extremism.
So we agree! 🤙🏾
Progressivism is not ‘far’ from left, and, even
What are the similarities between #Progressivism and #Liberalism? In terms of public policy positions.
True self defense, like in real proequitativeness (that is really the objective of what you call ‘left’) is never extremism.
What sort of violence is this? Like murdering a CEO or some politicians?
But violence in order to remain slavery in the rest of population like do ‘right’ (=elitism=fascism=nazism) is what is really extremism.
What are you defining as slavery in this scenario? Back in the days prior to the #CivilWar? Well, war is not extra judicial violence, as I understand it.
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@forza4galicia @midway @GrumpyRabbit
Fair enough.
#Progressivism is far left, and any left wing (or right wing) ideology that supports or excuses extrajudicial violence to a broad degree is most certainly extremism. Typically you will see this in left wing #anarchism or right wing #nationalism.
I call certain ideologies "far" because of their relative isolation from other ideologies. #Nationalism is quite a bit different than #Conservatism, and #Progessivism is quite a bit different than #Liberalism.
If you go online, it looks like the far left is generally identified by opposing #capitalism. Not sure that I agree with that categorization, I don't think it's extreme to oppose #capitalism if you support a #MixedEconomy, but there is a lot of overlap between #progressivism and support for #Marxism, #socialism, #communism, etc. so there's still a lot of overlap between my position and the general public's perception.
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@forza4galicia @midway @GrumpyRabbit
Fair enough.
#Progressivism is far left, and any left wing (or right wing) ideology that supports or excuses extrajudicial violence to a broad degree is most certainly extremism. Typically you will see this in left wing #anarchism or right wing #nationalism.
I call certain ideologies "far" because of their relative isolation from other ideologies. #Nationalism is quite a bit different than #Conservatism, and #Progessivism is quite a bit different than #Liberalism.
If you go online, it looks like the far left is generally identified by opposing #capitalism. Not sure that I agree with that categorization, I don't think it's extreme to oppose #capitalism if you support a #MixedEconomy, but there is a lot of overlap between #progressivism and support for #Marxism, #socialism, #communism, etc. so there's still a lot of overlap between my position and the general public's perception.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-left_politics?wprov=sfla1 -
@forza4galicia @midway @GrumpyRabbit
Fair enough.
#Progressivism is far left, and any left wing (or right wing) ideology that supports or excuses extrajudicial violence to a broad degree is most certainly extremism. Typically you will see this in left wing #anarchism or right wing #nationalism.
I call certain ideologies "far" because of their relative isolation from other ideologies. #Nationalism is quite a bit different than #Conservatism, and #Progessivism is quite a bit different than #Liberalism.
If you go online, it looks like the far left is generally identified by opposing #capitalism. Not sure that I agree with that categorization, I don't think it's extreme to oppose #capitalism if you support a #MixedEconomy, but there is a lot of overlap between #progressivism and support for #Marxism, #socialism, #communism, etc. so there's still a lot of overlap between my position and the general public's perception.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-left_politics?wprov=sfla1 -
A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so that after his day’s work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load. We keep countless men from being good citizens by the conditions of life with which we surround them.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, KansasSourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #citizen #citizenship #community #contributor #costofliving #economicinjustice #goodcitizen #labor #laborconditions #livingwage #nation #participation #poverty #progressivism #society #wages
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so that after his day’s work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load. We keep countless men from being good citizens by the conditions of life with which we surround them.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, KansasSourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #citizen #citizenship #community #contributor #costofliving #economicinjustice #goodcitizen #labor #laborconditions #livingwage #nation #participation #poverty #progressivism #society #wages
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so that after his day’s work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load. We keep countless men from being good citizens by the conditions of life with which we surround them.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, KansasSourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #citizen #citizenship #community #contributor #costofliving #economicinjustice #goodcitizen #labor #laborconditions #livingwage #nation #participation #poverty #progressivism #society #wages
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so that after his day’s work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load. We keep countless men from being good citizens by the conditions of life with which we surround them.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, KansasSourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #citizen #citizenship #community #contributor #costofliving #economicinjustice #goodcitizen #labor #laborconditions #livingwage #nation #participation #poverty #progressivism #society #wages
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so that after his day’s work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load. We keep countless men from being good citizens by the conditions of life with which we surround them.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, KansasSourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #citizen #citizenship #community #contributor #costofliving #economicinjustice #goodcitizen #labor #laborconditions #livingwage #nation #participation #poverty #progressivism #society #wages
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
Man’s urge for change and his need for stability have always balanced and checked each other, and our current vocabulary, which distinguishes between two factions, the progressives and the conservatives, indicates a state of affairs in which this balance has been thrown out of order. No civilization — the man-made artifact to house successive generations — would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1969-02-27), “Reflections on Violence,” The New York Review of BooksSourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/44228/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #balance #change #civilization #conservatism #progressivism #society #stability #framework
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/187413/ AI is killing jobs and fuelling campus radicalism #AI #AlexisDeTocqueville #AmericanUniversities #ArtificialIntelligence #DonaldTrump #Harvard #humanities #optional #Politics #progressivism #Technology #UK #Uncategorized@us #UnitedKingdom #us
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It's never too late to stop the repulsive Bill 5 in #Ontario.
Please consider contacting the government via this form: https://davidsuzuki.org/action/repealbill5/
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” Osawatomie, KansasSourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/3…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #materialism #plutocracy #reform #revolution #ruin #wealth #reform #progressivism
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WE MUST NOT LET #GOP REMAIN IN THE SHADOWS
GOP CONGRESSPEOPLE WILL BE REVEALED FOR WHO THEY FUCKING ARE
#AOC #USA
#progressivism #progressives
#democracy #democrats
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...Oz 28, the School Kids issue, with its notorious comic strip of a priapic Rupert Bear and full page photo of a miniskirted schoolgirl captioned "jail bait of the month" ?
"The case of Schoolkids Oz", a well informed and thoughtful historical essay by David Buckingham, has certainly helped me think about this particular moment in British history. I agree with the author that the legacy of the Oz trial and the British counterculture more generally is mixed; we can look back and see both appalling sexism and a laudable sexual emancipation, protoneoliberalism and a cooperatavism that deserves re-examination and perhaps celebration or even revival.
We might also pause to consider the progressivism of today. As we look back with distaste at the promotion of "jailbait of the month", can we be confident that some of the campaigns and rhetoric of progressives today will not prompt a similar recoil in future decades?
#RichardNeville #Oz #OzSchoolKidsIssue
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"Democratic and progressive messaging to men will never go anywhere as long as it starts from the assumption that being a man is always a privilege and being a woman always makes you disadvantaged.
There are times when that is true, but there are times when that isn’t.
Men disproportionately suffer from all kinds of problems at much higher rates than women do. But progressives, who run the Democratic Party’s approach to social-culture issues, rarely acknowledge that. To them, men are simply there to be lectured about how they should do more for women.
Sure, a lot of men mistreat women (like Emhoff). Many men take our their frustrations in unhealthy and self-defeating ways. And the Democratic Party has played a real role in advancing opportunities for women and making sure that their rights are protected.
But you can do all that and not strip men of their humanity by constantly making demands of them but never listening to their needs."
https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/democrats-need-to-realize-its-not
#USA #Misandry #Sexism #DemocraticParty #Universalism #IdentityPolitics #Progressivism #Liberals