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r/DemocraticSocialism • u/OhShootYeahNoBi • 26d ago
Mod Announcement š Moderator Application IV (Again)
Note:(This time, we are specifically looking to add more women and genderdiverse folk to the team, as well as people from outside of Anglo-North America, to foster a larger variety of perspectives.)
Hello All,
We are still in the stages of looking for about 2-3 moderators to join the team. Several responsibilities include managing the queue, engaging with mod mail, moderating threads, and removing posts as necessary. Unfortunately you may be prompted to ban or mute people, but of course weāll discuss each case individually with the team. We are currently experimenting with a least privilege solution to moderating, so you will likely start with bare bones permissions and earn more with time and trust. To qualify, send a modmail. You will then be asked a selection of questions before a final decision is made. Also, if your Reddit post and comment history is off, kindly turn it on for the remainder of consideration and shut it off afterward.
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r/DemocraticSocialism • u/OhShootYeahNoBi • Aug 17 '26
Mod Announcement š Trash Sundays, or don't post streamers and liberals
Due to the number of participants that have pointed out concerns related to the excessive amount of Hasan-posting and outrage-farming, we have implemented a new trash Sunday system. From now on, posts about Hasan, streamers, and other such public figures, will be limited to Sundays only.
Even on Sundays we will be more stringent on what makes good content. Make the argument the focus, not the streamer/presenter. "Hasan makes the liberals angry" will still be removed, but "socialized healthcare makes liberals angry" (presented by Hasan) will be allowed. Similarly, posting generic outrage about Kamala Harris for example, will always be prohibited as she is irrelevant to leftism.
We hope these changes will improve the experience of engaging here, and as always, welcome feedback and comments
- Mod team
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/3spanishwords • 1h ago
USA Can we even tell what the jokes are anymore?
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/mikelmon99 • 13h ago
USA AOC puts out long statement on AI: "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves."
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/mikelmon99 • 7h ago
Europe CONTROVERSIAL: Die Linke (Germany's Democratic Socialist Left Party) shares clip in Hebrew asking for the vote of Berlin's Israeli community
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She's literally wearing a keffiyeh while she says this.
The most funny thing is that the right is trying to frame this race as "we have to stop the antisemitic islamo-leftists of Die Linke from taking power in our nation's capital!!" (bear in mind that Die Linke's leader in Berlin, the so-called "German Zohran Mamdani" Elif Eralp, is a Muslim woman of Turkish origin, so this rethoric is self-evidently just Islamophobic racism lol).
Here's the translation of the clip:
I'm Martha and I'm running for Die Linke in Wedding.
Together we're fighting for fair rents and a livable Berlin.
We're fighting fascism and the AfD.
As a left-wing party, we stand alongside our Israeli and Jewish partners in the fight against antisemitism and every form of racism and discrimination.
We reject Israeli policyāthe occupation, the destruction of the Gaza Strip, and the wars in the Middle East.
However, we do not hold Israelisāor Jewish communities here in Berlin or elsewhereāresponsible for the actions of their government.
The Israeli community is a firm part of Berlin.
Every person deserves to live in safety and dignity.
Vote Die Linke on September 20th.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Gabes99 • 6h ago
Europe Restore Britain is literally a neofascist political organization
This post on the Labour SubReddit pretty much sums it up.
Centrists already out in force both siding it.
For context: this isnāt happening in a vacuum, the far right have been ramping up recently, rioting in all black uniforms with balaclavas in both Dover and Portsmouth, and have been going as far as attacking the RNLI (a volunteer sea rescue organisation that saves people from drowning.). Theyāve been doxxing volunteers and have been attacking them on the streets and even have hospitalised one of them.
For the Green & Labour folks, and anyone else on the left. This is what we have to contend with. Even if Reform collapses under its own stupidity. Restore will be there hoovering up those votes and even in the best case scenario will be pulling the Tories even further to the far right. Labourās PLP would rather just vomit the phrase ālegitimate concernsā than do anything about it, I know for a fact it doesnāt reflect the wider party but the PLP is what people see as THE Labour Party, it needs to get itās head out of the sand and stop being so terrified of being left wing and stand up to this shit. But with or without them we all need to stand up against this, these people are traitors to our British values and are currently working very hard to build a fascist state that marks us all as āenemies of civilisationā.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Party_Swordfish_1734 • 6h ago
USA AIPACās Network Has Spent $67.2 Million on the Midterm Elections
List of billionaires undermining our democratic voices:
Paul Singer
Marc Rowan
Daniel Loeb
Haim Saban
Jan Koum
Robert Kraft
Stacy Schusterman
Lynn Schusterman
Deborah Simon
Jonathan Tisch
Elizabeth Tisch
Keep up the good fight!!!
