why so much emphasis on voting? Why is what you do in a ruling class ballot box once every 1,460 days such a big deal to you? An honest question. What's that about? And what can be gained by Stein getting maybe 2.1% instead of 1.8% of the popular vote in a blue state?
Will we start saying no to our Zionists and their corporations media and treasonous politicians supporting apartheid state of Israel genocide? Might a General strike, civil disobedience, and disruption in the food chain wake people up?
I was aware of her history. I understand your grievances. No amount of negative information about Harris will keep me from voting for her. Perhaps she has evolved. Trump cannot become president.
Good grief, I'm not telling you to vote for Trump. I'm not about electoral politics at all. I'm not telling you to vote for anybody. The PSR is about thinking and acting beyond the binary electoral box. I also don't vote shame anybody. I certainly won't shame anyone for voting Lesser Evil. and BTW, If you live in an uncontested state like I do (Iowa/red), it doesn't matter much if or how you vote. Same if you live in a solid blue state like CA or NY or IL. And really I need people to start thinking beyond the horse race in terms of the different scenarios after the election that I have been writing about. And above all about the underlying system that brought us to such choices as either mass killer (Ukraine and Gaza) Harris or Fascist Trump. What kind of system produces such grotesque horror and just how much longer can we survive under that system marking our political lives off in four year election cycles? Basic earth and social science suggest strongly that ten more years of capitalism is the death of livable ecology.
In my opinion, we cannot do anything about the binary electoral box, 8 weeks before the election for both houses and the presidency. That is reality for 2024.
I totally agree that our system is not “democratic”. Again, Harris will be the lesser of two evils. I’d rather she hold the office.
I think there is a level of evil below which lesser doesn’t exist. I don’t understand how any person can watch a live streamed genocide and vote for someone who supports it.
Yes, we have to make a choice. We can continue under the disastrous system of capitalism-imperialism and watch all hopes for a decent future collapse in a matter of years or we can finally undertake what Dr. Martin Luther King called near the end of his life "the real issue to be faced" beyond "superficial" matters - "the radical reconstruction of society itself."
My "grievances"?. Try my empirical observations. I have not been personally victimized by Kamala Harris's long history of advancing the objectively white supremacist police state and mass incarceration systems but poor, Black, and Latino people have suffered from her service to and agency on behalf of the racist US prison and police state.
I suffered personally from San Francisco police violence while Kamala stfu Harris was DA. She was good with my being silenced permanently and had I not gone over her head it would have been curtains for this sailor.
My white sons have been under exactly what you are representing. So now I don’t want to vote for her… omg so many are fucked! Yes minorities. Yes poor, omfg …all of us are in desperate need of Justice uuurrg I hate what this country has been. IS AND OMFG WILL BE!
Harris supports GENOCIDE in Gaza and will, if (s)elected be a war criminal like most presidents. That means piles of dead Palestinian CHILDREN... in case piles of dead Palestinian adults don't move you. Will that do it for you, or are you one of the millions of brain-washed partisan sheep in death cult America? TDS provides all the cover the "more effective evil" DemocRATS could possible need. Trump is not unique except in his exceptionally honest (at times) statements wherein he blurts out exactly who he is. DemocRATS are more into virtue signaling, culture war idiocy, and other obfuscating twattery which makes them more dangerous than Regressives in my view. Both are steeped in criminality, and voting for either is morally bankrupt.
What other choice do we actually have? Again, Trump is not an option. I cannot accept that he tells the truth, sometimes. He is an immoral, unethical malignant narcissist. I have been aware of his behaviors since the ‘80’s. Biden’s selling arms to Israel, not Harris. The problem is Netanyahu and the rest of the Middle East countries who have also abandoned the Palestinians.
Historically, we helped create types of democracies in western Europe, Japan and South Korea after WW2. Those countries have done so much more for their citizens wellbeing than our governments have.
If nothing else, Harris is best choice when we only have 2 choices. Not voting or voting for a minority party does not solve the social or geopolitical problems of our country.
Vote her in then we use my information that puts Harris in a bad light. This might coerce movement away from conflagration or something like that. I will sink her ship just like I did Biden's.
