The naked #human body isn't inherently #sexual and sexual things aren't inherently bad. I think some "#leftists" need to #remember that. :antifa_100:

Request from #Leftists of Mastodon!

What are concrete examples of hate, transphobia, and denial of facts from Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson I can point to for my Gen C uncle? There's just so much to sift through that requires explanation. Thanks in advance!

"yesterday I went to a little meeting at my local queer #community center and I was admiring their bookshelves and mentioned that I work at the public #library and someone said "well I bet they don't have any [LGBTQ+ books] at our library" and I was like um. yes we do. we have tons of them. half of our employees are queer #leftists so they said "oh well I bet they don't in [nearby rural county]" and I was like uh once again yes they absolutely do. gay people live and work there as well

so here's a quick #reminder that if you don't think your local library has enough queer centered materials you should actually check before assuming, and if you're not satisfied with their collection you should submit a request for more such #books. I don't know what the #political landscape of #libraries looks like outside the us rn, but within the us no matter where you are, I promise you there are employees at your library fighting for inclusion and intellectual freedom and they can't win without vocal #public #support"

https://www.tumblr.com/hater-of-terfs/726209686082355200?source=share

Smearing #US #Antiwar #Leftists
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/08/17/caitlin-johnstone-smearing-us-antiwar-leftists

Right here. The difference between #liberals and #leftists in one sharp graf, in Naomi Klein's forthcoming DOPPELGANGER https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610326/doppelganger

Oh man.... guys.... fellow #WhitePeople and #leftists... as a pragmatic progressive who only wants to do what it takes to solve problems... I am once again asking you to heed this #sooth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzNANfNlTs

Every time there's a big writer's strike or whatnot it becomes starkly clear how many self-proclaimed #leftists think that only #people who perform manual labour which results in a physical product that you can hold in your hands count as #workers and #everybody else is a parasite of some description.

Hello! We're Nausiyan, a fun-loving #plural system navigating #chronicIllness. Deeply into the #furryFandom, #Linux, and #Tech world - hobbyist in #IoT, #homelab and #programming! Twitch is our #gaming playground, while we also advocate for #DisabilityRights. As #Leftists, we appreciate engaging discussions on any subject. A heads-up: Our content can be mature, discretion advised. Living with #LongCovid. #Streaming #MatureContent #introduction #nya #kemonomimi #vtuber #enVTuber

When I first started getting involved in #activism, I found there were (relatively) a lot of #neurodiversity activists who were #liberals, and a lot of #leftists who were #neurotypical and didn't say or do much with neurodiversity. There were, as far as I could tell, very few people approaching neurodiversity from a leftist perspective. It was a major goal of mine to highlight the connections and bridge that gap. It still is.

That was around five years ago. Now, I'm thrilled to say I'm finding tons of #neurodivergent leftists around. Perhaps it's because I'm better at finding people, but I do have a sense that the landscape has changed at least somewhat in the past five years.

However, neurodiversity is still a "side issue" (if even) to the vast majority of neurotypical leftists. Our histories, #communities, and struggles are not understood by them, and that understanding is not prioritized. They don't read our #theory, or engage with our #movements. They know we're here, they have a vague idea of who we are, and they can work us into conversations that are really about something else. I don't want to take away from the importance of those things. But #neurodivergence isn't an aside!

Calling all #US #Leftists , let's connect.
I primarily post about #USPolitics (#TaxTheRich now or #EatTheRich later) but am also into #comics #IT #math #polymath #science #scifi #tech #TBS #TTG #TTRPG #xkcd.
Based in central #Maryland and based on a true story, I think we should switch to #Base12.
I tend to support pragmatic #BernieCrat positions but appreciate deep left allies who make me stay honest.
How about you?

I literally don't know what to do to convince the Disability Lords in America that my disability is real.

Not even losing my job due to LongCovid and its complications is enough for them. They keep throwing out evaluations that prove my condition and denying my claim.

Now I have to push for an appeal before a judge, and wonder how the hell to get through that without ending up collapsed and worsening my condition.

It shouldn't be this hard to get support and care, but apparently it is.

Every step of the way is covered in red tape, requiring health that I simply don't have to keep up with the increasingly impossible demands to prove I'm ill enough to get disablity. And yet I'm too ill to do it all.

I expected the betrayal and backstabbing red tape from the government because that's what the system is designed to do.

The system is set up to KILL us.

And there's only what... five or so people in power (progressive democrats) who for the first time last year tried to fix all this shitty red tape (plus the fact disability payments isn't enough to live on or the fact we can't marry and other shitty restrictions that hurt us), but mostly Democrats killed it (we all expected Republicans to kill it, because they are ableist white supremacists mostly).

So yeah, excuse me that I don't trust any politician in America to give a shit about us.

But that's not the true source of why I'm angry -- sure I'm upset and angry I got the denial.

But I'm even more angry at how the majority of #Leftists and #Anarchists who OUGHT to be building communities of care that include disabled people....

.... just aren't doing it. They are leaving us to fucking die just like the rest of America. The futures they keep depicting? The meetings and conferences they make? Most aren't accessible AT ALL. That glaring lack of access tells folks like me how content these people are with throwing us away as useless for their future and movements.

So is it any wonder that disabled people are pissed off? Is it any wonder we lack trust in abled bodied people? Because y'all don't give a shit about whether we live or die. Your actions keep showing it.

I'm so angry.

Just so damn angry, because it's not just that I could lose my shelter and ability to exist in my own space.

But it's also because I know too many people who can't get on disability. Who can't get any help, who are losing their homes and jobs and who are dying.

And the fact that people claim to be for justice won't include us in their future? In their solidarity? Because they can't even bother to wear masks or do any pandemic mitigations or an accessibility to keep us safe? Because apparently being accessible is "too much work?" (A bullshit reason I've heard one too many times, plus the whole blaming their inability to do access on 'money' even if I offer solutions that was little to no cost).

