The only way to stop a bloody and electorally disastrous regional war in the Middle East …
Holy fuck
The only way to stop a bloody and electorally disastrous regional war in the Middle East …
Holy fuck
weird military groups
BlackRock is an investment company, you are probably thinking of Blackwater (now ‘Academi’)
Great video! He made some really solid points. I hope some of the audience of Contrapoints sees it.
Prefiguration really is the answer in so many cases. I think he could have emphasised, though, that while the road to rebuilding a real revolutionary left is long, every step along the path of prefiguration can and does make a practical difference to people’s lives. The pressure that can be brought to bear on elected officials will also grow little by little.
Regarding disengaging from electoral politics, I think that radicals, since they’re people who are very interested in politics, have often become so highly engaged with electoral politics that they find it difficult to kick the habit. Also, I think there’s a perception that keeping up with the minutiae of bills and appointments is essential for being taken seriously when discussing politics.
If voters aren’t willing to withhold their vote over genocide, why would the Dems ever stop doing genocide?
They’d rather have Biden lose to him than waste one of their up and coming stars on a fool’s errand.
Sure, but they could put Harris in there. She’d probably result in a less disastrous loss in the senate.
Well, he’s achieved a lot, I mean, he beat medicare!
He has a bad night. Now again, I think it’s a legitimate question to say ‘Is this an episode or is this a condition?’
Video with full context: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tog5JLtzVHw&t=324
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I’m no expert, but I’d imagine figuring out a (safe) way to use it with your water heater would be the low-hanging fruit, in terms of least-complexity for the amount of grid consumption you’d potentially save.
MOLOCH DEMANDS IT
Why “thankfully”? Fuck Biden.
A right thing. And not a very substantial one. But don’t sell the UK short. The government might be despicable, but the massive marches in London by the people have been inspiring. The power of that crowd needs to be channelled into direct action.
I’m pretty sure that the United States was founded on the principle of self determination
Self determination for who? For rich, land-owning, white males.
The US was founded on the same genocidal settler-colonialism as Israel.
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HP-branded corporations play key roles in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. They are complicit in Israel’s occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid regime. They provide computer hardware to the Israeli army and maintain data centers through their servers for the Israeli police. They provide the Itanium servers to operate the Aviv System, the computerized database of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority. This forms the backbone of Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid.
In case you - or anyone reading this - are unaware, the term covering the patterns you’re describing is ‘settler colonialism’. It differs from ‘exploitation colonialism’ in that it aims to not only profit from a territory, but to replace the population that is there with another population. What you describe are the logical consequences of that. I think your first two points are understating the history in Palestine/Israel, though. There was intentional displacement of the indigenous population from the start.
It took a turn at the end there…
Did the people downvoting this post even watch the video?
It’s been a while since I watched it, but I think it’d be accurate to say the TL;DW is basically that we shouldn’t care about ‘left unity’ if that means abandoning vulnerable people and reliquishing our deepest values. Essentially, if ‘the left’ doesn’t deliver safety for us and the people we love, then ‘the left’ can suck it.
I would have thought people on an anarchism community could appreciate that, and if they don’t, then they need to do some thinking, and maybe learn some history to see how anarchists have responded to demands of ‘unity’ and been persecuted in its name.
Wow I wonder why Harris might be struggling in Michigan