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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 5h

"Hitler saved Germany" is also bullshit.

Average real wages stagnated! With women forced into home labor & rising inequality, most poor families were worse off than in Weimar.

That's why German kids got shorter & died younger (in the US & USSR: taller & older)!

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 5h

Gaines' reasoning is stupid:

Israel's denial of genocide in Gaza FAILED against video & statistical evidence. Scholars & the public turned against Israel as a result.

Similarly, Holocaust denial FAILED against immense documentary evidence, from train tickets to telegram tables.

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 5h

Sexist moron and 2m sub YouTuber Myron Gaines announces that he is a neo-Nazi.

Gaines made it big from "dating" content like "all women are whores".

It's so cool that social media gives massive clout to the world's dumbest Hitlerites.

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so tired of these fascists pretending to be smol bean victims while their apocalyptic rhetoric inspires more killers than any other ideology

Every ideology has edgy posters, but only far-right ideologies consistently produce killers

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 1d

I hate this bullshit from the right.

Number of people killed in terrorist violence by White nationalists, like John Doyle, since 2000? over 150

Number of people killed by the center & left combined? under 30

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 1d

Research shows that (most) progressive/left policy wins need a triple combo:

Popular support (ex: public opinion)
Elite support (ex: elected leaders)
Mass movement (ex: mass protests, mass strikes).

For example, see a stylized summary of US feminist campaigns, from Giugni 2016:

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 1d

"But their march had cringe signs & didn't change policy!"

This describes 99.9% of rallies!

Protests are A TOOL to persuade & mobilize. They only win policy change when you ALSO have popular opinion + political elites who agree:

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 1d

Watching liberals & communists take turns shitting on each others' protests is driving me insane

It's all fine! The big Gaza rallies are fine! The big No Kings rallies are fine! Marches & protests persuade people. They're good!

Kill the contrarian brain worm! Marches rock!

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 2d

Red Scare show why leftism can't just be "anti": Anti-capitalism, anti-US, whatever

Leftism must be a modernist humanist project: People are valuable, truth is real, everyone deserves dignity

With no moral core of human flourishing, edgy contrarianism can take you anywhere

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 3d

A big problem: In most communist spaces you get WAY more clout for attacking leftists than attacking rightists.

Like: Trump & rightist media are working night and day to label anti-fascism as "terrorism" & ban that opposition -- and you're focused on lying about Mamdani?

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 3d

Are "communist" accounts like this -- who repeat any lie, no matter how dumb, so long as it slanders popular American socialists -- some kind of op? Or just extremely stupid?

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 7d

Pass gerrymandering hardball laws like California:

Name one red state. So long as that state is gerrymandered, so will yours. They can be all-red. You will be all-blue.

If they want a fair democracy, they can back down and adopt independent redistricting.

But they won't.

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 7d

The theocrats on the Supreme Court think it's good to rig democracy for Republicans.

Every Democratic legislator has a simple duty to the Republic:

End independent redistricting. Gerrymander out every single Republican seat.

Beat them at their evil game.

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 8d

Every. Single. Time.

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 8d

"God wants the state to beat up peaceful protesters."

Never forget: American rightists are delusional morons.

There is no God. He has no plan. Rightists just want to feel good about killing you.

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 8d

Any critiques & suggestions welcome!

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks! I and a few others worked hard on it! :)

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 9d

You currently live during the biggest wave of organized leftism in US history:

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 9d

The Democratic Socialists of America are now the largest socialist organization in US history since 1919:

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 9d

The Democratic Socialists of America are now the largest socialist organization in US history since 1919:

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 9d

Agree

See also the note on the bottom (which gives the number of dead on September 11)

Including 9/11 makes the chart not readable for every other category -- and 9/11 (an organized attack) is dissimilar to 99% of mass violence in the US (radicalized individuals)

socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 9d

Every major Republican commentator is openly telling Trump to break the Constitution and ignore court orders.

When they moaned about court rebalance "delegitimizing the institution" they were lying.

They don't care. They just want absolute power. They are fascists.

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 10d

On c-span the heritage foundation is currently arguing in favor of legalizing conversion therapy nationwide

One host jokes that he'd like to ban therapists from arguing in favor of accepting your homosexuality or transition

You don't hate these theocrats enough

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 11d

Yes

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 11d

Oop yeah, I didn't factor()

Thanks!

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