This Bear Eats Fascists
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Essayist and long-time lefty, writing from the temperate rainforest of California's rural north coast. An independent voice for an independent California. #Mutualist / #LibertarianSocialist and down to scrap.
Essayist and long-time lefty, writing from the temperate rainforest of California's rural north coast. An independent voice for an independent California. #Mutualist / #LibertarianSocialist and down to scrap.
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Electoral Politics
Why American politics don't work for the majority, electoral reform, and how to get the change we need.
www.thisbear.com
A thread with links to several of my essays!
This first one is in the futility of American electoral politics (spoiler: it's how the system was designed). It is essential reading for anyone wondering why voting isn't addressing any of the big issues. www.thisbear.com/electoral-po...
This first one is in the futility of American electoral politics (spoiler: it's how the system was designed). It is essential reading for anyone wondering why voting isn't addressing any of the big issues. www.thisbear.com/electoral-po...
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A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
#ElonMusk speaks at far-right rally in #London promoting racism and xenophobia. Every person of conscience must stop supporting his companies - or any other company that does business with them. #Tesla, #Starlink, all of them. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Police hurt during Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally in London
Some 25 arrests are made after "unacceptable violence" at demonstrations in central London, police say.
www.bbc.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#ElonMusk speaks at far-right rally in #London promoting racism and xenophobia. Every person of conscience must stop supporting his companies - or any other company that does business with them. #Tesla, #Starlink, all of them. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Charlie Kirk is finally a good fascist.
September 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Charlie Kirk is finally a good fascist.
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Luigi
I am once again asking you to be angry that US healthcare ranks 69th in the world for overall quality but it is BY FAR the most expensive healthcare in the world.
I am once again asking you to be angry that US healthcare ranks 69th in the world for overall quality but it is BY FAR the most expensive healthcare in the world.
September 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Luigi
I am once again asking you to be angry that US healthcare ranks 69th in the world for overall quality but it is BY FAR the most expensive healthcare in the world.
I am once again asking you to be angry that US healthcare ranks 69th in the world for overall quality but it is BY FAR the most expensive healthcare in the world.
The Senator's vision was the common understanding of most white Americans for centuries, and is the ideology that was explicitly used to justify the conquest and annexation of California and the west. He's just saying the quiet part out loud. slate.com/news-and-pol...
A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist
America, he says, isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone.
slate.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The Senator's vision was the common understanding of most white Americans for centuries, and is the ideology that was explicitly used to justify the conquest and annexation of California and the west. He's just saying the quiet part out loud. slate.com/news-and-pol...
This is me pleading with you to stop thinking of D and R as opposing parties. They are 2 parts of the same system, funded and owned by billionaires.
R moves the window Right, D absorbs and defuses left opposition to make sure it never moves back. Over and over, every election.
R moves the window Right, D absorbs and defuses left opposition to make sure it never moves back. Over and over, every election.
September 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is me pleading with you to stop thinking of D and R as opposing parties. They are 2 parts of the same system, funded and owned by billionaires.
R moves the window Right, D absorbs and defuses left opposition to make sure it never moves back. Over and over, every election.
R moves the window Right, D absorbs and defuses left opposition to make sure it never moves back. Over and over, every election.
Friendly reminder that what #Israel is doing in #Palestine - with full backing from the American Empire - is not a war. A war is an armed conflict between States.
This is a campaign of extermination against a largely unarmed civilian population with the goal of erasing them and taking their land.
This is a campaign of extermination against a largely unarmed civilian population with the goal of erasing them and taking their land.
September 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Friendly reminder that what #Israel is doing in #Palestine - with full backing from the American Empire - is not a war. A war is an armed conflict between States.
This is a campaign of extermination against a largely unarmed civilian population with the goal of erasing them and taking their land.
This is a campaign of extermination against a largely unarmed civilian population with the goal of erasing them and taking their land.
This is the actual reason for the big increase in gun deaths among youth - suicide. Maybe if we don't want young people to harm themselves we should work as a society on not destroying the entire biosphere while billionaires impoverish everything and everyone else. www.cnbc.com/2023/12/05/y...
Youth suicide rates rose 62% from 2007 to 2021: 'People feel hopeless,' one recent grad says
Even for young adults who seemingly have every financial or educational advantage, the current economic and political climate can fuel distress.
www.cnbc.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is the actual reason for the big increase in gun deaths among youth - suicide. Maybe if we don't want young people to harm themselves we should work as a society on not destroying the entire biosphere while billionaires impoverish everything and everyone else. www.cnbc.com/2023/12/05/y...
