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Politics (in general)
If you ever needed a short answer on how right-wing politics differs from the left-wing politics:
The essence of right-wing politics is the conviction that it is the most important to help the rich (and other privileged people), because if they became even more sickly rich, it is bound that some of that will finally start trickling down on everyone. And if it doesn't, then it's all fault of the people who aren't white cis hetero males — of given nationality, faith and right-wing views.
On the other hand, the left-wing views are based on weird ideas such as that all people are equal, nobody should be privileged and that everyone deserves to live.
#politics

Sources: Gemini's image generation tool had a technical fix to reduce bias in its outputs but Google didn't anticipate the overcorrection and wasn't transparent (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google Left in ‘Terrible Bind’ By Pulling AI Feature After Right-Wing Backlash
Google tried using a technical fix to reduce bias in a feature that generates realistic-looking images of people. Instead, it set off a new diversity firestorm.

#Colombia
Petro under siege as progress creeps forward | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/petro-under-siege-progress-creeps-for…

I'm absolutely willing to help destroying capitalism.
I'm absolutely not willing to help replacing it with something worse. Like Russian theocratic nazi-inspired apocalyptism or Chinese state capitalism where workers have no rights.
This is the left wing stance I can get behind. If you say you're left and have the opposite stance you can go fuck yourself.

People like labels. Finding my fight is against the status quo. Is there a label for someone who wants the status quo to continue? In a web search conformist came up. Will love calling people who consider themselves left wing as conformists.
In many ways I want things to return to how they were many years ago. eg. overnight parking was not allowed on NYC streets before 1954. In that respect I might call myself a conservative. I don't want to return everything to pre-1954.…

The far right has replaced the old left as Russia’s propaganda tool
In 2018, President Donald Trump endorsed Vladimir Putin’s denial that Russia interfered with the 2016 election, even though American intelligence had reached the opposite conclusion.
The following year, in the Trump impeachment proceedings, House Republicans claimed that Ukraine had interfered with the 2016 election even though Fiona Hill, a former Trump national security council official on Russia, told them th…

The far right has replaced the old left as Russia’s propaganda tool
Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin echoes the left-wing journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, who downplayed or otherwise covered up Stalin’s murder of millions of Soviet citizens.

Nimbyism in wealthy neighborhoods isn't a specifically left-wing problem #69347658. (If anything, it's more severe in right-wing areas.) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/us/poli

Developers Got Backing for Affordable Housing. Then the Neighborhood Found Out.
The push from an affluent community in South Carolina to kill a plan for 60 subsidized apartments brought into public view how hard it is give low-income families access to opportunity-rich neighborhoods.

The Intercept is losing ~$300K/month and could run out of cash by May 2025, according to data from March; its CEO says the projection was a worst case scenario (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/04/14/2024/left-wing-media-meltdown<…

#Colombia
Petro under siege as progress creeps forward | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/petro-under-siege-progress-creeps-for…

I'm getting a lot of mileage out of following the podcast "Prosecuting Donald Trump." I don't get half of the legal detail, but it sure makes it clear what to expect.
For example, today's verdict was no big surprise, whereas SCOTUS taking the immunity case, was a bit of an unexpected blow (if I understood correctly).
If you just looked at (left-wing) social media, you would get the complete opposite impression.

#GiftLink🎁
Opinion | Why Elon Musk Is the Second Most Important Person in MAGA - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Opinion | Why Elon Musk Is the Second Most Important Person in MAGA
With readership collapsing for right-wing outlets, X is all the movement has left.

Does the Left Think Young Left-Wing Protesters Matter or Not? (Jonathan Chait/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/stanford-theo-baker-palestinian-protester-anti-semitism-israel-biden-campus.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/240328/p46#a240328p46

@… Your blurb is hysterical. Not left. I didn't consider myself left either though my positions on things were way more aligned with those of a left wing ideology than the right. Neither a hiker nor a trail maintainer but I cut and pull invasive vines

I think anyone who legitimately posts about left issues eventually accumulates a lot of online gossip. I cannot attest to whether other leftists are monsters who steal from minorities or not. I can attest that I have seen people walk back obvious lies about these people and then everyone keeps repeating the obvious lies anyway. I can attest that I myself am neither a right wing troll, business major, landlord, person who lives in the woods, or prostitute who sleeps with tech bros to get ahead. Those are just rumors I know about (for all I know there are even worse ones). If someone on the internet is telling you to hate one of the five remaining people actually trying to shine a light on fascism, I am begging you, please ignore it. We are not going to get ahead by targeting every leftist, only by building leftist politics. You don't have to support any particular leftist but spend your time building things and not fighting anyone you heard from a friend of a friend did something probably maybe

"Left" is an interesting concept. Applied to right-wing politicians the Latin 'sinister' is the proper version; applied to many a left-wing politician it may be more appropriate to use the French 'gauche'.

