The left is such a small population in the US, it’s irrelevant.

And yet this “irrelevant” left managed to beat the far-right off the streets despite the far-right enjoying the support and protection of the police, not to mention luxurious funding. You don’t have to believe me, you can hear it from a Neo-Nazi himself.

It’s almost like… if you were to stop paying attention to the liberal gaslighting you might realize the answer was right in front of you all this time.

I highly doubt the left will do anything uncivil.

Firstly, undestanding what left actually is would be a good start. You’re not talking about the left. You’re talking about liberals. Liberalism isn’t left. Liberalism is right-wing, and always have been.

The actual left is very happy to be “uncivil.”

Secondly, a good second step would be to finally accept that liberals, and liberalism in general, has never, and will never, oppose fascism.

Those are two very basic things you can do right now.

“belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of ‘Israel.'”

Now that’s a false-flag if I ever saw one. Out of all the sites of arms manufacturers, funding operations and troll-farms that directly support Israel, these creeps attack… the Internet Archive?

Tell me another one.

God, I never felt the urge to smack an NPC upside of the head as much as in that scenario.

I want to say the government of Israel and not lump all Israelis

Why?

Is there an aspect of this genocidal white supremacist colonialist project that you identify with?

True, but that is one grisly-looking headcrab.

Sorry I didn’t give a full dissertation to cover every aspect in a fully contextualized exhaustive indexed peer-reviewed comment.

You don’t have to. That’s why we say, “Fuck Israel.”

I should not have grouped Progressives

I’m not sure why people use the term “progressive” - it seems to simply refer to liberals that don’t want to be associated with their far-right cousins, but also don’t want to give up on liberalism (which has always been a right-wing ideology) and actually move left. Just sems like edgy liberalism to me.

Liberals tend to move policy forward

Not really. When people were calling for fascist institutions to be defunded, Biden responded by upping their budget and putting a thousand more fascist goons on the streets. That’s not “forward.”

because a lot of us are against the continued arming of them.

And? It’s only because of the Oct 7th operation that most of you even know about any of this. The US government has been supporting this vile little white supremacist project since the 70s, and you “voting harder” isn’t going to change that.

Fuck Israel. Fuck the US, too.

You don’t have to be your government, you know.

Fuck The Government of Israel.

Fixed that for you.

Conservative values represent upholding the status quo

That’s liberalism.

Considering the microscopic ideological differences between liberals and their slightly-closer-to-overt-fascism liberal cousins called “conservatives” I’d have to say… this is absolutely much ado about nothing.

It’s not fun in 2024 because, thanks to the internet, we now have mountains of evidence at our fingertips to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt what they really are and always have been - ie, what the leftists have been trying to tell us since forever.

I generally agree with your post, but I’d say one correction is in order here.

Remember Stan Lee was in the military when it was antifascist pretending to be antifascist in order to wage war on colonialist rivals.

The US military has never been antifascist.

gives an escape to readers to fantasize about themselves as the hero?

Your “escapist” fantasy is to be rich, dress up in tacticool BDSM-gear and be allowed to beat up working class people?

Yes, comic books are propaganda, and the super-creep variety has always had the smell of Objectivism to it.

It’s certainly worked on you.

and Batman is a fascist by then.

I’d say that Batman is fundamentally fascist. He wages war on the working class so that crime can be preserved as an activity reserved for the class Bruce Wayne represents - the capitalist one.

They won’t.

It’s like MLK said - the white liberal will always prefer “a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”

That’s the whole reason they didn’t bat an eyelid when Neo-Nazis and KKK-boys were marching under open police protection back in 2016 but collectively lost their shit when antifa showed up to physically confront them.

Are people ready to admit that characters like Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne has always served to propagandize the idea of “genius millionaire/billlionaire” capitalists despite the fact that no such thing has ever existed in reality?

And that this propaganda is partly the reason why parasitic fraudster racketeers like Musk, Gates and Bezos gets to get away with their gargantuan crimes against humanity?

No?

Oh, so it turns out that “genius billionaires” only exist in comic books?

Nobody could have seen that one coming!

Shrapnel-creating explosives is used for open ground. In closed-in terrain, blast explosives is always going to be more effective. That’s why the infamous “potato masher” grenade of the Germans was blast-only - it’s far more effective at killing people inside trenches and bunkers. The US used the WW1-vintage Mk.3 grenade for that same purpose up until very recently.