Barack Obama arrived in office on a huge mandate for change but appointed people who would ensure there wouldn't be any. Sam Seder and Thomas Frank discuss t...
A good summary of meritocracy, technocracy, populism, the failures of the DNC.
I went through this same thing. I was younger back then and fell down the conspiracy rabbit hole, yet some how came out of that a Marxist, so it was for the better.
All my friends from high school were radicalized by Alex jones. I think the big one for me that broke me from conspiracy/Libertarian stuff was the Trayvon Martin shooting which is where all of them went full mask off with their racism. These people who spent years yelling about police brutality and injustices in murder, suddenly were A-OK with a black teenager being stalked and murdered at night.
All you have to do is look at the pro-Israel murals in staunchly Protestant areas of Belfast to figure that out. Or do some research and realize that it's the same people who have been stirring up shit "on the frontier" as the enforcers of empire, whether it's Ulster, the Virginia backwoods, the Australian bush, or anywhere else the Anglo appears.
I went through this same thing. I was younger back then and fell down the conspiracy rabbit hole, yet some how came out of that a Marxist, so it was for the better.
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All my friends from high school were radicalized by Alex jones. I think the big one for me that broke me from conspiracy/Libertarian stuff was the Trayvon Martin shooting which is where all of them went full mask off with their racism. These people who spent years yelling about police brutality and injustices in murder, suddenly were A-OK with a black teenager being stalked and murdered at night.
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All you have to do is look at the pro-Israel murals in staunchly Protestant areas of Belfast to figure that out. Or do some research and realize that it's the same people who have been stirring up shit "on the frontier" as the enforcers of empire, whether it's Ulster, the Virginia backwoods, the Australian bush, or anywhere else the Anglo appears.