The problem is the USA arming Israel. If the USA stopped the weapons supply, Netanyahu would have to stop. Harris has made it clear that she will continue to provide Israel with the arms it requires to kill all the Palestinians. That makes her just as evil as Netanyahu.
Voting for Harris indicates your support for her. Not voting, or voting for a third party, indicates your opposition to her.
The USA is no less complicit in the genocide of the Palestinians as Israel. Don't blame the rest of the Middle East. Faced with the threat of retaliation from the USA, they have no power to stop Israel. Or are you an enthusiast of ethnic cleansing, and think they should have taken the Palestinians away?
I thankyou. For staying on the side of life. She is perfectly perniciously punishmental. If i can elect her and make her suffer her own punishment as potus i will. Every safety any body works toward is a cost too expensive . She is clearly stupid to this simple A man/ a world arithmetic. Stop her if we can as phrase sayers in a jungle of noise. We will make her bemd under the weight of our sins, she will be our donkey on the run, a little sin eating, we have alot for her to carry and age 35 years. 40. 50. If she is insulated as she seems we w kill her with elvises vices peanut butter and bananas and opium. Let's.
Amartya Sen writes in his autobiography about hanging out with Kamala's parents when she was born, oddly enough. Maybe they did keep the odd marcher around.
Love what you said here Paul, but get some sleep;you pause , mumble … Harris is a typical prosecutor …no proof, just gung ho emphasis on Ho …I am pissed about this and trust what you say . We need reform in the courts, obviously we need PROSECUTOR REFORM! WTF who do I vote for ??????not trump of course —-but f’n zzzzz Harris!!!
To be clear I'm not reading speeches or talking agitation-style here...just talking off some notes scribbled on an index card..the pauses are me gathering my thoughts. I just listened looking for mumbles and didnt find much. The transcript for this one is okay but not great.
Never heard your voice before( not read you before either , but -you’re very good, at how you think. I say it right out of my mouth no filter, I’m afraid … Now, I will be eager to ‘hear’ more from you!
Tell me this is satire and that you are making fun of people who think and say things like this. You think the anti-genocide and anti-mass incarceration movements are Trumpist-fascist, do you? Really? These terms "Killer Kamala" and "Kopmala" come from those popular and good movements. I know it is difficult for many to do but we really must think outside the binary box of the bourgeois electoral bullshit (BEB), which nurtures and does not fight this Amerikaner fascism we all here loathe.
Please tell me this is satire. I consistently advocate socialist revolution on the path to communism. Don't come to class if you haven't done the reading! :)
Personally I don't think a social and political critic has to offer social and political solutions/alternatives for their work to matter. Take Chomsky. He made great contributions that were essential reading while pretty much refusing to offer any real solutions. That said, I do tend to generally advocate socialist revolution...not in every single essay.
Oh, I do. Stop voting for DemocRATS and Regressives alike. They're both organized criminal gangs of capitalist war mongering performance chimps who play a tag team game of circus-like idiocy for the credulous sheep they have successfully brainwashed with the help of the highly paid presstitutes of corporate media. Our criminal foreign policy does not change regardless of who is in power. The homeless population, millions on slave wages, mass incarceration, unconstitutional fascist surveillance state fuckery... none of that changes. The DemocRATS are fascists who are all prattle and no battle. The Regressives are just naked fascists. Both are evil.
Your correct. Change may come. It happens slowly. I am old. Some elements of social responsibility have improved. Some have gotten worse. Yes, homelessness is a horrific problem. It was exacerbated when Reagan closed the “mental” hospitals and nothing has been financed for complete housing and wrap around social services after that. Capitalism does not work without excellent social services. Neither pure capitalism nor pure communism will ever work.
Pure communism is among other things the end of the exploitation and oppression of any segment of humanity by any other segment of humanity. It is a very worthy goal. It has never been remotely reached in "modern" times.
This short bio of Harris has not persuaded me in changing my mind Paul. I'm still voting Green: People. Planet. Peace. My conscience will be my guide.
why so much emphasis on voting? Why is what you do in a ruling class ballot box once every 1,460 days such a big deal to you? An honest question. What's that about? And what can be gained by Stein getting maybe 2.1% instead of 1.8% of the popular vote in a blue state?
