roterote aka Hunter CG

Meet Lula’s Army, the 10 million person WhatsApp group that beat the algorithm and fascism!

Doing some brainstorming. 😁

It's now in People people.com/former-miss-...

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

Another reason why states must recover wealth through taxation. It's not a moral question, it's a question of power. Poor states are weak. Weak states cannot function properly.

Transphobia was never about defending women, it was always about defending masculinity and controlling women.

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

We’ve never learned this lesson in the UK. We still have to listen to the ‘legitimate concerns’ of a bunch of racists and fascists.

Another person has died in ICE custody — this is the 28th known death this year. The cruelty of this rogue agency is beyond unconscionable. Abolish ICE.

Racism makes you stupid, because to accept this you need to jettison all reality from your brain…or have a worm eat it.

The Audiobook that kicked off this trend is the full cast audiobook of World War Z, which still is an incredible listen. Here is @markhamillofficial.bsky.social reading as a veteran of the Battle of Yonkers. And if you only know World War Z from the movie, buckle up because it ain’t like that.

Ah yes. Democracies famously don’t allow their populations to influence or change any decisions made in the past.

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

I think the MP forgot that democracy means you are constantly revisiting promises made just a few months to years earlier. Welcome to elections and people changing their minds and leaders.

In an ideal world, any Labour MP blowing the “legitimate concerns” dog-whistle would be thrown from the party. Instead, the leadership are intent on pandering to these bigots and idiots.

Your daily reminder that Politico is owned by the Fox News of Germany, Axel Springer. Whose CEO made the US staff pray for Trump.

UK corpos have been pushing this exact line since 1500 and the colonial corporations. Where there were literal parliamentary debates how the best governance was corporate governance.

If you want to know who didn’t sign in denouncing the antidemocratic and corrupt attacks on @repilhan.bsky.social:

A strong reminder that the DSA executive has elections next year in Chicago. They can all be replaced with people who are serious about making socialism a governing force.

The far right is international and they all organize together and raise money for each other. I'd argue it's critical to pay attention to elections in other countries.

The defense of democracy means a defense of the victims of tyranny from the highest halls to the lowest ranks. We stand together, or we are scattered. Victory comes with solidarity.

The persecution of @repilhan.bsky.social just days before an election is vile and politically-motivated. I'm leading 175 House Democrats in denouncing this. When we retake power, we have to seriously look at how we can stop these abuses of power — starting with the power of the purse.

National DSA stays on X to avoid the mockery of bsky leftists and liberals.

The next Democratic presidency cannot have any Republicans controlling any aspect of the Federal Government. They protect their own.

This doesn’t shock me, astroturfing is a core Republican strategy.

"Abolish the Home Office". Even UK politics looks good in Star Wars Galactic racer font.

Hundreds of towns and streets in the USA were named in the 1800s for political figures in other countries that Americans were rooting for. Americans formed societies, wrote articles and editorials, and raised money for Garibaldi and Parnell and many others.

I am gonna give you all a protip: ideology doesn’t stop at or recognize borders, especially not when its proponents are organizing across borders constantly. This has always been this way.

If you asked people in the street to guess how much of Europe's energy is produced fossil-free (renewables or electric), I bet they would not guess "over seventy percent". But it's true, in fact only three countries (Poland, Cyprus and Malta) are under 50%, while five are over 90%.

yup.

Here's Lula celebrating tonight with Erika Hilton, a transgender politician who led the drive to end the six-day work week in Brazil. Erika showed workers solidarity, they showed her solidarity back. Solidarity is how fascism loses.

Neema Parvini, a right-wing content creator, has withdrawn from speaking at an Oxon University Reform Society (OURS) event at Oriel College later this term after learning of the society’s invitation to Nathan Cofnas cherwell.org/2026/10/24/o...

And This is exactly why Burnham will fail- he does not want to confront these people. HeMs terrified of them, and he thinks he can accommodate them. He’s deeply, deeply wrong.

This is it: When fascism aims to go viral, do not allow them to cough into everyone's faces in the name of "free speech". Debate is an internal means of determining how to beat an enemy. On the plane of struggle against an external opposition, a movement does not aim to debate, but to defeat.

Lonely, Bolso is so lonely, so lonely Bolso could cry.

Because it really is the behavior of people who don't even perceive the *existence* of a movement, who treat politics like it's just their little personal little league game to win or lose. It's wrecker shit, fundamentally. Insecure, pathetic behavior.

The big lesson is to treat marketing and mass communications like marketing and mass communications, with its own rules, and logic. Instead of pretending it is a philosophy or debate club.

What these politicians are doing when they put out dumb transphobic ads or say dumb transphobic things on stage is that they're weakening the movement either out of personal bigotry or out of doing incorrect electoral math, and they really should get shit for it.

UK Labour Party

Literally enlisting people in using growth hacking tactics *against* the networks themselves. I don't know that this is replicable, I don't know how this changes down the line against an adversary who might be even more brazen in their interference, but it worked this time.

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

At one point he had a Whatsapp group with 10 million people in it, coordinating action. Which I didn't even think whatsapp was infrastructurally designed to support. And yes, whatsapp is of course a meta network, but the strategy was to be everywhere, to act redundantly, to be unbannable.