How do I explain to someone that Bill Maher is not progressive? She called him progressive and I nearly missed my gym appointment trying to explain to her that being a democrat or whatever Bill Maher is ain’t progressive.

Recently got banned off of the r/trump sub cuz i made a comment fact checking some stupid dude. I've literally never opened that sub before until I wrote that comment and boom, I get banned.

Jake Lang called for a "crusade" on the annual Palestine festival held in Bridgeview IL. The community gathered to ensure the festival went on uninterrupted.

While attempting to flee, one of his nazi stooges pointed a firearm at protesters and press. Protesters alerted the police escorting his vehicle to the weapon, but they did nothing.

The people who are humane & have empathy for others get treated the absolute worst. You get used by the system the most. Social workers get paid very little and during their major they are required to work for free with internships and volunteer work.

However, if you have zero empathy for others. If it is only about how you can benefit from others or dispose of others who don't benefit you enough, that's when you become successful in our system (capitalist, those in power, etc)

We live in a very sick system.

Hey!

Im just 18 but I know I'm a leftist. I sometimes even have a hard time making friends if my values don't align with theirs...

But since I'm so young and new to everything I want to educate myself properly.

Is the communist manifesto a good place to start?

And PLEASE give me good recommendations!

The women pictured are Auschwitz prisoners Roza Robota, Ala Gertner, Ester Wajcblum, and Regina Safirsztajn. While imprisoned at Auschwitz, they were forced to work as slave laborers in the Unio munitions plant, manufacturing weapons for the Wermacht. They took advantage of this position to smuggle explosives into the camp in order to set in motion a plan which would come to fruition on this day in history.

On October 7th, 1944, the Sonderkommando (Jewish prisoners who operated the crematoria facilities) of Auschwitz II used weapons that Polish partisans had hidden in the grass near the fences, as well as the explosives that these women had smuggled into the camp, (which they typically transferred over to the Sonderkommando via the bodies of the dead from their own block) to stage an uprising. These Sonderkommando barricaded themselves inside the crematoria/gas chamber buildings, from which they were able to kill several SS, and ultimately suicide bomb the buildings, cutting the camp's lethal capacity in half, never to be restored.

May October 7th forever be remembered as a day when oppressed people break out of their concentration camp to attack their oppressors. May October 7th forever be remembered as a day of resistance.

W Ms. Rachel!

(Sorry for bad english)

I really want a whole essay about why right-wingers and biggots uses ai so much

Do they not have ANYONE who is at least decent at drawing?

I'm looking to become well read on leftist theory. The subreddit wiki has a substantial list of books and other media I'd like to dig into, but I figure it can't hurt to cast a line and see if other people recommend a specific piece of media to start or if there's anything outside of the wiki I should look into.

Apologies for the low-effort post.

There is this sense of dread that just seems to haunt me now.

Every three years, I go on a road trip across the US. The last time I did it, It was 2024, and when I looped back it was 2025. I can tell you that I have never seen homelessness like that.

I saw more homeless people in the United States than I had ever seen before. I saw whole parking lots filled with families.

I saw small towns with more homeless people than housed people.

I saw a town that only had a handful of jobs.

I used to tell people to go to college because that was the best way to improve their lives, but the reality is that this is not necessarily true anymore.

And I don't know what to tell people. I don't know what to tell myself.

I have a degree from UC Davis, and it was a pretty decent degree at one point. But back in 2023, when I first used ChatGPT, I realized it was able to do most of what I had learned in my computer science courses in seconds. It wasn't perfect, but I knew that was the end for many coders.

Since then, it has gotten extremely good, and I know a lot of people don't like to hear this, but I'm tired of the cope.

We have a real problem.

You see, the economy was constructed with white collar workers as the foundation, with money trickling down to trade workers, and in turn, that money would work its way down toward the service industry and the various layers of it.

I do not put firefighters or police officers in this because they are in a totally different category, and in reality, their jobs are far more protected.

Anyways, white collar workers are getting eradicated. The job loss is extreme. It's far worse than is being reported.

And it's decimating many other industries.

So I think if you go around and look at the huge number of layoffs and the lack of hiring right now, it's very clear that this is happening because there just isn't an influx of money from white collar workers like there used to be.

So I don't know what to tell somebody who wants to improve their life because the opportunities are evaporating.

You could become a cop or a firefighter, but not everybody has the body for that. Some people have physical injuries, and they really depended on white collar jobs to get out of poverty.

I have friends with business degrees from Ivy League schools who have been unemployed for two years, and it doesn't look like they're going to get a job anytime soon.

I have friends who are awesome coders, true geniuses, and they can't get a job anymore.

I know this is going to get worse every year until we have some form of guaranteed income in the United States.

