This kind of stuff may be a psychological victory for some people, but at the cost of alienating rural southern whites and Italian-Americans, many of whom have had plenty of run-ins with cops or the state. Think strategically, folks. Pushing inter-tribal warfare is a bad idea. If people […]
There is a statue of Lenin in Seattle, which I have no problem with, although it’s probably offensive to Russian-Americans, Eastern European-Americans, not to mention Asian-Americans and Latinos who have lived under Communist tyrannies or experienced Communist terrorism. By Jordan Brasher and Derek H. Alderman The Conversation Where […]
Who cares about this fraud’s opinion? Remember his smoke and mirrors show at the UN before the invasion of Iraq? He was a neocon stooge then and he’s a neocon stooge now.
Kyle comes close to getting it in this. He’s not nearly where I am but he’s moving along.
The Jacobin boys perform pretty well in this. About the only thing they would need to say to make me agree with them 100% is to call for the abolition of the federal government and the military-industrial complex (“Defund the CIA! Defend the Pentagon!”). I’m with them having […]
The SJW high priest and the neocon high priest clash. Total WWE. Saager’s point in this is good. Krystal and Saagar react to an explosive segment on Hannity between Cornel West and Leo Terrell over defunding the police.
By Troy Southgate How interesting that British tea giants PG Tips and Tetleys have come out in support of Black Lives Matter. Although these capitalist parasites will be hoping to sell more teabags as a result of uttering a few politically correct platitudes, I suppose they’ve forgotten how […]
By Troy Southgate When are all these Americanised Europeans going to realise that removing a few statues, changing the signs on the bathroom door, jailing neo-nazi fantastists for making jokes about immigrants, dragging a few disabled people up the side of Mount Everest or giving the Mayor of […]
It wouldn’t personally bother me if we had schools named after serial killers like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, or famous gangsters like Al Capone or John Dillinger. In fact, I’d likely be in favor of it. But I understand the psychological and ideological reasons for this kind […]
I seriously doubt it is only anarchists or Antifa who are involved in this even in a deep blue zone like Seattle. The uprisings over the past couple of weeks are too massive to be driven by “extremist” groups of any kind. I’ve been observing movements like that […]
Apparently, a lot of these “white power” types failed drivers’ ed. By JUSTIN MATTINGLY and REED WILLIAMS Richmond Times-Dispatch The Hanover County man arrested Sunday for driving his truck into a crowd of protesters “is an admitted leader of the Ku Klux Klan and a propagandist for Confederate […]
This park is about a 10-minute drive from my residence. I know some of the people mentioned in this article, one of whom I’ve known for over 30 years. By ALI SULLIVAN AND ZACH JOACHIM Richmond Times-Dispatch About a thousand protesters gathered around the city’s monument to Christopher […]
One of the very first college classes I ever had (around 37 years ago) was a “history of Western civilization” course where the professor showed a film with actors playing the parts of Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine, and reenacting this classic “debate.” The assignment was to choose […]
The Antifa always run away or lose when they actually get into a confrontation with those who know how to fight. They got into it with some Nazis in Sacramento a few years ago, and even though the Antifa outnumbered their opponents 6 to1 they ended taking casualties […]
LOL. This is so predictable. The progressives insincerely co-opt a genuinely radical idea, and then the right-wing actually takes them seriously, and points the finger saying, “Look at those extremists over there!” What’s interesting about Carlson is that on economics and foreign policy he often sounds like Bernie […]
Ironically, she’s not really that radical. She’s just a McGovernite liberal. When and where have all these supposed “radicals” like AOC, Sanders, “the Squad,” Keith Ellison, DSA, etc. called for, I dunno, abolishing the state, overthrowing the ruling class, or global anti-imperialist struggle against the empire? Nowhere, as […]
Hint: It ain’t the Commies. Yours truly gets mentioned a few times in this. One thing I would add to this discussion is that the forces of totalitarian humanism will gladly purge this Antifa trash as soon as they have fully consolidated their position, just as Hitler purged […]
It’s regrettable that even reasonable social democrats like Krystal and Kyle Kulinski are now falling for the “vote blue, no matter who” line. Her idea of a DSA-neoliberal-Never Trumper coalition is absurd. Basically, all it would mean is the further co-option of the Left by not only neoliberals […]
Will the combined reboots of 1918, 1929, and 1968 have the effect of marking the final defeat of the traditional right-wing of the ruling class, and the full consolidation of totalitarian humanism? Thus far, it appears that the left-wing of capital is riding the wave of popular rebellion […]
This dust-up between the upper strata of the new clerisy and Sunbelt/MIC/Zionist mouthpiece piece Tom Cotton is hilarious. Intra-ruling class fragmentation is always wonderful.