Yeah. That is a big sign of how much these people don't care. How much they ate up eugenics.

So yeah. I'm angry.

I'm that angry disabled person at home too sick to go anywhere, who is homebound, who is isolated, who doesn't get to see people in real life for weeks unless it's a medical appointment (and even then I've often had to go virtual).

Society throws away disabled folks, and with each denial in my attempt (and the attempts of my fellow disabled folks) to get help, it's just another stab in the back, another blatant abandonment/neglect. Another reminder of how my life has no value because I can't produce for the Lords of Capital. As hurtful as this is at times, it's never as hurtful than those who claim to be allies to disabled people and yet do the same abandonment.

It's glaring and painful to see Leftists not engaging in community care that includes us. That is by far the worst betrayal of all.

I expected the government's betrayal.

But I foolishly keep having hope that Leftists or even fellow anarchists won't betray disabled people, and yet, they keep consistently doing so with the lack of pandemic mitigations, lack of other accessibility needs, and a lack of even checking in and supporting homebound disabled folks.

So yeah. I'm angry. Just so damn angry.

And it's so damn hard to hold onto hope when there's a whole country hellbent on yelling in my face that I have no worth unless I produce (which I can't right now).

Anyway, that's my rant of the month I guess.

Just please be accessible. Check in with disabled folks. Give a shit about us. And stop leaving us behind in your justice and solidarity and equity movements. Thanks.

#NEISVoid #AmericaIsAbleist #LeftistsStopBeingAbleist #Accessibility #CovidIsNotOver #Justice

Seeing a lot of #UK #leftists popping over here with useful news, but no alt text. I'm not boosting you if you don't include alt text. Rules of the Don, I'm afraid.

https://mises.org/library/rise-effete-authoritarians

Political leaders of the so-called liberal Western regimes are engaging in #authoritarian tactics to quell legitimate dissent. But #leftists who riot and burn get a free pass. #misesinstitute

https://mises.org/library/rise-effete-authoritarians

Political leaders of the so-called liberal Western regimes are engaging in #authoritarian tactics to quell legitimate dissent. But #leftists who riot and burn get a free pass. #misesinstitute

Anyone happen to know of other forums or people to follow to for #leftists #firearm content that's not the #Socialistrifleassociation ? #sra #gun #breadtube #liberalgunowners #liberal #progressive #leftwing

I had an insight the other day that feels in hindsight like it should have been obvious - and maybe to some folks it is, but here goes.

The Democratic party is capitalist. And they have pushed and pulled over the years on the ideal size of a safety net for those left behind by our capitalist society. We want a social democracy - mostly market driven with some safety pins, although not as many as euro social Dems.

#uspol #politics #democrats #leftists

This might upset some people

#meme #funny #capitalism #liberals #leftists #politics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YLzcNHfn38

This story got under my skin. That is a traumatic event and it happens to a lot of LGBTQ kids too. It is child abuse and should be regarded as a criminal act. Disinheriting a child because they don't believe your preferred superstition and won't go along with your right-wing ideology, educationally neglecting them to keep their ideas pure, is child abuse. It should be a crime.

Christianity is a destructive, evil ideology from the dark ages that should be abandoned and not embraced. It is a false belief. Your cool church where the pastor is a lesbian with a nose ring and a mohawk is not what #Christianity is to most people and bringing up #notallChristians in #leftists or #queer spaces is not welcome. American Christianity is full of fascists. It's not materialism. It's a lie.

Yeah, I know Martin Luther King Jr was a preacher. I don't care. Most Christians are fascists or scammers these days. Some of them are Black like Creflo Dollar. The Black church cannot be trusted either. They have molesters and homophobes too. They beg for private jets while their congregation lives in poverty.

Christianity should not be redeemed by radicals or liberation theologians. It must be destroyed.

Not everyone who believes in God is reactionary but believing in God is a reactionary belief. It's false. In practice, Christians are reactionary more often than they are not and not wanting Jesus shit in our spaces is completely valid given all the horrors they inflict on queer folks. Respectfully, for some of us God, Jesus, and the church being back horrific memories and present-day oppression. You shouldn't discount that as mere fedora tipping. Christianity is the boot on our neck and I'd see it die out than redeem it because of a tiny number of cool preachers.

I say this as someone who tried. I tried so hard to give it another chance not long after I came out. But the genocidal campaigns against us completely soured me as they are all rooted in the same false belief. When you look at who is behind these campaigns, it is always the church. During my phase of being a Christian, my Dad died and I wanted to visit a church down in Florida because it just happened to be Ash Wednesday. Down there, there were no "good" churches, it was all hellfire and homophobia.

Because that is true Christianity. That is why most Christians are fascists. It is a backward and reactionary belief system for traditionalists and authoritarians. To say otherwise is real revisionism, not liberation theology or other attempts to squeeze round pegs into square holes.

Also, where was God when Florida's laws drove me from the state? Hell, where was God during the Holocaust? There is no God, end of story. We live in a dark, vast, and uncaring universe. And I'll be glad when I'm dead. That's it. God is fake. It's false hope, false consciousness. We need a revolutionary consciousness, not distractions and lies. Those are the justifications for xenophobia, transphobia, and genocide.

where even are all the indian #leftists on the internet? and why are they not on the #fedi ?

#mastindia

"Every time there's a big writer's #strike or whatnot it becomes starkly clear how many self-proclaimed #leftists think that only #people who perform manual #labour which results in a physical #product that you can hold in your hands count as #workers and #everybody else is a #parasite of some description."

https://www.tumblr.com/nandomando/717366880868925440?source=share