HaraeaAug 18, 2018

Hi !

I like writing, reading, taking care of my plants and learning things. My pronouns are she/they and I'm French. I'm a feminist and anti-capitalist leftist, and I might sometimes post some political stuff around here, but most of the times, my posts should just concern writing in general.

I'd be happy to exchange with anybody !

#Introductions

Show threadStevenDBTAug 18, 2018
@Haraea Hi. I'm a little left for an American (lol). Here I get called a far left fringe nutcase, but in Europe I'd probably be seem as fairly moderate. Good to see you.
Show threadHaraeaAug 18, 2018
@StevenDBT
Good to see you too !
I have always had trouble understanding american political views because of this. Everytime we talk about it in class I'm like "yeah... Where's the left ? Like the real one ?"
It's nice to finally find a leftist person from America.
Show threadStevenDBTAug 19, 2018
@Haraea Basically leftism died in 1944 when FDR didn't back Henry Wallace for another term as his Vice President. Wallace was a socialist, and the Democratic Party, which at the time was prominent in the South and in New York (home of Wall Street) didn't want any damn socialists on the ticket. Then FDR died, we got Truman, and he dropped the A bomb on Japan, not so much to end the war, but to gain the upper hand on Stalin. After that's it's been all down hill for leftists in America.
Show threadHaraeaAug 19, 2018
@StevenDBT
Kinda sad but interesting ! Do you feel like it seems to change, or...? Here in France I think it's a little better, but not that much either. The socialist party's dead, and I feel like a lot of people define themselves as "leftists" but can be at the end extremely sexists, ableists, racists and all the rest. It becomes very pernicious : it's all about image.
Show threadStevenDBT
@Haraea Here, people pretend to be "leftist" when all they really do is support the Democratic Party. American politics is basically about voting for the clearly racist party (Republicans) which takes corporate money and does the corps bidding, or vote for Democrats, who pretend they aren't racist but also take corporate cash & do the corps' bidding. So nothing that beneficial to people ever gets passed. Like universal healthcare. Last year my family paid $38K for healthcare & we had insurance.
Aug 19, 2018 at 3:03pmWeb
Show threadHaraeaAug 20, 2018
@StevenDBT
That's enormous. Sorry about that. >w<
The fact that there only are two partys seems to make things a little manichean, doesn't it ? So as the Democrats are one the "left" compared to the Republicans, they get all the credit and reputation of a "good left" while they don't actually act like it. Am I right ?