maleficiumPolish women turn on Donald Tusk over abortion rights
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Tusk promised on his 2023 campaign trail to undo the near-total ban on abortion introduced by the PiS government.
what many women see as Tusk’s most glaring broken promise: failing to overturn the near-total abortion ban imposed by PiS.
American here. Our shitty president is Donald (trump) and another weird rich Nazi terrorizing us is (Elon) Musk. Elon Musk was satirized as Elon Tusk in an episode of Rick and Morty.
So I saw a conglomeration of the two names on a platform that screams about the two of them commonly.
I had to read about Tusk being a real person to believe it wasn't only serious, but separate.
Just thought that was just barely interesting enough to say.
Sorry to hear about your rights. I hope you get them back. Abortion is a good option to have.
I thought for sure Donald Tusk, and in particular Tusk being a portmanteau between Musk and Trump, was a fake name.
And what a sad state Polish politics looks to be in.
If that's the best guy to vote for, sad state indeed.
I am so mad.
When are we intending to learn that "turning away" no longer works and "turning towards" is the only workable system that doesn't end right back in fascism?
Look, I get it, it sucks when you support a politician with a mandate and then they don't deliver. Or when you support someone as an alternative despite misalignment on the mandate and then it turns out they're not doing your agenda but the one you supported while holding your nose. It sucks.
But it's now a legit functional electoral strategy for extremists to be ousted, have the middle-of-the-road centrist frustrate their progressive one-time electors and result in a return to power of the far right everybody agrees is a worse alternative. That's objectively worse.
The real question is not why centre-right liberals keep frustrating progressives with broken promises and slow action. The question is why does that translate into disengagement instead of left-wing alternatives gaining support. It is a constant throughout for the far right to effectively capitalize on every single bit of discontent by either converting right-leaning people or disengaging left-leaning people from the system altogether. Where is the left-wing populism? Why are they absent from this conversation? How much do you need to suck at politics to fail to build any amount of momentum under these circumstances?
because people aren't ready for the fully automated luxury gay space communism, and they want better things for themselves, and not for everyone else around them.
Nah.
Not even as a joke, and this is extremely not a joke, unfortunately.
And whatever, then the question becomes why that. Why is the left wing trapped in endless variations of a prisoner's dilemma but the right is able to weaponize modern social dynamics effortlessly. Either way it's a failure of the space.
I am furious,
When will centrists learn that “blindly supporting” parties and rejecting legitimate criticism only loses them votes. “Having ethics” is the only workable solution that doesn’t end right back in fascism.
It’s like they want fash to win, they do everything but hold themselves accountable.
Well, that's a problem for me, because any political system that relies on individual ethics (or in the ability to take specific actions politically that are seen as ethical by a wide range of ideological views) is doomed to failure.
The system can't depend on some centrist amalgamation of forces that somehow magically does all things for all members of the spectrum. There needs to be a solution. There needs to be a dragnet of leftist forces converting disaffection with centrists into political power.
If the path to fascism is depending on centrist grey men somehow fulfilling the expectations of leftists with no fallback option then we've failed already. How do you stop fascism when that hope does not materialize? Why is there no left wing answer to that question but there is a very successful right wing answer?
Leftist voices are suppressed in society because they challenge the ruling class.
Rightist voices are amplified because they only threaten minorities.
We are competing with a handicap, the solution is this. Systems where people can gather and share ideas without said ruling class involved.
Nope. Pure denialism there. The liberals with resources were as willing to suppress the extreme right as the extreme left. They're both outsiders. Why is the far right capable of mounting a populist response to that suppression but the left wing cannot?
This got weaponized by the far right, from 4chan to Reddit to Twitter, into a extremely effective PR machine to discourage political opponents and ingest potential supporters into a cult-like zeal. Even assuming that isn't the goal for the left (and isn't it?) why is it not capable of mounting a similar system with the same tools?