WELP here's an episode I'm absolutely skipping (Taibbi guests and it's about The Letter and Amber is on it, a perfect triangle of hell)
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 10 July 2020 03:56 (three years ago) link
(I like Taibbi on some issues but his piece on this subject was bad)
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 10 July 2020 03:57 (three years ago) link
Best response I’ve heard re the letter (and I’m not on Twitter so possibly I’ve missed other good takes) was Citations Needed short ep this week. Just absolutely nailed it.I’ll probably listen to the Chapo tomorrow but I’ll probably be annoyed.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 10 July 2020 09:54 (three years ago) link
good luck comrade
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 10 July 2020 10:19 (three years ago) link
I'd rather hear Taibbi being wrong about something than the entirety of twitter being right about it
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 10 July 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
Taibbi's on twitter so you've got an existential conundrum there.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 10 July 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
lol these wankers
new chapo episode was so awful i couldn't make it even halfway. matt taibbi and amber talking about how "actually not all cops are racist murderers" and "did you know communities of color want MORE cops???" made me want to self-defenstrate and i'm currently in the basement— ㋐esthetic🏳️🌈boysposter (extra ACAB edition) (@anarchotokonoko) July 10, 2020
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Friday, 10 July 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
"Bernie Sanders is the only acceptable left wing candidate because the others are just fronts for the bourgeois PMC" i mutter to myself as I wander into my Bushwick loft podcast studio “shit fuck shit” i scream as i realise my track pants are covered in cum stains— Hayley🤝hayley (@hayleyglyphs) February 14, 2020
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Friday, 10 July 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
xp. the first thing is just a fact, tho not germane particularly. I'm going to guess "did you know communities of color want MORE cops???" is them saying that "defund police" isn't a policy that has majority support in any community, which it doesn't
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Friday, 10 July 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
not going to listen to the ep to find out but of course neither are you.
wow my mind is blown. next you’ll be telling me most people aren’t communists
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Friday, 10 July 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
and of course I’m not going to listen to it
and your next post is by someone who likes chapo and has been on the pod
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Friday, 10 July 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
yeah but she doesn’t think much of this episode. seen a lot of “long term fans” expressing disappointment in fact, idk what they expected
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Friday, 10 July 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
the amount of complaining these ppl do about liberalism has to be some kind of self loathing projection
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Friday, 10 July 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
It is not a good episode
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 July 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
I'm sure it isn't but Left is bringing some especially weak attack lines today
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
The actual attitudes of POC toward the existence of police seems pretty important to me tbh.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
my attack line hasn’t changed, fuck this racist misogynist alt-liberal media clique
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
Too obvious to be a new board description, but still worth preserving
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
xxp POC is not a community, do you mean Black? I believe there are a variety of opinions funnily enough. but there are specific demands being made, appealing to some putative average view to dismiss them is just shitty. you know this approach would be condemned as liberal idpol if it wasn’t convenient for the argument they currently want to make. are they preparing to justify endorsing biden or something
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
appealing to some putative average view to dismiss them is just shitty
they are neither, by any stretch of the imagination, anti BLM or pro cop. acknowledging the difficulty of the task at hand at the current time, and talking strategy isn't the same as "being dismissive" even if you don't agree with the prescription
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
left and esby are the ying and yang of ilx
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
all social democrats are pro-cop
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
esby is not as bad as yang, come on xp
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
lol simon
― imago, Friday, 10 July 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
quite a few of them are active on the police abolition thread iirc
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
POC is not a community, do you mean Black?
I believe there are a variety of opinions funnily enough.
appealing to some putative average view to dismiss them is just shitty.
Who is doing this? Recognizing the “variety of opinions,” most of which do not amount to “abolish police,” is useful a) in not being shithead white saviors and b) figuring out how to bring more people around to something resembling police abolition.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
centrist bs
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
milo's gonna love that
― imago, Friday, 10 July 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
Left have you looked at any of BLM's local demands? do you consider them a "pro-cop" centrist sellout movement?
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
for example
https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/06/09/872859084/here-s-what-black-lives-matter-d-c-is-calling-for-and-where-the-city-stands
idk a lot of ppl do consider various “official” organs of the movement to be that, those demands seem pretty modest, I agree w the unspecified “some activists”
there are always tensions w any movement esp when elements want to work w media & state to translate things into legible terms for bargaining, which means reformism is often overrepresented. I don’t blame them for this mostly, I blame media people who are clearly drawn to particular positions due to their own class & racial interests, which in this case have been repeatedly demonstrated
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Friday, 10 July 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
damn how can all those activists tolerate being associated with fascists, you'd better go set them straight
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 10 July 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
maybe, just maybe, if it walks like a liberal org and it talks like a liberal org it's mostly an org made up of some flavor of liberals
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 10 July 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
Tried to listen, made it to Taibbi’s intro and bailed to listen to an interview with Squarepusher instead.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 10 July 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
solid choice
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 10 July 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
xxp not wrong
Black radicals all over the country put so much work into dismantling BLM because they/are were nonprofit grifters that took money, attention, and got niggas killed in the process.Now a new crop of random mfers claiming to be BLM are popping up and we ain't having it— Salish Sea Black Autonomists (@black_autonomy) June 3, 2020
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Friday, 10 July 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
I thought the episode was fine. I don't remember anyone sounding dismissive about police brutality.
― JRN, Friday, 10 July 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
not a terribly engaging listen (Taibbi kinda boring) but I’m ultimately glad I did. couple of points that I disagreed with but do have merit and I’ll probably chew on,,, and a couple of (minor?) points that I disagreed with and are utter horseshit.im woefully ignorant of the 1619 thing so probably should dig into that before making any grand judgments
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 10 July 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
it's so weird that they keep harping on 1619 Project. Like "the academic historian empathizers have logged on"
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 July 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
as a history bro I definitely balked at some of the glaring inaccuracies of the 1619 project but of course it's just catnip anti lib id politics from the gray lady/bête noire for chapo to harp on it
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Friday, 10 July 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
bête misogynoire
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 July 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
lol
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 10 July 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
acknowledging the difficulty of the task at hand at the current time, and talking strategy isn't the same as "being dismissive" even if you don't agree with the prescription
(ghost of Elizabeth Warren laughing)
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 11 July 2020 09:48 (three years ago) link
lmao “oh shit, now even the filthy libs are saying ACAB, and since I don’t actually have any principles other than opposing whatever the mainstream left is for, I guess that means I love cops now”
― Dan I., Saturday, 11 July 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
There’s nothing here but a reactionary impulse, and there never was.
― Dan I., Saturday, 11 July 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Jaw dropping moment of Amber calling out Mariame Kaba for not really caring about prison abolition. Rough ep.— ACAB for cutie (@Party_Richter) July 10, 2020
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
Also Amber saying a rape victim doesn’t know much about rapists
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
this seems like a fair judgment (tho some hosts are uh worse than others)
Most tankies already disagree with them (me included lol). I don't see how any of what they said has to do with any coherent ideology. I think they're plainly just in a NYC DSA intellegenista/celeb bubble and are out of touch on some issues.— Tony Hawk's COINTELPRO Skater (@randymiscavige) July 10, 2020
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link