• Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Making a mayo Pete documentary is amazing. The guy achieved nothing and is most known for declaring victory in the Iowa primary with 0% reporting.

  • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    3 years ago

    Just astounding how libs treats Fauci like he's fucking Ibnu Sina when all he did was doing the below bare minimum that is expected for a 21st century health minister.

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    It's insane to me how much mediocrity gets rewarded with the likes of RBG and the bread price fixer

    • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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      3 years ago

      She's easily the least cringe of this group at least, not that that's saying much.

      • gringosoldier [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Not sure that's true anymore: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/learning/film-club-greta-thunberg-has-given-up-on-politicians.html

        Not sure it was ever true, really. Keep in mind that she likely feels a lot of pressure to be a public face for the concerns of young people and calling for even more militancy is going to garner even more backlash than what she already receives.

            • Ezze [hy/hym,they/them]
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              3 years ago

              Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani women’s rights activist. At fifteen years old, she was shot in the head by the Taliban in retaliation for her continued activist work.

              In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.

              She enjoyed a lot of favor in western media after her attempted assassination. Her story was quietly put away by western outlets after she began openly speaking at different Marxist conferences and advocating for socialism.

              • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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                3 years ago

                Her story was quietly put away by western outlets after she began openly speaking at different Marxist conferences and advocating for socialism

                :desolate:

              • CTHlurker [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Also bears mention that her father is a local leader of a Trotskyite org in rural pakistan AFAIK. So while we (westerners) shit on trots for being useless, at least a few of them in the developing world are actually quite good, and does good work.

      • UncleJoe [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Emailing Greta to tell her to google Bookchin and social ecology :sicko-yes:

    • Mizokon [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      she's had some based takes such as the pro-farmers tweet. BJP Fascists were really mad, it was so funny.

    • neera_tanden [she/her]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      She’s bordering on cancelled, tbh. I like her speeches, but if she expects us to actually do something? Pure childish naïveté

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I really hate seeing Fauci next to RBG because there's just too much "unbelievably bad decision that libs hate you for bringing up" energy.

  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    at least with RBG you can laugh at a decrepit old ghoul attempt to work out, it's like half the movie

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      thinking about when her trainer did pushups in front of her casket

      • Sushi_Desires
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        3 years ago

        I have said previously this was my "funniest politics moment of 2020" ... absolutely hilarious. My face must have looked insane when I first saw the tweet

      • CTHlurker [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Also libs decided pretty early on to deify him, because he would occassionally tell Trump that he was wrong, and that people should mask up. Then the conservatives decided that wearing a mask meant being cucked, and so he was sidelined for the rest of 2020. Now he just comes out every couple months to say something dumb about chuds needing to mask up / get vaccinated, and then throw his hands in the air when they say no.

    • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Fucked up the AIDS crisis in the 80's, kept his job literally forever and told everyone not to wear masks at the start of the pandemic despite knowing they work.

      Probably more I'm forgetting.

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Defining the narrative on pandemic response to explicitly exclude any discussion of a lockdown. Guaranteeing that the only pandemic response options would be measures that are convenient to capital, even if that meant the response would obviously be completely ineffective.

      Not tossing himself down a mineshaft and retaining some honor.