

Per the article, “divisive” here just means that the US, sponsored of the aforementioned genocide, does its usual complaining about its critics.
Per the article, “divisive” here just means that the US, sponsored of the aforementioned genocide, does its usual complaining about its critics.
“I can’t believe anyone has trouble with this” I say, having been born with crampons and a Sherpa companion.
Lifesavers because they are some sick Os
Really sticking it to those… friendly Russian kernel maintainers. Really doing your part for your individual Two Minutes Hate.
So presumably, as a consistent person that is outrages by invasions and death, you call for the expulsion of all Americans and Usraelis, right?
Ohhh. Well the big parts that grab stuff are mandibles. They aren’t legs but they originate, evolutinarily speaking, from legs. Same with antennae! The parts closer to the head do the eating but sometimes mandibles help with that.
For venomous arthropods sometimes it’s the mandibles that have the venom (like spiders, where they are called Chelicerae), for some it’s saliva and they use various mouthparts (the water bug uses a proboscus), for some it’s their tail end (like ants), etc etc.
The lower left is a toe biter water bug with one of the most painful venoms on the planet
This could be you right now, yet it isn’t. Demand answers.
Education and propaganda are praxis. Though I do recommend joining an org IRL because the skills of organizing aren’t taught here.
Performative and possibly even counterproductive. The other bags you can use will usually require a larger consumption of fossil fuels consumed over their likely use lifetime. Paper bags are more energy intensive (including burning fossil fuels for energy). Cloth bags are much, much more energy intensive, you need to use each one hundreds of times for it to balance out.
If the concern is pollution from plastics, grocery bags are a very minor contributor. Most can simply be reused as trash bags or trashed/incinerated. It’s tires and runoff from freeways that are the elephant in the room but addressing that requires building a real mass transit system.
Harris has more or less the same solutions for black America, as this article lays out. Both parties offer false promises while supporting the material bases of oppression. Both parties are the parties of mass incarceration, criminal injustice, gentrification, school defunding, and ultimately, widespread material deprivation of the working class, the poor, the unhoused. We’ve had a Trump presidency. It was, despite liberals’ panic at rude statements, more or less, the typical status quo right up until the pandemic hit.
This is not because Trump was good, it was because he did the same basic things as his predecessors and successor. Liberals temporarily cared about kids in cages under Trump and suddenly lost all interest under Biden, now pretending that it simply stopped because they aren’t hearing about it even as the Biden admin has ramped up imprisonment and deportations. Very little changed, materially. The same applies to the lives of black people. If anything, conditions have gotten worse under Biden through policies increasing unemployment, the normalization of the pandemic and ending of economic support during it, and the massive funds for cops, increasing criminalization of poverty, and decreases in universal funding, leaving communities subjected to the legacies of red lining and discrimination to self-fund. Fewer jobs, worse pay, less support, more observation and racially discriminatory criminalization.
Expect this to continue until we actually organize to build real leverage and address the actual root causes of these issues and why neither party identifies them.
First, don’t vote for genociders. I think if that isn’t the limit, you don’t have one and might as well admit to being a supporter of genocide.
Cool headline, but ultimately just another call to have people throw their votes to a third-party candidate in protest
Those who organize to vote third party do a better job at building leverage for their interests than sheepdogs that try to convince people to Vite Blue No Matter Who. Which one is throwing a vote away? You don’t even register on Dems’ radar as anything other than a “likely Dem voter” to maybe send a volunteer out to remind you to vote.
…which could just lead to Trump’s victory, which the article itself acknowledges would be the worst possible outcome.
The article does not say that. It is very clear on its line that neither party is the one to fight for black people. I have to assume you simply didn’t read it.
The time to fight the Democratic leadership is unfortunately past
The time to fight oppressive genociders never passes. Please stop telling other people to give up their fight for justice. I’m getting white moderate vibes from your comment.
PS Harris has never won a single state in a Democratic primary. What in earth do you think was the right time and right method of opposition and building if leverage? The party just dictated all of this at you and now you carry water for it.
and the only way forward to being able to win going forward is to vote for Harris.
To win what? The thesis of this article is that black people don’t win regardless of which party has the presidency. Who are you talking to and do they understand what you mean by “win”?
Voting for Trump (or casting a third-party candidate, essentially the same thing) is guaranteed to make things much worse.
Voting for a third party is not the same as voting for Trump. Get that nonsense out if here.
Uphold Amerikan Pharaoh thought.
The Western left, such as it is, has really shown their liberalism when it comes to COVID. What should have been a time for us to shine was dominated by a small liberal anti-mask sentiment, then a larger liberal anti-anti-mask reaction, and finally liberal normalization and a much higher anti-mask sentiment. We should be 100% top of caring for community, organizing in community, calling out liberal hypernormalization and building from it.
Instead, we have mostly seen opportunism. COVID-cautious folks (which is to say, correct folks) a minority in orgs, sometimes listened to at first. Orgs trying to say that wearing masks alienates you from the proletariat (lmao). And then people who are understandably tired of being the odd one out using this as justification to be massively inconsiderate, even dangerous.
