Haters like to hate. Not much sense to rustle one’s jimmies over it.

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Isn’t this a case for hormone replacement therapy? I thought physicians recommend it nowadays.

That’s a whole lot of inaccessible text stuffed in an image where a link would have made sense for everybody.

It’s social media, so of course they’re wanking/rubbing. Don’t kink-shame. 😄

Cool strawman. Liberalism was the original leftism (see the French revolutionary National Assembly), and modern liberalism is leftist.

The many varieties of liberalism share a core liberal philosophy of morally absolute concepts:

• universal individual rights & liberties
• consent of the governed (governments exist for the people who have a right to change & replace them, & authority is legitimate only when it protects those liberties)
• political & legal equality.

To reject general liberalism, you’d have to reject that morally all individuals are categorically equal with the same universal individual rights & liberties, or that they should have political & legal equality, or that authority ought to protect those universal individual liberties & that people ought to be able to change & replace their government. It’s difficult to imagine any sensible person disagreeing with these humble ideas. If you do, then please call out your specific objection.

So, what does it mean you set “leftists apart from liberals”? You’re claiming leftists are illiberal. An illiberal leftist by definition must reject general liberalism: they think people are fundamentally unequal, or they aren’t entitled to political & legal equality, or authority ought to be able to abuse universal individual liberties, or people shouldn’t be able to change & replace their government. This is flat out immoral & contradictory: instead of eliminating social hierarchies, it asserts a hierarchy of uncontrolled government power/authority to abuse individual liberties ought to be permitted. Such uncontrolled authority is necessary for left-wing authoritarianism.

So, no, by claiming authority should have limits to prohibit the abuse of universal rights & liberties that individuals inherently have, liberalism sets a firm moral boundary that illiberals willingly violate. Only adherents to a deluded philosophy would convince themselves that authorizing government abuses is somehow morally superior. Leftists don’t claim morality by rejecting it, only by building on it, and that means accepting general liberalism: leftists can & should be liberal.

Having values to stand for despite inconvenience requires at least knowing them. If they’re not consistent & coherent, then you haven’t figured them out. By rejecting the entire philosophy of liberalism & the humanism & Enlightenment ideals that underpin it yet still claiming morality, I doubt you’ve figured anything out.

Western powers declared war shortly after the invasion of Poland.

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe

Under the Secret Additional Protocol of 23 August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to partition Poland; Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Bessarabia were allotted to the Soviet sphere, while Lithuania – apart from the Vilnius region, whose “interests” were recognized – lay in the German sphere (Lithuania – including the Vilnius region, but excluding a strip of land – was only transferred to the Soviet sphere by the 28 September 1939 Boundary and Friendship Treaty)

A week after signing the pact, on 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. On 17 September, one day after a Soviet–Japanese ceasefire came into effect after the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, and one day after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union approved the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Stalin, stating concern for ethnic Ukrainians and Belarusians in Poland, ordered the Soviet invasion of Poland.

Germany unilaterally terminated the pact at 03:15 on 22 June 1941 by launching a massive attack on the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.

They were fine with the Germans until the Germans turned against them.

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That’s excluding all the posts like OP’s lacking searchable text due to inaccessibility.

The state is making a list

Like Santa Claus? Maybe the Texas Department of Public Safety is in a festive, gift-giving mood.

All I get is

Mildly infuriating

• misplacement of $ when screenshot shows correct placement
• fax of a fax

Infuriating

• image of pure text lacking accessibility

found the fake leftist: doesn’t care about political inequality or unchecked oppression

Why are you assuming it’s a male penis?

I gotta respect Dave for giving no fucks & for “punching” any damn direction he wants.

Not even close: political systems (governance of people & their actions) aren’t economic system (goods & services), and authoritarianism is a political system.

Not even arguing about capitalism: left-wing authoritarianism is still everything I wrote regardless of capitalism. Those liberal democracies I mentioned still in principle limit authority of governments unlike those regimes whose shitty philosophies lack any such scruples: authoritarian philosophies authorize unlimited government power to repress universal rights & liberties. A non-exhaustive list of authorized abuses: the Soviets had their great purges; the Chinese communist party punishes generals for refusing to mass murder civilians, suppresses discussion of times they’ve sent tanks against civilians, persecutes the Uyghurs & Falun Gong, & represses the freedoms of its LGBT+ population to express themselves & form establishments on- & off-line to meet. These actions aren’t backslides from their philosophy.

When liberal democratic governments commit human rights abuses, their philosophy at least recognizes them as illegitimate backslides from that philosophy, and on recovery the people may freely try to hold their governments accountable as they freely condemn such injustices.

However, let’s appreciate the hypocrisy of your position. You’re posting your criticism of capitalism on a online system created in the free world, and you’re benefitting from the freedom to express yourself respected by your government, likely a liberal democracy with some form of mixed economy that includes capitalism. No government authority is shutting you down. We couldn’t safely claim the same if you criticized your government’s economic system from a state run by a left-wing authoritarian regime.

Even supposing capitalism is authoritarian in some way, it’s not the government. Left-wing authoritarianism purports to fight oppression by becoming (causing and perpetuating) oppression. Left-wing authoritarians replace their economic elites with political elites only unlike before, these elites can now run wild with unrestricted government authority to terrorize the masses: they claim that’s progress.

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Is the joke that the replier doesn’t understand inflation? CPI calculator

Why not create your own accessible content instead of demanding perfection and nitpicking others?

Why not try being a better leftist? They can most certainly edit their post to fix the issue.

Creating my own content doesn’t make this post accessible. In a free society, objections & protest are legitimate ways to effect change. Welcome.

Discounting real deficits in accessibility as minor lapses from “perfection” to “nitpick” betrays that you truly don’t care about the disadvantaged if it inconveniences others in the most minor way. That’s not leftism, that’s hypocrisy.

How about you be the change & fight for fairer “treatment of marginalized groups” right here in this tangible, easily achievable matter like a real leftist? Negligence & indifference aren’t excuses.

That’s a weird spelling for authoritarianism.

Social democrats support mixed economies with social safety nets.

Economic indexes show liberal democracies in Europe, Canada, East Asia, Australia including social democracies beat communist states (North Korea, China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba) in lower economic inequality in terms of wealth & income. North Korea comes close, and that state overspends on military instead of lifting people out of poverty, thus allowing famines & food shortages to stunt growth & shorten life expectances by 12 years compared to their South Korean neighbors.

Both in principle & practice, non-authoritarian or liberal leftism beats left-wing authoritarianism. Left-wing authoritarianism is a bankrupt contradiction lacking legitimate claims to the central tenet of leftism of promoting equality. Such philosophies & governments don’t serve the people, they serve an exclusive, repressive regime of political party elites.

wtf is literacy? calling recurrent objections to recurrent issues spam doesn’t make them spam. seems you don’t care about accessibility either & need to turn in your leftist creds, too.