like its obviously good that we've got an actual radical leftist with a very long history of being pro-palestine into parliament in the UK, but also he sucks so bad on trans issues and basically every other socially progressive issue. Im kind of like tentatively supportive of him since like as far as im aware in the rochdale election the options were basically transphobic far right neoliberal, transphobic bipartisan neoliberal, transphobic pedophile fascist and discount corbyn but transphobic for no apparent reason (average terf island local election ukkk), and like at this point it doesnt seem like there's really any none fucked up opposition to the stranglehold the right has this country in

(also the liberals and the conservatives are both bipartisanly throthing at the mouth to get him out for being too pro palestine so that's funny ngl)

TL;DR:

"Mum, can we get Corbyn?"
"We already have Corbyn at home"
The Corbyn at home:

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  • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    he sucks but his dgaf cunning is admirable and funny

    case in point he sent free palestine mailers to his muslim constituents and grooming gang mailers to his non-muslim constituents lol

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      9 months ago

      MAKE ROCKDALE GREAT AGAIN vs The last 130 days have shocked the ummah to its core

      https://twitter.com/crowndefensx/status/1763308898633609563

  • Dꫀꪑꪮꪀᥴ᥅ꪖᥴꪗ@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    I believe communism has zero or worse chance unless people stop demanding social progressive purity. The vast majority of people are sadly bigoted one way or another. This includes leftists. You need to look past the bigotry and realize it's rooted in the despair caused by capitalism. People seek "the other" to hate or feel better than to brighten in a very twisted way their sullen existence. Capitalists perpetuate queerphobia and use performative fight against it to enslave queer people to the oppression they create for us.

    • Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]
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      9 months ago

      https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Tailism

      Edit: Also throwing this in for anyone else looking. https://truthout.org/articles/why-misogynists-make-great-informants/

    • TheaJo [she/her,comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      People respecting my identity is not social progressive purity, its basic decency. Can't let bigotry exist in leftist spaces. That's fucking dangerous.

    • Kaplya
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      9 months ago

      Look, this ain’t it, ok?

      The only places I can excuse are countries that have genuinely been victims of Western imperialism, with reservations (looking at you especially, Russia), countries that genuinely have a bone to pick with Western liberalism, where the forced imposition of neoliberal order had led to mass poverty, the fabrics of society torn apart and the oppression of their national and cultural identities (treating them as the Bad CountriesTM that ought to be disciplined if not outright destroyed), whose “lack of social progress” and “human rights issues” have been used as justifications for military interventions and economic sanctions to perpetuate the imperialist aims of the global hegemon.

      In such cases, the Great Rejection of Western culture became not only a necessity, but an inevitable reaction, and the unfortunate consequences include collateral damages to aspects that are genuinely progressive, but not organic to the local movements. We’re not even going to talk about how Western imperialists had their hands in massacring leaders, activists and supporters of progressive movements from the Third World that directly led to the rise of right wing dictatorships across the world.

      As Mao taught us, the principal contradiction of these countries is anti-imperialism, which forms the dominant part of the struggle.

      However, if you live in the Imperial Core that perpetrate and benefit from the colonial exploitations of the developing world and still complain about gay people and trans people, then you’re just a reactionary. Period. There is no reconciliation with these reactionaries from the left.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      I'm struggling to find much beyond some cringe shit about pronouns.

      Does he want to take away my hormones or make me use the men's restroom?

      • IMF_DOOM [she/her, undecided]
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        9 months ago

        He's pushed himself as the anti woke alternative to labour for quite a while and this was in his campaign letter

        transphobia

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        • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          9 months ago

          Deeply ignorant on the subject. Maybe he can be educated. Father of six - odds are one of them is going to end up queer. There's nothing shielding is going to stop it. It will come out eventually, and if it ddoesn't come out in a healthy way, then it will come out in an unhealthy way. You can not bottle it up forever without consequences.

          Too much focus on it though shows willingness. I hope he is able to accept his queer child and understand it was always there and you don't just flick a switch. The only switch is closeted or open.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    He would be an average leftist politician in my country in regards to his age and political opinions. Nothing particularly revolutionary or special by our standards but he might as well be the second coming of Lenin by UK standards

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    9 months ago

    His testimony in front of the US Senate was pretty good all those years ago. Havent seen much good since.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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    9 months ago

    I will take any marxist-leninist taking power in the U.K over every bourgeoise politician, full stop.