🪧 No, Eastern Europe Isn’t Doomed to Right-Wing Rule
#politics

No, Eastern Europe Isn’t Doomed to Right-Wing Rule
Six left-wing parties from central-eastern Europe have formed a new alliance. They’re united by opposition to right-wing populists and Russian imperialism — but they’re also challenging the center-left parties who led the region’s neoliberal turn.

The Intercept is losing ~$300K/month and could run out of cash by May 2025, according to data from March; its CEO says the projection was a worst case scenario (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/04/14/2024/left-wing-media-meltdown<…

Learned a new term today: Progressive except for Palestine
“…is a phrase that refers to organizations or individuals who describe themselves politically as progressive, liberal, or left-wing but who do not express pro-Palestinian sentiment or do not comment on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Pro-Palestinian advocates regard PEP as a type of political hypocrisy and an example of anti-Palestinianism…”

"One quarter of all Paris residents now live in public housing, up from 13 percent in the late 1990s. The mixité sociale policy, promoted most forcefully by left-wing political parties, notably the French Communist Party, targets the economic segregation seen in many world cities.
'Our guiding philosophy is that those who produce the riches of the city must have the right to live in it,' said Ian Brossat...who served for a decade as City Hall’s head of housing."

I think anyone who legitimately posts about left issues eventually accumulates a lot of online gossip. I cannot attest to whether other leftists are monsters who steal from minorities or not. I can attest that I have seen people walk back obvious lies about these people and then everyone keeps repeating the obvious lies anyway. I can attest that I myself am neither a right wing troll, business major, landlord, person who lives in the woods, or prostitute who sleeps with tech bros to get ahead. Those are just rumors I know about (for all I know there are even worse ones). If someone on the internet is telling you to hate one of the five remaining people actually trying to shine a light on fascism, I am begging you, please ignore it. We are not going to get ahead by targeting every leftist, only by building leftist politics. You don't have to support any particular leftist but spend your time building things and not fighting anyone you heard from a friend of a friend did something probably maybe

Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth Behind Bail Fund for 'Free Palestine' Bridge Blockers (Jessica Costescu/Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/israel/left-wing-dark-money-behemoth-behind-bail-fund-for-free-palestine-bridge-blockers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240415/p72#a240415p72

Right wing morons scream "Sexy Gay Stuff Must Be Banned From TV!!!! Kids watch that!!!!"
and left wing morons respond "All Sexy Stuff Must Be Banned From TV!!!! Kids watch that!!!!"
Maybe we could just stop the Sex-Phobic Hysteria altogether.

Excellent analysis here, with receipts. https://mastodon.social/@Teri_Kanefield/111918499810980670

Ohh my….. come on now
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/14/former-hillary-clinton-aide-huma-abedin-dating-son-george-soros/

Former Clinton Aide Huma Abedin Dating Son of George Soros
Huma Abedin, former aide to Hillary Clinton, has reportedly been dating the son of billionaire and left-wing activist George Soros. 

“When it comes to big troubles, the Republican counties suffer far and away the worst problems – and they’re getting even worse. Unlike fraudulent, “cherry picked” political claims that select only certain years to show whatever trend partisans want, I use mathematical trendlines that incorporate all years in the period into a single trend in the following charts.”
#TrumpPoxOnSociety…

Murder, shootings, drugs, shoplifting – CONSERVATIVE areas are driving California’s troubles
Mike Males Rampaging mobs looting stores, streets littered with drug-stuffed bodies, cars smashed, failed gun laws… all blamed on “Soros”-installed district attorneys, left-wing legislators, softheaded judges, and “progressive” local policies. It’s so...

