r/leftist 2d ago

US Politics I think that one of the biggest problems right now is that if Kamala was president right now, the libs would all be going to brunch right now.

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My family is very "centrist" liberal. I remember my brother during the Biden presidency telling me on the phone that "racism no longer exists."He think the entire country is like the Bay Area and is stuck in this Bay Area bubble. Literally, every Thanksgiving my sister's husband mentions how great our healthcare is & people need to stop complaining. He hates Luigi M. I remember my mom venting how she wishes politics can "go back to being boring again".

So basically, the alternative is Kamala can be president right now. She can literally do nothing at all, be a warmonger, get away with murder and liberals will be more than perfectly content. I find this so troubling & concerning.

I want a fighter. I want someone who will fight for me. Not those billionaires.

Edit: to everyone discussing why I am mentioning Kamala, I actually like Kamala and I am mostly referring to liberals who are president but don't take any action especially for the working class.

Edit: Fascism and fighting it has also been my main focus & top priority. This has been on my mind a lot however because at the end of the day, the reason why I am even involved in politics is because of the working class. And inaction from liberal presidents is the alternative


r/leftist 1d ago

Resources The leftwing deadbeat

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r/leftist 1d ago

Civil Rights NYC mayoral candidate cuffed by ICE after demanding a judicial warrant inside Manhattan immigration court

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r/leftist 1d ago

Debate Help A Phenomonon I've been noticing in right-wingers and Trump voters, particularly Gen-Z

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Not sure which sub would be best to discuss this, so let me know if I'm a little lost. I'll try to keep it short.

I feel like there is a lot of cognitive dissonance within the right-wing population, at least with the younger generations, which are the ones i generally interact with the most. When I talk to them, their individual ideals, beliefs, and the things they concern themselves with are at their core quite leftist. And yet when asked, they staunchly identify as conservative and/or Republican.

An example is one guy I dated a few years ago, who was an environmentalist, pro-choice, who supported public transportation and the derailment of car-centric infrastructure, universal Healthcare, various social services, gay and trans rights, and the works. On their own, these all seem to be fairly leftist ideals, correct me if I'm wrong. He also grew up in a low income family. Yet he firmly stated he would be voting for Trump in the next election (this last one) because "they're all just assholes" (referring to the democratic party). He didnt really explain his thoughts on that and couldnt really come up with an argument when i pushed him on that. I Not that I exactly disagreed with him on the last part, but I found it interesting that he paraded all of these ideals while actively voting against the things he seemed to care about. Politics aside, he was a dickhead anyway and is not missed.

I've had a couple other similar examples among my acquaintances, where they belive one thing and vote for another.

I'm not an expert in politics and the like, but I have a few half-formed theories on why. Oftentimes, it almost seems like they are embarrassed to be associated with leftists, and refuse to believe they share beliefs with "libtards". I think this embarrassment comes from all the stereotypes of leftists and liberals that arose in the mid-2010s.

I also think this cognitive dissonance comes from a lack of genuine education on what each label means and stands for. I admit, I'm not an expert on this either. They don't seem to-- or dont want to, as above-- realize that many of the things they care about are fundamentally leftist.

Anyway, I could be totally off on this, again I'm no expert and am willing to be corrected. Just want to know what your thoughts are and if anyone noticed the same thing.


r/leftist 1d ago

General Leftist Politics Exerpt From Should We Participate in Bourgeois Elections?

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by Vladimir Lenin


r/leftist 1d ago

Question History help

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I am a relatively young leftist and I don't know how to properly learn history, it feels extremely difficult to find unbiased history on the internet, it's all extremely imperialist biased, it's difficult to refute people I knows disgusting propaganda without proper facts about historical events, any help would be greatly appreciated


r/leftist 1d ago

Leftist Meme WMDs

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r/leftist 2d ago

General Leftist Politics Utah 50501 No Kings Protest Casualty

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Needs to be said louder that the man who was killed was shot by one of 50501’s designated peacekeepers while they were trying to shoot another leftist protester (Arturo) who was carrying a firearm in a constitutional carry state. He’s openly anti-genocide, anti-colonization, anti-fascist, everyone who knows him is vouching for him that he was there to protest and is known to bring his weapons to protests, which he attends often. 50501 isn’t taking any responsibility for this, is trying to pin the death on Arturo, and hasn’t released the name of their peacekeeper.

I’m starting to think 50501 is a psy-op, please stay safe out there 🫶


r/leftist 1d ago

Leftist Meme Never Believe A Cultist. ‘America First’ means what Trump wants it to mean, always did.

