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Cake day: July 23rd, 2021

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    3 years ago

    I'm half way through and kinda iffy on this one. Like I think she was really dismissive of the fact there are a lot of direct material reasons for this kind of hatred. For example with the Marie Antoinette thing, saying she did nothing wrong just ignores all the horror that supported her. The fake quote about cake was only effective in the first place because it spoke to a truth about the structure of french society. They both knew that as bad or worse was being said all the time and there was utility in using the right rhetoric to end those conditions. It's like the video pays lip service to Marx at the start as a joke, but there is real truth to the idea that a lot of this aggression is manifested class conflict even if it does look like stupid tweets.

    I feel like she falls into the misconception you have to be a marxist, attempting socialism or have some other signifier at which point you can be taken seriously as a political actor, which leads to minimizing the larger forces at play with pop psychology.






  • Unless someone is the type of rich that can afford a helicopter to fly over the slums then they better hope to god these evictions don't happen. Like I don't care if they don't have leftist bone in their body, petite bouge should ask themselves where they think all the extra encampments are going to go.


  • I think what happened was the left made a token effort at securing a meaningless seat. Like a dog chasing cars, there was no actual plan for what was supposed to happen if she won. Since leftist don't vote as a block it was arguably impossible to make a plan. Without any tangible stakes there was nothing to offer the public who largely didn't bother voting at all.









  • I think there's a decent argument for stuff like covid to be treated more like hurricane advisories, amber alerts, or other public safety notices where they supersede the normal news apparatus. We currently don't get paralyzed by a giant debate on if Hurricane Irma is real or if the missing kid actually exist. It was a mistake for Fauci to play media darling and for the CDC to have news disseminate through the cable networks. Should've just been alerts to everyone's devices and then regular official press conferences.



  • It hasn't sunk in yet that this argument is over. Mitch McConnell is out there telling everyone to wear mask and people are still acting like jumping to the republicans would do anything. Does anyone really think if getting rid of mask was a real option that Mitch wouldn't back it? The resident media cynics were still secretly thinking we'd bounce back to normal, we're not. We fucked up bad enough the minimum effort to keep heads above water is now higher and day to day life is going to be different.


  • I feel like something needs to be cleaned up in regards to electoralism. The problem with the DSA or other group's efforts isn't that they interact with the rigged political system, it's that the underlying analysis behind a lot of those efforts doesn't go beyond incrementalism. The republic isn't viewed as a protective shell that needs to be cracked so you get things like Biden telling the activist to fuck off and then some activist themselves trying to kill the story to preserve the illusion of their own influence.

    That specifically is where things kept falling apart in regards to the squad and the Bernie campaigns. Bernie's failure as a leftist wasn't that he didn't win rigged elections and pass his reforms, it's that he wouldn't get in front his millions of supporters to calmly explain to them that Biden has no intention of letting the kids out of the cages, relieving student debt, or passing single payer. Our version of the republic is a mirrored shell and the progressives polished it so the versions of themselves people saw in it looked a little less distorted and grotesque.

    That's core thing of it. The analysis of these electoral systems as fraudulent is exactly why they must be engaged with and attacked. It's where someone like Evo Morales can eventually score real victories and we don't.



  • Honestly if someone comes in and steals their thunder it'll be Dore or some electoral version of whatever he's doing. All these other people either stagnated or started bleeding support, which is probably the source of a lot of the anxiety they're projecting onto tankies. Gilibrand\Harris\Booker\Warren were like the big red warning sign saying nobody actually wants the ultra lib movement these guys are attempting to pivot into.