We cannot afford to be out of touch with the predominately Republican working class.
When people feel they have no voice, they resort to violence. This is a fundamentally Lacanian point.
Lives are at stake. Look, I know it’s counterintuitive, I know it feels disgusting, but if you want to talk someone down from being violent, you make them feel heard.
So tell me, comrades:
Do you care about the 99% or just the % that agrees with you?
Are you a leftist because the left doesn’t look or sound like the people who’ve hurt you, or do you have a true moral stance?
As people see us as less than human, the way to assert our humanity is to assert theirs. How we act now decides the future. There is hope yet.
Walter Benjamin wrote that every wave of fascism is a failed revolution. I say something similar. The left has failed insofar as it has not loved its enemies.
No father should violently die in front of his family for his beliefs, even if those are hateful or wrong. Any applause for such an act is inhumane, unneighborly, unjust. When you speak to persuade, speak with empathy.
Charlie Kirk’s murder was undeserved. It was inhumane regardless of what he may have said of others killed in shootings. This doesn’t accelerate progress. It will only mobilize those with already violent tendencies to be more violent.
As a staunch leftist, I am disgusted and saddened to see we are not better than this.
All Charlie had to atone for were bad-faith lies and the anger he spread. Emotions. Not other people’s lives.
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Clark Elieson
We cannot afford to be out of touch with the predominately Republican working class.
When people feel they have no voice, they resort to violence. This is a fundamentally Lacanian point.
Lives are at stake. Look, I know it’s counterintuitive, I know it feels disgusting, but if you want to talk someone down from being violent, you make them feel heard.
So tell me, comrades:
Do you care about the 99% or just the % that agrees with you?
Are you a leftist because the left doesn’t look or sound like the people who’ve hurt you, or do you have a true moral stance?
As people see us as less than human, the way to assert our humanity is to assert theirs. How we act now decides the future. There is hope yet.
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Walter Benjamin wrote that every wave of fascism is a failed revolution. I say something similar. The left has failed insofar as it has not loved its enemies.
No father should violently die in front of his family for his beliefs, even if those are hateful or wrong. Any applause for such an act is inhumane, unneighborly, unjust. When you speak to persuade, speak with empathy.
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Charlie Kirk’s murder was undeserved. It was inhumane regardless of what he may have said of others killed in shootings. This doesn’t accelerate progress. It will only mobilize those with already violent tendencies to be more violent.
As a staunch leftist, I am disgusted and saddened to see we are not better than this.
All Charlie had to atone for were bad-faith lies and the anger he spread. Emotions. Not other people’s lives.
Stay safe everyone.
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Hop on Pop is a lot darker than I remembered
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If you find Dr Seuss books creepy or unsettling, what about them makes you feel this way?
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More of Dr Seuss’s political cartoons.
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Would you watch a video on The Existential Horror of Dr. Seuss?
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Title
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One of Dr Seuss’s political cartoons
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Umm… guys?
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