Bourgeois power and privilege twisting the language and theory of social justice to defend itself; “equality” as window dressing for continued oppression and exploitation of the very people it pretends to support: liberal feminism 101.

At this point I no longer understand how someone can be relatively aware of the world around them and not hate the US with a deep, fiery passion. 

I would rather understand it through the lens of the Afghan people whose lives we devastated; the compulsive need to foreground everything through the experiences of The Troops (an invading hostile force, many of whom raped, stole, and murdered their way across their tours of duty) is one of the more creepy things…

The US got exactly what it wanted out of its occupation of Afghanistan for decades — staggering amounts of wealth transferred to the military, defense contractors, and mercenary groups, continual justification for increased defense budgets, and a steady supply of dark money for our intelligence services via resumed…

Ignoring the history of the region — notably the US building (with money and guns and propaganda) a fundamentalist movement to destroy the pro-Soviet Afghan government (one which despite its many faults actually enshrined equal rights and education for women and girls), then claiming the lack of rights for women and…

I don’t think this piece gives too much power to feminists, per se, so much as it points out the easy/fundamental alliance between (white) Western bourgeois feminism and rapacious imperialism. Feminist lobbying did not make the US invade Afghanistan. It did, however, provide cover on the left (however you’d like to…

Wait — I despise Biden for the conservative he is and all, but is it seriously your contention that the “progressive” position here is pro-imperialism? I mean the Taliban exists because the US government funded and armed the mujahideen to fight the pro-Soviet socialist Afghan government, a government which actually…

A sexual harasser and a Zionist antivaxxer? Good job search committee!

Well, the Democrats are certainly a right political party

Seriously what a bizarre comment. Ah yes, let’s return to the halcyon days of morality and refinement entailed by the...studio system?!?

“Record collectors” as a population don’t deserve rights; absolute scum of the Earth.

It’s funny — I’ve been a record collector since my college days back in the far-off mists of history, and have done time as a dealer as well. I have thousands and thousands of records, everything from common dollar bin fodder to multi-thousand-dollar 45s, and if I had one piece of advice to give to someone looking to…

Can’t believe the guys who’ve tried (often successfully) to infiltrate and destroy every single movement for liberation and positive social change in US history didn’t investigate the right-wing judge more thoroughly.

It’s a long and complicated story — most anti-trans rhetoric is actually rooted in second wave US feminist theory, actually, although that tendency has faded here (it’s obviously still an issue, as everything from NC’s HB2 to the recent Wi Spa protests have shown). That said, it’s found a welcome home in the UK, aided…

My sincerest thanks to English people for somehow, amazingly, continuing to make it ever so slightly less humiliating to be from the US*. Bless/fuck you, good people of TERF Island.

Yes I’m sure the ex-cop who laughed at the prospect legalization while locking up tons of people for weed possession is going to do just that.

Between this and Andy Ngo’s “brain damage,” what is it about reactionary chuds and faking assault via milkshake? There’s some sort of psychosexual link there but for the life of me I can’t figure it out.

Also pretending that their every waking moment is a situation of life-or-death danger when being a cop doesn’t even rank in the top 20 most dangerous jobs in the US.

Uhhhh withdrawing from Afghanistan, to the extent that we’re actually doing that, is one of the few good things Biden’s actually doing. US out of MENA, without exception, right now. I’d hope a self-declared “democratic socialist” could agree with that.

Are...are you under the impression Biden is not also putting kids in cages? You’re aware that “kids in cages,” as we currently think of that particular cruelty, is something that goes back to Obama, if not before, right?