I am grieved to tell you that @nathanjrobinson has effectively fired me & most of the @curaffairs staff because we were trying to organize into a worker’s co-op. This isn’t a bit. I wish it was. https://t.co/0lmnJlzAEX pic.twitter.com/5P6U88d4VR— lyta gold, fired for doing socialism (@lyta_gold) August 18, 2021
Are you telling me that the openly anti-marxist self described "utopian socialist" that makes a point to dress and talk like a 19th century London dandy has bourgeois class interests and mindset and manipulated/shitted on his workers?
Edit: Even beyond his horrible marx and other takes that should have alerted some people, member when he went all in on the Tara Read allegations and then stopped once it came time to drop in line and vote for Biden, and then deleted most of the Tara Reade tweets immediately .Or when he launched that slander piece on Zizek on Current Affairs (reportedly according to Zizek sources) under Chomsky’s order
And I fucking doubt any of the other workers wanted to take the magazine away from him or whatever else he fucking thinks. They just wanted his share/power of the magazine to be what he contributed. More importantly, they wanted to have a say in how this leftist magazine was run. What the fuck kind of socialist would be against that?
most means most and i said personal tweets, that he had quite plenty actualy. Deleting articles is/would be way more egregious and probably not as easy even if he wanted to
The only relevant question is whether he was trying to bury the Tara Reade story, and he clearly was not. Caring about personal tweets over published, in-depth work is the definition of too online.
This is a huge fuck up on his part, but it doesn't mean everything the guy has ever done has been bad, and it doesn't legitimate criticism that never made sense in the first place.
Im not saying he tried to actively burry the Tara Reade story altogther or that him initially covering it was bad or fake (i expected of any left of socdem media while Bernie was still viable to cover it tbh) but that he massively hopped into the Biden train and support "from the left" along Chomsky's lines , dropped any active critisism and tried to retroactively underplay the degree in which his public posts were anti-biden/biden disqualifying in order to save face for his current support and hide its inconsistency and not recognize its element hypocricy. And so showed signs of shaky principles and decision making
Eh - I dunno about this one. He's held the Chomsky position on voting - that it's such a small part of our political lives that you might as well vote for the lesser evil and go on with your day - long before 2020 and consistently criticized Biden before, during, and after the election.
He never dropped criticism of Biden, he wrote a scathing piece in August of last year on Biden calling him "appalling...a dutiful servant of corporate interests" that literally brought up the Tara Reade story to mention that his record on sexual assault is Trump-like. He also stated the objective fact that a Trump presidency is worse than a Biden presidency. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/an-ineffectual-biden-presidency-is-better-for-the-left-than-an-actively-authoritarian-trump-presidency/
We don't need to make shit up about NJR when this scandal is more than enough to bury him.
Are you telling me that the openly anti-marxist self described "utopian socialist" that makes a point to dress and talk like a 19th century London dandy has bourgeois class interests and mindset and manipulated/shitted on his workers?
Edit: Even beyond his horrible marx and other takes that should have alerted some people, member when he went all in on the Tara Read allegations and then stopped once it came time to drop in line and vote for Biden, and then deleted most of the Tara Reade tweets immediately .Or when he launched that slander piece on Zizek on Current Affairs (reportedly according to Zizek sources) under Chomsky’s order
And I fucking doubt any of the other workers wanted to take the magazine away from him or whatever else he fucking thinks. They just wanted his share/power of the magazine to be what he contributed. More importantly, they wanted to have a say in how this leftist magazine was run. What the fuck kind of socialist would be against that?
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The whole time, the fancy lad was just a little piggie in disguise
:eco-porky:
Socialist guy who runs a business abandons Socialism under pressure, film at 11. (Film is Battleship Potemkin)
:shocked-pikachu:
Turns out Anarcho-Willy Wonkaism with establishment characteristics didnt get him very far
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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/05/the-attacks-on-tara-reade-are-unbelievable-bullshit
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most means most and i said personal tweets, that he had quite plenty actualy. Deleting articles is/would be way more egregious and probably not as easy even if he wanted to
The only relevant question is whether he was trying to bury the Tara Reade story, and he clearly was not. Caring about personal tweets over published, in-depth work is the definition of too online.
This is a huge fuck up on his part, but it doesn't mean everything the guy has ever done has been bad, and it doesn't legitimate criticism that never made sense in the first place.
Im not saying he tried to actively burry the Tara Reade story altogther or that him initially covering it was bad or fake (i expected of any left of socdem media while Bernie was still viable to cover it tbh) but that he massively hopped into the Biden train and support "from the left" along Chomsky's lines , dropped any active critisism and tried to retroactively underplay the degree in which his public posts were anti-biden/biden disqualifying in order to save face for his current support and hide its inconsistency and not recognize its element hypocricy. And so showed signs of shaky principles and decision making
Eh - I dunno about this one. He's held the Chomsky position on voting - that it's such a small part of our political lives that you might as well vote for the lesser evil and go on with your day - long before 2020 and consistently criticized Biden before, during, and after the election.
He never dropped criticism of Biden, he wrote a scathing piece in August of last year on Biden calling him "appalling...a dutiful servant of corporate interests" that literally brought up the Tara Reade story to mention that his record on sexual assault is Trump-like. He also stated the objective fact that a Trump presidency is worse than a Biden presidency. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/an-ineffectual-biden-presidency-is-better-for-the-left-than-an-actively-authoritarian-trump-presidency/
We don't need to make shit up about NJR when this scandal is more than enough to bury him.
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Probably for the rest of the world, too. We'll see.
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Source on the Zizek piece being a Chomsky-directed slander?
I might need to apologise to someone.