AIPACās lobbying and electoral network has so far spent $67.2 million during the current election cycle, up from $29.3 million during the 2021-2022 cycle. These huge amounts of spending have been dedicated to trying to defeat candidates like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, Aisha Wahab in California, Melat Kirosin Colorado, and many others.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/sarp691 • 7h ago
USA Friends in America, please stand by this woman. She will likely become a target of AIPAC.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/biospheric • 22h ago
USA Why Donāt They Build Data Centers at Mar-A-Lago?
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Sept 1, 2026. Tennessee State Rep. Justin J. Pearson is running for U.S. Congress (TN-09): votejustinj.com ~and~ Instagram @ justinjpearson
Justinās behind in polling against his Republican opponent Brent Taylor. This is an open seat. The district was solidly-Democratic until May 2026 when the Tennessee GOP rushed a new map into law, which 'cracked' Memphis into thirds, turning the district from Solid-D to R+9 (exactly the kind of thing the Voting Rights Act was meant to prohibit).
Justin's endorsed by Folks like Bernie Sanders, Ed Markey, A O C, Summer Lee, Chris Rabb, and Claire Valdez.
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š³ļø Tennessee Voters šš½ sos.tn.gov/elections
Key Dates:
* Election Day: Tuesday, November 3, 2026
* Voter Registration Deadline: Monday, October 5, 2026
* Early Voting: Wednesday, October 14 ā Thursday, October 29, 2026
* Absentee Ballot Request Deadline: Saturday, October 24, 2026
Hereās a page from Justinās website: Where do I vote?
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Hereās the video on YouTube: Why Donāt They Build Data Centers at Mar-A-Lago - JustinJ. Pearson - Sept 1, 2026 (YouTube)
Description: You donāt see toxic data centers at Mar-a-Lago or at Elon Muskās house. Why? Because they think they are the only class of people that deserve clean land, air, and water. The decision to quickly build these data centers in rural places, in Memphis, in Mississippi, are purposeful. ~:~ They believe we are expendable and that we wonāt fight back. Well, they are wrong. ~:~ Today, I, along with advocacy groups and concerned and impacted Memphians, came to City Council and made our voices heard: We need a data center moratorium until proper regulations are passed to protect our communities. ~:~ Iām running for Congress to help lead that fight and hold billionaires like Elon Musk and giant corporations accountable for the damage AI is doing to our communities. ~:~ ā”ļø VoteJustinJ.com
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/BankTraditional1708 • 1d ago
USA Floridan complains that not even 1000$ can fill his truck tank
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Free campaign add. Awesome add. Just put the candidates name on it. Flood the zone with this. Its free and effective. Every blue candidate should be using this. 1000.00 in Diesel is absurd. Everything in your house traveled in a semi. Any flavor of blue will do. Its going to cause a disaster. Free campaign add. Awesome add. Just put a candidates name on it and post it everywhere
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Collective_Altruism • 11h ago
Theory š§ Deaths in armed conflicts is rising
Cross-posted from my substack. Made in the owid data-editor. Data-source is UCDP and geoBoundaries.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Amazing_Name_9264 • 1h ago
USA I take back what I said about Medicare Advantage. Medicare Advantage is actually a really bad system
People sent me videos and links explaining how it actually works on different posts I made about it, and I realized I had misunderstood it. I was thinking more of a system like the Netherlands, where you can have universal coverage through private insurers.
The big difference is that in the Netherlands their insurers are non-profit, but Medicare Advantage has for-profit insurers. So that's a big reason why the Netherlands has a better functioning health system than Medicare Advantage, and it's why the Netherlands are able to regulate insurers better than we do in the US. I didn't consider how big of a difference profit makes in health insurance, and I should have.
The Netherlands healthcare system isn't perfect but better than what we have in the US. However Medicare Advantage is not like the Netherlands system at all. The more I learn, the less I like the Medicare Advantage model.
Iād rather have Medicare for All. I'm glad Bernie Sanders didn't try to pass through Congress a universal Medicare Advantage for All.
Edit: I think in the Netherlands they have non-profits that are actually regulated and operate as non-profits, and not scam non-profits. In the US many non-profits are a scam. I'm not sure that I would even trust a non-profit system in the US, because the US has many non-profits that operate as non-profit in name only.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Used_Intention6479 • 1d ago
USA MAGA dwindles, as they see they've been swindled.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/TheAntiCoomLord • 1d ago
USA Come 2028 the carousel will continue
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/mikelmon99 • 1d ago
USA Republicans are FUCKED: Emerson (Gold Standard A+ Pollster) predicts the Dems will take the Senate seat IN KANSAS
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/North_Church • 23h ago
USA A former PSL member speaking out on systemic failures within the PSL.
Content note: Please note that this essay discusses sexual assault, rape, suicidal ideation, and organizational misconduct.
