Hahaha No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey should be read by every online leftist.
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Maybe ethnonationalism and/or religionationalism are...inherently bad? Maybe there isn't a scenario where "Okay, but this religion or that ethnicity will do it in a way that isn't bad!" Maybe it's just bad. Ethnicities are cool, religions are cool, so maybe it's the nationalism part? Couldn't be.
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I don't know if I have a discussion pet peeve greater than when someone makes an analogy and the other person says, "These are not the same!" or something to that effect. Of course they aren't the same; it's an analogy. There's some mechanism that is the same that is being compared, not everything.
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A better president wouldn't go to war with Iran in the first place, but if they did, they wouldn't have alienated themselves from key allies.
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Putting aside how the war in Iran is stupid and evil, it illustrates perfectly why Trump's disregard for soft power is bad strategy. Now he's begging for NATO's help after mocking them as over dependent on the US. Now Zekensky is demanding payment to help the US with Iranian drones.
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For some reason, rhetoric has become a dirty word, but persuasion is the goal of any organizer and there is nothing wrong with persuading people to believe righteous things. So, the focus should be on strategy. What would be the most successful way to organize people? It isn't theory, sorry.
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But what people need to understand is that Americans have been inundated with so much anti-left ideology that you cannot be successful coming on too strong right out the gate. (Some leftists would do well to carry "don't come on too strong" into dating too but anyway...)
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I could go on, but some leftists think it is some huge violation of their principles to not lead with calling people comrade and handing out copies of What Is To Be Done? It isn't. The organizing methods I'm talking about are rooted in leftist ideology.
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...mentioned the water quality is really bad. I just talked to a mother yesterday who said her baby kept getting sick until she started making formula with bottled water." Now they start seeing connections to others they can organize with. You are still empowering them.
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From there, you can be very Socratic. Ask them what they think could be done to address these problems. They are still in the driver's seat, using their creative faculties to see potential solutions. After a few conversations like that, you can say, "Hey, some of your neighbors have also...
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I'm not condescending them with theory and literature. They feel more empowered from the moment they open their door because someone is listening to their problems. (I took this approach into the classroom too, with some success!)
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I would ask people what are the biggest problems they see in their community. (I was trained by a guy who worked under Saul Alinsky.) One of the advantages of this approach is that I do not dictate to the person whose door I'm knocking on what their problems are.
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I wish more American leftists understood the difference between strategy and beliefs. One may believe that capitalism is evil, but it might not be strategic to lead with that belief when door knocking in a trailer park, something I've done before. (I also wish more American leftists door knocked.)
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"Psychologists rated Javier Bardem's depiction of Anton Chigurh as the most realistic depiction of a psychopath." is quickly becoming another "Viggo Mortensen broke his toe in that scene!"
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Cash App let's you draw your own design on a screen for a free debit card. I used my stylus and made this. No plans to use it but it's fun to have as a thing.
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Haha I really think the world cup in the US might be canceled. Or extremely low attendance, including some teams that will probably boycott it. I don't care about soccer but it will be really embarrassing to Trump and FIFA's corrupt ass.
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I love when video game otakus make big declarations about a revolution they aren't contributing to in any material way. I also think electoral politics is inadequate but I'm not going to pretend to be a Zapatista when my history of armed resistance is playing Time Crisis at a movie theater arcade.
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“I just want to say, Free Palestine, Fuck ICE, go Geese!”
— Geese’s Max Bassin during the group’s International Group of the Year acceptance speech at the #BRITs
— Geese’s Max Bassin during the group’s International Group of the Year acceptance speech at the #BRITs
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Y'all. If you want to move the needle? Share this past a million. Like it past a million. Make this the biggest fucking post on the goddamned motherfucking site. Make this visible from SPACE.
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The core of fascism really isn't any deeper than "I want to exorcise my insecurities by bullying my schoolmates, and not get in trouble because my dad is rich" and all the rest is scaffolding an ostensibly serious value system around that fantasy
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Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.
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We literally have had a meme for over a decade that highlights that sometimes two bad guys can fight each other and still some online leftists can't grasp it.
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If anyone who fights against imperialists is good, then everyone in WWI was good? Or none of them were good? Or maybe things aren't always a binary. Maybe sometimes the enemy of an imperialist is good. (e.g. The Algerian Front) And maybe sometimes they are bad, like imperialist Japan.
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"Imperialists are bad so anyone they fight against is good!" is so monumentally dumb when you know anything at all about WWI. (Or numerous other wars.) Imperialists love going to war with other imperialists. The British and French empires against the German empire.
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It's part of the "America bad" mentality that a lot of online leftists have, which I actually support by and large, but they lose me when they feel that compels them to always oppose everything the US has done.
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The people I argued with believe that nuking Japan was wrong. I agree with that, but we couldn't even establish that the ends, stopping imperial Japan, were good but the means were wrong.
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