The opposite of truth isn't a joke. The opposite of truth is a lie. Your trash comment is just a lie. It's pro-bar and anti-biden. When you triangulate pro-bar and anti-biden you get "republican influence". So ya, enjoy your rightwing meme post.
Ya'll think you can suck academia's dick by "interpreting genocide via a critical lens" but like...that's fucking stupid. A critical lens isn't an "interesting way of discussing the ramifications of an idea" it's actually about arbitrarily taking that idea out of real world context. This is just liberal media criticism. The characters in a story aren't real and don't have a real profit motive because they're not real. The people who produce, distribute and advocate for that story are real and have a real profit motive and that profit motive is at odds with human rights.
Fuck your interpretations. Academia is designed to destroy context and invent fake demand for intersectionality. If you don't "yes and" the echo-chamber like elements of academia, you don't need intersectionality.
What you’re describing is a single facet of bottom-level sorting on social media
"I dont have friends who will retweet something for me"
You realize thats how social media actually works? It's not ranting into the abyss, its social engineering virality with organization OUTSIDE OF SOCIAL MEDIA. There hasn't been organic virality since instagram was consumed by facebook. The social-engineering around your one "bottom-level" factoid about how social media MIGHT work is literally just "I don't want to organize but think I should still get credit for being a leftist".
You're reading books by fail-sons about the theory of why capitalism has historically been attacking workers. I'm doing the thing I believe in. I'm here attacking capitalism because its attacking us.
People pretend they're "above social media" but really they're just surrendering it to capitalism. If we all tweet 10 anticapitalist things a day with any kind of entertainment value and trendy pop culture references, it'll add up over time and thats how things get solved. Work done over long periods of time. Theory never helped a worker get a damn thing. We pretend we'd pick up a hammer and protect the line when company gun thugs tried to break the union but we're actually just a bunch of kids so scared of twitter that we formed a rightwing-themed leftist circle jerk.
You think materialism means something other than "how it actually effects people". you're an academic. which is a just broke-ass liberal. You want theory to be real so you can ignore the actual humans. you wasted your parents money on a degree you can't use and you're mad on a forum about it instead of being made at it.
I can be mad about multiple things at the same time.
Awww, child...you think how you feel matters...you read rightwing bullshit on reddit and then ironically share it here and think thats something that matters just because it feels good. You can be mad about everything but you're clearly a person dumb enough to share corporate sponsored, state backed propaganda.
Workers rights and anticapitalism. Academia convinced you internationalism and ethics are real. Stop trying to use context-dependent logic and rule sets. That is how industrialization works. It makes it so you're a lawyer and only lawyers understand law issues so only they can weigh on the morals of our industry. And then they gutted our country with private equity.
There is only one issue. Stop letting them frame the discussion. It's just another version of "class-blind identity politics". If stupidpol is just a rightwing hellscape of political messages being promoted by corporate interests then stop fucking reading it and stop fucking posting it other places. You don't make shit go away by spreading it.
Be better than stupidpol loud enough and it stops existing. Thats how social media works.
No, capitalism is the enemy and academia was super helpful. They invented a thousand words that mean capitalism but aren't capitalism so we can deal with those words and never actually target capitalism itself.
You're angry about a guy wearing a T shirt instead of being mad about rightwing media oligarchs buying up the entire political/pop culture landscape and framing the overton window as center-right (liberal) and far right (alex jones). We let center-right economics become the center because we stopped calling it "center-right".
Mitt Romney is a liberal. He is center right. Bill Clinton is a liberal. He is center right. We let them rebrand center-right economics + performative leftism as something new, liberalism and thats how its become the center.
See how we both just typed the word liberal a bunch of times? The 'anti' is less important. We keep letting them brand shit. Liberalism isn't real. Lets just called them "center right democrats". we've been tricked into being edgy instead of accurate. They are kinda the opposite of each other.
You realize what you're doing right here is why its the top story. I know it feels like you're "raising awareness" that there's shit on twitter but you're actually just smearing that shit all over our forum.
We do not actually have to read for-profit journalism because its the only stuff popular. Stop following the algorithm and start leading it. Post things you want more of and their will be more of it.
You read an article because twitter told you to and then you reposted it and you found a way to still feel like you're opposing twitter.
If you understood markets well enough to make money on crack, you wouldn't be broke enough to need linkedin. Coke dealers are great at networking. LinkedIn is simulated networking for people with fake jobs that don't actually require it.
We start leftist-communities based on anti-liberalism and ironic slurs. Aren't we the idiots for thinking that it would lead anywhere but rightwing capitalism?
liberalism is just center-right economics and you've confused their marketing campaigns for their product. liberal politicians are just people adapting the language of leftists to disguise a center-right economic policies on behalf of the private equity companies that finance their campaigns. words are fun. good luck.
I don't know anything about her but as an unelected political consultant I can give her the valuable advice of finding literally any way to pretend to be adjacent to an US/CIA pop culture interest (meme) with any policy position and then feed it into social media and NEVER LISTEN TO ANYTHING ELSE I SAY AFTER THAT. Listening to consultants a second time is what terms them into PodSaveAmerica.
And "green capitalism" is the fake worldview being put forth by fake candidates like Joe Kennedy. Joe Kennedy's top donor is Mitt Romney (Bain Capital).
Your "green capitalists" and "Green dems" are rightwing republicans and because you're using identity politics instead of human names, you accidentally did a liberalism. Do not accept academia's premise that it must have value and you must use what it taught you. Everything we learned in college was on behalf of the capitalist donors of the school we went to.
Before academia we knew that only people were responsible for the actions of people. After academia we have people like you trying to solve a crisis by blaming a color. Academia and citizens united are two edges of the same sword: Corporate Personhood. corporations aren't real, only people are.
politics happens on www.opensecrets.org not cspan.
Have fun fighting class-blind identity politics. Politics is engaged in by HUMANS. Humans have names. Use the names of donors or you're not talking about politics. And put the name of the villain in the headline or it doesn't matter. John Malone stole america.
edit: didn't actually answer the question. I think he's credible, but he's still a boomer lol.
It's a decent book and I don't think Russ is a shill or anything but I'm not sure the book is all that "useful" or "important". Part of the problem with the way we talk about politics is that its politician-centric as opposed to donor-centric.
Hell, we're so brain-washed by capitalism that we call this "corporate influence" and "big business". Corporate personhood worked so fucking well that we think that non-person corporate entities actually do things. Only people can actually do stuff. The Bush family fucking sucks but the fact that they are in the spotlight almost disqualifies them from being decision-makers. I think HW might have been an oligarch but that family just ain't it anymore.
I would love to see Russ Bakers take on some our most powerful modern villains and media oligarchs like John Malone, Charles Koch, Stan Kroenke and James Cox. They own the media empires that create, maintain and shift the overton window to keep capitalism in place.
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The opposite of truth isn't a joke. The opposite of truth is a lie. Your trash comment is just a lie. It's pro-bar and anti-biden. When you triangulate pro-bar and anti-biden you get "republican influence". So ya, enjoy your rightwing meme post.