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Post by Ratty on Nov 5, 2018 8:36:29 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 5, 2018 11:11:54 GMT
Must work on the finish....
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Post by Ratty on Nov 5, 2018 13:18:01 GMT
Must work on the finish.... That looked like a finish to me.
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Post by blustnmtn on Nov 5, 2018 13:40:21 GMT
Must work on the finish.... Life is hard...it's harder if you're stupid.
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Post by blustnmtn on Nov 5, 2018 13:57:07 GMT
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Post by blustnmtn on Nov 5, 2018 14:56:28 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 5, 2018 18:47:54 GMT
I don't think Mark is going to be wearing your teeshirt there Blu. You suppose that any of those "people" in the photo know how to grow a garden? wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/05/claim-antifas-extremism-is-justified-by-the-climate-change-emergency/How Capitalism Stokes the Far Right and Climate Catastrophe
BY Mark Bray, Truthout PUBLISHED October 30, 2018
We are living in ominous times. Every week something new: white supremacist murders in Kentucky and Pittsburgh; the continued rise of the far right in Europe; Trump’s attack on transgender rights; the election of aspiring tyrant Jair Bolsonaro to the Brazilian presidency; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that climate catastrophe is likely only about 20 years away. What’s next?
At a time when we should be uniting globally to reorganize our way of life to stave off climate disaster, many parts of the world are instead veering to the right, rejecting internationalism and demonizing marginalized communities. How did we get here? How can we escape annihilation?
More fundamentally, fascist and far right forces promote notions of ultra-nationalism and xenophobia that block the essential task of putting the interests of the planet and all of its inhabitants over those of any single group. Nationalism has fueled not only opposition to the European Union but also a rejection of the Paris Agreement and widespread climate denial among European far right parties like UKIP, Front National and the Sweden Democrats. The threat of the climate catastrophe is far more imminent and egregious in the global south, and white supremacy clearly discourages caring about most of the world. There are “ecofascists” who coopt the concept of bio-regionalism to advance their genocidal politics, but their views do not have significant sway in actual far-right policy and their “environmental” solution is not worthy of reasoned engagement. Centrist discourse has abstracted white supremacy and anti-Semitism into “hate,” depoliticized fascism and antifascism by caricaturizing them as mirror images of “extremism,” and ignored what should be one of the most important news stories: the fairly imminent destruction of the planet.
Debates about reformism vs. revolutionism have waged for generations on the left. But now we are on a deadline. Lesser-evilism among capitalist politicians may have some rationale when spending five minutes casting a ballot on Election Day, but we don’t have time for it to be a guiding strategical outlook. We need to organize movements to build popular power and shut down the industries that threaten our existence.
Fascism is ascendant. The world is on fire. This is no time to be patient. If we don’t abolish capitalism, capitalism will abolish us.
He saved the best for last.
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Post by sigurdur on Nov 5, 2018 18:50:22 GMT
What I continue to find amazing is the level of delusion that exists today.
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 5, 2018 19:00:29 GMT
What I continue to find amazing is the level of delusion that exists today. Perhaps Ratty could distribute more tin hats and a few sedatives.
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Post by blustnmtn on Nov 5, 2018 20:48:57 GMT
I don't think Mark is going to be wearing your teeshirt there Blu. You suppose that any of those "people" in the photo know how to grow a garden? wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/05/claim-antifas-extremism-is-justified-by-the-climate-change-emergency/How Capitalism Stokes the Far Right and Climate Catastrophe
BY Mark Bray, Truthout PUBLISHED October 30, 2018
We are living in ominous times. Every week something new: white supremacist murders in Kentucky and Pittsburgh; the continued rise of the far right in Europe; Trump’s attack on transgender rights; the election of aspiring tyrant Jair Bolsonaro to the Brazilian presidency; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that climate catastrophe is likely only about 20 years away. What’s next?
At a time when we should be uniting globally to reorganize our way of life to stave off climate disaster, many parts of the world are instead veering to the right, rejecting internationalism and demonizing marginalized communities. How did we get here? How can we escape annihilation?
More fundamentally, fascist and far right forces promote notions of ultra-nationalism and xenophobia that block the essential task of putting the interests of the planet and all of its inhabitants over those of any single group. Nationalism has fueled not only opposition to the European Union but also a rejection of the Paris Agreement and widespread climate denial among European far right parties like UKIP, Front National and the Sweden Democrats. The threat of the climate catastrophe is far more imminent and egregious in the global south, and white supremacy clearly discourages caring about most of the world. There are “ecofascists” who coopt the concept of bio-regionalism to advance their genocidal politics, but their views do not have significant sway in actual far-right policy and their “environmental” solution is not worthy of reasoned engagement. Centrist discourse has abstracted white supremacy and anti-Semitism into “hate,” depoliticized fascism and antifascism by caricaturizing them as mirror images of “extremism,” and ignored what should be one of the most important news stories: the fairly imminent destruction of the planet.
