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Well done Jazie! :antifa:

Jazie Veldhuyzen, independent radical left member of the municipality council of Amsterdam, shows his antifa shirt. The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema (from the so-called GreenLeft party) rejects this and says that it offends people who disagree with him. Offending fascists is not allowed according to Halsema. 🤔 I rest my case, again! 😭

Given that I woke up this morning to some obnoxious rando publicly smearing me as a crypto-fascist (implied) and foreign agent (directly), let's take a quick look at this December 2023 article on In These Times to better understand what people promoting fascism and fascist ideology, while grifting "left," actually look like:

inthesetimes.com/article/forme

This lengthy piece by Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Shartlet takes an in-depth look at what selling reactionary, right wing, and even ultimately fascist politics with a thin left-wing veener, actually looks like in practice, and over time; in the process it exposes numerous influencers, podcasters, writers, and social media personalities who are dragging perhaps millions of unsophisticated, disaffected (typically young) left-leaning Americans to the far right. These personalities include, but are not limited to, folks like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal, RFK Jr., Naomi Wolf, Jackson Hinkle, Aimee Terese, Anna Khachiyan, and Dasha Nekrasova.

To understand this article, it's important to realize that what the authors are talking about here has virtually nothing to do with "Horseshoe Theory;" the idea (popular with liberals) that you can go so far left that you come out on the right. Although the authors describe this crypto-fascist movement as a sort of process (dubious, in my opinion) they're very clear that this is fundamentally the same thing I call "modern strasserism." These folks are advocating for right wing, if not fascist political ideas, and merely representing them as the one true leftism using cribbed and often corrupted, left-ish economic theory. Frankly, I think the authors are being quite charitable regarding the origin stories of many of these people as in my view, they've always been raging reactionaries able to hide themselves inside a primarily American left that hasn't done the reading, and rarely engages in decolonization. Regardless, this piece provides a clear map for what that looks like in real time, and names many of the folks trying to crowbar the most basic, often flawed illusion of economic leftism, into an objectively fascist worldview.

Finally I'd like to note that unlikely many latecomers to this struggle, I have been battling this movement, and indeed many of these exact same people online, since 2017; precisely the moment I started writing articles explaining why Trump is a fascist and I believed he'd eventually attempt a coup. That battle had significant costs in my life, as many of my friends and readers were not prepared to give up their "problematic faves," had no real idea of what fascism actually is, and were far too attached to their own reactionary upbringing in a proto-fascist society like America, to engage in the decolonization I was undertaking at the time; a process which is what ALLOWED me to see what these crypto-fascists were and what they were selling. I still have scars from this battle, which is why I don't take too kindly to mainline liberals running amateur flak operations on social media, calling *me* a crypto-fascist or accusing me of supporting a billionaire murderbot oil thug like Vladdy Putin.

The simple truth is that leftists and leftism is *always* anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and anti-racist; if they can't check all three boxes, they aren't "the left" and they never were.

*brushes shoulder off*

In These TimesLosing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn RightWhat do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?

Well, I did warn you all, years ago, that Angie Nagle was a fascist (and I wasn't the first to say that either.) Looks like someone decided to do the legwork - (long 62+ post thread):

twitter.com/ImGentleDamnit/sta

Pay close attention to everyone giving this woman a platform from 2017 on btw, since you absolutely cannot trust any of them for obvious reasons. (Hi Katie!)

X (formerly Twitter)WhiteRoseAFA (@ImGentleDamnit) on X1. There's been a rumor going around the TRS grifterverse for months that Angela Nagle is has been dating Joseph Jordan aka Eric Striker for years. After consuming 60+ hours of media multiple times, I'm going to share what I've found.

Ukraine . . . Why do some Leftists support a bloodbath? G&R Commentary--the war has to end!

youtube.com/watch?v=DcP_9XNDL7

A Green & Red commentary on the continued brutal and bloody war in Ukraine. There are now over 500,000 casualties in the war and the U.S. is sending billions of dollars there (but not to East Palestine, Flint, Jackson, Hawaii, etc).
Negotiations are imperative, as the JCS Chair Mark Milley has been saying, and the NATO Left has to stop supporting this bloody war.