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DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 7m

As long as we don’t let him anywhere near Batman. 🤢

DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 3h

Malcolm X on #Capitalism.

“It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it’s more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody’s blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, then capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It’s only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely.”
- Malcolm X

DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 14h

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DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 21h

The Democratic Party sees socialism as its enemy. It will fight harder to co-opt and water down progressive policies than it ever did to fight Trump. Whatever they have to do to maintain the status quo. Watch.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 1d

Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."

DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 21h

The Democratic Party is not a leftist party. That's the problem. We need to build a viable leftist party in this country.

DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 22h

69° today on UC Irvine campus. I’m wearing a light jacket. About as close to autumn as we’re going to get. 🍂

UC Irvine campus - some leaves changing color

DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats keep moving right instead of actually trying to help working people. 🤷‍♂️

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DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 1d

I'm to the left of the DSA, but I will still celebrate socialism's re-entry into the mainstream.

DSA-LA @dsa.la · 1d

socialism wins: dsa.la/join 🌹

DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 1d

The Democratic Party is so compromised and corrupt that they literally won’t endorse someone who would fight for everyday working people. 🤷‍♂️

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DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 1d

Let's be clear: even if he wins, the election is a battle not the war:

“Capitalism is not just an economic system but an entire social order. Once it takes hold, it is not voted out of existence by electing socialists or communists.”
― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds

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DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 1d

Let's be clear: even if he wins, the election is a battle not the war:

“Capitalism is not just an economic system but an entire social order. Once it takes hold, it is not voted out of existence by electing socialists or communists.”
― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds

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DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 2d

Closer and closer every day…

bsky.app/profile/barr...

Ontario Man (autumnal) @barrhavenist.bsky.social · 19d

#NoKings

An impressionistic painting of a soldier in a drab winter coat, standing at ease, holding a bayoneted rifle pointed toward the floor, in front of red steps leading to an empty red and gold throne with a gold coat of royal arms on the red wall above it. The soldier’s gaze is skyward. The painting is called “It Has Come To Pass” (artist: Sergei Lukin, Soviet, 1958) and depicts the Bolshevik occupation of the Winter Palace in November 1917.

DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 2d

Good riddance.

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 2d

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died. He leaves behind a legacy of war, torture and impunity.

“The Dark Side”: Dick Cheney’s Legacy from Iraq Invasion to U.S. Torture Program

Dick Cheney, the former vice president and one of the key architects of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died Monday at age 84. Cheney served six terms in Congress as Wyoming’s lone representative befo...

www.democracynow.org

DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 2d

It really is us versus them. #ClassWar

DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 3d

“Partially” for a benefits program that was already inadequate. In the meantime, please step up to help your friends and neighbors.

DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 3d

Staind/Aaron Lewis = 🤮.

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Autimn Hodgfall @timhodgson.bsky.social · 3d

It is November. Time to put this album back in heavy, daily rotation

soundgarden's "down on the upside" album.

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DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 3d

Absolute beast of a #Soundgarden album. 100% agree.

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DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 3d

Nooooooo! 😩

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DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 3d

The Democratic Party is not a leftist party. They would rather appeal to Liz fucking Cheney than step one inch to the left to help everyday Americans. 🤷‍♂️

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4d

Hakeem Jeffries says Zohran Mamdani is not the future of the Democratic Party.

DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 3d

The Democratic Party is not a leftist party. 🤷‍♂️

DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 3d

Irish Strawberry 🍓.

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Green Party of California @cagreens.bsky.social · 4d

The U.S. war machine has been proudly posting images of killing civilians targeting boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean.
U.S. is stoking a war with #Venezuela not just to plunder Venezuela's vast resources, but ALSO to crush a socialist government
#EndTheWarMachine

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DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 4d

Just watched #Alien with my kids for the first time. Such a great movie and Ripley is such a bad ass.

a woman with curly hair is holding a dog

ALT: a woman with curly hair is holding a dog

media.tenor.com

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DerrickLeftThis (CA40) @derrickleftthis.bsky.social · 5d

Still one of my favorite Michael Parenti quotes:

“During the years of Stalin's reign, the Soviet nation made dramatic gains in literacy, industrial wages, health care, and women's rights. These accomplishments usually go
unmentioned when the Stalinist era is discussed. To say that "socialism doesn't work" is to overlook the fact that it did.
In Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Cuba, revolutionary communism created a life for the mass of people that was far better than the wretched existence they had endured under feudal lords, military bosses, foreign colonizers, and Western capitalists. The end result was a dramatic improvement in living conditions for hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before or since witnessed in history.”

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