Do you think it's always bad or it can be good sometimes?

Do you agree with the following statement? "Austerity kills people and it's an evil act against minorities"

Do you think austerity measures and social democracy are uncompatible?

WaPo reporter Jeff Stein asked this on Bluesky. Any thoughts? I have a sketch, a concept of a plan, for the center as I think they're most able to bring radical change (with policies they're already looking into and my own twist on a potential platform) but what about the left?

I formulated my opinion pretty well in a tweet I made: The fascistification of traditional SocDem parties this year has to be studied. SPD is also showing signs. Genuinely how spineless is this movement that rather than reinventing itself and reflecting on it's messaging it just folds in face declining polling and far right pressure. You are of course free to disagree and I am open to criticism. This is just a quick critique out of my frustration of the recent labour decision on puberty blockers for trans kids and the SPD's shift on immigration. EDIT: I AM NOT ADVOCATING FOR MORE CULTURE WAR OR MORE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS I ADVOCATE FOR LESS OF BOTH AND INSTEAD FOCUSING ON ACTUAL REAL ISSUES WITHOUT THROWING PEOPLE UNDER THE BUS AND MOVING RIGHT ON ACTUAL VALUES, CULTURE WARS JUST ALIENATE PEOPLE AND YOU NEED TO NORMALIZE STUFF LIKE TRANS RIGHTS FIRST BEFORE YOU CAN MOVE ON TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!

If we were in 1930’s Germany, the liberals would be congratulating Hitler on his “win.”

Jack Smith is dropping the case against trump because it’s not polite to investigate a sitting president

FBI Director Chris Wray is giving up his seat rather than sticking through it even if it meant he got fired by trump. He’s not even trying.

I donated to Kamala and that was a mistake. She blew through all that money.

I got spammed with like 100 emails per week.

Let’s face it: the egg prices got too high so people picked fascism.

“There’s always next time!”

There won’t be a next time. Republicans will rig 2026 and 2028 and every election after that.

There is quite literally nothing we can do.

Edit: im AFAB genderqueer. I’m going to lose control over my body when they implement a national abortion ban and I won’t ever get to put non-binary on my passport. I’m fresh out of college and the economy is about to crash

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Lot of Syrian-based people over the world were celebrating victory for 'Syria finally being free' without realizing that their next opponent who might target them none other than Israel. Am I surprised, no! Also if you are wondering am I angry and disappointed, absolutely yes! I am very angry that Israel using all their money, and power to attack unarmed, defenseless civilians and rebellions in neighboring countries like Syria who just got freed from Assad regime. Not too long before then, Israel has been attacking neighboring countries like Yemen, and Lebanon. Countries like Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria are already defenseless due to lack of supplies, and weapon available to defeat Israel. At this point Saudi, Iran, Iraq, and Ukraine should join Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria to fend off against totalitarian country like Israel, and Russia and eventually to defeat them in a war. I also don't think that US has any business over the dispute going on between multiple countries in Middle East and Eastern Europe, and US government should stay out of their business. Of course, they should stop paying Israel to cause any further catastrophe on Arab countries.

What you think of the current political gridlock in France and the New Popular Front?

I think NPF is a little too radical and probably needs to compromise with the centrists to govern the country. To be fair only parts of NPF is moderate left-wingers (Parti Socialiste and Les Verts)

Another question would be why arent we seeing more french people here? We even have a Leon Blum flair ! :D

Left wing youtube kinda sucks with destiny Abad hasan. Is there other better left wing youtubers?

Trump is talking about ending ‘birthright citizenship’ as one of his main goals.

I’m just trying to get some perspective from people in existing social democracies which have much more strict citizenship guidelines to get a better understanding before or as drastic societal change is being attempted.

Imho depriving millions of citizenship could lead to a lot more bleak shit but curious to hear your opinions!

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Consider the various types (e.g. direct voting, electing representatives to the board, electing a ceo rather than letting a board do it etc etc).

Welcome to the new substack history series, History of the Socialist Revolution. It narrates the history of international socialism from Russia all the way to West Africa and beyond. I will not be able to post them in chronological order. Think of it kind of like Star Wars. It starts with episode 4 and then we'll go back later. Anyway, read it. It's free. Give it the like button, subscribe.

https://benjaminknob.substack.com/p/history-of-the-socialist-revolution

Especially since most people are losing faith and becoming more right-wing

What are your thoughts and opinions on artificial intelligence (the concept in general, generative AIs like ChatGPT, and science-fictional varieties)?

I ask this because my mind kept going back to the ongoing debates of automation vs worker wages, the effects of generative AIs on society and corporate power, the artist backlash to said AIs, and how to reconcile it all with an automated social democratic future where AIs do all our manual labor.

The future I envision is one where almost every single person you see with a job is either a highly skilled technical worker/manager (e.g. engineers, scientists, programmers, financial analysts, stockbrokers, financial managers, doctors, lawyers), or in a service position where a personal touch is the entire point (e.g. waiters, beauticians, personal care assistants, chefs, guards, teachers, counselors, social workers, salesmen), with the manual labor being done by fleets of robots, drones, and hyper-efficient nanofabricators.

But today? Well, you look at the debates surrounding (generative AIs) with the discourse around "art theft" and fears around "artists being phased out so everyone can be a corporate slave", especially the artists responding to that by waging their own little Butlerian Jihad (just go onto the comics subreddit or any artist's profile on Instagram and you will find a practically-universal revulsion towards AI). And how that East Coast worker strike apparently arose out of refusal to be replaced by (likely) more efficient automation (it's been a while since I checked so that might not have been the case). Or indeed how to reconcile AI automation with worker's rights and unions.

So I want to know what you guys think about AI, both reality and science-fiction.

Hello beloved comrades! :D

So I guess reformist socialists achieved plenty of stuff like workers rights and unions, state paid retirement, education and healthcare but I m aware no capitalist state was ever reformed into a democratic socialist state. I dont care about Lenin s Soviet Russia or Mao s China, naah we ve had enough of that in Eastern Europe. Lets consider folks like Olof Palme or Leon Blum. Would you say these people failed in the long run?

Since this sub is pretty diverse, I am actually curious about your stances on this topic.

New Labour is an interesting phenomenon. Some people consider it the best turn in the history of the Labour party. Others claim that New Labour betrayed the original cause of Labour party . So what do you think about it?

Do you think we will ever end up with a mass societal push for leftwing New Deal & Great Society policies again? It all feels so distant and depressing.