What is the "Cocaine Left?"

Symptoms of cocaine abuse are aggression, antisocial behavior, actions that are dangerous to themselves and others, psychosis, overconfidence and irritability.

A certain portion of our fringe is dangerous the same way that MAGA is dangerous. They're uninterested in building anything, or accomplishing any policy. They want to set fire to everything in sight.

The Cocaine Left is hurting us, and making it impossible for the larger family of the left to thrive and accomplish things. And as someone who just celebrated 20 years of sobriety, I can tell you - the kindest thing we can do is stop enabling them.

If you think Russia, China and Hamas are the good guys, you are part of the Cocaine Left. If you believe violence is a valid political tactic, you are part of the Cocaine Left. If you think burning America down so your ideology can rise from the ashes is best, you are part of the Cocaine Left.

It's not going to be easy cutting them off and moving on without them, but in the end we will all be a lot healthier.

(warning twitter link I don’t think nitter works anymore) more gold from Brianna Wu

  • robinnn [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    If you believe violence is a valid political tactic, you are part of the Cocaine Left.

    I am sure this person stays absolutely consistent with this position!

      • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        terrorism /tĕr′ə-rĭz″əm/

        noun

        1. The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.

        🤔 damn I wish I could read (I'm a lib by the way)

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Quick question if violence is not a valid political tactic why do countries have "defense" budgets?

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        That's actually the status quo so it's not political smuglord

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          3 months ago

          Seriously the only problem libs have with random acts of violence is the random part.

          Maybe if people posted a pre determined, regular schedule of when they were going to start burning down precincts and courthouses we'd get the libs on our side.

          • barrbaric [he/him]
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            3 months ago

            Bit idea: the "free speech zones" at Bush-era college campuses but it's around the designated burning precinct.

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          3 months ago

          It's funny because this actually works on millions of people who insist that violence is never the answer.

      • PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        It's not a valid political tactic within a country if you agree to the rules. Myself and you guys think the rules are bullshit.

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          3 months ago

          One of our countries rules is "if you try to charge us with war crimes well invade the hague"

            • silent_water [she/her]
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              3 months ago

              I'm pretty sure it's not changeable within the rules. on paper? sure. in practice, it benefits the political class so it doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell. otherwise, we might be held accountable for warcrimes.

              whether or not you personally agree with the rules doesn't really come into it. it's just an analysis of power. violent resistance is necessary to end the violence.

    • plinky [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      isntreal and amerikkka are part of the cocaine left

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Does she condemn the Yankees in the American revolutionary war tho?

      Actually ask that every time she says something like a British journalist asking you to condemn Hamas every 2nd sentence in an interview about Palestine.

  • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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    3 months ago

    If you think Russia, China and Hamas are the good guys, you are part of the Cocaine Left.

    What if i think 2 of the three are the good guys and one is the enemy of my enemy that i don't particularly like in any way but still rank higher than the West?

    I've also never done cocaine

    • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      Good guy/bad guy shit applied at the state levels is just babybrain shit. (I realize you are responding to her prompt. Not insulting you.)

      Gun to my head, forced to define who is good and bad morally I have to choose an anchor for that morality. Ok, I choose the United States and will judge them all based off the US' actions.

      People killed by Russia/USSR in the last like 50 years? Definitely a larger number than I'd like, specifically in Afghanistan.

      People killed by Hamas? I dunno, like a few thousand, maybe? That includes IOF soliders whose lives I quite literally... don't value. Sorry guys, don't be in the fucking SS for Israel.

      People killed by China? If the cutoff is 1974 (I didn't choose this to make anyone look good, just happened to be 50 years back), then that leaves China's war against Vietnam in 1979. About 30K estimated killed on both sides of that.

      The US since 1974.... holy fuck... you can just go from 2001 to now and already be into multi million deaths. I'm not discounting the deaths of untold thousands, probably millions more in South America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the collapse of the USSR (I'd put those suicides on the US too), but the magnitude of the difference is already made, I think.

      So if you compare Russia, China, and Hamas to the moral anchor (a beacon of morality! ™️ Bri might say) of the US, well... they're basically like an unregistered earthquake, maybe Russia/USSR is a slight tremble, while the US' death count is dumping Japan's nuclear reactors into the sea and ripping an island in half.

      Dipshits like Wu (Bri? I don't know wtf to call her for shorthand. Maybe just dipshit is fine) have absolutely no historical knowledge, or pretend to not know, of the horrors the United States has unleashed since its colonial birth but all the way up to and including the present proxy war in Ukraine, which it instigated and now has dragged on for two years, and the genocidal campaign of death that its colonial outpost has unleashed on Gaza for 7 months now (and dozens of times in the past).

      There is no justification for this violence and bloodshed. None of it was for legitimate self defense. The US hasn't had a war of defense for anyone since fucking WWII. It's all been not so cleverly disguised "lawfare" shit where they finagle a "reason" to start bombing or, fuck it, like in Iraq just do it even when the world is like "uhhh this shit is all just lies..."

      Anyone who attempts to seriously justify the actions has a soul as empty as their skulls. I just hope they at least financially benefit from cheering on the incineration of children... but based on the financial breakdown of the US vs dipshits who will vaguely give support to "the military" (I include Israel under that umbrella with US), almost all of them do it for free! Pathetic! Maybe Wu gets paid from her tweet interactions, I suspect she does, but all the people liking it and retweeting it, you aren't even benefiting you evil, depraved fuckers! Hope the idea of the kids you funded killing helps you stomach the cost of your own kid's X-ray when they fall off the playground and break their arm, you fantastic morons (thanks Finkelstein).

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    "the cocaine left" is a very dumb moniker. People hearing you say "the cocaine left" will be confused. How much cocaine is left? How much did you start with? How long ago did you start with that amount? Have you been sharing the cocaine? Do you plan to get more cocaine?

