https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/27/why-liberalism-is-losing-socialists-populists/
Fareed Zakaria once compared Howard Zinn to Steve Bannon. 🤡
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So, one thing I can appreciate about the modern Democratic party: I can’t be certain if he means
get radical, or 
get radical…maybe both?
Liberals need to aggressively push through programs that will have a Predator drone patrolling every neighborhood and 10 Flock cameras on every street corner.When Republicans do something blatantly illegal, they need to aggressively form a committee to decide what to do about it in 10 years.
We must stand up to the oligarchy and fight for an equatable society, that’s why we support sending NAFO death squads to fight Putin.
Fareed “I supported apartheid” Zakaria
Fareed “Why Greed is Good” Zakaria
the radicalism: doing sick™ turbo kick flips off the IMF funded skate park on your second five minute break 10 hours into your shift at something like taco bell, but worse (the democrats will spend $100 billion on consultancy fees to find the worst possible thing)
somehow it will be in service to AI
O’Rourke-core
one of the bwurst moments of my life was when my 9th grade English teacher said I was just like howard roark and i still do not know how to interpret that
god, just remembered I was like a finalist in that ayn rand org Fountainhead essay contest. I didn’t read the book. why are you making me remember this just by saying o’rourke-core
libs moving to the right of cons so they can stop their advance
In summary: make everything you say something like the dialog options you use to get the “most boring man in the world” achievement on disco elysium
what does that even mean? rob banks overseas and donate the money to police pension funds?
The liberal version of the Tiflis bank robbery.
Compulsory brunch for all citizens .
Means-testing at gunpoint
Reading the article… it’s incredible how warped the liberal world view has to be to try to make sense of anything. He talks about capitalists becoming the ruling class from previously being a revolutionary class (not at all in those terms though). Then describes all the reasons that having a ruling class sucks, but he just calls both the capitalist and feudal ruling classes as “the establishment” as of they’re the same entity. So little introspection and curiosity on his part, so much abstraction and fantasy in what he’s trying to describe. When it would all be so clear if he just studied Marxism 101.
it’s incredible how warped the liberal world view has to be to try to make sense of anything
It always reminds me of how people would not give up the geocentric model of the universe and had to keep coming up with more complicated explanations for their astronomical observations because they couldn’t conceive that one of their base assumptions would be wrong
This is true in the general sense that the Catholic Church was reluctant to update their interpretations of the universe. But what’s lesser known is that Galileo didn’t provide very good or scientific evidence at first. It was basically vibes that turned out to be right.
Dr Fatima has a great video essay on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7a65AvELdU
Oh yeah I was being real vague and hand wavey about it just to get the analogy (metaphor?) across, but there is unsurprisingly way more to it
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
That’s a great analogy. Thank you, I might have to use it some time.
When I talk to liberals about Marxism, I tend to compare it to the theory of evolution, swapping Darwinism for Marxism. Evolution is objectively correct, all of the real world evidence supports it overwhelmingly to the point that denying it is absurd, yet we still have these fervent creationists who do deny it absolutely and insist on building elaborate but ridiculous ideological mechanisms to explain away all the undeniable evidence for biological evolution. The liberals I talk to agree with all of that. So I try to explain to them that the world we live in is one where it is as if the creationists won. Those ridiculous ideological mechanisms creationists use to explain away reality are what our politicians and “economists” do. I ask them to imagine if the vast majority of society were to think of Darwinism, if they’ve even heard of it, as some failed explanation for the diversity of life, a little historical footnote of an incorrect theory. It is a society utterly stunted in terms of anything related to biology or ecology. Well that is the situation we’re in only it’s Marxism instead of Darwinism that has been tamped down and smeared as a misguided and false attempt to explain how the world works when in fact it is scientifically and objectively true. The canard that “Communism doesn’t work and it always leads to despots and failed states” is equivalent to a creationist saying “Well if evolution were true, why are there still monkeys? My grandfather was not an ape.”
I’d like to think that comparison planted some seeds in some of them, especially the ones I knew who had backgrounds in biology and an abiding disdain for creationism. But I might have to borrow your analogy to add onto my little speech as another apt comparison to be made.
Ooh the Darwin/evolution angle is another good one, hadn’t considered that either but it fits really well
Marxism vs. Liberalism
Very satisfying, thank you!
Add more black cops, send more LGBTQ guards to enforce the apartheid in occupied Palestine, and have more women done pilots to bomb school girls.
: “That’s it! I’m going…I’m going…to politely ask you to stop TWICE!”The guy glazed Modi on Jon Oliver saying India went too far with Socialism and learning to work for themselves is what saved them from their economic slump in the 90’s.
populism
I’m getting tired of seeing this word. It’s come to mean “Stupid children need the adults in the room to
commit war crimesmake the tough decisions. Therefore we, the professional managerial class, should be the only ones with the right to vote. Elections are the most important form of the political process and you are doing them wrong, which is why nothing gets done.”It’s unearned elitism. They aren’t even experts in their own ideology, let alone socialism or whatever the fuck Trump supporters are doing. And they sure as shit are not the billionaire capitalists who actually hold power. These are fuck-fuck fuckwads who think their $330k/year salary for “working” in an adult daycare sending e-mails and can afford Door Dash from Panera every meal makes them qualified to run a country.
Ok, no more Mr. Nice Liberal!
This time us libs are gonna vote even harder!!
The digital ID cards are gonna have a PNG of the Cool S.
“I’m a liberal but I say slurs”
