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I'm not even sure that's a negative. If you are a lib then, yeah, everything about your ideology says you should vote. It's probably the most useful thing they do with any of these platforms.

A decent amount of the people Bernie brought over used to be alt right or libertarians and never shared in any common struggle enough to develop class consciousness or were just bougie elitist to begin with. Now they aren't hiding it to help the campaign anymore. Underneath all the bad faith criticisms the left does have a problem on racial issues, but it stems from people using theoretical understandings of marxism as a cover for how few marxist actually go through the type of mutual struggle alongside minorities that would create a shared class identity.

It always ends up the way around since the socdems and libs are the only ones who actually show up to do anything. MLs would have to join them, not the other way around beause if Socdems did go somewhere like PSL they would immediately be the majority.

The first thing I do is stop reading a lot of the doomer nihilist shit infecting the left because so much of it isn't based on any actual personal failure as much as never trying to do anything in the first place and trying to reinforce the calculus behind that decision. It's just corporate news running through a human centipede designed to demoralize everyone involved, the simulacrum of the internet transforms that false narrative first into a fake lived experience which then gets internalized as objective truth.

The other is focusing on the immediate community around you because it's the only political sphere any meaningful impact could be had even in a world where capitalism had already fallen and the climate is stable. Also because all the leftist theory in the world is useless if people make no effort to understand their own context.

Well, I guess if you haven't been involved in anything it doesn't exist and isn't possible. That settles it.

I'm not even sure what you guys expect at this point. It's like you refuse to consider the space between fully fixing the problem and actually building anything has to be crossed. Like if you break it down most of the hashtags are just telling people what the issues are and getting them basic info on how they can help. It isn't harmful or anything to get mad at because we'd have to do that anyway. idk i'm just tired of the attiude where people will lash out at you for doing literally anything to try and actually build the left and just going "lol i dunno" when you ask them what we should be doing. I'm sick of people pretending anything we do in our own community also doesn't exist and any meaningful improvement is impossible and all existing orgs are impotent when people don't even bother to check in with what is happening. Like, shit at this point it's just a self fulfilling prophecy. I think a lot of people here are more in love with the idea of the failed revolutionary than anything else.

She is wrong though. Maybe it is this way in NYC, but in other places these campaigns did have an effect on getting the stories out so that police officers would be charged, changing local budgets, reforms on local hate crime laws, swelling the numbers of local organizations. I live in a deep red state and this stuff does have a material effect in my town. It just isn't the type of thing that ever gets covered by shows like chapo since lefty media is sort of its own social sphere and ends up primarily analyzing itself.

The US has a shit load of problems, but the "live and let live" attitude a lot of Americans have towards politics is taken for granted and ends up counting for a lot when it comes to pushing for things like immigration or trans rights.

Anything to avoid admitting arrest totals and casualty numbers over the years have proven you are far more likely to get killed, maimed or imprisoned trying to do any real political change in the US than in China.

i always feel like there's a tinge of the same effect that happens to cults when a prophecy doesn't come true to tweets like that. you have all these people who have built themselves around the idea that their votes and consumption are going to prevent things like the ICE camps from happening or at the very least they hold the idea that because of their identity the camps would mean an end to them.

then when all the handmaids tale type stuff happens, it happens mostly to people in the global south and the prisoners, homeless and poverty stricken in the north. the people who are basically completely absent from any of the discussion, viewership, or making of shows like that. those people get exiled by both the original structure and the one that was supposed to reform it. having to ask "why does evil spare me and not her?" "why does evil consider me a part of its function worth satisfying?" ends up being too much and people try to resolve the tension by reaffirming the original prophecy, ie "sure the concentration camp guards are bad, but look at the inefficiency their sexism generates!"

it's a refocus on the sliver of evil that might actually reach the speaker, the one that would reinforce their idea of the world's hierarchy.

I've been seeing post like Fang's and wondering if some people legit just took the analysis of base and superstructure and didn't understand it to the point where they think the superstructure is fake politics for dummies. Like, yes, Clinton and Trump did act to maintain power and self interest. One of those interest was violating children and getting away with it, another was preserving the colonial white supremacist structures they've been indoctrinated to believe in since birth. It's idiotic to try and weasel around saying it's "emotionally driven" because of course it is dipshit, the entire system is made out of people.

what is going on uk? sherlock holmes used to cross dress and everybody loved it

honestly if talking more about race brings the working class out to the streets because more of the working class itself is interested in resolving racial issues i don't have a problem with it. i feel like reed fell into a trap where it's taken for granted that running through the same marxist academic talking points over and over will help, though at this point it's clear that if the modern activist wing is out of touch the condition only gets more extreme towards reed's end where working class engagement is completely nonexistent.

This kind of stuff is why chomsky was wrong about antifa. The way chuds see it antifa, BLM, the DNC, that one girl from middle school, USSR, China, homeless people, etc might as well all be the same thing. If anything it just helps whatever actual radicals are out there with social camouflage since even dead cop stories just get absorbed into the all encompassing vomit.

so he made up a horrible award and gave it to himself

I swear they are writing these articles like complete shit on purpose. Took me a few minutes to get that even according to her she never actually worked at the place where they are claiming the virus leaked from. Which honestly makes a lot of sense to hide because it takes 2 minutes of googling to find out HKU says she was never even a researcher on the virus which honestly makes sense since the biggest outbreak was on the mainland and even US intelligence says the earliest research into the virus was done by mainland authorities.

it kinda sucks ass but at the same time i don't really want to go back to how things used to be or leave. i feel like we're on the verge of something incredible and horrible and i want to see it up close.

Combined with him being so racist he lost his esports gig you'd really think a guy that devoted to capitalism and self interest would protect the bag a bit better.

"they're really going mask off now!" holy shit i'm dying. can't believe that craaazy wild card virgil texas finally revealed his true nature and . . .started a new podcast.

when you come to america to become the world's first freestyle 767 pilot and totally beef it