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Title: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by aquascoot on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 8:23am

The conservative side has so many important influencers

Trump
Jordan peterson
Joe rogan
Elon Musk
Ben Shapiro.
Tucker.
Pauline
Peter thielle.
Charlie Kirk ( well killing him is one way to try to get even)
Hannity
Megan Kelly
John Anderson
Victor Hansen.

Who have the left got?

Greta
AOC
Bernie.
Rachel maddow
Thorpe.
Noam chomsky

Why are the left so ignored irrelevant and flaccid ?

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by Gordon on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 8:45am

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by thegreatdivide on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 10:15am

aquascoot wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 8:23am:

You left out Mamdani; and none of that list are "flaccid".

Meanwhile, AOC and Bernie are rejected by mainstream politicians (Left and Right) who blindly subscribe to mainstream Neoclassical economics - the real villains in the current hyperpartisan democracies.

"It's the economy, stupid".

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by Jasin on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 10:16am

The Left have lost in America.
Been booted out of Argentina.
...but they have now taken over Australia and made it a State of New Zealand's Oceania

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by thegreatdivide on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 10:30am

Jasin wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 10:16am:

The Left have lost in America.

Wait for the midterms....

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Been booted out of Argentina.

Same old story.

Mainstream Neoclassical economics pits Left against Right; the Right's 'solutions' are increasing poverty in Argentina, while economists are pleased with Milei's lower government debt and spending.

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...but they have now taken over Australia and made it a State of New Zealand's Oceania

Please explain...oh never mind....

Note: the value of NZ's exports is decreasing. Pity about that.

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by Jasin on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 10:32am

Wait for the mid-terms?
Just beat up for the Media as always. It's a nothingness.

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by greggerypeccary on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 10:34am

Jasin wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 10:32am:

Wait for the mid-terms?
Just beat up for the Media as always. It's a nothingness.

You think the GOP will do well in the mid-terms?

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by Gnads on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 11:09am

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 10:15am:

aquascoot wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 8:23am:

They're as flaccid as you. And that's limp writ large.

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by Bobby. on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 11:21am

Jasin wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 10:16am:

The Left have lost in America.
Been booted out of Argentina.
...but they have now taken over Australia and made it a State of New Zealand's Oceania

Nahh - the Kiwis kicked out Jacinda Ardern the communist.

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 12:18pm

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=122244305792058583&set=a.122104455686058583&type=3&comment_id=1154595440083282&notif_id=1767318958068717&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif

Not in Norway now - the tides they are a-changing.....

"A single decision can change everything, this case study proves it... Norway made such a decision three and a half years ago, with hugely positive social implications.

When the Norwegian Government appointed the Men’s Equality Commission (Mannsutvalget) by royal decree in August 2022, it did something that was quietly profound: it treated the challenges facing boys and men as legitimate gender equality issues. Not as backlash, not as culture war, but as serious policy questions worthy of evidence, time, and institutional authority.

The Commission’s mandate was explicit and unusually broad (education, family life, health, work, civic participation, and inclusion) especially striking in Norway, which is often held up as a global “gold standard” for gender policies.

Two years later, the result was transformative. The Commission’s final report published in April 2024, has reframed male underachievement in education, poorer health outcomes, social exclusion, and family-law challenges as systemic equality gaps; not as personal failings."

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Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by thegreatdivide on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 12:52pm

Gnads wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 11:09am:

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 10:15am:

aquascoot wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 8:23am:

They're as flaccid as you. And that's limp writ large.

Your error: Mamdani (you know... the guy Trump called "a lunatic communist" before he was elected NY mayor, and hence invited to the WH) charmed the famously volatile Trump....

Definitely NOT flaccid.

And Bernie, also definitely not flaccid - was rejected by the flaccid Dem party machine in 2016. Bernie might well have defeated Trump in that election if he, not Hilary, was Trump's opponent that year.

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by thegreatdivide on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 1:07pm

Bobby. wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 11:21am:

Jasin wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 10:16am:

The Left have lost in America.
Been booted out of Argentina.
...but they have now taken over Australia and made it a State of New Zealand's Oceania

Nahh - the Kiwis kicked out Jacinda Ardern the communist.

Because she was 'flaccid Left', and captured by Neoclassical economics.

The question for the Left today is: are they gutsy enough to force multi-millionaires and billionaires to fund essential social services...

Or alternatively, introduce some central planning to manage resource mobilzation and allocation, in order to avoid governement having to tax and borrow from the private sector....

Your choice; either way, something's got to give, otherwise democacy fails as 'austerity' leads to social unrest and collapse of indebted governments.

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by Bobby. on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 1:19pm

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 1:07pm:

Bobby. wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 11:21am:

Jasin wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 10:16am:

The Left have lost in America.
Been booted out of Argentina.
...but they have now taken over Australia and made it a State of New Zealand's Oceania

Nahh - the Kiwis kicked out Jacinda Ardern the communist.

Because she was 'flaccid Left', and captured by Neoclassical economics.

The question for the Left today is: are they gutsy enough to force multi-millionaires and billionaires to fund essential social services...

Or alternatively, introduce some central planning to manage resource mobilzation and allocation, in order to avoid governement having to tax and borrow from the private sector....

Your choice; either way, something's got to give, otherwise democacy fails as 'austerity' leads to social unrest and collapse of indebted governments.

central planning ? - sounds like the CCP ? :-[

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by lee on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 1:27pm

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Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?

They are only "influential" if what they are saying strikes a chord with those they are trying to influence. Albo fas hubris. I suspect he will try to tough it out.

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by thegreatdivide on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 1:35pm

lee wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 1:27pm:

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Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?

They are only "influential" if what they are saying strikes a chord with those they are trying to influence. Albo fas hubris. I suspect he will try to tough it out.

He won in 2025. Let's see if he can deliver enough by 2028, to win again.

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by lee on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 1:59pm

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 1:35pm:

He won in 2025.

Ah yes. Past performance is no prediction of future performance. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Currently hiding under that rock of his, not performing like a leader. ;)

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by Frank on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 2:20pm

aquascoot wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 8:23am:

The Left got Gweggy, karnal, Bbwiyawn, lastnail, greatparrot, duckyraver, mothra, Smith.

Very influential people.

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by Sir lastnail on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 3:11pm

Frank wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 2:20pm:

aquascoot wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 8:23am:

The Left got Gweggy, karnal, Bbwiyawn, lastnail, greatparrot, duckyraver, mothra, Smith.

Very influential people.

Nothing to do with political persuasion but everything to do with humanity and a sense of decency, of which you lack. You sound like a psychopath, but in my experience, they are very dangerous people. Just look at the ones running the rogue settler colony in the Middle East and the old pedo running the US atm. I was willing to give that conman ago but he conned all of us except you :(

Title: Re: Where are the important Leftie Influencers?
Post by Sir lastnail on Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 3:23pm

aquascoot wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 8:23am:

Sorry you left off these left commentators ;)

Professor Norman Finkelstein,
Professor Jeffry Sachs,
Max Blumenthal, (The Gray Zone)
Dave Smith,
Katy Haiper, (Useful Idiots)
Aaron Mate, (Useful Idiots)
Ana Kasparian, (The Young Turks)
Cenk Uygur (The Young Turks)
Due Dissidence, (Russell Dobular and Keaton Weiss)
Jimmy Dore, (The Jimmy Dore Show)
Sabrina Salvati (Sabby Sabs),
Antony Lowenstein