Yasha, Abby Martin was praising you and your work on her brother's MAME politics livestream. She mentioned these last few paragraphs on this article. Just thought you would like to know. I do my best to share your work.
Yasha, I'm trying to popularize the concept of expropriation and start a movement against the oligarchy. https://truthout.org/articles/expropriate-stan-kroenke/ Simply put, we're absolutely doomed if we don't do this. Well, more than we already are.
The ruling class has killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people in broad daylight through brutal neglect. What the Hell are we waiting for, aside from the climate apocalypse?
I'm an organizer by desperate necessity trying to do everything you demand the nascent left does...and you've ignored my calls for help. You won't even read my short article outlining my declaration, intended purpose. I've talked to you on Twitter several times and you never give me the time of day.
Now I know that capitalism robs us all of time to help our fellow man, but I'm not asking you to translate War and Peace into Gothic. I just want you to hear my plea for what I plan on doing and offer some damn encouragement and emotional support.
And if you can't do that, politely tell me you don't have the emotional energy. I'd leave you alone, promise.
I have been trying to do this for years and I'm at my wit's end. It's traumatizing for me to reach out for help because this evil country tortures people with autism into alienation that is hard to fathom for anyone who doesn't suffer from it.
See...that means a lot to me. To hear that. You and team Exiled got me started on this crazy journey. It's been a painful one, but it's been an honorble one. Really means a lot to hear that from you.
http://exiledonline.com/reagan%E2%80%99s-cheshire-snarl/ This is where it started, and your nightmarish, shameful experience with the LAPD fascists cemented it. If I succeed in taking on Stan Kroenke, I'll be sure to mention you.
Somebody using their popular social media platform to push for something good? Yeah, totally lame. Somebody making money while educating and inspiring people? Also bogus. I subscribe ($$) to your Substack because you are usually very insightful (and self-aware). I don't know what this article is, but I'm going to give you a pass because none of us get it right 100% of the time. The #ForcetheVote movement is a simple straightforward way to try to get something the citizens of the U.S. desperately need. That's it. It's not hard to understand and it seems to me a lot of grown-ass adults are working way too hard to miss the point.
I slept on it and felt like I was a little too hard on you. I don't comment on many things and I hate when people are shitty to each other online. I've just been annoyed at the Uyger, Kasparian, Sirota, Konst, Sedar set of the internet world; BS artists that they are. I definitely don't place you in that category. I agree with everything you say about the U.S. empire death rattle and our obsession with national politics and online movements that really mean nothing unless we get out into the streets and truly fight for a democracy that has been deeply infiltrated by fascist corporate parasites. With all that being said, I think pushing our "progressive" representatives at every level to do something that is ridiculously obvious and sorely needed is, at the very least, an acceleration to their unmasking and to getting people to wake up to what's really happening.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate having your take on the world in my inbox.
Basic question: aside from the internet marketing crap, how is that actually different than what people did 25 or 50 years ago when they bought newspapers and magazines, in some cases in radical-left bookstores, that published authors they were interested in?
People always had their favorite columnists, of course, and wrote letters to the editor. But I propose that in our present environment the vogue thing is attachment to a particular figure in *journalism* (as nominally opposed to politics); each "journalist" -- nay, "influencer" -- may now excite their affective legions into executing their pronunciamentos, at least in ephemeral as opposed to concrete existence.
Which is to say that we're all living in Mussolini's world now. Hitler was just a sad little man. Imagine Adolf's Twitter feed: "Hier ist Schätze. Sie ist ein guter Welpe, der Bananen mag. süß!"
Fascism was regression to tribalistic hero myth, charismatic "man of action: leadership, and the mystical "will of the people", in the era of (failed) industrial "progress". All of that was presumably a reaction to the anxiety over "the death of God" (the death of traditional alter-and-crown social-spiritual order), no?
