Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I'm pretty sure that's how a good chunk of writers write. "Write what you know," right? 000
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026If Labour really wanted to fight fascism, they'd give Starmer the Corbyn treatment. Instead, they're pushing austerity and cracking down on anti-genocide protesters. They truly are the Democrats of the UK. 022
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 05/04/2026This isn't me criticizing reading theory as a whole. People absolutely should engage with theory! That said, various problems emerge when theory is treated as dogma, or when it becomes a matter of having the perfect, "correct" view that is ultimately disconnected from praxis. 000
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 05/04/2026It kind of bothers me how often some folks will say "read theory" so as to say "read this so you agree me." The aim of political education, in my view, should be the promotion of critical thinking about political systems, not how much your views adhere to a text from over a hundred years ago. 110
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026When the "movie review" has no swearing and no gunmedia.tenor.coma man wearing a hat and covering his face with his hands .Alt: Nostalgia Critic covering his face with his hands. 000
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026As the saying goes, "Democrats hate their base, Republicans fear their base." Republicans rile up their voters, bringing out their worst and delivering, while the DNC tries to control and propagandize its voters into docility. The DNC has so much more contempt for its voters than the Republicans. 020
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026"The owner of the local shop in Al-Hillah when he sees you buying from the supermarket next to the gravel road..." 071
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Relatively better than keeping them enslaved, but the arguments for doing so were based on the white supremacist idea that integration was impossible 120
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026They did. Abolitionists were the left flank. Plenty of libs at the time argued for reform, relocation of formerly enslaved people to Africa because integration would be "impossible", made appeals to "the good slave owners." Not many were like John Brown. Hell, Lincoln was nowhere near John Brown. 050
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Counterpoint: having no standards for candidates beyond general "opposition to Trump" in the name of preemptive harm reduction isn't "being pragmatic" at all 0120
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Dear pesky plumbers, The Koopalings and I have taken over Venezuela. The President is now a permanent guest at one of our seven Koopa hotels. I dare you to find him if you can!media.tenor.coma cartoon character with a red hat and bow tie is holding a piece of paper in front of his faceAlt: Mario from Hotel Mario reading a letter 001
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Something that annoys me about the online left is how often things are a matter of having the right set of opinions rather than what you do in practice. Like, you can have the most comprehensive worldview of the problems in society and how to approach them, but what do you DO with that worldview? 020
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025What would you define as "wokeism" and where does it deviate from class consciousness? 030
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025It's kind of like if you had a forced analogy followed by a joke about sloths! *audience laughs* In fact, we brought an actual sloth! *audience cheers* 110
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025I think it's a matter of whether someone supports repealing and replacing capitalism (communists, socialists, anarchists, etc., the leftist left) vs. wanting to maintain capitalism in some form 000
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025La commedia... è finita!media.tenor.coma clown is sitting on a bed with a red balloonALT: a clown is sitting on a bed with a red balloon 010
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025This would mean reckoning with the failures as well as the successes of historical and contemporary socialism. 020
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Many self-identified Marxists recognize the misinformation of anti-communist propaganda but run in the opposite direction by defending a rose-tinted view of historical socialism. Historical material analysis involves assessing material conditions objectively. 120
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025MAGAism is far closer to fascism than it is to communism. 0120
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025What kind of brainrot would come from a liberated working class?🤔 020
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie says yes in a cartoonALT: a man in a suit and tie says yes in a cartoon 000
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Leftists: put together a platform we would actually support Dems: Fuck off! We need to win over moderate Republicans Moderate Republicans: *vote Republican* Dems: I see. The problem is we weren't centrist enough. 1783
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025You know what, while we're at it, have some housing, health care, and public transportation. On us. Fuck you. 100
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critica...en.m.wikipedia.orgCritical consciousness - Wikipedia 010
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025What people call "wokeness" is what Paulo Freire called "critical consciousness", which is to say, consciousness of oppression in society. To be "woke" is to see the reality of oppression and scrutinize it. Reactionaries abhor "wokeness" because they want oppression to exist without scrutiny. 286
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Conspiracy theorist seeing the problems of capitalism: this is a plot for global communism 030
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 30/03/2025What if the rate of profit DIDN'T have the tendency to fall 120
Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 23/03/2025This is precisely why Marx described capitalism as a "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie". Power is concentrated in the wealthy capitalists, who ultimately make all the important decisions and control society. 010
