Alexa Luciano, a homeless trans woman in Puerto Rico, was murdered the same day that a bunch of social media transmisogynists started spreading completely unfounded rumors about her using the women’s bathroom to peep on cis women, rumors that were started by some random cis woman who saw her in the bathroom at a McDonalds, who was so completely incapable of producing any evidence for her claims that the police dismissed her out of hand. Nonetheless, these unfounded accusations against the trans woman spread like a wildfire on social media until some piece of shit men took it upon themselves to murder her, fueled by the hateful rhetoric of trans women as an immanent sexual threat to cis women that these social media rumor mills are always founded on.
Think of how your social media shit can literally destroy lives next time you try to place a moral demand on us to uncritically believe every transmisogynist rumor mill you come across, or the next time that you claim that cis women’s transmisogyny is just completely detached and unrelated to the most extreme examples of men’s violence, because what happened here clearly shows the opposite, and cis women are not innocent victims who should always be believed in this case, they have Alexa’s blood in their hands, every single one of them.
“In 1996, he voted in favor of the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act, which “imposes sanctions on persons exporting certain goods or technology that would enhance Iran’s ability to explore for, extract, refine, or transport by pipeline petroleum resources, and for other purposes.” In 2001, he voted to extend the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act.
In 1998, he voted in favor of extraditing black revolutionary Assata Shakur to the United States in order to face “justice.”
However, the most notorious action of Sanders during the Clinton years was voting in favor of American bombing in Kosovo in 1999. When antiwar activists occupied Sanders’ office in 1999 due to his support for the war, he had them arrested. Sanders’ backing for air strikes in Kosovo led one of his advisers, Jeremy Brecher to resign in disgust, writing: “Is there a moral limit to the military violence you are willing to participate in or support? Where does that limit lie? And when that limit has been reached, what action will you take?”
The War on Terror marked the beginning of Sanders’ support for the war budget and appropriations to the military in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007. and 2008.
Sanders’ support for protecting Israel was not just in terms of words, but by votes to provide billions in military hardware and aid to the Apartheid state in 1997, 1999, 2004. When Hamas won the Palestinian elections in 2006, Sanders voted in favor of imposing sanctions in order to remove them from power. He has also voted for resolutions in favor of Israeli military actions against Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2014. At a town hall meeting on Gaza, Sanders was heckled for defending the Israeli actions, telling the audience to “shut up.”
During the Obama years, Sanders’ showed his continued support for American imperialism by voting in favor of the military budget in 2009, 2010, and 2013. He supported Obama’s military actions against Libya, sanctions against Russia, providing a billion dollars in aid to the far right Ukrainian government in 2014, and supported arming the Saudi Arabian monarchy to fight ISIS.” https://www.leftvoice.org/not-on-our-side-on-bernie-sanders-and-imperialism
Bernie Sanders presents himself as an anti-war candidate. But he has voted in favor of almost every single U.S. military intervention in the
Every single time someone mentions “but what about Venezuela” as a thought-terminating cliche in response to an entirely unrelated discussion of a leftist topic, I’m gonna start asking them if they can explain exactly how they think Venezuela got into its current economic crisis, if they can tell me what Maduro’s political party is or what the name of the Venezuelan oil company is. I’m curious if I can find a single one of those people who can even answer basic questions about Venezuela
It’s very simple Brett, Nicolas Maduro is the leader of the Communist Party of Venezuela and he caused the crisis by being a tax and spend liberal who broke the economy machine by raising taxes on the rich too high.
it’s true! he forgot to factor in human nature, and that’s why communism (which is when the government does stuff and the more stuff the government does the communister it is) will fail every time.
I keep seeing the take that the US pushed Yeltsin into power. Setting aside that the “help” amounted to a Republican consulting group his daughter hired to work on his image, he was the Chairman of the Russian Soviet Republic, I’m pretty sure he wasn’t an underdog for President of the Russian Federation.
It was clearly projected that he was set to lose against Zyuganov in 96 and Yeltsin was losing much of the legitimacy that he had. Clinton forwarded billions of dollars in aid at the behest of the Yeltsin campaign to keep the communists out of the presidency.
“Clinton saw Yeltsin personally as an indispensable partner in achieving his goals. Only Yeltsin’s continued leadership, the White House believed, could guarantee Russian cooperation on U.S. priorities. The perception of Yeltsin as irreplaceable gradually led to the difficult situation where U.S. backing for the Russian democratic transition consisted largely of promoting its favorite “democrat,” Yeltsin, as the only game in town – even as he was quickly becoming an autocrat in reality. For his part, Yeltsin painted his opponents in the 1996 elections as the ultimate evil: unreformed communists who would attempt to reinstate Stalinism, and take back not only Crimea but also Alaska. The newly available documents show that, in response, Clinton took many steps to increase the chances that Yeltsin would win the Russian elections of 1996, including making presidential visits, delaying visible progress on NATO expansion, and pressing Congress and international financial institutions to provide Russia with loans that would allow Yeltsin to pay salaries and pensions during the critical campaign period. For his part, Yeltsin openly asked his friend to provide $2.5 billion and complained that he only received $300 million of IMF loans.” (X)
the new patriarchal dynamic is men being emotionally withholding and distant whilst periodically being affectionate/amorous when they get short bursts of desire for a woman, then they return 2 being stunted and not knowing how to communicate and women have to take on the ‘cool girl’ role of being unbothered by emotional whiplash because they’re so scared of fulfilling the misogynistic stereotype of ‘overbearing high maintenance girlfriend’
Brutal Violence against marginalised communities is always consumable for white people like… the fact that liveleak is filled with videos that show brutalised injured and dead people from areas that the US military has invaded and/or occupied… white peoples culture is a culture made for consuming the pain of the disenfranchised
well, i’ve ran the numbers and it seems like i am going to need a rival. a nemesis, of some sort. hit me up if you would like to be my enemy and my foil
i am a woman searching for a woman to face me repeatedly in one-on-one combat at critical junctures and important moments as we dance around the topic of the growing attraction between us
“antifa never killed anybody” is not only not true if you also want to claim the heritage of the original antifaschistische aktion, but even if you’re just talking about the recent 2015-onward incarnation in the US, it’s not gonna be true forever, and you need to get used to that. eventually a fascist will be killed by antifascists, and if your whole argument relies on the idea that white supremacists are violent while antifascists are not, it’s gonna fall apart. fascists dying is not a bad thing
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