Thanks for the name drop. I will look into him. I've visited permaculture sites around the world. The most beautiful was occupied by a South East Asian hill tribe. A French radical on the run from the law was living with them, and was able to explain to me...
Am I a scold? Must have a few Plymouth Brethren in the bloodline.
But gardening will never be taught in schools, in general. Encouraging community gardening to the extent I suggest would actually damage the economy, by the measure of some economists. Our school system is designed to produce productive individuals; ...
You want a solution to climate change? Plant all the berms with Swiss chard. I'm a Bernie bro, I know, but I don't buy this carbon credit bollocks for a minute. We can't offset our responsibility. We can't replant species driven to extinction. But we can ...
It takes me around three months to develop a vegetable garden on a quarter-acre section to supply enough food to supply 50 percent of what I need to live. Once everything is pumping I can produce most of what I need, even mustard. This is in a cheap rental...
Political violence is already being committed by people associated with, and inspired by, Destiny Church. If this escalates in some way, in respect of abortion or some other issue, Tamaki needs to be held responsible. He's the leader of a terrorist ...
love it.
Sanders is a nightmare for the military-industrial complex and the "intelligence community"; very difficult to control him with no footage of him raping kids.
He's certainly facing a lot of powerful opposition, including Elizabeth Warren and her backers...
Elizabeth Warren proposes making it a crime to spread disinformation online. Who will get to decide what is true and what is false? The government. CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/29/warren-proposes-criminal-penalties-for-spreading-disinformation-online...
Wowzers, maybe Bernie can do it? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sanders-campaign-predicting-iowa-caucuses-victory
Who do you defend, Sacha, when you defend "the left"? I shouldn't expect an honest or sincere answer, I think. You are very likely a careerist bureaucrat or party player who would be quite happy to take that fully-funded intern position in the US at MoveOn...
Of course, the system is rigged to keep genuine anti-statist, anti-war leftists in the hole and such a movement would never be allowed to arise unless in a very controlled, somehow useful, fashion. Sadly, I see many on the statist left, and on this blog, ...
it is going to be fascinating / horrifying to watch two national elections running side by side - in NZ and the United States - with the aforementioned forces or actors running the same framing exercises on behalf of Labour in NZ (apparently) and Elizabeth...
well, over the past year evidenced claims have arisen showing that some American billionaires have been bankrolling political efforts, such as Super PACs, around misinformation and framing, and that these framing exercises are highly politicized. The ...
A good argument can be made (has been made) by scientists, epigeneticists, that 1000 years of comparative outbreeding in Western Europe (the Christian taboo on cousin marriage) ultimately selected for universialism, but such arguments can veer into ...
Bravo, Dennis!
I’ve taken things too far, haven’t I? There could be all sorts of reasons for that do: health reasons, even environmental ones. My apologies. She could be safe-harboring an entire species of rare parakeet in there. [Disappointingly, but somewhat ...
She’s a very influential person. She shouldn’t be immune from criticism. She’s been quite influential on Labour and this is a political blog, often concerned with the future of the Labour Party. There’s some dissent about that, and there’s been some ...
democracy needs the CIA like JFK needed a bullet in the head.
Quite hard to be an active racist when all your colleagues on the shop floor are from different cultural backgrounds. Still, some manage, from what I recall from my forklift driving days. more generally, people had less time for dissembling, and we’re ...
cooperative exchanges are one aspect of the story but not the whole story.
If the analysis doesn’t take into account material circumstances it is not socialist. But I take your point about this guy. But with intersectionality we end up with absurd situations where wealthy sometimes famous people demand freedom from criticism on ...
Okay. So a small business owner is oppressing the Prime Minister... And I accept that Duff and Ardern are women wholeheartedly.
Intersectionality is for people who find it difficult to sympathize with classes of people without reference to themselves, somehow, as either members of the same class (women, a racial group) or a class that they have decided shares the same ...
My point is that, in practice, we have bourgeois lefties like Michelle Duff claiming to be part of a class, which includes the Prime Minister, that is being oppressed by the symbolic protest of a bricklayer. Conversations about power on the left rarely ...
Anat Shenker-Osorio's advice is best not taken too seriously, in my opinion, but she could prove useful if you need to clean a big chimney.
Petty bourgeois don't work in factories and never encounter picketlines (but might retweet one). I don't know much about Col Wilson. I know he is said to be oppressing the Prime Minister and that he is a bricklayer. I suspect the debate around him is ...
cool with the NED and the CIA?
Lol. It is the woke who are petty bourgeois
There's an invisible elephant here. The woke left are primarily in the business of demanding respect. Who has demanded respect, historically? A proper socialist is concerned with showing respect in the way they address others, rather than how they are ...
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