Catherine Connolly, a left-wing independent, has been elected as Ireland's president. She secured 63% of the votes in a landslide victory on Saturday, defeating center-right rival Heather Humphreys.
Ireland understand colonialism from the victim point of view. Americans “leftists” are swooning over an Abu Ghraib torturer with a Nazi tattoo who says he didn’t know it was a Nazi tattoo he just wanted to get a tattoo of a skull to commemorate his four tours fighting, as if that’s better. That’s today’s US progressive.
Do you have a name to go with that torturer or do I get to just take your word for it?
“Leftist” is a particularly difficult descriptor to nail down, especially in the US. It can refer to people with actually progressive views, or just people who see something that helps them advocate violence against people they dont like, or even elements of Stalinism that people like to assume is progressive when it’s closer to fascism in practice.
Ireland understand colonialism from the victim point of view. Americans “leftists” are swooning over an Abu Ghraib torturer with a Nazi tattoo who says he didn’t know it was a Nazi tattoo he just wanted to get a tattoo of a skull to commemorate his four tours fighting, as if that’s better. That’s today’s US progressive.
Trump is a symptom, not the disease.
Do you have a name to go with that torturer or do I get to just take your word for it?
“Leftist” is a particularly difficult descriptor to nail down, especially in the US. It can refer to people with actually progressive views, or just people who see something that helps them advocate violence against people they dont like, or even elements of Stalinism that people like to assume is progressive when it’s closer to fascism in practice.