Yeah it helps when it’s a bunch of people who have been protesting this whole time, rather than only showing up after the election lol

I’m glad to see PSL, the Green Party, and Cornel West are all collaborating. I don’t think I’ve seen major third-party campaigns explicitly support each other like this in the past. Obviously it won’t change the outcome of the election at all, but for people like me, where I had to vote for Stein since Claudia and Karina (as well as Cornel West) got removed from the ballot in Georgia, it’s helpful to see there’s at least a similarly-aligned option

Tbh I feel like that’s a pretty likely outcome at the moment lol

I don’t remember the source, but I always think back to that Stalin quote where he said he felt like a cult of personality was being built around him, with the aim that it would be used against him eventually. It seems like his suspicions were true, since that is exactly what happened after his death.

Reading about things like him being referenced in the national anthem, or the naming of Stalingrad, as a couple examples, there’s always a note that he objected to it before it was approved over his objection. Of course that’s usually portrayed as him putting on a show after ordering the things himself, but it seems to line up with the idea that it wasn’t being pushed by him, since he’s noted as disapproving of those kinds of things every time I’ve read about them.

It’s been probably a couple of years now, I stopped in the middle of an episode after Robert or the guest or someone (I don’t really remember at this point lol) went on an apropos of nothing rant against China, and I haven’t listened since. It had been getting on my nerves for a while, but that was the last straw for me. Something about an “anarchist” who makes their living entirely off of corporate sponsorships, enough that they stopped being a journalist and moved into a “compound” (his word, iirc), never sat right with me anyway.

Yeah I’ve been involved with them in varying degrees for the last several years, and I’ve never seen anything questionable from the leadership or regular members. Save for the occasional troll that gets into the Slack just to start drama, and is promptly kicked out

As far as I know, which to be fair isn’t much, it’s more of a landback kind of thing. Same deal as tribes in the US purchasing land in recent times, just involving the government directly rather than buying it from individual owners.

I guess with enlistment numbers down for the military in general, they’re doing everything they can to encourage new recruits. Even if they sit back and don’t talk to anyone the whole time, they’re still “normalizing” the military and planting a seed in the children’s minds for when they’re older.

:same-picture: