waterfield wrote:

This following article was on the front page of the L.A. Times this morning under the title “Portland anarchists spark backlash”

“Portland’s anarchists say they support racial justice. Black activists want nothing to do with them….

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I have many layers of thoughts/feelings about ‘anarchist’ direct-action campaigns like this. Too many to list.

…On the one hand, i think most-if-not-all of the young-anarchists have a higher Political-IQ than 90 percent of the American population. I think they understand what capitalism is doing to the nation, and to the biosphere.
So, they are smart, informed, passionate, critical-thinkers, for the most part.
(at least the ones who are legit anarchist, and not proud-boy-types doing false-flag games)

But, being young, and passionate the anarchists are utterly stupid when it comes to strategy, tactics, etc. Many are impatient, and reckless and selfish. And they are young, so there is no getting thru to them.

And to just shoot from the hip…I have noticed in my life, that Anarchists tend to be giant pains-in-the-Ass. To everyone. Including other Anarchists.

Switching to another layer….when i put it in a wider context, Corporate-capitalism is causing mass extinctions, fracking poisoning of children, pollution, Climate Change, Mass Incarceration, Ungodly-Inequality which leads to massive suffering and death, Imperialism, Massive Lie-Campaigns, Coups, Torture, etc etc etc.

So you have THAT on one hand. Meanwhile the LA Times focuses on a small group of anarchists breaking windows.

That is corporate media. Perfect example of corporate media. What they cover. How they cover it. And what they dont cover.

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In case u are wondering what Fox is saying these days:

Interesting article from 2016, on Cornell West, the DNC, Sanders, etc.

West:https://jacobinmag.com/2016/11/everybody-hates-cornel-west

Everybody Hates Cornel West

“…When Clinton’s black surrogates shamelessly accused Sanders of racial aloofness, West fought back using the same rhetoric of a “black public intellectual” that had helped build his career. But now, he was attempting to forge that same language into a weapon of social-democratic demystification, wielding it against the Clintonite fog of cultural studies jargon, meritocratic appeals, and subtle free-market apologetics.

It was always doomed. To no one’s surprise, West’s exhaustive intervention failed. No matter how much he vied with his former comrades for the “black public consciousness,” Clinton swept the South by even larger margins than anyone had expected. The same brokerage politics of racial authenticity that had, decades ago, delivered black votes to the Clinton machine weren’t about to win them away for a seventy-four-year-old senator few had heard of. The Wests of the world can deliver only righteousness and fiery passions. Congressmen Jim Clyburn and John Lewis can deliver jobs, networks, and targeted legislation.

As much as West tries to summon what he calls “the black prophetic tradition” in order to make it work for the democratic-socialist agenda he sincerely believes in, the battle over that discourse has long since been lost. The Democratic Party has only grown more skilled at “interpreting the drums,” even as it continues to abandon or rewrite historical commitments to trade unions and social insurance programs — commitments that disproportionately benefited black Americans.

We live in an era in which Clinton — who proudly supported mass incarceration and the obliteration of welfare — declares that a social-democratic program of financial reform and single-payer health insurance “won’t end racism.” A recent WikiLeaks publication of internal Clinton campaign emails reveals another line they were testing out against Sanders: “Wall Street is not gunning down young African Americans or denying immigrants a path to citizenship.”

It’s a sentiment that would’ve bewildered civil rights veterans like A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr, John P. Davis, Bayard Rustin, and Lester Granger, all of whom were committed to social-democratic politics as a crucial means of putting racism on a path towards ultimate extinction. The tragedy of West isn’t that he’s “full of bitterness,” as his liberal detractors claim. It’s that the politics of West’s “black prophetic tradition,” try as he might to wield them for socialist ends, will today find their strongest, clearest articulation in the same old quest of “interpreting the drums” for a mostly white ruling class….”

This comic is also great. pic.twitter.com/OYDW7WK7gN

— Christina 🌹 (@kinaleigh103) November 16, 2020

I suppose to corporate-papers ‘heal’ means for leftists to shut-up.
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This is what you call mind control. pic.twitter.com/ngQZTnXo3Z

— WW News 🚨 (@WW_NEWS_) November 15, 2020

As per usual, i have no idea how accurate this website or article is:
Sweden:https://debunkingdenialism.com/2020/07/29/sweden-did-not-take-herd-immunity-approach-against-coronavirus-pandemic/
Sweden Did Not Take Herd Immunity Approach Against Coronavirus Pandemic
July 29
There is currently a tsunami of misinformation out there about how Sweden handled the coronavirus pandemic. Sweden did not opt to use a brief hard lockdown like many other countries, but instead put into place a robust set of long-term restrictions that combined both legal bans and voluntary guidelines. This was because leaving a hard lockdown would probably cause a major increase in number of cases as societies opened up again.

The benefits of the Swedish strategy now appears to be confirmed because both the United States and many countries in Europe are now seeing hundreds of post-lockdown outbreaks. The current number of reported cases per day in the United States has passed the previous peak that the brief and hard lockdown was suppose to hammer down and rests on somewhere between 60 000 and 70 000 (which are just the tip of the ice berg as many cases go undiscovered).

In contrast, the number of new reported cases, the number of new ICU cases and the number of deaths are small and continuing going down in July of 2020 in Sweden. During the past 14 days, the average number of new ICU cases for COVID-19 in Sweden was one individual per day according to the Swedish Intensive Care Registry (the featured image above is from this source). More detailed data is presented below. Both deaths and new ICU cases peaked in April….

At #MillionMAGAMarch and first person on bullhorn is a nazi. Talking about opposing homosexual and Jews pic.twitter.com/xg64YBKxpV

— John #PortlandProtest (@Johnnthelefty) November 14, 2020

Hilarious headline. Politics in the duopoly. https://t.co/78BkhYyHYv

— 🌲🦊🐺Walt Wolfgang🐺🦊🌲 (@WolfgangWalt) November 14, 2020

From the article in Jewish Currents in the above-tweet:

“….https://jewishcurrents.org/democrats-cant-win-without-the-left/
“…As the Democrats struggle to chart a new path forward, Republicans, too, are debating the party’s post-2020 agenda. As Nicholas Lemann wrote early this month in The New Yorker, the Trump years marked a break with what had long been the Republicans’ “fusionist” paradigm, its unwieldy coalition of Christian evangelicals, hardline nativists, and wealthy free-market fundamentalists. Though Trump largely let conventional corporate Republican administrators shape his administration’s policies, his populist, anti-globalization messaging has, for some, pointed the way toward a new direction for the party. Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who regularly decries the excesses of capitalism, is considered a formidable potential successor to Trump. Even Senator Marco Rubio, once a Tea Party favorite, is now talking about how markets have failed to serve people equitably. This should be a warning to the Democrats: If they retreat to bloodless, centrist messaging and allow Republicans to take up the mantle of economic fairness, they could suffer even further losses among working-class and middle-class voters across racial demographics….”

This is the man under the hood…
Warning: Some viewers may find this content distressing pic.twitter.com/7RBE654DXP

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) March 28, 2018

I analyzed Biden's Pentagon transition team and found that one third of its members work for think tanks, organizations, or companies that either directly receive money from the weapons industry—or are part of the arms industry themselves. https://t.co/ygRSNKR06y

— Sarah Lazare (@sarahlazare) November 11, 2020

US Politics Isn’t ‘Polarized’; It’s In Almost Universal Agreement

"They do not allow for any mainstream discussion of *IF* the oligarchic empire should continue to exist; all their issues, arguments and histrionics revolve around *HOW* it should exist."https://t.co/20vG2EnoMo

— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) October 7, 2020