Leftists, who are your heroes?

[rightwinger]

What makes him great?

Is it all that money?

George Soros LOVES this country

 

[odanny]

Do you even know anything about the kind of bullshit these organizations are involved in?

• Open Society Foundations
• New America
• Media Matters for America
• Center for Public Integrity
• Priorities USA Action
• American Bridge 21st Century
• America Votes<
• Millennium Promise
• Tides Center and Foundation
• Wikimedia Endowment
• MoveOn
• America Coming Together

Most I don't, but I would make a bet I could find more positive that all of these organizations are doing than you could find negative things. It does not have to be a subjective, it can be entirely objective, because I bet I can find multiple examples each of them are doing work for the public good that is not normally done, usually in the form or reporting on wrongdoings, human rights abuses, financial crimes, basically those in positions of authority who are abusing it. That's important work, very important.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Thats probably because you have limited historical perspective on what is "left" or "right".

Once a Liberal Icon, Jefferson’s Now Claimed by Both Left and Right

How can that be? People believe what they want to believe.

www.historynewsnetwork.org

ideas that at one point or another were "left wing":

Constitutional Democracy
Abolishment of slavery
Personal Rights
Federalism
Freedom of speech
Women's voting rights
Interventionalism
Pacifism
Public Education
Public Infrastructure
Social Security
Medicaid/Medicare
Minimum wage
Worker rights
Public transportation


The list is very long and most eventually internalized by rightwingers as some sort of a-political, or rightwing ideas.

Most of them still are!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

George Soros LOVES this country

He loves to destroy this country is what you meant to say.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

"NUH-UH!"

Why the hostility?

If they want to say Karl, let them.

If they don't want to say Karl then fine as well.

What's the problem g?

Tell you what, I will mention one of my heroes.

George Washington. Why? Because George risked his fortune and his very life to lead a revolution where he constantly lost battles, but he never gave up. Battle after battle he got his arse handed to him, with men and equipment that were subpar to that of the enemy. But then the unexplainable happened, he helped win the war anyway. But that is not why I so adore him. Why I adore him is that his troops tried to get him to march on Washington DC to collect the money that was due them, money Congress simply did not have at that time. They wanted to make George their king.

He inexplicably turned it down, something contrary to human nature.

Then when he became President, he stepped down after two terms which set a precedent for all other Presidents to come after him, until FDR defacated all over his memory by insisting he was never going to leave office. It caused his own party to set term limits officially for Presidents

Could you even imagine Trump being able to run a third time?

When the King of England heard that Washington had turned down being made the first king of America, he said that he would go down as one of the greatest men of all time, warts and all.

King George was correct.

King George was insane. You can never go by anything he said, even if it was a good thing. He only said what the voices in his head told him to say.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

That actually makes sense. Che sought social justice through the barrel of a gun, and as we see today, the Left is no different.

Damn those slopped roofs!!

Too bad that health care CEO was not on a slopped roof.

Slopped? Were there pigs up there?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Theres not one person in this american citizens history who qualifies as a hero. Mark it down.

Not even Audie Murphy?

 

[AntonToo]

You pick the one actual communist on this board as "proof" of your non fellow traveler status.

Meanwhile the rest of your record speaks for itself.

Thats just one more thing you've made up. You just can't help yourself.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Thats probably because you have limited historical perspective on what is "left" or "right".

Once a Liberal Icon, Jefferson’s Now Claimed by Both Left and Right

How can that be? People believe what they want to believe.

www.historynewsnetwork.org

ideas that at one point or another were "left wing":

Constitutional Democracy
Abolishment of slavery
Personal Rights
Federalism
Freedom of speech
Women's voting rights
Interventionalism
Pacifism
Public Education
Public Infrastructure
Social Security
Medicaid/Medicare
Minimum wage
Worker rights
Public transportation


The list is very long and most eventually internalized by rightwingers as some sort of a-political, or rightwing ideas.

Your list didn’t include anyone you admire.

 

[AntonToo]

Your list didn’t include anyone you admire.

I'm not into idolatry.

I respect and/or apreciate many people for many reasons...but admire? Not for me, they are all human and flawed.

Just a few of those people in no particular order

Thomas Jefferson
Lincoln
JFK
Tesla
Teddy Rooselvet
Gasparov
Obama
Musk
Bill Gates

 

[Mac1958]

Not only do these MAGA morons needs heroes (incredibly, they have chosen Donald Trump) but they also need villains, and that is George Soros.

