I Don’t Care If The Democratic Party Never Holds Office Again
Left Critique Daniel Woods Left Critique Daniel Woods

I Don’t Care If The Democratic Party Never Holds Office Again

It is undeniable that our economy has tightened, that we are astride a violin string which is being pulled ever more taut beneath our ragged feet. We watch as far away the pegs turn, hear as the cords beneath us creak and groan in protest to the burden of our weight and the insistent yanking from beyond. Around us the people fall, crashing freely into the void below, the safety net we long ago built now so full of holes as to be nonexistent.

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Occupied Palestine = Slaveholder America
Left Critique Daniel Woods Left Critique Daniel Woods

Occupied Palestine = Slaveholder America

The dream of the Zionist is an ahistorical Palestine that they can romanticize into a brave, but anachronistic people who were minor elements in the Manifest Destiny of an Israel that occupies all the land “between the Sea and the Jordan.” Now the occupying power has been forced into a choice, reaping the gruesome rewards of their hybrid reservation-plantation system of exploitation; seeing that the only way to ensure their dominance in the region, to halt resistance to their injustice, is to eradicate the indigenous population entirely through either bombs, poison, or exile into the Sinai Peninsula.

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Anti-LGBTQ+ Arabs? Sounds Sus.
Left Critique Daniel Woods Left Critique Daniel Woods

Anti-LGBTQ+ Arabs? Sounds Sus.

If you wish to opine on the state of rights in Arab nations and countries, you should first recognize the material realities of the world in which they exist, the struggles which demand the vast majority of their daily energies and attention. Their can be no pro-equality movement while an occupying country bombs your neighborhood, steals your water, and limits the availability of food and medicine at will; no protections for the most vulnerable when all are stood naked before the same wall for execution.

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Identity 2024: Race and Capital in the United States
Left Critique Daniel Woods Left Critique Daniel Woods

Identity 2024: Race and Capital in the United States

Today, the United States finds itself in a perilous state; whether looking at the plight of the poor or our many communities of color (how too often these are interchangeable), it is all but impossible to ignore the intersections that exist between the two as all except the most wealthy, educated, and socially insulated continue to slide deeper into the sucking mire of a dying nation.

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Respectability Politics is Dead.
Left Critique Daniel Woods Left Critique Daniel Woods

Respectability Politics is Dead.

At a certain point, the facade of Respectability collapses, and the Aristocracy of the United States is exposed for what they are. Just as the supposedly socially liberal Democrats continue to ratchet rightward, adopting principles previously supported by Deplorables and gaslighting all in their wake, so too do the standards of respectability fall under the already Hell-level bar set by the most reactionary elements of the political landscape.

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