Neocon David Frum predictably gets it ass-backward in this. He writes: “But the more relevant truth, as Ziblatt teaches us, is that Trump arose because of the hollowing out of conservative institutions. The Republican party could not stop him. Now it cannot restrain him. ” Actually, just the […]
By Troy Southgate The fact that America’s puppet-president is portraying Antifa as the main opponent of liberal democracy may have the champagne socialists squealing with delight, not to mention fuelling the Far Right’s delusional claim that Antifa itself is to blame for everything that is wrong with the […]
One set of scumbags say they might not vote for the Scumbag-in-Chief. Oh well. By Jonathan Martin New York Times WASHINGTON — It was one thing in 2016 for top Republicans to take a stand against Donald J. Trump for president: He wasn’t likely to win anyway, the […]
The main critique I would have of the liberal/left/BLM approach is not that their perspective is “too radical” but that it is not radical enough. Much of this kind of activism is focused solely on police killings and the racial disparities involved. Fair enough. Murder by cop is […]
Conservatives shouldn’t be in favor of Trump sending out the army to suppress the insurrection because, if for no other reason, it might set a precedent where President Kamala Harris will send out the army to suppress a pro-life demonstration or NRA convention in a few years. Be […]
Kyle Kulinski has an interesting rebuttal to Carlson’s Hobbesian-Burkean perspective. In his more serious and intelligent moments, Carlson is simply making the Hobbesian argument that order must be maintained at all costs in order for civilization to exist with considerations of “justice,” whatever their merit, being a secondary […]
Ironically, these FOX News guys have become the biggest publicists for the “defund the police” movement. There is a “defund the police” banner hanging on the building next to my residence.
Regrettably, wars produce casualties. The present situation is not yet a conventional civil war, but it is more than simply a series of riots or a crime wave. It is a genuine insurrection, albeit one that is largely spontaneous, decentralized, and uncoordinated which is both an advantage and […]
On one hand, Carlson is correct that there is a dangerous totalitarian element on the margins of the insurrection, and that such elements are motivated by the ambition of riding the wave of a popular rebellion to power, only to set up a tyrannical state of their own […]
The Popo seriously fucked up this time. Even the deep red zones are turning against the police state, which is actually not surprising because a lot of those places include radicalized gun owners who are distrustful of law enforcement. Many people in these areas have been victimized by […]
For some time, I have largely regarded ideological conflict as a conflict between what I have called “psychological tribes” featuring groups of people with different personality types and psychological makeups, with these personality differences probably being rooted in genetics. In order words, people are genetically predisposed to have […]
Conservatism, Inc. has vacillated between embracing faux wokeness and law and order rhetoric, sometimes trying to do both at the same time (see Sean Hannity). Hilarious.
This is an interesting discussion. When Rogan asks them what their preferred solutions are to current economic problems, they both have what I consider to be a “reactionary” (turn black the clock) position. Saager’s ideal amounts to the dominant paradigm in the 1950s of New Deal welfare statism, […]
By Ben Collins, Brandy Zadrozny and Emmanuelle Saliba NBC News A Twitter account claiming to belong to a national “antifa” organization and pushing violent rhetoric related to ongoing protests has been linked to the white nationalist group Identity Evropa, according to a Twitter spokesperson. READ MORE
As one who strives to be a consistent anarchist, I have been in favor of both sets of protests.
Donald Milhous Trump. I’ve always thought Trump resembled nothing quite so much as the Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Spiro Agnew, etc. Republicans from the 70s. He’s not the supply-side dogmatist that emerged during the 80s, and his foreign policy approach is more in the vein of Kissinger’s Machiavellian realism […]
A far-left vs. alt-right debate. Breakout the popcorn.
Joseph Cotto and I discuss the totalitarian left.
I really hope they’re not just now realizing that. I don’t really consider poor, urban (or rural) blacks to be part of the Blue Tribe. The Red/Blue tribal civil war is between the left and right wings of the upper-middle class, with both sides aligning themselves different factions […]
A few years back, when I used to speak to Alt-Right groups, leftist friends would ask me why I was interested in them. I used to always say, “Just think of them as the Communist Party of the Right.” I even presented what was essentially a Maoist interpretation […]
An emerging crack in the left-coalition? Welcome to America, where everybody hates everyone else. Funky academic and doctoral student at the University of Georgia Irami Osei-Frimpong explains his perspective on Central Park ‘Karen’ Amy Cooper and white feminism.
When are anarchists going to learn that neoliberals are just as much the enemy as anyone on the Right? By Michelle Bocanegra Politico NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday blamed an organized group of anarchists for inciting violence and vandalism amid protests over the killing […]
I know and like Derrick and Will. They both do very good work in their respective domains though, as I suspected, the Minneapolis situation appears to be driving a deeper wedge between anti-capitalist and proprietarian anarchists. I’m generally okay with looting Target, but I’m also generally okay with […]
I actually know quite a few people with conservative/right-wing or centrist/liberal views who think what was done to George Floyd was terrible. Fighting the state should be about reaching as wide an audience as possible (i.e. winning the Gramscian war of ideas) not pigeonholing people based on broad […]
Why not loot stores AND carry guns? Why not have anti-lockdown protests AND rent strikes? Why not have anti-police protests AND pro-2nd Amendment protests? Why not recognize everyone’s right to disagree with any of this? Once again, it’s not either/or.
I have noticed that the Blue Tribe and Red Tribe increasingly accuse each other of election fraud. They’re both probably right. Eventually, it will get to the point that the losing side in an election automatically assumes their opponents cheated, which will undermine the perceived legitimacy of the […]
Krystal Ball blasts Amy Klobuchar for her failure to prosecute two of the officers involved in the killing of George Floyd, who were reviewed for use of force during her tenure as County Attorney.
A somewhat interesting discussion of culture war politics from some left-leaning atheist folks. The more interesting parts start about 44 minutes into the discussion. Two questions that I am sometimes asked are what would my ideal version of an anarchist society actually look like, my endorsement of pluralism […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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