Hello, well it seems like a done decision, I did get pretty disillusioned with the candidate a while back figured I should keep the community up for simply Documenting the campaign, but it's not really worth the kind of hostility that every post brings, I could message people who are more active and see if they want to mod, but pretty the members on this instance don't want it here so
o_0
joined 2 years ago
I say wait for election day and flip a coin, that's basically how elections are determined, the arbitrary whims of the margin of people in swing states who go out to vote or not. You're individual vote does not make any difference in the absence of mass organized action, and the Democrats are terrified of exactly that kind of mass organization because otherwise they wouldn't be so secure in running corporate puppets like Biden.
CW interview with Tim Black explaining his decision to break with Green Party
I totally agree, Dore is one of many pundits who have become very rich filling the void that would be filled by genuine working class leadership, instead he's a kind of simulacrum of opposition, and that's all this kind of 'populism' is which one moment claims to be anti-elite while at the next moment throwing marginalized people under the bus.
He himself is exactly the kind of Professional Managerial Class he rallies against and we see with his attacks on Cornel West, where he says that black or trans issues are 'divisive' or 'distractions' from his incredibly narrow notion of class, it reveals his complete acceptance of the dominant political pragmatism that enthusiastically throws inconventient groups like Palestinians under the bus when it's inconvenient.
I don't know how much Dore's popularity is organic or astro-turfed by right wing money but either way he's basically a sheep dog for the right, directing disillusioned left leaning people into the camp of white reaction.
i mean look at this, and this isn't just coming from the far left like myself, a lot of democratic insiders are hinting that maybe biden should step down https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FF5bhA0_bsAAXenV.jpg
cool, also, if you want to download media from twitter or get a pure video link you can use this site https://twittervid.com/
He's polling neck and neck with Trump, that's all i should have to say
So proud of Cornel for calling out this class reductionist bullshit, these red brown grifters need to go, along with this whole advertising logic that we should compromise our principles to appeal to the most reactionary elements, rather than honestly telling the people what we stand for because it's the right thing to do
"I'm standing with the workers... but I'll never for a minute be silent when it comes to black people, indiginous people, gay brothers lesbian brothers or trans"
here's a nitter link https://nitter.net/ComptonMadeMe/status/1699558201463882049
Sabby Sabs August 22 2023 interview https://youtu.be/Pu9Uh8E3QFM
West addresses the scandals more directly, says child support thing is a outright lie that was settled years ago, says he is and has been on a payment plan for taxes
I really never expected to be shilling for a candidate like this, but I've been a fan of Cornel West for over 10 years, I don't agree with him on everything ( i'm not a christian) he's the only candidate talking about Cop City or Prison Abolition, he has a better stance on Israel than many leftists, he's constantly name dropping revolutionaries like CLR James or Angela Davis, he say of his campaign that it's "looking at the world through the eyes of what Franz Fanon called The Wretched of the Earth" and saying other things I would never Imagine a Presidential candidate ever saying in a million years. So I think he's gonna get a big following and educate/radicalize a lot of people, maybe even de-radicalize some right wingers.
Anyway that's my spiel, if you're unsure about West's politics -- there has been a lot of just bad faith takes and misinformation out there -- I implore you to listen to one of his recent interviews, like this one with the Mau Mau hour
"In the socialist tradition I would be closer to council communists than vanguard communists, you know "the Soviets Without Bolshevicks" that was what happened at the Kronstadt rebellion when they were Crushed. Soviets were workers organizations so that the vanguard parties were imposing their will upon the workers organizations so that the workers councils got crushed, So people like Pannekoek.. "
come hang out at !cornelwest2024@slrpnk.net
view more: next ›
So i'm just gonna say a few things, If this issue is me being MIA and not appointing other mods, okay that's a fair criticism, I should have been logging in/posting more, but I'm going to respond to a some other points.
The reason I chose this instance is because of the limited options available, aside from my personal affinities towards solarpunk, and reality is joining a US centric general instance would be more hostile towards this community because they are likely aligned with Biden Administration and liberalism. I don't get why this not being a US centric instance would be a problem on a federated network.
For the record I am an anarchist and my promotion of a third party candidate is as protest against the 2 party system -- particularly because they're the only candidate that advocates on behalf of Palestine -- for me at least it's the same of supporting someone like Vermin Supreme , obviously the guy isn't going to win, the point is subverting the election ( which is a totalitarian media spectacle) and utilizing it as means of propagating socialist ideas.
So i don't see how supporting a candidate who will definitely not win is reproducing hierarchical electoral politics, since doing so indicates the futility of electoral politics itself. That argument seems like an overly dogmatic misinterpretation of anarchist principles.