2024 is going to be a shitshow for both major parties. Biden is likely going to remain in the dumps, the GOP and Trump are always shooting themselves in the foot one way or another (more recently with deciding to pull out of presidential debates), and Kyrsten Sinema's bi-partisan fever dream are all going to pile together into a quagmire where people would be begging for some kind of voice of reason.

Having a strong Green candidate would be beautiful. Not another lukewarm Jill Stein or Howie Hawkins. Someone with a background. Someone with bitey dogs. Someone who has seen war. Someone like Chris Hedges.

I might make an effortpost on why I think Hedges is a socialist's best bet in 2024, along with my views on why he's better than Cornel West for the role (since West is, bless his heart, still simping for Democrats), and other factors that make him an all-round decent option. I also like his laugh here.

Regardless, do y'all have some cursed 2024 ideas for the lathe?

  • CommCat [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Hedges is cringe, he's a Christian Socialist, his ideal of revolution is to literally self sacrifice (get yourself beaten to death). He is anti Leninist, he was on a Left Forum panel with Wolf and someone else I can't remember, and while the two others were neutral-pro Lenin, Hedgees bashed Lenin and the historical Communist experience. I'm sure he's also extremely hostile to AES countries.

    His most cringe moment is of course during Occupy Wallstreet, he was painting the black bloc as senseless nihilistic violence before the current rightwing turned them into boogeymen. Wonder if he still thinks black bloc is guided by Zerzan and the Unabomber lol. He actually wrote that swearing at cops is an act of violence.