Literally crawls out from under rocks...

A handy checklist:

✔️refers to anyone they think is a liberal as being in a “fandom” 

✔️is ok with some Democrats but doesn’t “trust” Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren specifically for some reason

✔️“modern Democrats would have been far right Republicans in the 1950s”

✔️“Obamacare was a right-wing plan and Democrats could have passed single payer in 2009 but didn’t because of their donors”

✔️ hates “identity politics” and thinks the white working class is just waiting for someone to talk to them into socialism   

✔️ uses “liberal” as an insult (may or may not use the “shut up liberal” meme)

✔️ uses “liberal” to mean anything from a DSA member to an avowed fascist

✔️ makes posts about how liberals love the electoral college, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, and can’t stop talking about Harry Potter  

✔️ thinks the Overton Window is a well-respected political science theory, and that talking about socialism/communism a lot on social media can make it a reality

✔️ believes Hillary Clinton staged a coup in Honduras

✔️ believes Hillary Clinton owned slaves

✔️ hates liberals more than fascists, but it’s ok because liberals are the *real* fascists 

✔️ “hire 👏🏼 more 👏🏼women 👏🏼guards”

✔️ thinks Russian interference is irrelevant because Clinton was a terrible candidate, also because America has done worse

✔️ uncritically reblogs tweets by Glenn Greenwald, Adam Johnson, Michael Tracey, Matt and Elizabeth Bruenig, and Existential Comics

✔️ supports prison and police abolition and mocks anyone who has concerns about violent crime

✔️ has been involved in multiple, vicious arguments with tumblr leftists with somewhat different ideologies

✔️ hypermasculine fantasies of fighting fascists in the streets despite rarely leaving their bedrooms

✔️ anime obsession 

✔️ anti gun control, repeats NRA talking points but also references the Black Panthers

✔️ “voting is the least important thing you can do, politically” 

✔️ uncritical support for Assad and the DPRK 

✔️ Holodomir denialism and USSR fetishism

✔️ “America delenda est”

✔️ guillotine memes

Score:

0-2: Confused “Liberal”. This person is probably mostly apolitical but they followed berniesrevolution in 2016 and picked up some misinformation along the way. Not part of leftist tumblr and often confused by what they see on their dash. Has reblogged many misleading, unsourced net neutrality posts. 

3-9: Are you even a leftist, bro? This person voted for Bernie in the 2016 primaries, may have held their nose and voted for Clinton in the general (and is forever resentful because of it), or voted third party. Still believes in electoral politics. Wants desperately to be accepted by leftist tumblr and never will be.

10-15: Anarcho-primi-full-luxury-commu-tumblrist. This person was raised by conservatives and decided that everything sucks and nothing can be salvaged sometime in 2016. Refuses to read the news. Will be a libertarian by 2025.

16-21: Thomas the Tankie Engine. 95% chance this blog is run by a white middle class person who admires authoritarian strongmen, has never lived in a communist country, and hates anyone who did.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Through the Years

A groundbreaking litigator for women’s rights before being appointed to the bench, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has worn many aspects in her eighty-five years. On the Justice’s birthday, flip through some photographs of her as a girl in Brooklyn, as a law graduate who left Columbia as co-valedictorian (but with no job offers), as a young mother, and as an advocate whose greatest legacy may be in the cases that she argued before what was then an all-male Supreme Court—and won.  (Photographs from the collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.)

This is honestly hilarious, here’s the link if you’re curious. It says to reduce the voting age to 18, which we have. It of course says nothing about gerrymandering, because that’s an American thing (and which Democrats are extremely against.) It says something vague about healthcare reform. It doesn’t get into detail about it’s labor and disability rights, so I don’t know if their plans include things America already has. Similarly, the transportation plans seem to address things that are unique to Lebanon. Their tax plan deals with things like their VAT, which America doesn’t have.