Fascism was both a victim narrative and an oppressor narrative, and the bizarre contradiction was possible because of Fascism's origins in romanticism, anti-rationalism and illiberalism.
The internet era's myth is the Hermes archetype, god of information, deception, and boundary violations. (postmodern deconstruction, relativism, nihilism)
Network effects (interactivity) are disruptive to the conventional, liberal narrative: modern systematic rationalism, hierarchies of curated top down expertise.
The result of the disruption is social fragmentation and atomization, loss of the high-social-trust bond that came into existence as liberal-capitalist "democracy" evolved.
In the USA it seems more likely that the biggest crack in the system will be along the lines of the cultural and genetic fault lines of the US Civil War: unionists vs neoconfederates. The confederacy was more of a Rump Aristocracy (a dim echo of alter-and-crown) than "fascist".
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not sure what this references, sorry:
"Hier ist Schätze. Sie ist ein guter Welpe, der Bananen mag. süß!"
google translate:
"Here's treasures. She is a good puppy who likes bananas. sweet!"
The USA is a Hegelian-idealist project, the most recent chapter is coming to some kind of horrible close (similar to the temporary doom brought by the industrial revolution), but it will be revived and reformulated over a generation or so. But probably not by Russian immigrants.
by Keith Preston • Culture Wars/Current Controversies, Economics/Class Relations, Left and Right
The future of the US, or the future “post-US” or the “future of the Western world” or “the future of the global order, will be rule by the techno-oligarch/new clerisy alliance, where neoliberals constitute “conservatism” and progressives/SJWs constitute “liberalism.” Everyone, including the historic WASP culture, will be a minority. We will have a highly stratified Latin American-style class system with the Rainbow Culture as its self-legitimating state ideology. The emerging ruling class will also have a world empire, a military industrial complex and a police state that it will have inherited from previous regimes.
There are violent extremists on the fringes of the left that resemble 20th century totalitarian movements (like the antifa types) but the present day progressives are more like the religious right. The kind of society they would produce wouldn’t be Stalinism or Maoism. It would be more like a leftist version of the culture of the 1950s, where instead of not being allowed to show Lucy and Ricky in the same bed. TV shows would be required to show a gay couple in every bed. Instead of sexual puritanism, it would be more of a case of race, gender, gay identity puritanism. Instead of claiming comic books cause juvenile delinquency (as they did in the 1950s), they will claim video games cause racism and sexism. Instead of gay conversion therapy, we will have racism/sex conversion therapy (that’s more or less what sensitivity training is). Instead of putting homosexuals, abortionists and pornographers in jail (as they did in the 1950s), it will be “crimes against equality” that land people in jail. Instead of a “Red Scare” there will be a “Brown Scare.” The primary methods of enforcing the PC ideology will be employment, housing, professional and other forms of discrimination, barring from public life, public spaces, etc. Basically, “Jim Crow” for ideological criminals.
The more fanatical the SJWs become the more they will drive people away from the left toward the right, but in a way that has the effect of liberalizing the right to the point that “the right” is just yesterday’s liberalism. Imagine if the neoliberal and technocratic centrist Democrats were the “conservatives” and university and NGO leftists were the “liberals,” that’s a good picture of what the political future will look like. That’s how it is in Europe, Canada and Australia anyway.
Yasha, Abby Martin was praising you and your work on her brother's MAME politics livestream. She mentioned these last few paragraphs on this article. Just thought you would like to know. I do my best to share your work.
thank you. abby and her bro are great.
Yasha, I'm trying to popularize the concept of expropriation and start a movement against the oligarchy. https://truthout.org/articles/expropriate-stan-kroenke/ Simply put, we're absolutely doomed if we don't do this. Well, more than we already are.
The ruling class has killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people in broad daylight through brutal neglect. What the Hell are we waiting for, aside from the climate apocalypse?
I'm an organizer by desperate necessity trying to do everything you demand the nascent left does...and you've ignored my calls for help. You won't even read my short article outlining my declaration, intended purpose. I've talked to you on Twitter several times and you never give me the time of day.