Debates about reformism vs. revolutionism have waged for generations on the left. But now we are on a deadline. Lesser-evilism among capitalist politicians may have some rationale when spending five minutes casting a ballot on Election Day, but we don’t have time for it to be a guiding strategical outlook. We need to organize movements to build popular power and shut down the industries that threaten our existence.
Fascism is ascendant. The world is on fire. This is no time to be patient. If we don’t abolish capitalism, capitalism will abolish us.
He saved the best for last. There's an excellent example of a person that needs to be on a watch list. His reality construct is dangerous.
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 5, 2018 22:52:17 GMT
There's an excellent example of a person that needs to be on a watch list. His reality construct is dangerous. And did you notice that he is a Lecturer at Dartmouth University? I'm sure his students are getting a balanced view. His shingle reads as follows: Mark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe. He completed his PhD in Modern European and Women's and Gender History at Rutgers University in 2016, and is currently finishing his manuscript "The Anarchist Inquisition: Terrorism and the Ethics of Modernity in Spain, 1893-1909." "The Anarchist Inquisition" explores the emergence of groundbreaking human rights campaigns across Europe and the Americans in response to the Spanish state's brutal repression of dissent in the wake of anarchist bombings and assassinations. At GRID, he will begin work on his next project which explores the cultures of violence and street resistance that emerge in the social movements of postwar Western Europe and their impact on conceptions of leftist masculinity in the context of the emergence of competing conceptions of feminism. Bray is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House, 2017) and Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street (Zero Books, 2013) as well as the co-editor of the forthcoming Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School (PM Press, 2018).Perhaps he should do street lectures in front of the palace in Madrid. That would be exciting.
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Post by Ratty on Nov 5, 2018 22:55:44 GMT
Better start treating me nice then?
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Post by blustnmtn on Nov 5, 2018 23:52:45 GMT
There's an excellent example of a person that needs to be on a watch list. His reality construct is dangerous. And did you notice that he is a Lecturer at Dartmouth University? I'm sure his students are getting a balanced view. His shingle reads as follows: Mark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe. He completed his PhD in Modern European and Women's and Gender History at Rutgers University in 2016, and is currently finishing his manuscript "The Anarchist Inquisition: Terrorism and the Ethics of Modernity in Spain, 1893-1909." "The Anarchist Inquisition" explores the emergence of groundbreaking human rights campaigns across Europe and the Americans in response to the Spanish state's brutal repression of dissent in the wake of anarchist bombings and assassinations. At GRID, he will begin work on his next project which explores the cultures of violence and street resistance that emerge in the social movements of postwar Western Europe and their impact on conceptions of leftist masculinity in the context of the emergence of competing conceptions of feminism. Bray is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House, 2017) and Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street (Zero Books, 2013) as well as the co-editor of the forthcoming Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School (PM Press, 2018).Perhaps he should do street lectures in front of the palace in Madrid. That would be exciting. He’s welcome to come and lecture me. I have property and a backhoe.
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 6, 2018 0:13:06 GMT
And did you notice that he is a Lecturer at Dartmouth University? I'm sure his students are getting a balanced view. His shingle reads as follows: Mark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe. He completed his PhD in Modern European and Women's and Gender History at Rutgers University in 2016, and is currently finishing his manuscript "The Anarchist Inquisition: Terrorism and the Ethics of Modernity in Spain, 1893-1909." "The Anarchist Inquisition" explores the emergence of groundbreaking human rights campaigns across Europe and the Americans in response to the Spanish state's brutal repression of dissent in the wake of anarchist bombings and assassinations. At GRID, he will begin work on his next project which explores the cultures of violence and street resistance that emerge in the social movements of postwar Western Europe and their impact on conceptions of leftist masculinity in the context of the emergence of competing conceptions of feminism. Bray is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House, 2017) and Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street (Zero Books, 2013) as well as the co-editor of the forthcoming Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School (PM Press, 2018).Perhaps he should do street lectures in front of the palace in Madrid. That would be exciting. He’s welcome to come and lecture me. I have property and a backhoe. Sorry Blu, but Progressives don't make good fertilizer.
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Post by Ratty on Nov 6, 2018 0:15:30 GMT
What I continue to find amazing is the level of delusion that exists today. Perhaps Ratty could distribute more tin hats and a few sedatives. Out of stock, sorry.
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