To be fair, it’s sucked for awhile. Who talks shit on food not bombs? Radlibs. The answers radlibs.

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    Amber definitely warned listeners against retreating to “anarcho shit like food not bombs” post Bernie. And I’ve been a listener for a year, but keep punching that strawman.

    They’ve been edgy socdems for awhile, that’s indisputable.

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      I mean, if it’s literally the only left activity going on in the town you live in, which it often is, idk what the fuck else she wants people to do. Start a PSL branch that two people will show up to (one of whom is you and the other is a 50 year old guy who’s always late)?

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      warned listeners against retreating to “anarcho shit like food not bombs” post Bernie

      Sounds like a bit of shit talk mixed with a legitimate criticism, which is kind of the show's whole MO.

      Doing good things in your immediate community is good, but it's not going to solve any large problem (like climate change). There is a real risk of giving up on large problems, helping your community, and then your community getting fucked by those large problems when they come home to roost. Helping your neighbors is good, but if that's all we do we're going to fail.

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        Doing good things in your immediate community is good, but it’s not going to solve any large problem (like climate change).

        Local organization meeting international conversation. Action can be recruitment as well. If you hear that a bunch of socialists just cleaned all the trash out of your local part, it will probably change your view on socialists.

        No local community shit won't solve global warming, but like literally nothing I can do will solve global warming. But I could clean up my local environment with a relatively small group of people.

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          If you hear that a bunch of socialists just cleaned all the trash out of your local part, it will probably change your view on socialists.

          All of this is 100% good. My focus was on the "retreating" language, which suggests doing local activism but nothing bigger. I think there's a risk of doing great things in your neighborhood only to see all that swept away when the big problem you ignored matures.

          nothing I can do will solve global warming

          Nothing you can do 100% on your own will solve global warming, and any solution will take years to create. But that doesn't mean you can't support state or national organizations that are working in the right direction.

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      All i can think is it was meant to say "Dont retreat to the old forms of activism" but FnB is good, but maybe it should be treated the same way you remember to take out recycling, as a civic responsibility to others.

      i try not post when mad should i ever do something like leave half the words in my rants unsaid, so for podcasting personalities (and a writer for fucks sake) if there's more to be said in that very moment, fucking say it?

      but that's really charitable, and dragging a charity that does direct action sucks