Now I know that capitalism robs us all of time to help our fellow man, but I'm not asking you to translate War and Peace into Gothic. I just want you to hear my plea for what I plan on doing and offer some damn encouragement and emotional support.
And if you can't do that, politely tell me you don't have the emotional energy. I'd leave you alone, promise.
I have been trying to do this for years and I'm at my wit's end. It's traumatizing for me to reach out for help because this evil country tortures people with autism into alienation that is hard to fathom for anyone who doesn't suffer from it.
So please, please read my 800-word article and DM me on Twitter when you have. https://twitter.com/SteveTSchmidt
I'm begging you to hear me out.
great piece.
See...that means a lot to me. To hear that. You and team Exiled got me started on this crazy journey. It's been a painful one, but it's been an honorble one. Really means a lot to hear that from you.
http://exiledonline.com/reagan%E2%80%99s-cheshire-snarl/ This is where it started, and your nightmarish, shameful experience with the LAPD fascists cemented it. If I succeed in taking on Stan Kroenke, I'll be sure to mention you.
Coincidentally enough, I'm just finishing this book at the moment: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45894166-the-triumph-of-injustice
Steven may already have read it, but if not, it's extremely illuminating.
The companion website to the book at https://www.taxjusticenow.org/#/wealthtax is amazing, in my opinion.
Happy New Year to all Immigrants as a Weapon regulars.
Thank you for the reply and recommendation. I'll definitely add that to my list!
Somebody using their popular social media platform to push for something good? Yeah, totally lame. Somebody making money while educating and inspiring people? Also bogus. I subscribe ($$) to your Substack because you are usually very insightful (and self-aware). I don't know what this article is, but I'm going to give you a pass because none of us get it right 100% of the time. The #ForcetheVote movement is a simple straightforward way to try to get something the citizens of the U.S. desperately need. That's it. It's not hard to understand and it seems to me a lot of grown-ass adults are working way too hard to miss the point.
I slept on it and felt like I was a little too hard on you. I don't comment on many things and I hate when people are shitty to each other online. I've just been annoyed at the Uyger, Kasparian, Sirota, Konst, Sedar set of the internet world; BS artists that they are. I definitely don't place you in that category. I agree with everything you say about the U.S. empire death rattle and our obsession with national politics and online movements that really mean nothing unless we get out into the streets and truly fight for a democracy that has been deeply infiltrated by fascist corporate parasites. With all that being said, I think pushing our "progressive" representatives at every level to do something that is ridiculously obvious and sorely needed is, at the very least, an acceleration to their unmasking and to getting people to wake up to what's really happening.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate having your take on the world in my inbox.
re: "Select a membership level."
Basic question: aside from the internet marketing crap, how is that actually different than what people did 25 or 50 years ago when they bought newspapers and magazines, in some cases in radical-left bookstores, that published authors they were interested in?
...the internet?
People always had their favorite columnists, of course, and wrote letters to the editor. But I propose that in our present environment the vogue thing is attachment to a particular figure in *journalism* (as nominally opposed to politics); each "journalist" -- nay, "influencer" -- may now excite their affective legions into executing their pronunciamentos, at least in ephemeral as opposed to concrete existence.
Which is to say that we're all living in Mussolini's world now. Hitler was just a sad little man. Imagine Adolf's Twitter feed: "Hier ist Schätze. Sie ist ein guter Welpe, der Bananen mag. süß!"
Fascism was regression to tribalistic hero myth, charismatic "man of action: leadership, and the mystical "will of the people", in the era of (failed) industrial "progress". All of that was presumably a reaction to the anxiety over "the death of God" (the death of traditional alter-and-crown social-spiritual order), no?
Fascism was both a victim narrative and an oppressor narrative, and the bizarre contradiction was possible because of Fascism's origins in romanticism, anti-rationalism and illiberalism.
