I feel like it presents leftists as being as smug and snobbish as reactionaries.

No war but class war!

Unfortunately, no one has yet found a way to face-punch an entire online platform, even if the platform has a punchable face.

I know, but the context is a pretense that liberal politicians are benevolent.

Your attitude is exactly the one that has brought us to the rise of Mein Orangutan, of demanding no more than whatever seems slightly more favorable than the worst case possible.

Advancing conditions for the base of the population would depend on much more than simply voting in national elections for the Democratic Party. In fact, it requires looking beyond the two-party machine, by organizing local campaigns, worker unions, and direct action.

The Democratic Party is not coming to save us.

No one is coming to save us.

We can be saved only by doing the work to take care of each other, to protect each other, and to relate to each other as members of community.

Imperialist atrocities are excusable when they are ordered by someone claiming to be queer friendly.

Licking boots is fun when they are worn by someone claiming to be queer friendly.

No one is being fooled.

We see right through your little ploy.

Reporting that is so heavily fact based obviously could not have come from CNN.

There is no such thing as fairy society. There are individual fairies, and there are families of fairies.

The Fediverse is a concept that seems to me as real as the Internet or the World Wide Web.

Trump does nothing himself. Sham justice carries the support of the entire political establishment.

It was never much more than a tool to repress the poor and marginalized.

You should expect that a kangeroo court has already been arranged.

The relationship of Latin states with the US has never been of negotiation between equal peers. South and Central America are subjugated under the colonialism of the US. They are kept poor because their economies are structured to be dependent on trade with the US.

The true effect will be to affirm the urgency for such states to develop deeper integration with the Russia-China power axis.

Simpy, states and imperialism are the overarching power structures of our world.

We cannot discuss our present conditions effectively except through a willingness to consider the prominence of such systems.

Authoritarians constantly emphasize imperialism because they believe change occurs beginning at the top, and as such, they place limited importance on local organization. However other leftists also should emphasize criticisms of imperialism, whereas many imagine change proceeding in a frame that is strictly national, without any transformation of the overarching state and imperialist order.

Strikes require unity across a workforce.

If some workers in a local context work instead of participating in a strike, then the business is not pressured to acquiesce, and the sacrifice is in vain.

Striking in any case results in lost pay, which promotes fear and threatens survival. Solidarity improves morale and saves lives.

Fostering unity and solidarity is among the essential functions of a union.

Do you know of any strong central leaders?

They rarely speak for everyone.

A general strike is not for negotiations, but for pressuring the political establishment to acquiesce to particular demands.

All we can do is rebuild.

Strikes are organized through unions not hashtags.