Is this even satire? It's true
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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Hair-splitting circular firing squad.
Inflated with a deluded sense of enlightenment (aka narcissism), lacking a sense of proportion nor any intention of being practical and/or flexible, one cannot get their priorities straight, end up dying on some trivial hill skirmish among themselves, even as a savage, true threat marches into town virtually unopposed, goose-stepping all over main street.
EDIT: Reminds me of that Monty Python scene in "Life Of Brian", The Peoples' Front Of Judea, not to be confused with The Judean Peoples' Front, not to be confused with The Judean Popular Peoples' Front, etc.
Gods trying to get my friends to think about pushing politicians leftward on the scale of 4/6/8 years pissed them off. They will only focus efforts on yelling at Biden to drop out as if it will happen or help. They don't care that no world exists where they are remotely happy in nov 2024, that's the only thing they can think about
This is where the old adage "Don't let perfect stand in the way of progress" applies.
Biden may not even be considered progress by some, but at least he's not a rapid sprint backwards into fascism.
Yup
Part of the problem the left currently faces, regardless of revolutionary thought in general, is that environmental concerns are past the election cycle.
It is already too late to stop global warming at the 1.5 C target suggested in 2018.
Gradual reform will be too late. There is no way around it, we are acting too slow, and even if every country in the world flipped Green or whatever in 2028 that might still be too late.
At least some believe that it was already too late in 2014 and our estimates are lagging about a decade. Not sure I believe that, but if true, it's even more important to take action ASAP.
"Too late" is the exact language the fossil fuel execs want you to use. Even if specific targets are passed, every fraction of a degree matters. Stopping warming at 2 is better than 2.1 so if electing Biden puts us on the 2°c track thats better, and maybe the 2028 candidate can put us on the 1.8°C track. Thats a difference worth fighting for
Only if you see "gradual reform is too slow" and think "well that's all the options then!"
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I'm a member of a smallish leftwing party in my own country and having over 20 years professional experience in various industries and several countries it really riles me just how damn incompetent and disorganised they are - I mean, most have their hearts in the right place (even if they easilly succumb to serve their own petty emotional needs, like ego, rather than principles), but damn even how they go about fighting the problems in the country (pretty much 100% reactive) and the organisation and quality of the material in their campaigns is really frustratingly "amateur hour, every hour of they day, every day of the year".
Funnilly enough a leftwing part I was a member of in another country I lived in was also a lot "good intentions but very naive and a bit lost".
PS: Note that all this might be just the bias from never having been a member of a rightwing party. Maybe they're all just as bad and judging by professional standards the typical political party invariably leads to the conclusion they're pretty inept.
Meeting a new leftist who shares your values, knows their stuff and has amazing potential
Something sets them off and they start spouting neo-fascist propaganda about "tankies"
True story.
Show me the lie
I know this is the Onion but the left is inherently anti-authoritarian and advocate of horizontal structure of society with no top-down leadership. Of course we'd be disorganised 😂 Case in point, this and the hodge podge of left wingers in the Spanish Civil War ranging from communist, social democrats, democratic socialists to anarcho-syndicalists. Spanish leftists even attacked each other. The Democrats also don't even get along and this is why Republicans under Trump is gaining more headway.
I'm proud that we're maverick, but this also leads to our characteristic factionalism and thus easier to be disrupted and destroy.
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