We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
The irony of using a fasc-friend platform to talk about resisting fascists when Ghost is right over there.
π Hi! It looks like you're making a bad-faith effort to throw shade at a prominent leftist platform, aiming to divide the left into innumerable internal squabbles about purity tests and innuendos, right when their very existence is being threatened and it's pretty critical for them to hang the fuck together. Would you like to bring up something about Elizabeth Warren and Blackrock? Or say that Bernie Sanders is a big piece of shit for some reason, because he's not left enough? Those are often popular collateral talking points in my experience.
Substack is a leftist platform? Since when?
There's more. Many more. And a list of literal (as in swastika-flaunting) Nazis being hosted on Substack would be far longer. (Oh, and you might want to have a look at the dates on those articles. This is not new information.)
What do you call a bar, again, that lets Nazis openly associate? And what do you call the other patrons also in it?
Maybe the non-Nazis should read this: https://ghost.org/docs/migration/substack/
Okay so I thought to myself, am I really gonna have to have this drawn-out conversation for why it is apparently "bad" for me to read this clearly leftist person and mount this long defense for why he should be able to write, I should be able to read, and then post some stuff none of which has any goddamned thing to do with Nazis, sort of thinking how successfully you've managed to deflect away from the fairly important things that are being said in this actual article (seriously: read it) and into some extensive bullshit.
Because I don't want to seem callous or like I'm not open to talking about stuff. Who knows. Maybe I'll catch Nazi from reading this article. Strange things happen sometimes.
Right about when I was having this sort of woeful realization and deciding that maybe I would have to skim five different links and deal at some sort of length with what they were saying, was when I was reading:
(Oh, and you might want to have a look at the dates on those articles. This is not new information.)
And it sorta clicked for me how to deal with it all. This is true: It's old information. Look at the dates. For what it's worth, I agree with Substack not kicking the Nazis off originally, but after the whole internet yelled at them for most of 2023, they finally caved and at the beginning of 2024 said, alright, fine, the three Nazis who we are hosting are no longer welcome. Happy now?
They removed the Nazis from the bar. And for some reason there are still people screaming about how the bar is full of Nazis. You know, the bar that all the leftists go to hang out in, and exchange useful leftist information within. I wonder why they are so upset about it, and urging people that whatever the fuck they do, DO NOT GO INTO THAT BAR OR LISTEN TO WHAT ANYONE HAS TO SAY THERE BECAUSE IT IS ALL NAZIS AND YOU WILL BE BAD IF YOU GO IN THERE.
Can you show me one swastika-flaunting Nazi being hosted on Substack? I would welcome you having the opportunity to prove me wrong. As far as I know, there are 0.
They bounced three. In one of those links they cited SIXTEEN who openly used Nazi symbolism just in their avatars and whatnot.
Substack is still a Nazi bar.
But of course you didn't bother to check, did you?
You've (collective) got the information. And the solution to it, no less, in the last link. What you (collective) choose to do about it is on your head. But given what I've seen in the USA's so-called "left" you're going to cheerfully continue using a service that profits from Nazis.
You do you, boo.
I had a feeling you wouldn't be able to show me any swastika-flaunting Nazi, in the present. It is weird that you keep using the present tense, and citing articles in the present tense, and just kind of not addressing the fact that things have changed since the present which you are talking about.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/substack-changes-its-mind-will-remove-pro-nazi-content-after-all
Substack is still a Nazi bar.
But of course you didnβt bother to check, did you?
"Do your own research!"
I really don't like that this style of argumentation has entered the mainstream, where someone asking for an example or some kind of justification gets talked down to, like "Of course there is an example, because I say so, now it's your job to go and find it, and not my job to show it to you."
Oh, also, because I've started to as a rule started to make an effort publicize some true stuff more, and in a lasting fashion, when I feel like I'm getting some kind of bad-faith bullshit leading people in the direction away from the truth direction. As opposed to just getting in what seems like an absolutely endless argument with the other person not that interested in anything I'm saying. I'm happy to do that second thing too, up to a point, but the first seems more useful.
That should lead to a groundswell of donations to the Democratic Party, which the leadership can use to primary AOC and The Squad with some well-picked AIPAC-endorsed corporate stuffed shirts. Then they can have a straight run for those who miss the old Republican party of the Reagan/Bush years
Very true... How could we intercept those donations and direct them towards something progressive?
I love how reliably ever-present, under any type of news about something good or bad going on in the political world, is the little trickle of comments saying "YEAH FUCK THE DEMOCRATS WE ALL HATE DEMOCRATS."
Didn't people learn their lesson about this after the last election? You can hate the Democrats' shitting fundraising consultants and geriatric leadership without needing to inject a conversation about it into some kind of random conversation about grassroots progress or literally any other thing.
The primary concern of the people in charge of the Democrats seems to be to keep the left contained where it canβt actually affect policy and threaten the interests of stakeholders. As such, any fightback will stop short of empowering grass-roots organisers, and prioritise ensuring that grass-roots enthusiasm can be safely diverted to the benefit of stakeholders.
Why are you depending on the Democrats to "empower" you? There's your problem, right there. Yes, they're mostly shit, with a small handful of exceptions. I think you mean "shareholders" instead of "stakeholders," but what you're saying is mostly true. The point that I'm making is that it barely matters anymore.
If the fire chief is a cokehead, and we're trying to figure out how to get the fire to stop now that it's in 5 buildings in our big wooden city, I think we should focus on "what the fuck to do" as the OP article is doing, not purely focus on how the fire chief is a cokehead and if we could just get rid of him, things would be okay at last.
I feel like getting rid of the coke head is probably a pretty important step in the overall plan though.
We have made significant progress in four weeksβto the point that we can begin to see the outlines of a Democratic victory in the House in 2026.
Assuming that there will be free and fair midterm elections, or midterm elections at all.