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Race is obviously a predictor in LEO shootings, but mult studies find that certain disabilities (e.g. autism & deafness) are higher predictors of cop violence than race. Combine disability, inability to communicate and race, and the triad predicts violent cop overreaction like Cassandra pred'd Troy.
"...like a death squad or a firing squad.” Autistic teen with cerebral palsy shot nine times—from other side of fence—12 seconds after cops arrive on scene. No assessment of the situation. No attempt at de-escalation. Not even a conversation with the boy's family, who did NOT call them to intercede.
Outrage builds as video shows Idaho police shooting a knife-wielding autistic teenager
A teenage boy described by his family as autistic, nonverbal and intellectually disabled remains in critical condition after being shot in his backyard by Idaho police last weekend.
apnews.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Race is obviously a predictor in LEO shootings, but mult studies find that certain disabilities (e.g. autism & deafness) are higher predictors of cop violence than race. Combine disability, inability to communicate and race, and the triad predicts violent cop overreaction like Cassandra pred'd Troy.
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I just got a notice that an academic conference for 2026 was being moved from the US to Canada because of concerns people have with entering the US.
The cell phone searches and random detentions at the border are going to have long-term negative effects on the US.
The cell phone searches and random detentions at the border are going to have long-term negative effects on the US.
April 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I just got a notice that an academic conference for 2026 was being moved from the US to Canada because of concerns people have with entering the US.
The cell phone searches and random detentions at the border are going to have long-term negative effects on the US.
The cell phone searches and random detentions at the border are going to have long-term negative effects on the US.
An old one, but more relevant than ever under Trump.
April 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
An old one, but more relevant than ever under Trump.
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Frankie Boyle's perspectives on Scottish independence are deeply intertwined with his critiques of media influence and political dynamics in the UK.
Frankie knows.
Frankie knows.
April 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Frankie Boyle's perspectives on Scottish independence are deeply intertwined with his critiques of media influence and political dynamics in the UK.
Frankie knows.
Frankie knows.
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The NSF’s list of keywords that trigger staff review of science research projects that violate Trump-issued executive orders:
“Female” and “woman” are on it, “male” and “man” are not.
Men, we Need YOU as allies in this War on Women. Act, speak out, educate.
#misogyny
apple.news/AN7wke_vbTUO...
“Female” and “woman” are on it, “male” and “man” are not.
Men, we Need YOU as allies in this War on Women. Act, speak out, educate.
#misogyny
apple.news/AN7wke_vbTUO...
Opinion | The Christian right has set the US on the road to Gilead. Without a fight, other nations may follow — Guardian US
Women’s rights – especially abortion – are truly at risk, says writer and broadcaster Deborah Frances-White
apple.news
April 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The NSF’s list of keywords that trigger staff review of science research projects that violate Trump-issued executive orders:
“Female” and “woman” are on it, “male” and “man” are not.
Men, we Need YOU as allies in this War on Women. Act, speak out, educate.
#misogyny
apple.news/AN7wke_vbTUO...
“Female” and “woman” are on it, “male” and “man” are not.
Men, we Need YOU as allies in this War on Women. Act, speak out, educate.
#misogyny
apple.news/AN7wke_vbTUO...
Let's rephrase that headline: Capitalism is endangering all life and there are no profit margins on a dead planet.
www.dailyclimate.org/insurers-war...
www.dailyclimate.org/insurers-war...
Insurers warn climate change could unravel financial markets and endanger capitalism
A top executive at Allianz says the climate crisis is pushing insurance and broader financial systems toward collapse as rising temperatures and extreme weather make entire regions uninsurable.Damian Carrington reports for The Guardian.In short:Allianz SE board member Günther Thallinger warned that ...
www.dailyclimate.org
April 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Let's rephrase that headline: Capitalism is endangering all life and there are no profit margins on a dead planet.
www.dailyclimate.org/insurers-war...
www.dailyclimate.org/insurers-war...
And then these same people scream and cry when leftists and socialists don't want to vote for their shit party that overtly hates us.
We're Democrats. Fighting a war on two fronts.
The Bernie "Left" is just as dangerous as the right.
The Bernie "Left" is just as dangerous as the right.
March 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
And then these same people scream and cry when leftists and socialists don't want to vote for their shit party that overtly hates us.
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Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.
The show must go on.
The show must go on.
February 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.
The show must go on.
The show must go on.
Reminder that California is only part of America because they waged an explicitly racist war of conquest and annexed us at gunpoint. You know, just like Russia is trying to do to Ukraine.
I don't know about you all, but I'm sick to death of empires. Tear them all down. Russia, America, All of them.
I don't know about you all, but I'm sick to death of empires. Tear them all down. Russia, America, All of them.