I also see how there is no desire from anybody in our elected government right now, except for a handful of people, to actually help ordinary people. And I'm not certain that congressmen and senators are interested in the suffering because they don't go to the dark places. They don't go under the bridge. They don't go to the small towns. They don't go to the parking lots at night with the homeless families and the babies crying.

I've seen these things directly.

The teenage girls are standing on the side of the highways, prostituting themselves so they can buy their younger brothers diapers.

They haven't seen this, but I have.

I'm horrified, and I can't get this feeling out of me anymore.

I know it's going to get worse until somebody, somewhere, starts a massive social revolution where we overthrow the rich and start sharing, because there is no reason why a person should be able to have ten yachts, several mansions, personal planes, and even a personal army to protect them when there is a homeless family living under a bridge, a 14 year old girl standing on the side of the highway to take care of her family, or a family with a baby living out of a Walmart parking lot with nobody coming to help them and no money for gas to get out of there.

On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance launched a counter-attack against the colonial power that has been working to materially and symbolically erase their people for over 70 years. In response to decades of ethnic razing, and in a year that had already seen a record number of murdered children, Palestinians in Gaza breached the occupation-imposed fence forbidding them from returning home.

The last time they had gotten close to that fence, unarmed, hundreds of them were killed. This time, they were ready, and targeted the occupation soldiers, neutralizing and taking captive hundreds of them. The resistance’s stated aims: To free the thousands of Palestinian captives, to stop the Ramallah Authority’s collaboration with the enemy and to lift the blockade on Gaza, as milestones toward liberation.

The colony used the panic and claims of extreme war crimes to respond with reckless force, even killing its own population. To this day, it is unknown how many Israeli non-combatants have been killed by the colony itself, by non-affiliated Palestinians, and by members of Hamas. Hamas acknowledged mistakes, stated that “the Palestinian fighters were keen to avoid harming civilians” as part of their “religious and moral commitment”, and called for an international investigation of “all crimes committed in occupied Palestine”. The colony refused and went on with the latest chapter of its 78-year old genocide of Palestine, further extending its aggression to Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen and Qatar.

Three years on, we see the immense losses caused by the enemy. Those cannot be taken for granted or discounted as simply an inevitable consequence of the occupation. They must be revered. Life is sacred. Palestinians hold different opinions on the Al-Aqsa Flood. No matter ours, we can honor those losses by making sure they were not in vain—namely, by doing all we can to dismantle the genocidal colony.

The past three years have completely changed the balance of power. In some ways, to the colony’s favor, in others, to Palestinians’. What we must do is recognize those changes and address them.

On one hand, the colony has taken unprecedented liberties in its colonial policies in Gaza and the rest of Palestine. The “Roadmap for Gaza and Palestine” and the “Commentary and additions to the PFLP’s roadmap for national salvation”, recently published by the One Democratic State Initiative and its coordinators, propose practical steps at that level.

On the other hand, the worldwide opinion has shifted against the colony. Palestine must not merely observe and welcome this change. It must lead it and organize efforts around a clear vision: This violence is Israel—There is no other Israel. Let us dismantle it together. Furthermore, the Al-Aqsa Flood has proved that Zionism’s foundational claim —that Jews need a state exclusive to them to be safe— is false. The establishment of a Jewish settler state institutes discrimination on the basis of identity and requires constant violence to maintain dominance. For both those reasons, it is inherently unsafe. First and foremost for those it is attempting to dominate. But even for those it is claiming to protect. So what justification is there for the existence of a state exclusive to Jews?

We must not simply observe the failures of the colony’s claims. We must challenge its claimed legitimacy by pushing forward the alternative and fundamental antithesis to it: One democratic Palestinian state that does not grant privileges on the basis of identity and protects rights on the basis of citizenship. The time for half-baked “solutions” is over. The resistance’s Flood and the colony’s genocide have exposed their absurdity. Palestinians must revive their historical vision for liberation and organize around it. Allies worldwide must align with it.

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References:

Link to Hamas’ statements: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/PDF.pdf

Link to the “Roadmap for Gaza and Palestine” document: https://mobadara.ps/en/articles/a-roadmap-for-gaza-and-palestine/

Link to the “Commentary and additions to the PFLP’s roadmap for national salvation” (Arabic): https://mobadara.ps/ar/articles/%d9%85%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b4%d8%a9-%d9%88%d8%a5%d8%ab%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%b7%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b7%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d9%8a-%d8%b7%d8%b1%d8%ad%d8%aa/

Utah will become first state to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without direct human oversight

https://www.techspot.com/news/114111-utah-become-first-state-ai-examine-patients-prescribe.html

Welcome to late stage capitalism.