Wild that you’re comparing revolutionary optimism to self help books. I’ll have to let Fred Hampton, Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh know.
“The most immediate antidote to nihilism is revolutionary optimism. Revolutionary optimism isn’t rooted in a blind hope that change will come at some unknown point in the future. It is cultivated by the acknowledgement that only through participation in the struggle to liberate the people can the lives of the people be transformed. Revolutionary optimism is bolstered by a deep curiosity in and knowledge of the history of class struggle. Social change is treated as a science, one with distinct properties and elements that are both inevitable and profoundly dependent upon the actions taken by the people.”
https://www.blackagendareport.com/combat-nihilism-revolutionary-optimism-age-us-imperial-decline
Lotta lib comments here so I’ll reiterate again: REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISM IS ESSENTIAL!
Really funny that people here are bashing JT’s video considering the positive work he does educating and encouraging people to join orgs and be active.
For those who don’t know, Beau of the Fifth Column is a fairly popular “leftist” YouTuber who makes videos sympathetic to power under the guise of radicalism and about a month ago he decided to step down from his channel due to being “overworked” with his wife taking his place. I find it very interesting he decided to do it around the time his history as a human trafficker has started to really gain traction in online spaces. The two can’t POSSIBLY be connected, right?
Nick Cave has pushed back against calls for BDS and cultural boycotts of Israel, saying they punish fans, not governments.
Musician who knows nothing about politics, talks about politics, more at 11
Yes! It’s actually their most watched YouTube upload.
Also relevant clip: https://youtu.be/Qivd6BGT73o
Respectfully disagree with the mods decision to delete this. Equating Hasan with AOC is an ignorant statement to make due to evidence of him being far more radical than her. Thus any attempt for me to reply to their argument in good faith, I feel, is tainted from the get-go.
Remember when BE labeled himself a journalist? What happened to that?
What? lol
I’m not even a rabid follower of his stuff and like I said in the OP, dude’s not perfect, but he isn’t nearly as bad as people talk about.
I don’t take issue with him because he’s constantly attacking the dems, raising money for Palestine, was a guest on the Deprogram, and straight up said in a recent stream that “the revolution won’t be voted in”.
Even Hasan would agree with this analysis lol.
That being said, he did say in a recent stream that “you aren’t going to vote the revolution in” so I’d say he’s more then a “treatbrained streamer”.
I'm the unserious one?
Yes. Why would I waste the energy trying to respond to you when I know you’d just reply to it in the worst faith possible.
Hasan is just following in the footsteps of AOC
Deeply unserious lol
Like someone on here comparing PSL to trots.
Dude just loves riling himself up into a frenzy, doesn’t he? I guess he was mad that Hasan was going to interview Obama, which never even happened, and now he thinks Hasan is a “genocide supporter” because a random YouTube clip he came across that said “Hasan supports Kamala’s policies”, which he never even watched and was most likely just clipped. Hasan isn’t perfect, but fuck, you think at least him going to the DNC as a journalist would be considered fair from BE. Wild.
What "incomplete information"? What sources do you want? Twitter links? lol
Get over yourself. Even if I gave you what you wanted, you would come up with another excuse and another and another. All to prove you were right in deleting my post.
Also getting too close to a fence is flimsy justification for peace policing. Not like people were advocating violence or even property destruction from the evidence in this post.
I mean…
This is an activist who was on the ground.
I didn't post that the police intervened. The screenshot did and I only used it because that was the main post that was gaining traction on social media (it was from Unicorn Riot). Of course, in the time since, new information has come to light that changes how the events happened (this info may have come up sooner if you didn't delete my initial post).
Also nowhere was I being sectarian. I actually like a lot of PSL folks.
Whatever makes you sleep well, I guess.
Well as it turns out from users who were actually there and are active in these orgs, they didn’t call the police on them, so…
I mean they actually went to the encampments, posted about what they saw and supported them, so your analogy doesn’t work lol
[I originally posted this in chapotraphouse, but it was deleted for being “pro-cop” even though that very much wasn’t the case. (I believe PSL was actually involved in organizing the protest if I’m not mistaken.) The mod that deleted it openly broke the sectarian rule too.]
Been seeing a lot of people hating on what the protest marshals did during the pro-Gaza protests at the DNC and I feel they definitely did the right thing. Instigating stuff like going up against the cops under the guise of “revolutionary” action just gets a lot of people arrested and doesn’t accomplish anything.
EDIT: Users who were present at the protests have said, counter to what is claimed in the screenshot, that the protest marshals did NOT call for the police. Thank you for clearing this up, comrades!
The fast-food company is launching its own slate of original content including a gameshow from Glassman Media and Sugar23.
What will be the name of Homophobic Chicken’s streaming service?
Not surprising I know, but I’ve noticed that this appears to be the final straw for a lot of people.
I know I’ve expressed dislike for the guy in the past, but seriously? I thought for even something like this, he would at least have a good take on it.
Robert Schneider, frontman of Apples In Stereo and producer of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea has just released an A.I. album and his takes on it has got to be some of the worst I’ve ever read especially when he tries to use both math and the passing of his late friend, Bill Doss from Olivia Tremor Control, as justification for why he made the album and why A.I. is good. Here’s an article for context. The author, Schneider’s friend, at least doesn’t like A.I. at all: https://superjews.substack.com/p/can-ai-generated-music-have-a-soul?triedRedirect=true
"Perhaps the Dems CAN win Florida lmao," one social media user wrote.
lol
I understand why it isn’t used anymore, but for the sake of posting and reaching more people, it needs to come back.
Ran across this video, I initially thought it was a quote from Mao or one of the Kim’s, but when she said that the opposite of capitalism wasn’t socialism or communism, that’s when the alarm bells started going off. Are bourgeois feminists STILL pushing the whole “socialism is for old white men” thing?