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.
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!"
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.
...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!"
yeah. i don't think jimmy is cynical -- i'm sure he believes this is the way.