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I have seen them at protests, and they do seem organized and they definitely can yell. What the fuck, I’ll take it. I feel like it’s probably mostly the central leadership that’s somehow been corrupted into trying to throw elections to the Republicans and getting upset about us sending aid to Ukraine.

I don’t know if the person on the microphone I saw spend most of their speech yelling about Democrats (literally more than 50%) was from the PSL, but I don’t know that they were. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and say maybe not, fuck it, come along with us, you can do your thing and I can do mine, sounds good.

You and Five aren’t 100% wrong, I do take the point that the infighting is a waste of energy. I was all set to apologize and acknowledge, and then I looked at the PSL’s web site and it’s all still talking about the election, they don’t give a shit about progress now that it doesn’t involve an election with a Democrat in it, they literally can’t even be bothered to take down the video yelling about the election that happened a lifetime ago in a different type of country. Literally the day the election happened, they stopped caring, I guess.

I mean like I say, I do get it. I just felt embittered. Now that I’ve got it out of my system for a second, yes, we can all rally together and fight this bullshit whether or not the PSL is aware of its role in this catastrophe or interested in self-preservation in future elections going forward.

Take a look at https://pslweb.org/. There’s nothing about the protests on Saturday, it doesn’t seem to have been updated since the election.

Watch the video. “A system that presents two options, but for all intents and purposes, represents a single billionaire agenda.” “I’m tired of hearing this is the biggest election in your lifetime. The reality is, over time, it doesn’t matter.”

I turned it off when they got upset about us sending aid to Ukraine. It’s a little wild and incongruous that they found time to fit that in there, in the same breath as aid to Israel.

Now that millions of people are in the streets and there might be some momentum for lasting change (as well as a terrifying outcome if the resistance isn’t strong enough.)… nothing. Now that they fucked up the election, the page hasn’t been updated, they don’t care anymore. They’re not working on building anything non-electoral now that that’s getting wildly popular. All their focus was (and still is, apparently), on the election.

They aren’t leftists. I feel fine attacking them. Honestly? If there are some confused leftists in their ranks, who unlike the leadership are interested in protests and are getting attacked as a result, then absolutely, let’s defend them. That goes without saying. But the PSL doesn’t have any sympathy from me. I’m not happy about the leadership being in any crosshairs because of the predictable disaster they helped to cause, no one deserves to get shot because they advocated for something good. But, that was part of the point about rallying against Trump, was that hopefully no one would have to get shot. If they realize it’s a big deal now and start fighting, then they should update the web site to talk about that, instead of the election.

Party for Socialism and Liberation: “I plan to continue to express absolutely no urgency about the idea of keeping Republicans out of power. The most important party to criticize is and always has been the Democrats. It’s super important not to vote for Democrats. That’s the key thing. It’s the only way to real forward progress.”

The KDP did the exact same thing in Germany in 1932. Most of them were executed in the years following the election.

in the original suggestion they advised sitting but I read some persuasive comments that mentioned sitting down could be dangerous, instead I think leaving is the best approach.

I’ve heard from someone who testified to me that this is 100% effective after she saw it work multiple times. It instantly isolates the violent people in their own little targeting ring and makes it clear who’s not involved (which is pretty much everyone). It worked safely in NYC in every instance she observed, and the NYPD is among the most trigger-happy of the US local agencies.

Pretty much every modern election system tabulates the ballots electronically, but keeps around the paper ballots for random recounts or investigations. The only reason not to have the paper involved is if you’re cheap / incompetent / don’t care about election security, or if you specifically want to steal the election.

If the accusation are accurate, then the amount that is confirmed by a comically and flagrantly obvious amount of blatant fraud is limited to one county that we know of.

Sure, it could be that one county and no other. Why are you assuming that it definitely is limited to just that county though?

https://librewolf.net/

Not even sure what you’re talking about, and also, no ads on YouTube. Whenever I enter the internet without it, it’s alarming at this point.

I love how sincere he is about really emphasizing how worthless the product is.

I would really encourage everyone to go to https://www.berries.com/ just to see that the same uncanny valley person who wrote the ad copy is still making images for the site.

Also, a hundred and nine dollars for twenty-four strawberries?