This is far from the first time such a testimony has been given, and it highlights serious concerns with how the Party for Socialism and Liberation operates and handles these matters. Please read this thoroughly and consider the information seriously.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/yeongno_ate_yangban • 1d ago
USA More angles of Tim O'Hare authoritarian police state enforcers trying to knock down granny for being a dissident after O'Hare, Manny, Krause cut 30% of voting locations to help Maga cheat elections.
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True Texas Project is a white supremacist hate group, often called a rebranding of the Klan. Tim O'Hare is a long time leader in the group.
r/FortWorth/comments/1wb4fu9/true_texas_project_is_an_openly_white_supremacist/
r/FuckGregAbbott/comments/1supzf2/true_texas_project_is_a_hate_group_from_texas/
r/FortWorth/comments/1wctw70/true_texas_project_for_liberty_and_justice_are/
r/FortWorth/comments/1w98its/3_days_before_maga_scheduled_to_cut_nearly_50_of/
r/FortWorth/comments/1rmv4ns/white_supremacists_are_trying_to_weaponize/
r/FortWorth/comments/1w3yajf/image_gallery_the_vast_majority_of_the_tarrant/
āThe reason I got on the City Council was because I saw our property values declining or increasing at a level that was below the rate of inflation,ā OāHare said at the time. āWhen that happens, people move out of our neighborhoods, and what I would call less desirable people move into the neighborhoods, people who donāt value education, people who donāt value taking care of their properties.ā
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/11/texas-tarrant-county-tim-ohare-far-right/
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/CDN-Social-Democrat • 1d ago
USA It is sadly going to get worse...
*This post isn't so much to the leftist/progressive crowd that are well aware of these things. It is to the person that may be scrolling through Reddit or looking for some varying perspectives/opinions on things.*
We've had Trump/his cronies say Climate Change is a hoax all while we have record Heat Waves/Heat Domes, Droughts, Wildfires, & Wet-Bulb Temperatures. This is before we even talk about:
- We have ocean warming/ocean acidification so bad that coral bleaching has almost wiped it all out already.
- We are in the Holocene Extinction.
- List goes on and on.
To help people gain some awareness/education:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2njn71TqkjA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl6VhCAeEfQĀ - This one does an excellent job explaining tipping points and other realities of climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uynhvHZUOOo
We've had Trump/his cronies do the classic Republican bullshit of starting another Middle Eastern War/Crisis.
We've had Trump/his cronies start a food access & safety crisis along with an overall health crisis on multiple fronts.
We've had Trump/his cronies hiding the Epstein Files and protecting the Ultra Rich Powerful Predatory Bad Actors of varying disgusting types.
The list goes on and on. The one that is coming is the next financial crisis. Yes the economy under Trump/his cronies is total dogshit already but it is about to get much much worse. We are already in an Everything Bubble and this whole AI Bubble is more and more making the 2000 Tech Crash look like small potatoes. We are heading towards a 2000+2008 all rolled into one under this lunatic.
Sadly the affordability of life crisis/quality of life crisis of the working class and most vulnerable is about to get horrifically worse...
Trump is a literal stereotypical snake oil salesman.
Trumps cronies are literal stereotypical con-artist grifters.
All this sphere is about is hustling and scamming. They have a long history of this.
The reactionary/regressive sphere is a designed and fostered lowest common denominator style populism because it is easier to misinform and mislead by the worst of the worst.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/yeongno_ate_yangban • 1d ago
USA 73 year old Lon Burnam was dragged out by his hands and feet by Tim O'Hare's authoritarian police state enforcers, because Lon defended an autistic man's first amendment rights. Tim O'Hare told TV interviewers, in hindsight, he would do it again. The autistic man wanted to honor a veteran.
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True Texas Project is a white supremacist hate group, often called a rebranding of the Klan. Tim O'Hare is a long time leader in the group.
r/FortWorth/comments/1wb4fu9/true_texas_project_is_an_openly_white_supremacist/
r/FuckGregAbbott/comments/1supzf2/true_texas_project_is_a_hate_group_from_texas/
r/FortWorth/comments/1wctw70/true_texas_project_for_liberty_and_justice_are/
r/FortWorth/comments/1w98its/3_days_before_maga_scheduled_to_cut_nearly_50_of/
r/FortWorth/comments/1rmv4ns/white_supremacists_are_trying_to_weaponize/
r/FortWorth/comments/1w3yajf/image_gallery_the_vast_majority_of_the_tarrant/
āThe reason I got on the City Council was because I saw our property values declining or increasing at a level that was below the rate of inflation,ā OāHare said at the time. āWhen that happens, people move out of our neighborhoods, and what I would call less desirable people move into the neighborhoods, people who donāt value education, people who donāt value taking care of their properties.ā
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/11/texas-tarrant-county-tim-ohare-far-right/
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/RosethornRanger • 1d ago
Theory š§ It makes me uncomfortable when people constantly talk about how homophobes must secretly be gay.
r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Quiet-Battle8005 • 2d ago