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    "We gotta denounce the people who actually want to do stuff so we can get back to what the movement is really about, smugly occupying the moral highground while losing every single ideological political and societal battle."

  • FungiDebord [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    I'd like to build a state where even at least de jure people of different religions and ethnicities aren't killed on sight

    You're a coke demon.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 months ago

    :projection:

    I can only conclude that Brianna Wu is doing lots and lots of cocaine

    • Angel [any]
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      3 months ago

      Dang, did you really gotta hit her with the "D.U."? She ain't gonna recover from that.

      • Sons_of_Ferrix
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        3 months ago

        No one recovers from being declared Deeply Unserious

        chavez-guns hst-gun

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    "I'll tell everyone that leftists are super cool and know how to party that'll show em"

    Also "20 years sober" means she was probably doing a lot of coke in college and you know what that makes a lot of sense

    • nothx [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Yeah back before she realized the grift that would keep her relevant.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    [The cocaine left are] uninterested in building anything, or accomplishing any policy. They want to set fire to everything in sight.

    Isn’t the stereotype of people high on cocaine is that they’re hyper motivated to come with a plan to start a small business or write a movie script? That’s why Wall Street bros and Hollywood scuzbags use it, they get high but also go super Type A on their work at the same time.

    • Lerios [hy/hym]
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      3 months ago

      well you see, when rich white people do [illegal thing] its cool and based actually, but when working class people or POC do [illegal thing] its a terrifying threat to western civilization. hope this helps!

  • urshanabi [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    what's the purpose of using ableist verbiage? the "war on drugs" and folks who consider themselves right or right-leaning use similar rhetoric to expunge people considered 'lesser'. To note this is a subgroup of individuals of conservative ideology, not all. It is important to make the distinction becauuse while I disagree all-the-same, the kinds of disagreements are different and need not be lumped together.

    it's great she has 20 years of sobriety, it is inappropriate to use it as a cudgel to to wield against anyone else who she seeks to demean or otherwise treat unseriously. perhaps some were similarly unfair to her during her time of insobriety, it does not therefore mean she needs to reproduce her treatment onto others.

    "hurt people, hurt people" is a descriptive account of what occurs, not a guidebook on appropriate behavior.

    • itappearsthat [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      I think it's pretty common to project negative attributes of your past selves onto your ideological opponents, so you can convince yourself they are just a less developed version of you. No need to care about what they have to say.

      • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        less developed version

        if this is what is believed, my response is 🫨🤢🤮

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    3 months ago

    I did cocaine once

    Made me sweaty and anxious as all get out

    Like a LIB

    Didn't like it

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    You don't get to write something like that and insist you're actually very sober 20 years actually in the same incomprehensible post.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        The original wording of my comment was that Mike Lindell would write this about the antifa spiders in his arms but I think his version would be funny.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      Lol Matt fucking hated cocaine. He probably had a stroke because he couldn't give up cheeseburgers, but no one is calling us the Cheeseburger Left.

      Also, Matt's ideas make sense if you are extremely well-read and also understand esoteria and the occult. If you don't understand his ideas, or your complaint about them is that they don't make sense, it is more showing your ass than his.

      • Dessa [she/her]
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        3 months ago

        He probably had a stroke because he couldn't give up cheeseburgers

        I'm betting it was Covid.

          • Dessa [she/her]
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            3 months ago

            Reduces likelihood of death and of acute short term symptoms. Does not prevent long covid, including increased risk of stroke.

      • TRexBear
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        3 months ago

        deleted by creator

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Counterpoint: understanding esoterica and the occult is showing your ass.

        • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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          3 months ago

          Counter-counter point: Just because demiurge has won and we are all awaiting spiritual oblivion doesn't mean you have to stop reading fun spooky metaphysical magic books.

      • Sons_of_Ferrix
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        3 months ago

        Cheeseburger Left

        New "DSA Leftist" just dropped

    • sempersigh [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 months ago

      Pavlou found out who the chapo guys were like a week ago and is completely obsessed with them now lmao

      • Redcuban1959 [any]
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        3 months ago

        Pavlou

        This guy has been in a twitter battle against Badempanada for months now lol

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      vile slander, I hope this guy has a bus drive through his house and over his bed while he's sleeping

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Of course she's on the same wavelength as this fucker.

      This motherfucker dressed in full Hazmat suit outside of a Chinese language learning centre in April, 2020 to """protest the CPC""" and not imply Chinese people are fucking plague rats. Not to mention the borders were closed months before that (I know this due to the fact that I was supposed to fly from Syd to Wuhan for Spring Festival that year and that trip got cancelled)

      Mind you, that language school has been there for like 20 fucking years and has just as many Australian born Chinese helping out as people from the mainland or the Sinosphere. It's why they teach traditional as well as simplified Chinese. It's an apolitical organisation.

      His other "protests" (read: publicity stunts) in Australia have the racist Australian government telling him to "tone it down", like going to the suburb with the highest number of Australian born Chinese and holding a sign that says "Fuck Xi Jinping" to provoke a response from people who are just going grocery shopping with their kids.

      He keeps trying to start beef with Hasan and the Deprogram/Chapo guys in a desperate attempt to get American reactionaries to latch on to his grift.

      Brianna, for the love of god, you're married to a Chinese man and you were treated to targeted harassment by chuda during GamerGate. And now you're buddies with a sinophohic fuckwit that harrasses Chinese people for a living. Most of his followers would have harassed you a decade ago! He's part of the reason for the spike in anti Asian hate, endangering your own fucking husband. Holy fucking shit, this white 汉奸 is a moron.

  • VHS [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Real leftism is when you stand with the largest and most violent empire on earth. Same belief as the "MAGA Communism" dipshits