Bill was right, man. Spending over a hundred dollars on not very many strawberries to give to your father is definitely not going to make his heart swell with happiness to be your dad. He’s going to think “Jesus Christ I raised a person who can’t function.”

The genuine version of this: Shari’s Berries

Edit: “I’m sure you have… wonderful… chocolate covered berries.”

If the logistics of the trip make it realistic, trains are infinitely better in every respect.

Real human-sized tables. Plugs for charging. No security, no entering a whole other little authoritarian world where people make you take your shoes off and throw away your water. Get up and walk around. Go get a sandwich! The world is your oyster. Watch cool stuff going past (this one can also be true on airplanes but is more intermittent). It’s just better.

No idea about tools although I hope you find something.

Two related suggestions that will change your life:

1. Grunt Fund if you are making decisions about equity
2. Have people estimate the total time for a task, rigidly enforce that every man-hour spent on a project has to be allocated to one of those tasks (including the elusive but vital “oh shit we forgot” task), keep track of the coefficient between the two. It’ll be different for different people sometimes. When estimating a project, have people come up with estimates and then multiply by the coefficient. Be transparent with everyone about this system. It’ll revolutionize your project management life once people get used to it. I tried to find a blog post which explains more detail, but honestly, it’s not complicated, and Google is too shit now to find it.

archive.org

tubitv.com

Probably there are others but it’s a little bit rare that I haven’t been able to find stuff on one or the other

Yeah. There are people like Hasan Piker who are clearly just talking about what they want to talk about, and the chips fall where they may. And then, there are other people in the landscape, where the topics of conversation follow a very particular ebb and flow (as you say, the economy and the government’s relationship to it has suddenly become super unimportant to them, now, this year, not worthy of close and extensive examination all of a sudden). And also, when those topics are discussed, certain very particular framings and cliches seem to show up again and again.

I honestly don’t really know which category “Second Thought” falls into. My suspicion of them isn’t based on all that much more than a couple things I found suspicious. But I did find a couple things about them to be suspicious.

So I first got suspicious of them when they aired a story about economic troubles in rural America… and they kept going out of their way to connect it to the Democrats. I mean, they’re not really wrong, but at the time they aired it was right in the middle of Biden’s absolutely massive effort to address economic troubles for working Americans. They talked about how wages have been going down for these people in this small town for decades because of 100% bipartisan not-giving-a-shit (which, yes, fair), without mentioning that wages had been going up pretty specifically and specifically for that small town for the past year, because of the IRA.

I mean that alone is not fatal. Not everyone with bad things to say about the Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer corporatocracy is a secret Chinese agent or anything. But it just started to strike me as weird the conjunction of:

• Random YouTube channel out of nowhere
• Weirdly high production values
• General adherence to things all leftists already believe, lots of focus on just repeating and emphasizing them
• Casts about, before the election, trying any which way they can to single out Democrats and Democrats alone for criticism
• Talks up third parties as a good solution, no particular stance on RCV or other reforms that would make them viable

If someone tells me that we can add to that list a new bullet point “Weirdly totally unconcerned about human rights abuses in China and in fact hostile to the idea that they happen and to anyone who wants to talk about them,” that would be another huge bullet point in the pattern that would start to take the shape of a pretty recognizable outline, to me.

I hope that she’s just decided to shut up and prioritize her own safety, and the Chinese government is okay with that as long as that’s her side of the bargain. I have no idea but it seems possible.

I feel like you guys need to be more subtle if you’re going to comment under stories like this.

“It was fun while it lasted” 💔

The whole fucking thing sucks. From the carelessness of the Western press even when it concerned her direct personal safety, to the rampant cruelty and brutality of the whole Chinese system, to the casual misogyny of the internet as a whole. And then of course all these dumbshits on Lemmy who pretend that all this oppression isn’t real no matter how tragic and obvious it is. Bottom line, she deserved better.

I also perked up at the mention of “Second Thought” as someone who would try to shit on her a little bit more, indirectly, and object strongly and try to do some damage to anyone tried to speak up on her behalf. “Second Thought” is one of the YouTube channels that I’m pretty suspicious of as some kind of fakery masquerading as leftism. I have no idea about the landscape of this kind of leftist streamer palace intrigue, but I just thought it was a super interesting statement.

https://archive.md/GQHLB