You know it is time for thé Rées-Mogg ascendancy
“Former Neighbours stalwart and ex-popstar Holly Valance has backed Jacob Rees-Mogg to be the next prime minister & blasted left-wing political ideas as “c**p”.”
#UKPol

Liz Truss comeback bid hit by chaos
Two key allies drop out of her new PopCons group launch, while her ex-chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng quits politics

The Methods of Moral Panic Journalism https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/moral-panic-journalism

The Methods of Moral Panic Journalism
Scare stories on "left-wing illiberalism" display a familiar pattern.

Important article.
I would add: Netanyahu & Trump, and the Palestinian rejectionists & tankie ultra-left campaigning against have a common goal: To destroy the possibility of a peaceful coexistence of Israel and a Palestinian state. So it's natural that the latter would attack Biden in ways that help Trump.

Trump Advisers Talk of Palestinian Expulsions, but Activists Focus on Biden
Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law and his former ambassador to Israel have amplified policy proposals embraced by Israel’s far-right wing, but U.S. activists say their anger still rests with the current administration.

Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth Behind Bail Fund for 'Free Palestine' Bridge Blockers (Jessica Costescu/Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/israel/left-wing-dark-money-behemoth-behind-bail-fund-for-free-palestine-bridge-blockers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240415/p72#a240415p72

"One quarter of all Paris residents now live in public housing, up from 13 percent in the late 1990s. The mixité sociale policy, promoted most forcefully by left-wing political parties, notably the French Communist Party, targets the economic segregation seen in many world cities.
'Our guiding philosophy is that those who produce the riches of the city must have the right to live in it,' said Ian Brossat...who served for a decade as City Hall’s head of housing."

Beyond Pi Day, today is the 6-year anniversary of the assassination of Marielle Franco, a Brazilian left-wing politician murdered under Bolsonaro. The Wikipedia page reads like a novel, with cover-ups, suspicious circumstances, and one suspect group's (verified) alibi being, I kid you not, "We were busy killing someone else at the time".

Downtown Deceit
"Where Do We Go From Here?"
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2024/04/14/downtown-deceit-where-do-we-go-from-here/

Wall Street Journal Opinion on:
The Moral Blindness of Putin’s Apologists on the Right
is subtitled:
"They have embraced the moral equivalence that used to define the self-loathing left-wing elites."
Even when taking the right side the Murdochs can't resist being dicks

Important article.
I would add: Netanyahu & Trump, and the Palestinian rejectionists & tankie ultra-left campaigning against have a common goal: To destroy the possibility of a peaceful coexistence of Israel and a Palestinian state. So it's natural that the latter would attack Biden in ways that help Trump.

Trump Advisers Talk of Palestinian Expulsions, but Activists Focus on Biden
Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law and his former ambassador to Israel have amplified policy proposals embraced by Israel’s far-right wing, but U.S. activists say their anger still rests with the current administration.

“When it comes to big troubles, the Republican counties suffer far and away the worst problems – and they’re getting even worse. Unlike fraudulent, “cherry picked” political claims that select only certain years to show whatever trend partisans want, I use mathematical trendlines that incorporate all years in the period into a single trend in the following charts.”
#TrumpPoxOnSociety…

Murder, shootings, drugs, shoplifting – CONSERVATIVE areas are driving California’s troubles
Mike Males Rampaging mobs looting stores, streets littered with drug-stuffed bodies, cars smashed, failed gun laws… all blamed on “Soros”-installed district attorneys, left-wing legislators, softheaded judges, and “progressive” local policies. It’s so...

Downtown Deceit
"Where Do We Go From Here?"
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2024/04/14/downtown-deceit-where-do-we-go-from-here/

I stumbled upon Bryan Lunduke's YouTube channel. The last time I saw that man he had left for Oddysee, it seems in the years since he made a 180 on that stance. So I combed through his feed to see what he's been up to and noticed his vids and articles have gotten extremely fringe and essentially declared war on OpenSuse due to their anti-right-wing stances, and that he endorses the IDF's crimes. Lunduke, you're insane and another black mark on the Linux and FOSS community, st…

We must unite against the new wave of political policing | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/we-must-unite-against-new-wave-political-policing

We must unite against the new wave of political policing
All shades of red must stand in total solidarity with any person or group, from the CPGBM-L to Socialist Appeal, that is facing the unprecedented attack on left-wing speech that began over the Gaza protests, demands ANDREW MURRAY