We need to focus on prefigurative politics, I.e, build the world we want to see with direct action, unionizing, and mutual aid, since voting and governments are never going to do it for us.

However, who is in charge of your country will make those prefigurative politics more or less hard, or even impossible (can’t imagine much of the above going on in Nazi Germany…)

I think it goes without saying that it will be less hard under Harris.

Heat pumps installations are a racket out in the US right now, it’s artificial expense to pad out pockets, there is no practical reason it need be that expensive.

As someone who is vehemently against conspiracy theories and the people who propagate them, everything mentioned in this video, like how the CIA orchestrated a coup against Chile in the 70’s, overthrowing the government of the Banana Republics at the behest of Dole, MK Ultra… They all verifiably happened. MK Ultra’s illegal activities, as an example, are known only because many real, government documents were unclassified.

The word ‘deep state’ is a loaded term, one that is generally used by the right (as shown in the video with the Trump quotes) and the unhinged (Alex Jones), and I think Harris would’ve been much better served avoiding the term, but what he’s depicting in this video is all factual, none of it is stretching deeply into the realm of wild speculation.

I requested taking ownership of [email protected] a few months ago. Posting a request in this support forum is hit or miss, but sending an email to [email protected] (to create a support ticket, as it says in the sidebar) about it got a response from an admin quite quickly, so I’d recommend that route.

Ahh, I forgot that Chomsky took that stance. I generally liked his opinions on things, but as he’s gotten older, his views have gone a bit odd.

Looking into it a bit further, I was surprised to see the DSA officially doesn’t support sending arms to Ukraine (though the DSA members in congress do support it). I get that they’re anti-war, and don’t want to support the military industrial complex any further, but at least in this specific case, it seems shortsighted of them.

I stand corrected.

From what I’ve seen, at least in the US, it’s mostly conservatives that bring up those arguments to cease support, seemingly stemming from the whole “Zelensky didn’t get dirt on Biden for Trump, so he’s evil and corrupt!” thing. I don’t know if it’s different elsewhere.