There is still plenty to organize around, though the lightning strike moment has passed for now. Paxlovid is $1400 for the uninsured in the US. There’s currently a wave. There’s a new, seemingly better vaccine and we could organize around access to it. There are locales trying to ban masks in order to crack down on Palestinian solidarity protests. Public health aside, normalizing masks is good for our ability to safely carry out actions. It’s not out of the cards for lightning to strike again and give us dual pandemics, as COVID damages immune systems and public health had adapted to a “fuck it” status quo, flirting with bird flu for no reason other than a poultry lobby. Will your org be ready to agitate? Or did it alienate the people with the most knowledge and investment in this topic?
Promote correct positions (COVID-safe) and reject dominant liberalism (nornalization), especially in our own spaces!
Nothing breaks a liberal’s brain more than valid criticism from the left. They think of themselves as progressive darlings or the adults in the room and have adapted to a life where politics is mostly about being in a camp better than a camp to their right. Their usual way of coping is to try and slot left criticism into a right camp because they are politically illiterate and only know how to do that one thing. The political class knows this and teaches it
“Israel” is a terrorist state and always has been. As an occupier, the resistance has the right to oppose it by all means deemed necessary.
It sounds useful, though don’t forget that you’re basically doing free marketing for private businesses! This is very similar to “union made” marketing. It will also be a lot of work, as you will either need to fight hard to research a critical mass of worker-controlled businesses and/or once you do have a critical number you will have to critique them. The legal aspect is just one part! What do you do about co-ops that are really just run by one or two jerks despite what is on paper?
These aren’t reasons not to do it, just some ways to take a critical lens to aspects of the idea so that you can prepare for the effort and make it better.
In my opinion, the key things to focus on are who is going to do this with you, how will it be sustainable if you eventually leave the project, and are there any angles by which to turn this into more than a consumer tool.
For example, co-ops are unfortunately rare, so this would not be very useful for someone wanting to see all the new co-ops to see in the town they live in. There are probably 2-3 tops. Checking the site even weekly would be fruitless for them 9 times out of 10. So really, this would only be for people to check rarely, like when visiting a new town, or because they haven’t thought about this before. If you want people to hear about new co-ops, you would want a mailing list of some kind.
So, my logic is that this would make the most sense as part of a wider effort. Maybe part of a local lefty paper rather than a totally separate thing. Local papers already try to do this with “traditional” businesses, particularly restaurants, curating databases and announcements that pepper their issues. Maybe it ties into a specific organizing druve to get more co-ops to form. When businesses may close, some cities have a tradition of offering the business for sale to the workers. Can your site help with that? If so, the ways it can help may assist you with figuring out where this project really lives and how it could have impact and engagement. IMO the ideal outcome is less about consumer choices and more about using the impression of a consumer choice platform to do organizing.
Peak performance
If you are supplying thousands of devices to an org the first thing you should do is verify the supply chain / your infosec around the ordering process and then disassemble some when they arrive. All it requires is a screwdriver and a spudger at most. Personally, I would have been looking out for recording devices or GPS devices, but you would also discover the bomb material if you did this.
You need oxidants to live. Issues stemming from oxidants are about levels of free radicals getting too high in the wrong places for too long.
Getting good sleep, eating a balanced diet, reducing stress, and getting enough exercise are the best ways to reduce the chances of such a scenario. Realistically, these things are also just a way to maximize wellness and health overall and it is probably not very useful for most people to think of this in terms of oxidation.
Oxidative stress happens every time you exercise. People need exercise to have better health. Oxidative stress is actually a necessary part of a healthy life.
This article is about one study, by CCDH, who did not publish much of anything about their methodology. CCDH’s CEO was an anti-Corbynite that fed into the false accusations of antisemitism against the left for having solidarity with Palestinians and CCDH continues to prominently focus on antisemitism and trying to blur the line between antisemitism and antizionism. The faction that he supported is currently in power in Labour and are supporters of Israel during this genocide.
I would not trust them to make good calls on what is an accurate community note vs. not. Community notes are all over the place but on average depict a bazinga liberal position, which is not actually the most accurate one. Having looked at their “study” paper, their first and most promindnt criterion for accuracy was whether community note aligned with fact-checking websites. Fact-checking websites are, to put it bluntly, bullshit, and really just reflect the author’s opinion.
For example, one of the things they claim is election misinformation is the claim that voting systems are unreliable. They are saying this is an inaccurate or misleading claim. In the US, it is accurate to say that it’s voting systems are unreliable. They are frequently run using voting machines from private companies, black boxes with no real way to verify their results that are actually implemented in most places, and polling stations often only gave 1 or 2, so when they break people are disenfranchised. Every computer security expert audit says you should not trust these systems and should use paper ballots with manual observable recounts. The allegation of misinformation is really about what is perceived to be voter suppression, of people feeling like they shouldn’t vote because it won’t count anyways. This is not actually misinformation, though: the voting machines are unreliable, that is the actual problem in this situation, not the use of repeating a fact in your favor.
It is salient that at no point do they highlight the naked propaganda for Zionism that has been rampant on social media, including about elections. This was presumably filtered out early on by their selection of what counts as a topic of interest for their analysis.
Finally, the clear purpose of CCDH is to lobby for having more oversight on social media, including large, centralized moderation teams that have historically been cozy with liberal governments.