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So i’m just gonna say a few things, If this issue is me being MIA and not appointing other mods, okay that’s a fair criticism, I should have been logging in/posting more, but I’m going to respond to a some other points.

The reason I chose this instance is because of the limited options available, aside from my personal affinities towards solarpunk, and reality is joining a US centric general instance would be more hostile towards this community because they are likely aligned with Biden Administration and liberalism. I don’t get why this not being a US centric instance would be a problem on a federated network.

For the record I am an anarchist and my promotion of a third party candidate is as protest against the 2 party system – particularly because they’re the only candidate that advocates on behalf of Palestine – for me at least it’s the same of supporting someone like Vermin Supreme , obviously the guy isn’t going to win, the point is subverting the election ( which is a totalitarian media spectacle) and utilizing it as means of propagating socialist ideas.

So i don’t see how supporting a candidate who will definitely not win is reproducing hierarchical electoral politics, since doing so indicates the futility of electoral politics itself. That argument seems like an overly dogmatic misinterpretation of anarchist principles.

Hello, well it seems like a done decision, I did get pretty disillusioned with the candidate a while back figured I should keep the community up for simply Documenting the campaign, but it’s not really worth the kind of hostility that every post brings, I could message people who are more active and see if they want to mod, but pretty the members on this instance don’t want it here so

absolute bullshit, it burns more in carbon to run those machines than it takes out, this is making shit worse at an accelerated pace

I say wait for election day and flip a coin, that’s basically how elections are determined, the arbitrary whims of the margin of people in swing states who go out to vote or not. You’re individual vote does not make any difference in the absence of mass organized action, and the Democrats are terrified of exactly that kind of mass organization because otherwise they wouldn’t be so secure in running corporate puppets like Biden.

If you wanna be realistic about it Voting in any state other than a swing state is basically ‘throwing your vote away’ : Vote Blue in a Blue State you’re just throwing it in a pile, Vote Blue in a Red State it’s just as much a symbolic protest vote as anything else. Only in a swing state will your Vote make a tangeable difference which is why those are the only states either party even campaigns in for the most part.

CW interview with Tim Black explaining his decision to break with Green Party

https://youtu.be/6LbXJlXW8bU

I totally agree, Dore is one of many pundits who have become very rich filling the void that would be filled by genuine working class leadership, instead he’s a kind of simulacrum of opposition, and that’s all this kind of ‘populism’ is which one moment claims to be anti-elite while at the next moment throwing marginalized people under the bus.

He himself is exactly the kind of Professional Managerial Class he rallies against and we see with his attacks on Cornel West, where he says that black or trans issues are ‘divisive’ or ‘distractions’ from his incredibly narrow notion of class, it reveals his complete acceptance of the dominant political pragmatism that enthusiastically throws inconventient groups like Palestinians under the bus when it’s inconvenient.

I don’t know how much Dore’s popularity is organic or astro-turfed by right wing money but either way he’s basically a sheep dog for the right, directing disillusioned left leaning people into the camp of white reaction.

i mean look at this, and this isn’t just coming from the far left like myself, a lot of democratic insiders are hinting that maybe biden should step down https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FF5bhA0_bsAAXenV.jpg

He’s polling neck and neck with Trump, that’s all i should have to say

my opinion is those boats are too damn big

you know they used to have these things called sail boats

Here’s an an excellent one from a podcast called The Mau Mau Hour , who seem to be some kind of Marxists, they ask some really probing questions here’s one that surprised me.

Host: What is your preferred economic Model? Are you a Democratic Socialism?

Wste says he doesn’t put too much emphasis on lables but “of course I’m a socialism” and that he believes in “workers control” and “bottom up socialism” then he says this:

In the socialist tradition I would be closer to council communists than vanguard communists, you know “the Soviets Without Bolshevicks” that was what happened at the Kronstadt rebellion when they were Crushed. Soviets were workers organizations so that the vanguard parties were imposing their will upon the workers organizations so that the workers councils got crushed, So people like Pannekoek…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOW0_V5FIRE

leftcoms for Cornel West!

true. I know a lot of people are in similar situations, that’s what kept me on facebook for years. I’ll just say at this point, twitter could just die any day now, starting DMing people if you haven’t already and find another way to say in touch.

Matrix is hella buggy, Session part of the lokinet weird ancap crypto scheme, XMPP is god tier

Briar, now that’s a thingy

I had a conversation with a cryptographer who worked for Wickr he says none of the DoD or other government agents he knew trusted Signal 🤔 - personally I use Signal with my mom or personal friends as like the bottom tier of security, because metadata is a real thing, they don’t have to actually know what you’re talking about. Just using a phone number itself tells you most everything feds need to know if they’re really after you.

if you actually want privacy use XMPP

at this point, with twitter being inaccessible to non logged in user, the ‘public square’ thing is totally done,. Get off twitter now. There are alternatives.

lmao, i’ve been getting that constantly

listening to that right now lol, the new episode on evolutionary psychology is great

I love how it’s both very well researched and thoughtful but also genuinely funny and creative and entertaining.

please share any info you have, he needs to be destroyed