Yes, Rupert, many people are not ashamed of being left-wing.

[joxean@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis "A spectre is haunting Europe"

[foffyllhpcrts@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis no thank you fuck extremists, time to shame them cause they are getting too comfortable

[celeduc@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis ah, but their parents may be ashamed, and that's all that matters.

[buherator@infosec.place]

@joxean Have we tried applying microcode updates?

[joxean@mastodon.social]

@buherator xD

[chrisevans12310@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis ️️️️

[xenotar@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis this is Good, very good

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@foffyllhpcrts

The 'far' left is really just 1970s-style social democracy and only extreme in the context of forty-odd tears of venal neoliberalism and a New Gilded Age.

@jeffjarvis

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@Jumpmed

AKA 'liberalism'

@Catriona @jeffjarvis

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis This Rupert be Mr. Murdoch?

[snek_mom@mastodon.art]

@jeffjarvis

[grepe@ieji.de]

@jeffjarvis isn't it funny how the picture they used to illustrate "unashamedly left-wing" was giving out flowers to women on internal woman's day? growing up in an eastern block country i get the connection but i can't shake the feeling it is trying to associate woman's emancipation as something negative

[fuzed@newsie.social]

@jeffjarvis yeah one of those sides recognizes the concept of humility most the time

[teamonkey@mastodon.social]

@Jumpmed @Catriona @jeffjarvis That seems to happen whether they’re ashamed or not, I’m not sure shame is the real factor

[tattie@eldritch.cafe]

@joxean I'm picturing Casper the friendly ghost
@jeffjarvis

[dataknightmare@mastodon.xyz]

@jeffjarvis
and of course it's the Far Left, because one cannot just be on the left.

[ghostflaneur@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis hell, the generational project since at least the early 70s has been to ensure people were not ashamed of "being right wing" and, indeed, acting like a bunch of dickheads

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@jeffjarvis And we in Europe are also surprised that our rather conservative social democratic parties are already seen as ‘left-wing’ in the USA. The normal left then becomes the extreme left. 🤭

Couldn't stop to search the article. OMG this is so bad on so many levels! A normal left party as "radicals", conservatives with left ideas??? Journalism for the bin.

[distractions@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis as an unashamed communist – in its core meaning, a union of free people – I can only say:

Do we? Because it certainly doesn’t feel like it…

[atlovato@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis - Oh Yeah 100%