Will we start saying no to our Zionists and their corporations media and treasonous politicians supporting apartheid state of Israel genocide? Might a General strike, civil disobedience, and disruption in the food chain wake people up?
I was aware of her history. I understand your grievances. No amount of negative information about Harris will keep me from voting for her. Perhaps she has evolved. Trump cannot become president.
"No amount of negative information about Harris will keep me from voting for her" is a remarkable statement.
Have to make a choice. I could never vote for Trump.
Good grief, I'm not telling you to vote for Trump. I'm not about electoral politics at all. I'm not telling you to vote for anybody. The PSR is about thinking and acting beyond the binary electoral box. I also don't vote shame anybody. I certainly won't shame anyone for voting Lesser Evil. and BTW, If you live in an uncontested state like I do (Iowa/red), it doesn't matter much if or how you vote. Same if you live in a solid blue state like CA or NY or IL. And really I need people to start thinking beyond the horse race in terms of the different scenarios after the election that I have been writing about. And above all about the underlying system that brought us to such choices as either mass killer (Ukraine and Gaza) Harris or Fascist Trump. What kind of system produces such grotesque horror and just how much longer can we survive under that system marking our political lives off in four year election cycles? Basic earth and social science suggest strongly that ten more years of capitalism is the death of livable ecology.
In my opinion, we cannot do anything about the binary electoral box, 8 weeks before the election for both houses and the presidency. That is reality for 2024.
I totally agree that our system is not “democratic”. Again, Harris will be the lesser of two evils. I’d rather she hold the office.
I think there is a level of evil below which lesser doesn’t exist. I don’t understand how any person can watch a live streamed genocide and vote for someone who supports it.
Yes, we have to make a choice. We can continue under the disastrous system of capitalism-imperialism and watch all hopes for a decent future collapse in a matter of years or we can finally undertake what Dr. Martin Luther King called near the end of his life "the real issue to be faced" beyond "superficial" matters - "the radical reconstruction of society itself."
My "grievances"?. Try my empirical observations. I have not been personally victimized by Kamala Harris's long history of advancing the objectively white supremacist police state and mass incarceration systems but poor, Black, and Latino people have suffered from her service to and agency on behalf of the racist US prison and police state.
I suffered personally from San Francisco police violence while Kamala stfu Harris was DA. She was good with my being silenced permanently and had I not gone over her head it would have been curtains for this sailor.
My white sons have been under exactly what you are representing. So now I don’t want to vote for her… omg so many are fucked! Yes minorities. Yes poor, omfg …all of us are in desperate need of Justice uuurrg I hate what this country has been. IS AND OMFG WILL BE!
Because of Boxer Feinstein Breed Pelosi and Harris incredibly poor choices the US women's movement has been set back 200 years.
Harris supports GENOCIDE in Gaza and will, if (s)elected be a war criminal like most presidents. That means piles of dead Palestinian CHILDREN... in case piles of dead Palestinian adults don't move you. Will that do it for you, or are you one of the millions of brain-washed partisan sheep in death cult America? TDS provides all the cover the "more effective evil" DemocRATS could possible need. Trump is not unique except in his exceptionally honest (at times) statements wherein he blurts out exactly who he is. DemocRATS are more into virtue signaling, culture war idiocy, and other obfuscating twattery which makes them more dangerous than Regressives in my view. Both are steeped in criminality, and voting for either is morally bankrupt.
What other choice do we actually have? Again, Trump is not an option. I cannot accept that he tells the truth, sometimes. He is an immoral, unethical malignant narcissist. I have been aware of his behaviors since the ‘80’s. Biden’s selling arms to Israel, not Harris. The problem is Netanyahu and the rest of the Middle East countries who have also abandoned the Palestinians.
Historically, we helped create types of democracies in western Europe, Japan and South Korea after WW2. Those countries have done so much more for their citizens wellbeing than our governments have.
If nothing else, Harris is best choice when we only have 2 choices. Not voting or voting for a minority party does not solve the social or geopolitical problems of our country.
Vote her in then we use my information that puts Harris in a bad light. This might coerce movement away from conflagration or something like that. I will sink her ship just like I did Biden's.
The problem is the USA arming Israel. If the USA stopped the weapons supply, Netanyahu would have to stop. Harris has made it clear that she will continue to provide Israel with the arms it requires to kill all the Palestinians. That makes her just as evil as Netanyahu.