Yeah. And as always, Soros was introduced as the villain on talk radio. Before everything proliferated on the internet, talk radio was the ideological genesis of all of their thought, beginning on the day Rush Limbaugh went national.

At the same time, I get the feeling that Trump represents both the hero and the villain for them. The anti-hero. The heroic bad guy. America loves their anti-heroes. Just look at our movies. He's The Joker to America's Batman. And actually, that may also apply to people who voted for him, who aren't hardcore MAGA. **** it, what the hell, I'll vote for him and see what happens.

Trump is the ultimate flashy, vulgar, aggressive, juvenile, pugilistic middle finger at a country that they feel has so terribly victimized them. The destruction he causes? **** it, who cares, they're miserable, and he makes those they hate, hurt too.

An ugly, ugly fuckin' story.

 

[konradv]

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LOL!!! MAGA is the Diaper Party.

 

[Votto]

George Soros LOVES this country

indeed, he loves it to death apparently.

 

[JWBooth]

Him numbah one for them. Him stand up to yankee imperialists.

 

[forkup]

Just wondering.

Personally, I have trouble thinking of any historical Left wing figure who is admirable, but you can give it a shot.

Depends on what you consider a left-wing figure, and what makes someone a hero to begin with — something I’m not really comfortable with, since most people have flaws, sometimes serious ones. “Admirable” is a broader and more useful concept. In that sense, FDR comes to mind. So does Nelson Mandela.

A better question might be: what has left-wing ideology actually done to improve life for people? And to that, I’d say this — it gave the working class a political voice at a time when they had almost no rights. That same working class still benefits today from rights and protections rooted in those early struggles. Things like weekends, universal suffrage, mandatory universal schooling, pensions. You are welcome.

 

[defcon4]

Soros is the foremost financier of left-wing and globalist organizations. Taking him out would be like cutting off the head of a poisonous snake. The second largest funder of left-wing organizations was our own federal government, up until President Trump put a screeching halt to that.

Here is a take on Soros: The rumor was that he made his billions by "breaking the Bank of England." Nobody brakes the Rothschild bank. (Well, most banks are Rothschild banks or affiliated branches) Considering Soros' past, he was picked to be the hatchet man and given the billions for that purpose with manipulative transactions, seemingly appear as he made the billions in currency trading. Similarly, nobody is certain how Epstein "made" his billions. Those two cases point toward the powers that be machination behind the scenes. So, it became a two front attack. One, the Soros led attack, used direct financing to destroy societies, the other one used the blackmail scheme for the same reason.

 

[forkup]

Here is a take on Soros: The rumor was that he made his billions by "breaking the Bank of England." Nobody brakes the Rothschild bank. (Well, most banks are Rothschild banks or affiliated branches) Considering Soros' past, he was picked to be the hatchet man and given the billions for that purpose with manipulative transactions, seemingly appear as he made the billions in currency trading. Similarly, nobody is certain how Epstein "made" his billions. Those two cases point toward the powers that be machination behind the scenes. So, it became a two front attack. One, the Soros led attack, used direct financing to destroy societies, the other one used the blackmail scheme for the same reason.

A “take” doesn’t start with “the rumor was.” That’s not a take — that’s just warmed-over conspiracy fluff dressed up as insight.

The Soros-as-boogeyman trope is exhausted. Anytime someone trots him out as the mastermind behind every societal change they don’t like, you can bet specifics and sources will vanish the second you ask for them.

Meanwhile, some of the richest men in the world have poured millions into the Trump campaign — resulting in the wealthiest cabinet in modern U.S. history. But sure, let’s keep pretending Soros is the real threat. Not the billionaires openly writing policy from inside the room.

Irony didn’t just die — it’s been buried, dug up, and shot again for good measure.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Now, now, these are their heroes.

I honestly commend rightwiger for being brave enough to mention his name.

Turn Him Loose, Bruce

And the Gaveling Gavinist will commend rightwinger after letting him off on charges of Netrix rape.

 

[g5000]

George Soros LOVES this country

Especially now that Trump gave him a big tax break!

Soros gets to keep more of his own money to fund Antifa riots, promote communism, and kidnap children to harvest adrenochrome from their blood for Hollywood celebrities.

 

[Stann]

Just wondering.

Personally, I have trouble thinking of any historical Left wing figure who is admirable, but you can give it a shot.

Humans are very fragile creatures. Posthumously made bigger than life in either fashion , more glorious or more notorious My hero would be the Creator Entity. We owe it everything.