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 We are stuck with just the two parties because they have made it very difficult for other parties to get on the ballot. And the parties for the most part choose who is their nominee based on who can get the most large money donors. Trump was an anomaly in that he ran on populist, racist less aggressive foreign policy platform and beat Clinton who actually was more pro-war than Trump and basically ran on - I'm not this clown.
Aug 19, 2018 at 3:09pmWeb
Show threadHaraeaAug 20, 2018
@StevenDBT
Oh, I didn't know about that. In France people considered Clinton as perfect because of the comparison with Trump. So I would never have imagined that she was more pro-war than he is.