Voting for Harris indicates your support for her. Not voting, or voting for a third party, indicates your opposition to her.
The USA is no less complicit in the genocide of the Palestinians as Israel. Don't blame the rest of the Middle East. Faced with the threat of retaliation from the USA, they have no power to stop Israel. Or are you an enthusiast of ethnic cleansing, and think they should have taken the Palestinians away?
I thankyou. For staying on the side of life. She is perfectly perniciously punishmental. If i can elect her and make her suffer her own punishment as potus i will. Every safety any body works toward is a cost too expensive . She is clearly stupid to this simple A man/ a world arithmetic. Stop her if we can as phrase sayers in a jungle of noise. We will make her bemd under the weight of our sins, she will be our donkey on the run, a little sin eating, we have alot for her to carry and age 35 years. 40. 50. If she is insulated as she seems we w kill her with elvises vices peanut butter and bananas and opium. Let's.
Amartya Sen writes in his autobiography about hanging out with Kamala's parents when she was born, oddly enough. Maybe they did keep the odd marcher around.
Love what you said here Paul, but get some sleep;you pause , mumble … Harris is a typical prosecutor …no proof, just gung ho emphasis on Ho …I am pissed about this and trust what you say . We need reform in the courts, obviously we need PROSECUTOR REFORM! WTF who do I vote for ??????not trump of course —-but f’n zzzzz Harris!!!
To be clear I'm not reading speeches or talking agitation-style here...just talking off some notes scribbled on an index card..the pauses are me gathering my thoughts. I just listened looking for mumbles and didnt find much. The transcript for this one is okay but not great.
Never heard your voice before( not read you before either , but -you’re very good, at how you think. I say it right out of my mouth no filter, I’m afraid … Now, I will be eager to ‘hear’ more from you!
Using the pejorative Killer Kopmala makes you sound like Trump, which to me, having read you, seems wierd. Have you jumped ship?
Tell me this is satire and that you are making fun of people who think and say things like this. You think the anti-genocide and anti-mass incarceration movements are Trumpist-fascist, do you? Really? These terms "Killer Kamala" and "Kopmala" come from those popular and good movements. I know it is difficult for many to do but we really must think outside the binary box of the bourgeois electoral bullshit (BEB), which nurtures and does not fight this Amerikaner fascism we all here loathe.
"makes you sound like Trump" ... You seem to think the right has a monopoly on illiteration-employing.pejoratives. It doesn't.
Please tell me this is satire. I consistently advocate socialist revolution on the path to communism. Don't come to class if you haven't done the reading! :)
Would you like to see a draft constitution for a revolutionary socialist nation? Yes? I've put it up here more than once but here it is again: https://revcom.us/sites/default/files/socialistconstitution/SocialistConstitution-en.pdf
Personally I don't think a social and political critic has to offer social and political solutions/alternatives for their work to matter. Take Chomsky. He made great contributions that were essential reading while pretty much refusing to offer any real solutions. That said, I do tend to generally advocate socialist revolution...not in every single essay.
Funny thing, Capitalism has never really worked either.
well it works for possessors of capital, just not for humanity.
Oh, I do. Stop voting for DemocRATS and Regressives alike. They're both organized criminal gangs of capitalist war mongering performance chimps who play a tag team game of circus-like idiocy for the credulous sheep they have successfully brainwashed with the help of the highly paid presstitutes of corporate media. Our criminal foreign policy does not change regardless of who is in power. The homeless population, millions on slave wages, mass incarceration, unconstitutional fascist surveillance state fuckery... none of that changes. The DemocRATS are fascists who are all prattle and no battle. The Regressives are just naked fascists. Both are evil.
Your correct. Change may come. It happens slowly. I am old. Some elements of social responsibility have improved. Some have gotten worse. Yes, homelessness is a horrific problem. It was exacerbated when Reagan closed the “mental” hospitals and nothing has been financed for complete housing and wrap around social services after that. Capitalism does not work without excellent social services. Neither pure capitalism nor pure communism will ever work.
Pure communism is among other things the end of the exploitation and oppression of any segment of humanity by any other segment of humanity. It is a very worthy goal. It has never been remotely reached in "modern" times.