Part of the reason for the USA's failure is MAGA but the other big aspect is a left that does not engage the real enemy
Toxic idealism
Spineless capitulation
Mindless cynicism
"Polite society" "high road" cluelessness
And lazy entitlement
Not financial entitlement but this obtuse entitled foolishness that we have the time and space to criticize some aspect of the left according to deranged standards of perfection when we're facing literal fascism
Make MAGA the target of your venom
i need to rant
if the balance of your focus is spent attacking an aspect of the left for inadequacy, you're not really on the left
your motive is psychological, not ideological
the real ideological need is to attack MAGA, the right, conservatives, bigots, plutocrats
some of this phenomenon is people who think they're helping but can't see the forest for the trees
others are edgelords or agendas cosplaying left and sowing division because it's easy
that it's easy is a huge fucking problem
Over the weekend, 17,000 people canceled their #WorldCup tickets
#FIFA is holding an emergency meeting
Maybe they will give Agent Orange another pretty trophy? Maybe bigger, more gold... really sparkly? Will that fix the problem? (/s)
As an American: don't come here
Don't do business with the #USA
Until we clean this shit up. Mainly: we #vote #primaries #primaries2026 and get some real left candidates
https://www.ticketnews.com/2026/01/nearly-17000-fans-cancel-2026-world-cup-tickets-amid-boycott/
#Boycott #BoycottUSA #Soccer #Football #Sports
Don't risk everything trying to save that which needs no saving
34 years ago today, the #SovietUnion officially ceased to exist. December 26, 1991
Apologies to #tankies (not really) but it was a very good thing
Not liking the #Soviet Union has nothing to do with loving #capitalism or loving the #West, it's about despising #imperialism
Anyone who has a problem with my sentiment:
Talk to someone who lived in #EasternEurope or under the Soviet umbrella
We must defeat #plutocracy in the West
The Soviet way is not the way
Happy #SovietUnionCollapseDay
Something extraordinary is happening in #Iran:
#Women are really really not giving a fuck anymore
What started as protests over the murder of #MahsaAmini by religious morality #police in 2022 for not wearing her headscarf simmered and now is snowballing. Women and girls are not wearing the mandatory #hijab at ever increasing rates
https://apnews.com/article/iran-hijab-mahsa-amini-protests-israel-war-d953ebfce090c044ac948aa5e476e7b1
#WomensRights #religion
Also in 2013:
The #USA was respected under Barack #Obama
Today, the USA coughs up embarrassing shit from incompetent clueless morons like this:
"#JDVance asks 'why don't #Ukraine and #Russia stop killing each other and start trading'"
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/jd-vance-asks-why-dont-ukraine-and-russia-stop-killing-each-other-and-start-trading/ar-AA1QQ8uV
#UkraineWar
Dear most esteemed intellectual statesman #JDVance:
#Ukraine and #Russia can't "stop killing each other and start trading," you pathetic piece of shit, because Russia daily mass murders Ukrainians for ethnofascist #imperialism
2 days ago a Russian missile struck an apt bldg in #Ternopil, killing 31
2nd grade student Ameliia Hzhesko and her mother Oksana were found burned to death, embracing each other
This happens regularly, you fuckwit fucking shitstain
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0yere4k0zo
#UkraineWar
November 21, 2013, 12 years ago: #Ukraine's govt suspends integration with #Europe
Very soon the center of #Kyiv looked like this:
The rest, as they say, is history
#Euromaidan #EU #UkraineWar
Also in 2013:
The #USA was respected under Barack #Obama
Today, the USA coughs up embarrassing shit from incompetent clueless morons like this:
"#JDVance asks 'why don't #Ukraine and #Russia stop killing each other and start trading'"
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/jd-vance-asks-why-dont-ukraine-and-russia-stop-killing-each-other-and-start-trading/ar-AA1QQ8uV
#UkraineWar
November 21, 2013, 12 years ago: #Ukraine's govt suspends integration with #Europe
Very soon the center of #Kyiv looked like this:
The rest, as they say, is history
#Euromaidan #EU #UkraineWar
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @contrapunctus@en.osm.town
of course that's terrible but why do you think that supports what you're saying?
accepting the fediverse remain fringe and fractured means you also accept continued dominance by facebook
why?
we must accommodate people (nonbigots, no disinfo)
we must not accommodate the whims of asshole mods
it's not about follower count, it's about reach. greater reach means more impact. lowering impact to accommodate douchebags on a powertrip does not help what you linked
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @contrapunctus@en.osm.town
"Federating with servers that spread bigoted lies is wrong"
of course
look at my bio: #NoThreads is displayed prominently
and that is an entirely different topic
the topic here is amongst servers: asshole mods severing connections on pique, not violation of serious rules
individual people should block with abandon
server mods should follow serious rules to suspend, not whim or cruelty
or you rot the #fediverse, you drive people away due to capricious bullshit
Ben Royce 🇺🇦
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