This is what the fascists do: hijacking legitimate terms of discourse and abusing them so they become meaningless. It’s a deliberate strategy to subvert their opponents’ ability to talk about the issue by poisoning the terminology. See also what they’ve done with “fake news”, “critical race theory” and “DEI”.
Isn’t it good we have experts like you to tell trans people they don’t know what the trans rights movement is about?
Maybe they can investigate whether the Earth is flat too, while they’re making such good use of people’s taxes.
Nope, Ukraine would have kept all of its land had they accepted Putin’s offer in 2022. Even the status of Crimea was to be negotiable after 10-15 years.
Right, but Crimea is Ukraine’s land which Russia invaded and stole in 2014. So that’s not letting Ukraine have all its land is it? It’s letting Ukraine keep bits of land you haven’t stolen yet. Can you see how that might not seem very reasonable?
A plummet that takes time is really not in the traditional spirit of plummeting.
I just saw a CBS report that says 200,000 government employees have been fired already.
Trans rights is simply human rights for trans people. It’s not a culture war issue; it’s a human rights issue.
Oops, whoopsie, that was a lie.
The media will successfully deflect blame away from Trump’s government. These people are eager to believe any story except that they’ve been hoodwinked.
I suspect a lot of them wouldn’t even be able to understand what you’re doing or why. And that might make them slightly uncomfortable, so they’d judge you just in order not to have to think about it.
Is anyone keeping track of how many Americans Musk and Trump have directly made unemployed, even before the effects of economic slowdown kick in?
Not only do these people fail as allies and as compassionate human beings, but they’re also very stupid if they don’t see that defending trans rights is the front line of the fight against fascism right now, and we all need to be there fighting it. They’re not going to stop at taking rights away from trans people. It’ll be you next.
It just indicates that Trump doesn’t care what they think any more. He’s no longer trying to please voters. They have done their job and where he’s taking the USA, there won’t be voters. Besides, he knows they’ll always be with him when it comes to hurting people they don’t like. Expensive eggs won’t change their bigotry.
Can we make just one tiny exception for Bernie Sanders?
as trump is incapable of learning, tariffs hurt the populace of the country imposing them more than anyone else.
It’s unclear whether he doesn’t understand or whether he doesn’t care. If the aim is to disorient traditional allies while pumping the markets up and down for profit and plundering public funds while people are too confused to stop you, and keeping in the good books of your “friend” in Russia, the well being of the US population won’t even factor into his calculations.
There’s a list of this and many other DOGE staff email addresses going around on BlueSky, including all Elon’s smug little DOGEshits.
that are working in areas such as human rights, refugees, global criminal justice, women’s issues and efforts to counter human trafficking, the officials said.
Of course, they’re cutting the stuff that might actually help regular people.
I don’t think it’s hopeless, but it requires organisation to spread this understanding among people who won’t go looking for it and may be initially hostile to it. The basics of class consciousness are not that hard to grasp if presented clearly. The challenge is how to get people listening at all. You can’t just have some college-educated stranger start shouting this at people. It requires building a political movement skilfully, bit by bit, among working-class people who can take ownership of it.
Wow, think of all the profit being made on the interest, not to mention the profit being made on the clinics and hospitals and the pharmaceuticals. A great system that benefits everyone except ordinary Americans at whose expense it runs.
I do love an optimist.