Jeff Jarvis
Yes, Rupert, many people are not ashamed of being left-wing. If only more were ashamed of being right-wing.
Mar 11 at 10:04amWeb
Show threadJuan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪Mar 11
@jeffjarvis Unashamedly Insoumis 🇫🇷
Show threadCat!Mar 11
@jeffjarvis The problem is that when people are ashamed of being right-wing, they don't stop being right-wing. They just adopt left-wing aesthetics without any of the principles.
Show threadPatch You UpMar 11
@Catriona @jeffjarvis Or they externalize that shame and become violent and unhinged, eventually turning to mass murder.
Show threadRegMar 11

@Jumpmed

AKA 'liberalism'

@Catriona @jeffjarvis

Show threadJames T MonkeyMar 11
@Jumpmed @Catriona @jeffjarvis That seems to happen whether they’re ashamed or not, I’m not sure shame is the real factor
Show threadfabiosantoscodeMar 11
@jeffjarvis if only I could speak openly about how I want better and cheaper public transport 😭😭😭😭
Show threadSimon Zerafa (Status:   😊)Mar 11

@jeffjarvis

Being a fascist is no badge of honour, quite the opposite.

Show threadAndreas KMar 11
@simonzerafa
You will be surprised how much fascists (not so surprising) but also conservatives (surprising to at least some people) disagree with that statement.
@jeffjarvis
Show threadSimon Zerafa (Status:   😊)Mar 11

@yacc143 @jeffjarvis

I'm sure they would disagree. I doubt there are many fascists wouldn't be afraid to be open and transparent about their fear and bigotry.

Show threadJoxean Koret (@matalaz)Mar 11
@jeffjarvis "A spectre is haunting Europe"
Show threadbuheratorMar 11
@joxean Have we tried applying microcode updates?
Show threadJoxean Koret (@matalaz)Mar 11
@buherator xD
Show threadTattieMar 11
@joxean I'm picturing Casper the friendly ghost
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Show threadsheeplevictimMar 11
@jeffjarvis no thank you fuck extremists, time to shame them cause they are getting too comfortable
Show threadRegMar 11

@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

Show threadsheeplevictimMar 11
@ReggieHere oh yea the classic "all our actions are justified because bla bla".
Pepper spraying, beating and raping someone outside of a bar that says "no homophobia,racism,sexism,hate" and then making his life a public space is also justifiable, it is for a good cause
Show threadRegMar 11

@foffyllhpcrts

Huh?

Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵Mar 11
@ReggieHere @foffyllhpcrts 
Show threadsheeplevictimMar 11
@ReggieHere they also cut my finger and tried to nuke my balls with X-ray in the hospital. All this must sound like sci-fi but I don't blame you if you think i'm crazy
Show threadRegMar 11

@foffyllhpcrts

That's good to know, thanks.

Show threadChucklesMar 11
@jeffjarvis ah, but their parents may be ashamed, and that's all that matters.
Show threadXenotarMar 11
@jeffjarvis this is Good, very good
Show threadGJ Groothedde 🇪🇺Mar 11
@jeffjarvis This Rupert be Mr. Murdoch?
Show threadSophie A.Mar 11
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Show threadgrepeMar 11
@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
Show threadFuzedMar 11
@jeffjarvis yeah one of those sides recognizes the concept of humility most the time
Show threadGavinMar 11
@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
Show threadPetra van CronenburgMar 11

@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.

Show threadDistractionsMar 11

@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…

Show threadDreyMar 11
@jeffjarvis - Oh Yeah 100%
Show threadKerplunkMar 11

@jeffjarvis

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

ME TOO and I am near 76 years old.

The right and Fascists are a clear danger to the future of humanity.

Show threadRobin BartonMar 11
@jeffjarvis I have been a socialist my whole life and I say that with pride and zero shame
Show threadBeldarakMar 11

@jeffjarvis

People aren't ashamed of not being POS ??? Shocking^^

Show threadColes Street PotholeMar 11
@jeffjarvis Apparently, the left wing thinks life is a bed of roses, too! Shameless.
Show threadTyler hynesMar 11
@jeffjarvis @Zennblack
Show threadOntario Canuck 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈Mar 11

@jeffjarvis

Well said.

Show threadRBuzzMar 11
@jeffjarvis even bigger problem are people not being ashamed for being stupid.
Show threadproedieMar 11
@jeffjarvis This is fake, right? If the editors want to shed a bad light on left politics they would use a picture of a riot or something. Not of two ladies buying flowers in Germany.
Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵Mar 11
@proedie @jeffjarvis seems to actually be real https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europes-far-left-is-having-its-moment-862ec533
(bezos tho, not rupert, but same vibe)
Show threadproedieMar 12

@bazkie @jeffjarvis Okay, as the image caption hints at, they are not buying the flowers, they are receiving them as gifts from the party The Left. Still looks weird.

(Also, the image caption mentions that this is Germany. Boooh! I was very pleased with my self, because I noticed the telling detail.)

Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵Mar 12

@proedie @jeffjarvis (what detail? 🤩)

how nice of the left to give out free flowers! *interest in left wing intensifies*  

seriously tho, it's indeed weird that they would portray the left vaguely positively. maybe they are finally becoming scared of fascism?

Show threadproedieMar 12
@bazkie @jeffjarvis The detail is the Gothic A that indicates a chemist’s shop in Germany: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deutsche_Apotheke_Logo.svg
File:Deutsche Apotheke Logo.svg - Wikimedia Commons

Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵Mar 12
@proedie @jeffjarvis ah lol i didn't even notice that! well sleuthed
Show threaddisorderlyfMar 11
@jeffjarvis Why would you feel shame for wanting a level playing field and to patch exploits?
Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵Mar 11
@jeffjarvis finally, some good news
Show threadAmselbockMar 11
@jeffjarvis I love that it's not seen as too weird anymore when I tell people that I believe landlords shouldn't exist. Fringe still, yes but they're beginning to see the point.
Show threadBandersnatchMar 11

@jeffjarvis

It's not just the EU.

I was literally a card carrying Libertarian when I was 20.

Now at 50, I'm left of AOC.

Show threadMBEverdingMar 11
@jeffjarvis somehow Germany is missing out on this trend? Yes the left has once doubled it's self last year January/February but it's just voters migrating from center left parties while the far right keeps growing and center parties move further right.
Show threadmalducinMar 11
@jeffjarvis don't threaten us with a good time
Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 11
@jeffjarvis precisely!
Show threadDruidMar 12
@jeffjarvis to be right wing is to be devoid of shame
Show threadzariweya 🇪🇺💻🦝Mar 12
@jeffjarvis far-left = 80s-90s social democratic parties.
Show threadDan SMar 12
@jeffjarvis oh look, we only get a moment
Show threadblaue_FledermausMar 12
@jeffjarvis
It's to scare people who think the Soviet Union and China were in any way "left".
Show threadMJ MuseMar 12
@jeffjarvis Democrats need to be FDR Democrats and go totally progressive ,new blood. shamelessly.. Stang brave against corruption, they will win. No PAC $$ from fossil fuel and Israel lobby is required