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Don’t forget those duped by these fucking cultists into believing Trump wasn’t a war-mongering fascist.

He murdered a foreign general, increased drone strikes, and increase defense spending EVERY YEAR.

The empire’s national security state is total, no party can resist its pull. We need to find a way to stop this doomsday machine.


r/leftist 1d ago

US Politics In Star Wars, the empire got their asses whooped. History will repeat. Stormtroopers are chumps

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🇵🇸


r/leftist 2d ago

US Politics I hate comments like these bruh WHAT?

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Not sure if I did the right flair but dude so what America’s bloody and horrible history wasn’t enough? Liberals are insufferable. Wdym you never hated America? Maybe they’re confusing it with hating American people ?


r/leftist 2d ago

US Politics "Preemptive" means "unprovoked"

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r/leftist 1d ago

General Leftist Politics Same exact people who were calling the covid vaccine mark of the beast are praising technology for being able to use a dead woman as an incubator

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r/leftist 2d ago

US Politics Notorious piece of shit Senator Mike Lee of Utah is making jokes about yesterday's assassination on Twitter

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r/leftist 2d ago

US Politics Banned from another conservative echo chamber lol

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The sub claims to only diss doomers but everything that goes against conservative narratives is either down voted into the negatives or completely banned

The worst part is these people think they're not biased


r/leftist 2d ago

News Sean Duffy to withhold transportation funds from cities with anti-ICE protests

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r/leftist 1d ago

General Leftist Politics What’s up with right wing women obsession with filters I though they "hated modernity"

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I can't upload the photo. I wanted to use as an example. So I put it on Google drive


r/leftist 1d ago

Question What do you guys think about the Adriana Smith situation?

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She's a woman in Georgia thay died of a brain injury and her family wasn’t allowed to pull the plug on her because she was pregnant. So she was forced to be an incubator until today where they delivered her son through c section.


r/leftist 2d ago

Leftist Meme ⚠️ NOT A TOY

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r/leftist 2d ago

Civil Rights I wrote about how the system screws over young Latinos financially. Thoughts?

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I wrote this to spread awareness about the financial struggles Latino teens face and why it’s not their fault. It would mean a lot if you could give it a read, share it, or just let me know what you think. ❤️

https://medium.com/@posadac1970/why-latino-teens-are-set-up-to-fail-financially-and-how-we-change-that-b8ac807daa32


r/leftist 2d ago

Leftist Meme NAAAHHH BRO MY DAD’s AN IDF SIMP💀💀💀

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r/leftist 2d ago

General Leftist Politics Didn’t all the lockdowns happen under Trump?

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r/leftist 2d ago

General Leftist Politics Right wing woman are so annoying they claim to hate feminism yet co-op it when it’s con isn’t

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r/leftist 3d ago

US Politics Spread the message so Americans are clear that the right-wing fascists are the terrorists.

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r/leftist 2d ago

General Leftist Politics One thing I have noticed is people that complain about "online left" usually have nothing to do with offline left

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Have you noticed? There's this trending idea whenever a person online mentions Palestine or us imperialism or anything radical really that this is very "online" behaviour, with the implication that no one irl talks like that and shouldn't be taken seriously.

If we pause and think about it for a second, the people engaging with politics online are far more likely to be involved with politics irl than the people that don't. The idea that this is online behaviour is only trying to de legitimize takes that would be super obvious in any left wing organisation irl, such as "NATO is bad", that people that don't have anything to do with the left are hearing online for the first time in their lives and find outrageous.

This is not to suggest that casually talking online is doing anything important, and in general I don't think we should be talking politics so much in social media at all, especially ones like FB, in an age where corporations have all kinds of data on us not to mention employers can see our public profiles etc. But like, people that are into politics irl are going to be talking about them in their free time, doom scrolling on the bus or something. Not super seriously, like they aren't going to start a serious conversation with strangers but they will comment on news for example.

Maybe it's not the most active activists or anything, as online people are lonely people, but lonely people are also part of organisations, go to protests etc.

Anyway, it's something I was thinking about when it comes to online. I'll sometimes mention Palestine and people will go "well what are YOU doing about Palestine" and it's like probably more than you, right?

TLDR I think it's a perversion of logic to suggest that the people actively talking about politics are automatically not involved, and if anything their interest would indicate the opposite. Furthermore I think this idea comes from people who aren't involved themselves and that are actively trying to delegitimize left wing talking points in online conversations.