The internet era's myth is the Hermes archetype, god of information, deception, and boundary violations. (postmodern deconstruction, relativism, nihilism)
Network effects (interactivity) are disruptive to the conventional, liberal narrative: modern systematic rationalism, hierarchies of curated top down expertise.
The result of the disruption is social fragmentation and atomization, loss of the high-social-trust bond that came into existence as liberal-capitalist "democracy" evolved.
In the USA it seems more likely that the biggest crack in the system will be along the lines of the cultural and genetic fault lines of the US Civil War: unionists vs neoconfederates. The confederacy was more of a Rump Aristocracy (a dim echo of alter-and-crown) than "fascist".
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not sure what this references, sorry:
"Hier ist Schätze. Sie ist ein guter Welpe, der Bananen mag. süß!"
google translate:
"Here's treasures. She is a good puppy who likes bananas. sweet!"
the genetics of the neoconfederate fault line?
https://medium.com/s/balkanized-america/the-11-nations-of-america-as-told-by-dna-f283d4c58483
postmodernism also creates a kaleidoscope of victim narratives, romanticism, anti-rationalism and illiberalism (on both the right and left).
re: political donations to AOC
(not sure what this means, how much was from big tech.)
80% small donations < $200
lots of retirees, university people, google+amazon employees, public employees...
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/alexandria-ocasio-cortez/summary?cid=N00041162
The USA is a Hegelian-idealist project, the most recent chapter is coming to some kind of horrible close (similar to the temporary doom brought by the industrial revolution), but it will be revived and reformulated over a generation or so. But probably not by Russian immigrants.
To be clear, the left (as we know it, including the pomo neomarxists) has been an enormous joke for decades.
https://attackthesystem.com/2019/02/18/the-coming-dystopia/
February 18, 2019
The Coming Dystopia?
by Keith Preston • Culture Wars/Current Controversies, Economics/Class Relations, Left and Right
The future of the US, or the future “post-US” or the “future of the Western world” or “the future of the global order, will be rule by the techno-oligarch/new clerisy alliance, where neoliberals constitute “conservatism” and progressives/SJWs constitute “liberalism.” Everyone, including the historic WASP culture, will be a minority. We will have a highly stratified Latin American-style class system with the Rainbow Culture as its self-legitimating state ideology. The emerging ruling class will also have a world empire, a military industrial complex and a police state that it will have inherited from previous regimes.
There are violent extremists on the fringes of the left that resemble 20th century totalitarian movements (like the antifa types) but the present day progressives are more like the religious right. The kind of society they would produce wouldn’t be Stalinism or Maoism. It would be more like a leftist version of the culture of the 1950s, where instead of not being allowed to show Lucy and Ricky in the same bed. TV shows would be required to show a gay couple in every bed. Instead of sexual puritanism, it would be more of a case of race, gender, gay identity puritanism. Instead of claiming comic books cause juvenile delinquency (as they did in the 1950s), they will claim video games cause racism and sexism. Instead of gay conversion therapy, we will have racism/sex conversion therapy (that’s more or less what sensitivity training is). Instead of putting homosexuals, abortionists and pornographers in jail (as they did in the 1950s), it will be “crimes against equality” that land people in jail. Instead of a “Red Scare” there will be a “Brown Scare.” The primary methods of enforcing the PC ideology will be employment, housing, professional and other forms of discrimination, barring from public life, public spaces, etc. Basically, “Jim Crow” for ideological criminals.
The more fanatical the SJWs become the more they will drive people away from the left toward the right, but in a way that has the effect of liberalizing the right to the point that “the right” is just yesterday’s liberalism. Imagine if the neoliberal and technocratic centrist Democrats were the “conservatives” and university and NGO leftists were the “liberals,” that’s a good picture of what the political future will look like. That’s how it is in Europe, Canada and Australia anyway.
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yeah. i don't think jimmy is cynical -- i'm sure he believes this is the way.