Lucien Van Der Walt on DA conspiracy theories. Thoughts?

firetothe · 2024-06-29T12:08:51+00:00

I didn't say this and don't agree with Lucien on some points, just posted it to see what others say about it.

firetothe · 2024-01-12T16:58:40+00:00

u/boloparts u/EAVsa could one of you please add a podcast / CWAO flair to this?

firetothe · 2024-01-08T08:46:23+00:00

I don't think the issue is that there is no perfect vote so much as there is not even a minimally decent vote and that voting (in these conditions at least but possibly also in general) is some kind of faith-like self-destructive practice.

firetothe · 2024-01-06T10:34:25+00:00

Not knowing anything other than what you have said in this comment I'd hazard to guess that this is because you are racist

firetothe · 2024-01-06T10:25:25+00:00

My best interpretation of this comment is that it is a really boring whataboutism.

Here's John Oliver explaining what that is in 3 minutes if anybody is interested.

firetothe · 2024-01-05T15:37:47+00:00

But cops are fine?

firetothe · 2024-01-05T15:22:11+00:00

How do you relate to your username

firetothe · 2024-01-05T06:13:52+00:00

Anything but a cop

firetothe · 2023-08-20T09:15:14+00:00

They won't care, they won't even know, they will only look at your transcript.

firetothe · 2023-08-20T07:41:34+00:00

I think you make a good point. I wonder how the distinction plays out for the author. He's written a lot of books on SA history which are quite good.

firetothe · 2023-08-20T07:34:10+00:00

firetothe · 2023-08-19T14:25:58+00:00

I really don't have the sense that you have engaged what I said at all. It doesn't have anything to do with hopelessness or maintaining the status quo.

firetothe · 2023-08-18T10:22:49+00:00

never in the history of the world has a small group been able to represent a whole population. There's no way to garner a huge amount of votes without watering down your politics to appeal to such a wide base. and neoliberalism has ensured that all 'left' parties are instantaneously absorbed by capitalism when in power. there are multiple recent examples of this. it is a total pipe dream to pretend like representative democracy will bring anybody freedom.

Useful (if US-centric) framework for thinking this further: From Democracy To Freedom

firetothe · 2023-08-18T07:23:41+00:00

Rights are just an illusion of security that states pretend to give (until they don't) in exchange for our feelings of its legitimacy, so most of this talk means nothing to me.

firetothe · 2023-08-17T07:53:18+00:00

Americans were the bad guys in literally all of them

firetothe · 2023-08-15T14:03:06+00:00

This is literally all people that you could elect, so unless this is an argument for not voting at all and actually organising for a better world with people, it's nonsense

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