Liberals who never pretended to be leftist are being called traitors by liberals who do pretend to be leftists. This BS been going on since the Obama years.

Naomi Klein continues to be the superior Naomi.

supports authoritarian Russia

The Left critique calls for freedom of movement for people as well as capital;

the paragraph where I stopped reading this shit

The Left critique calls for freedom of movement for people as well as capital

wtf is this shit? no thanks, "globalization" (imperialism) sucks no matter how pretty you try to dress it rhetorically

None of these people were leftists, they were liberals or "average" people molded by social environments.

To quote a post that I once stole from here from a poster I've now forgotten the origin of:

Liberals entire thing is "uphold the status quo". This is the position of pretty much every single politically illiterate liberal who really doesn't understand what any ideology actually is. They change their shape in order to fit themselves into whatever the existing social paradigm is.

This is why LGBT people got absolutely nowhere with liberals until they literally bullied them with riots and pride parades saying a big visible fuck you to everyone that ever tried to make them invisible. They could not be asked to change they had to be bullied and forced. Once the social paradigm is changed they then accept it.

This is why anger and cancelling on twitter became a thing. It bullied liberals into new social paradigms.

This is why it works for dirtbag leftists.

And this is why they picked up guns and shot at whoever the nazis told them to shoot at. Not because they were true believers. But because mussolini or hitler and every other fascist simply bullies them into a new social paradigm... and once the paradigm is changed they accept it.

Liberals are absorbomorphs. Their ideology is absorbomorphism.

These "leftists" were people placed into left social circles whose environment was surrounded by so much left that their absorbomorphism molded itself into a leftist.

When their social environments no longer forced them into this shape, they change shape.

They are unlike the depressed leftists cursed by Marx to a life of misery who can never give up their leftism. They change their shape continuously.

Max Blumenthal, well-known far-right conspiracy theorist

Taibbi specifically is under attack right now for exposing the mis- dis- mal-information discourse—and the governmental & non-governmental institutions that have sprouted from it—to be just parts of the larger propaganda machine of the coalition of the Democrats and the Never Trumpers. He’s an existential threat to them maintaining control of corporate social media discourse and gaining control of fediverse discourse.

Edit to add: In case anyone thinks I’m being hyperbolic in bringing up potential fediverse censorship, I’ve got a PDF for you from the Atlantic Council: Collective Security in a Federated World

The examples given at the start are Matt Taibbi (Walmart Hunter S. Thompson), a bunch of comedians, Naomi Wolf (advisor to the Clinton admin), and the hosts of Red Scare.

The only ones out of those who claimed to be leftists were the Red Scare podcast, but from the times I listened they mainly complained about cigarettes or discussed which things are the most "cucked." I never got any leftist vibes at all other than sometimes they'd drop a name like Gramsci or Donna Haraway.

The only real thing I'm getting from this article is liberal media figures sometimes figure out they can make more money hanging out with Peter Thiel if they start saying slurs more often. They just gotta start claiming they were canceled by leftist wokes and then bam they're eating oysters at a fancy upper west side party with some rich guy who owns an app that predicts how white a person is based on nostril shape

God damn it, Ana. I dismissed people who said she would do "why I left the left" type of content and here she is more or less doing that about mythical crime waves.

There’s a point here in that the alt-right will sometimes call for very narrow elements of social-democratic political economy (at least when no one has to break out the state checkbook for it), and that can lead disaffected leftists astray. But the article is also doing a disservice by not acknowledging that part of that shift happens because the alt-right sprinkles a few nuggets of truth in the otherwise shit sandwich. Yes, corporate charters waxing poetically about diversity policies is a smokescreen for capital. Yes, the Democrats are going to bat for institutions like the CIA and legacy media.

There’s a problem in political thinking where the other side must be wrong about everything all the time as that’s what makes them wrong, and vice versa for our side. In reality, any side can make truthful observations, but still be wrong in the goals. It’s the old flaw prevalent among the Western left where ideas are the things from which politics spring from, and not that the process is where politics happens.

Did you mean to post this in the dunk tank?

Honestly, I feel quite despairist at the state of the U.S left... on the other hand, the rest of the international left should be doing fine...

Strasserism be like. Intelligentsia always been that way though