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[-] Hewaoijsdb@hexbear.net 48 points 2 days ago
[-] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

This is true. Especially the fanbase. They literally enshrine every dumb thing she spouts.

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 126 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

New site tagline?

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[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 48 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

It is nonsensical. Not to mention delusional. She is chastising people who won't vote for biden and will blame tankies for a loss. Which is bizarre cause not even Democrats are sure to let him run. If they lose it is their making. But nah its the people refusing to vote.

Not to mention these people don't care for climate change or anything. They just wanna handwave it away. At best they will say "Third world does too much pollution, not our problem, sucks to suck"

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[-] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 107 points 3 days ago

major climate bill

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

[-] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 56 points 3 days ago

Well you see, Yellow Man Bad

smuglord

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[-] sir_this_is_a_wendys@hexbear.net 89 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 83 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Runcible@hexbear.net 68 points 3 days ago

look if you haven't personally accomplished as much as the office of the President in the last 4 years your ideas are clearly without merit, sorry

[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 79 points 3 days ago

I would argue we have a better record by doing zero genocides

[-] NapoleonBlownApart@hexbear.net 51 points 3 days ago

What about the 500000 gozillian dead from communism, tankies?

smuglord

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[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 100 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Krem@hexbear.net 69 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

hey it's not an easy job to set up purple rim lighting and drink a glass of wine while saying "hello my pets" and then delivering a bland take over the course of 45 minutes

idk maybe she changed her game since i last watched a video five years ago

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 55 points 3 days ago

It's actually gotten worse. Her old videos actually had some substance, now it's just drinking wine in, honestly impressive, costumes.

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[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 60 points 3 days ago

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

Uhm sweaty what has anti-electoralism achieved

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[-] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 87 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] bigbologna@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago

Phrasing the last tweet as to be on a first name basis with Hillary Clinton is a perfect garnish

[-] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

I mean she literally did a documentary with hillary and chelsea. Hilldawg came to Natalie's house to talk.

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 72 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 60 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 54 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

All those will be gone if biden loses ackshually, vote blue and push left.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Only if there's a set of stairs to his left

[-] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago
[-] Egon@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Looking at him a small curb might do the trick tbh

[-] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah. Just a little push.

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[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 48 points 3 days ago

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

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 66 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

anti electoralist left

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

[-] Spike@hexbear.net 50 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

We do need to make excuses for the lack of terror, correct.

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 63 points 3 days ago

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

Yes. stalin-gun-1 stalin-gun-2

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[-] milk_thief@hexbear.net 39 points 3 days ago

Ruling ideology is blaming the minorities for their misery. Girl, you were already a fascism cheerleader, you are just getting scratched

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 72 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

(paraphrasing) the far left will say to firebomb a Walmart but not actually do it

We burnt down a motherfucking police station cool-zone

A major climate bill

If it does nothing to change the trajectory of climate change than how is it major?

(Paraphasing) What have the anti-electoralist left done in comparison to the democrats?

Why the fuck are you comparing the least powerful people in the country to some of the most powerful? Are you even a leftist, Contra?

Not to mention the absolute stupidity of saying the anti-electoralist left is ineffective, when I'm pretty sure both Marx and Lenin both pointed out the pointlessness of bourgeoisie elections (maybe theory nerds can correct me if I'm wrong?)

I haven't watched Contrapoints for a loooong time, but she was always my least favourite Breadtuber. She had this sort of "Trans people should try to pass if we want to be accepted" video if I recall correctly and that's when I noped the fuck away from her videos.

Skull boy is okay, the rest of breadtube can suck my enby ass. Half of them give me fed vibes anyway.

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