And no, posting a picture of me next to Hillary does not count as an argument

New site tagline?

major climate bill

Didn’t these ghouls put massive tariffs on Chinese EV’s and solar panels? How the fuck is that helping?

A lot of words from someone who makes thousands of dollars making 1 video essay a year and hanging out with war criminals.

Why haven't the people without any power done anything as significant as the people with all the power?

How the fuck is the "anti-electoralist left" supposed to accomplish anything when they neither posses state power and is constantly crushed by the state power that it does not posses? The mfing Democrats put all their power into blocking and shooting leftists, then wonder why the left isn't getting anything done.

The Brianna Wu arc for contra is something. And no, posting a picture of me next to an astronaut holding a gun does not count as an argument

anti electoralist left

I'm not anti elections, I'm anti bourgeois "democracy." It's a farce.

I don't trust white trans liberals any more than I trust white cis liberals...

can you reassure me that there's a plausible direct action/non-electoralist means of stopping him?

Yes.

Its hilldawg's turn

Two centuries of electoralism and we are barreling towards neverending wars, genocide and climate catastrophe

Uhm sweaty what has anti-electoralism achieved

I planted some trees in my yard which will probably have a greater positive impact on the environment than the totality of Democrat climate bills.

can you assure me there's a plausible direct action way of stopping him?

The weekend, sick leave, maternity leave, OSHA, no child labour, civil rights, holidays, etc. all came by as a result of strikes and other direct action

There's a concept in the philosophy of climate change called "intervention responsibility." Basically, it just involves the recognition that "x is responsible for y" is only intelligible if x has the power to intervene in a way that prevents or changes y. The upshot of this is that different kinds of agents have different responsibilities with respect to big, complicated problems in light of the power (institutional and otherwise) that they have: I have a certain set of things that I can intervene on as a relatively wealthy white guy in the Imperial Core, giving me a different set of responsibilities than a subsistence farmer in the global South. Neither of us has anything close to the kind of intervention responsibility that, say, the US President or the Chevron Corporation has though, because those sorts of agents have access to causal levers that neither I nor the subsistence farmer could possibly get near, let alone pull.

Asking "what has the disempowered, disenfranchised left done that's more effective than the wealthiest empire in the history of the world" is a category error on par with asking what the color blue has done to make itself larger than the color orange. It's nonsensical, because you're comparing totally different kinds of things with access to totally different sorts of influence, and thus totally different responsibilities.

How long until Contrapoints is on a podcast with JK Rowling?

You're a rich white trans woman living in a solid blue state, shut up!

Anything on the level of influence as a major climate bill?

Well, I can't say I've ever signed a bill that makes oil and gas drilling on public lands a legal requirement for investing in renewable energy, and I also haven't approved more drilling permits on federal land than Trump, but I can say , unfortunately I'm just one person and it's not like I have a platform with 600,000 followers to share my thoughts on it or anything.

Elections can stop fascists. Problem is you have to put people who really oppose fascism into power instead of people whose ideology is to collaborate with fascism and refuse to use any power given to them against fascism. How many times are you gonna be slapped by democrat party actions before you realise they are perfectly fine with fascism in power

It's really easy to caricature the anti-direct action liberals as real life misanthropes whose politics is "democracy will be destroyed" and then not safeguarding that democracy. It would help to dispel that myth if they were more vocal about what specifically their methods have achieved.

It's like that time Ceaser was crying because Alexander the Great did so much when he was the same age. He refuses to acknowledge that Alexander inherited an army.

Yeah, if I had the reach and money of the democrats, I'd probably do a whole lot more just by virtue of not spending it on golf courses, mansions, and corrupt military expenditures. And you know what else? Labor would probably have a lot more money, good will, and reach if the US didn't go fucking ape shit, kill a bunch of people, and threaten to blow up the world as we knew it from the second WW2 ended until the dissolution of the USSR. All the while bombing the fuck out of miners, infiltrating any leftist groups that existed, and assassinating leaders of black movements. Domestic and international labor has to build its base out of rubble so fine you'd mistake it for sand. Democrats inherited the richest nation ever known and a worldwide military industrial complex and can't feed children lunch.

Me not voting for a genocider is much more of an accomplishment than a policy that pushed the timing of doomsday back 2 hours.

Remember If you don't tell her about the illegal and cool things you do they don't count. You have to dox yourself and list all the Walmarts you've firebombed or contra won't take you seriously