The Left Needs a New Strategy

2021-01-09 Thread Brian Holmes
The end of the neoliberal period has coincided with a symbolic reversal in politics: the torch of the partisan has passed from the insurgent Left of 1968 to the Qanon nationalists of today. This is a gigantic historical shift. I'm thinking of the arch-conservative Carl Schmidt, who in 1962

Re: made for TV, made for social media

2021-01-09 Thread Brian Holmes
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 1:20 PM Kurtz, Steven wrote: > While we saw a lot of Trumpists having the best day of their life bathing > in the pleasure of transgression, there were others hiding in that mob who > knew what they were doing They understand distributed leadership and > have for

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2021-01-09 Thread McLaughlin, Lisa
That would be Aaron Mostofsky, son of Brooklyn Supreme Court judge Shlomo Mostofsky. He stole Pelosi's lectern (if you've seen that pic) while looting. His family claims that he did "nothing illegal." I surmise that he had more involvement than stealing Pelosi's lectern. He is a QAnon supporter

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2021-01-09 Thread Kurtz, Steven
6 January…Now that was an inept coup…for the most part. A president just can’t rely on an angry mob to disrupt democratic process any more, but within that mob was something more dangerous and sinister. While we saw a lot of Trumpists having the best day of their life bathing in the pleasure

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2021-01-09 Thread oliver lerone schultz
TLDR: the real question is why was 'the mob not not there' (the missing/breached security) and what was the 'enabling stack' to produce this event – as all this points to a configuration of forces that is (most-likely) 'still in play' --- hey folks, I would put a note of caution on

Re: made for TV, made for social media

2021-01-09 Thread John Young
Felix Stalder presented a well-crafted, cogent view as have others in this soliloquy. A broadening of geography as well as cosmology would consider that most of the Earth's surface is not inhabited by most densely packed, infectuous, disputatious humans. The age of European, preceded by

Re: made for TV, made for social media

2021-01-09 Thread Felix Stalder
On 08.01.21 20:46, Dan S Wang wrote: > Donald Trump is addicted to Twitter, pure and simple. He doesn't want to > govern, he wants to tweet. He hates government meetings, legislative > processes, presidential ceremonies--but loves having his rapid-fire tweet > storms. More than any aspiring

Re: made for TV, made for social media

2021-01-09 Thread mp
On 09/01/2021 04:52, v...@voyd.com wrote: >   > Yes, there were people like the guy in the fur hat who apparently is the > son of a judge, but I'm following up on that claim. This guy? https://gen.medium.com/the-q-shaman-conspirituality-goes-rioting-on-capitol-hill-24bac5fc50e6 # distributed