Yeah, and I think this is why they end up sounding ultra-left when they lack political clarity.

Immature black-and-white thinking is separate from the self-identification you’re talking about. I don’t think a statement like “I’m a gamer” is liberal. It’s natural for humans to try to understand themselves and their purpose and identify this way. I think any ruling class does use this natural characteristic for its own ends though.

His example proves how committed and educated and principled people can become a true threat to capitalist power very quickly, and it should inspire all of us.

Are you organized in real life? In addition to its necessity for getting anything done and for studying correctly, it’s very grounding to work with real people on real problems, and it’s calming to see even small wins. Rage is a natural reaction when you have nowhere to direct your feelings and are focused more on hatred for the capitalist class than on love for the people, but when you’re channeling your feelings properly into productive action, rage fades.

There are many. I know some of them. Zionism really isn’t pro-Jewish, no matter how much they want to convince people it is because that’s the last thin justification they have for what they’re doing, so Jews should have even more reason than anyone else to support the resistance.

One frustrating thing about this is that disabled people do need job support, but this is rarely what’s actually needed. I’ve been disabled for 20 years; I don’t need some job coach at my doctor to give me advice about it. I need workplaces to be accessible and for accommodations to be mandatory and enforced, and I need not to be discriminated against or treated like a child just for being disabled and not to be socially ostracized. Even better would be a guaranteed job and a trained person to help place me where my skills, education, interests, and access needs best fit.

If they actually wanted disabled people to work more, they could use this money elsewhere a lot more effectively, but I guess getting to that conclusion would force them to question too much about how capitalism creates ableism and what it would take to treat disabled people as equals in the workforce.