March 1, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Reminder that California is only part of America because they waged an explicitly racist war of conquest and annexed us at gunpoint. You know, just like Russia is trying to do to Ukraine.
I don't know about you all, but I'm sick to death of empires. Tear them all down. Russia, America, All of them.
I don't know about you all, but I'm sick to death of empires. Tear them all down. Russia, America, All of them.
Reminder that Dems are not "the left."
They are a center-right party taking advantage of the lesser evil argument built into first-past-the-post voting to squat in the place where one or more leftist parties would exist if America used Proportional Representation like most modern democracies.
They are a center-right party taking advantage of the lesser evil argument built into first-past-the-post voting to squat in the place where one or more leftist parties would exist if America used Proportional Representation like most modern democracies.
February 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Reminder that Dems are not "the left."
They are a center-right party taking advantage of the lesser evil argument built into first-past-the-post voting to squat in the place where one or more leftist parties would exist if America used Proportional Representation like most modern democracies.
They are a center-right party taking advantage of the lesser evil argument built into first-past-the-post voting to squat in the place where one or more leftist parties would exist if America used Proportional Representation like most modern democracies.
#California is what's referred to as an "internal colony." We're systematically under-represented in the Federal Government, over-taxed, and our wealth stripped away to finance the Empire's priorities instead of ours.
California does not need America. #FreeTheBear
www.newsweek.com/california-e...
California does not need America. #FreeTheBear
www.newsweek.com/california-e...
Does California's economy prop up red states?
California is among the handful of states that contribute more in federal taxes than they receive from the federal government.
www.newsweek.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
#California is what's referred to as an "internal colony." We're systematically under-represented in the Federal Government, over-taxed, and our wealth stripped away to finance the Empire's priorities instead of ours.
California does not need America. #FreeTheBear
www.newsweek.com/california-e...
California does not need America. #FreeTheBear
www.newsweek.com/california-e...
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Flip your center in US history from white people to Black and Indigenous people, look at the Exclusion Acts, and understand the US isn't sliding towards fascism. It is reverting to its original state. And your utopian dreams about European comfort, freedom, etc? Yeah, take a harder look.
February 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Flip your center in US history from white people to Black and Indigenous people, look at the Exclusion Acts, and understand the US isn't sliding towards fascism. It is reverting to its original state. And your utopian dreams about European comfort, freedom, etc? Yeah, take a harder look.
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Reminder: Black history offers many examples of fighting authoritarianism, so one doesn't always have to look to Europe. Nazi lawyers looked to Jim Crow for inspiration for their racist laws. Read as much about struggles against Jim Crow as you do about other examples of resisting authoritarianism
February 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reminder: Black history offers many examples of fighting authoritarianism, so one doesn't always have to look to Europe. Nazi lawyers looked to Jim Crow for inspiration for their racist laws. Read as much about struggles against Jim Crow as you do about other examples of resisting authoritarianism
So about 10 minutes into the America constitutional convention. Got it.
America has never been a democracy. The difference is that now they are no longer even pretending. Trumpism is the de-masking of what America has always been.
America has never been a democracy. The difference is that now they are no longer even pretending. Trumpism is the de-masking of what America has always been.
"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man."
- Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC
- Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC
February 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
So about 10 minutes into the America constitutional convention. Got it.
America has never been a democracy. The difference is that now they are no longer even pretending. Trumpism is the de-masking of what America has always been.
America has never been a democracy. The difference is that now they are no longer even pretending. Trumpism is the de-masking of what America has always been.
Reminder to liberals that recognizing Trump as a fascist who must be opposed doesn't mean we have to pretend that Harris was anything other than a wildly corrupt ghoul who could never have won a primary and was only the nominee because of back room deals.
Democrats are not the solution.
Democrats are not the solution.
February 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reminder to liberals that recognizing Trump as a fascist who must be opposed doesn't mean we have to pretend that Harris was anything other than a wildly corrupt ghoul who could never have won a primary and was only the nominee because of back room deals.
Democrats are not the solution.
Democrats are not the solution.
Also, I don't want to see your furry art. No hate, but not my kink either. Please use appropriate labels or I am going to unfollow.
Yall please be considerate of others who dont wanna see nsfw.
its not that hard to label posts and you wont get suppressed for it here!! its at the bottom of the box to make a post whenever you add an image
if you're avidly wanting people to repost your nsfw, please tag it.
its not that hard to label posts and you wont get suppressed for it here!! its at the bottom of the box to make a post whenever you add an image
if you're avidly wanting people to repost your nsfw, please tag it.
February 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Also, I don't want to see your furry art. No hate, but not my kink either. Please use appropriate labels or I am going to unfollow.