Why does the rest of the world care about US politics?
Among many spheres of “influence” (interference and domination), this graphic is telling.
An interesting response to an article (written by a famous anarchist) that makes a case against centralized state authority.
Did you get a chance to read the linked article? Id be interested to hear if it surprised you compared to what you had assumed previously.
If encouraging you to think for yourself rather than feeling like you only deserve to repeat the thoughts of others is agressive, I’m not sure you are conversing in good faith.
Regardless, it bears repeating that you and everyone are capable of thinking for yourselves and deserve to do so. I merely suggested that you could do so by engaging durectly with a source before accepting what someone else tells you to think about it.
Voting is not the end of our work. It’s only the beginning.
Electoral politics will not give us radical outcomes on their own. We must organize.
This text in the screenshot is a rambling assortment of words that hardly deserves attention because it says nothing.
If you’d like yo know if someone is authoritarian, just go directly to that person’s words and actions. You don’t need someone else (including the “Ray Peat”) to tell you what to think. THAT is authoritarian. You (like everyone) deserve to be free and think for yourself.
Here’s Chomsky speaking for himself on authoritarianism: nostr:note1mxexjx3cewratppg3hg50hpcvdz9ly6e3ejegy6vrydzw69fuz8sehscdk
The KOSA Bill is a classic use of propaganda aimed at surveillance for control and profit. It’s true purpose has nothing to do with protecting vulnerable people, including children.
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Well you seem completely convinced of your own position on the effects of increased CO2 being released into the atmosphere, regardless of empirical evidence. I don’t think it’s worth discussing beyond that.
Im not sure what you mean by anti-carbon. But if you read this article I think you would find it unequivocally pro-human.
Text of Noam Chomsky's 1970 lecture on the possibilities for a libertarian socialist society and against both liberal capitalist and state socialist alternatives.
https://libcom.org/article/government-future-noam-chomsky
On yesterday’s rumor debacle, it’s an interesting reflection of what corporate/mainstream platforms like X elevate. Take Jacobin and The New Statesman, who are both generally considered credible but who ran Noam’s obituaries yesterday without first verifying if he had actually died. This plus millions of tweets blew up in a fake news explosion.
Both publications gave into pressure to be first, be shocking, and therefore be the most viral over prioritizing journalistic rigor. This is a demonstration of how the media ecosystem pressures publications to seek virality over trust in a systemic way. It’s only logical that if you want to survive and thrive as a publication or journalist, you will respond to the pressure that this structure applies. So though it’s no excuse, we can understand how it happened.
But as users/consumers of media, this does not serve us well at all.
Hence why we here and at nostr:npub1xm0rvnpw52nh7tk59ntly55w74rmd2cqvt3kg5zxrzz3rlssvspsk0gs6s are supporters of nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 , nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch , and all who are working to revolutionize a true people’s media via liberatory platforms and structures.
Yes it was mass confusion yesterday. And to clarify, in calling for rigor and decency i was referring to those publications who shared the fake news without verifying. Not blaming you and others who were just reacting to their announcements.
The rumors circulated today that Noam Chomsky had passed away are NOT true.
We have been in communication with his wife, Valeria, for confirmation today.
A few major publications have taken down their obviously pre-prepared Chomsky "memorial" articles that were posted earlier today. A little rigor & decency is in order above the race to be first. Let's honor Chomsky's example in this way.
The rumors circulated today thay Noam Chomsky had passed away are NOT true.
We have spoken to his wife, Valeria, for confirmation today.
A few major publications have taken down their obviously pre-prepared Chomsky "memorial" articles that were posted earlier today. A little rigor & decency is in order above the race to be first. Let's honor Chomsky's example in this way.
If youd like to learn what it is… I wouldnt call this wiki entry a political treatise but it can give you a 60 second definition. (This term is often confusing in the US because the word “libertarian” has hugely different connotations than in the rest of the world.)