January 9, 2024 • 49 mins
Far right activist Chris Rufo has spearheaded a targeted op to oust now-former Harvard President Claudine Gay, among other academics considered threats to the white, Christian capitalists in American power. The attack is part of a wider campaign on the right to remove liberal orthodoxy and replace it with fascism.
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of violence, and literal violence,all in the pursuit to quench their unquenchable
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another guy pod all right under theshow. All right, So the right
is having a fucking field day overthe resignation of now former Harvard President Gay.
If you didn't notice. The daughterof Haitian immigrants, she was the
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university's first black president and the onlythe second woman to take the role in
the university's nearly four hundred year history, and her tenure is now the shortest
in history, lasting only six months, to the great pleasure of right wing
shitfluencers who set all of this inmotion in the billionaires who bankrolled it.
Her resignation comes after sham allegations ofplagiarism and backlash over her testimony out of
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congressional hearing on anti Semitism on universitycampuses on December fourth. The backlash is
part of a broader campaign on theright to restrict pro Palestinian speech on college
campuses. Yes, you're hearing thatcorrectly. The same people constantly saying what
about free speech, Han, dowe not live in a free country are
actively trying to limit the speech ofPalestinian liberation activists. Despite Gay's resignation,
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she will remain at Harvard as atenured professor in government and African and African
American studies. The university's board forcedher out after caving to pressure from bad
faith racists. Those sitting on theboard, including the University of Pennsylvania's board,
whose president was also forced to resign, Can all get bent, fucking
idiots. Penn, MIT and Harvardpresidents were pulled in front of a congressional
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hearing led by Republicans where they grilledthem about supposed anti semitism on college campuses.
Their responses to Congressional Republicans bad faithframing was subpar. To put it
mildly, but let's not pretend thatanything they would have said would have satisfied
them. It wouldn't have. Ofthe three presidents, only the MIT president
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remains in her position, and she'sJewish. The goal of the sham hearing
was to smear the university presidents withaccusations of being anti Semitic by refusing to
punish students for using Palestinian liberation sloganslike from the River to the Sea and
Antifada slogans intentionally conflated with anti Semitismby Zionists, even though there's nothing anti
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Semitic about them. Republican congresswoman atleast Stephonic. Stephanic, I don't fucking
know who spearheaded the sham hearing destroyedany possibility of something remotely productive by erroneously
defining the slogan from the River tothe Sea as a call for the genocide
of Jews, which is a bullshitlie. From the River to the Sea
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simply means liberating Palestinians from Israeli terroroppression and violent occupation, allowing Palestinians' freedom
of movement and equal rights and representationon the land that was stolen from them
violently in nineteen forty eight. Anyonewho watched the hearing and has half a
fucking brain should be able to easilyidentify who the bad guys are In all
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this. Stephanic also incorrectly defined theterm antifada the exact same way. The
word antifada is an Islamic concept withboth spiritual and physical connotations. It has
no connotation of violence nor any ofthe noxious attributes that Zionists assigned to it.
This bad faith framing, though,is why the presidents came off so
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awkwardly in their cold legalize responses toStefani's bullshit fucking questions. And it's why
the universities should have never agreed toeven show up to the bullshit hearing.
They knew what it was going tobe. I mean, everyone knew what
it was going to be. It'snot like anyone was fucking hoodwinked here.
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That's the thing that bothers me themost about it. They should have followed
Columbia University, which refused to sendtheir president citing a scheduling conflict. Yes,
do that the fuck. The peoplewho thought that capitulating to these rat
fucking liars was a good idea shouldbe the ones being forced to fucking resign,
but of course not. And thewhole thing about supposed anti Semitic speech
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on college campuses is based entirely onunease felt among some Jewish students who apparently
felt threatened by Palestinian liberation activists oncampus. Yes, oh my god,
anti genociders. A Times article onthis mentions that some of the Jewish students
feel uncomfortable with pro Palestinian sentiment oncampus and uncomfortable with the fact that some
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Jewish students have participated in those verysame pro Palestinian protests. Fucking snowflakes.
There's scared little Zionists that can't handlethe fact that Jewish people are standing up
against a fucking genocide where over tenPalestinian children lose one or both of their
legs every day. You heard thatright, An average of ten children in
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Gaza lose one or both of theirlegs every fucking day in the Israeli bombardment
of the Gaza strip. Yeah,I'm pretty sure that that alone has met
and then far surpassed proportionality to whatHamas did on October seventh. But you
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know who the fuck am I.Zionist Congress members like Stefanic are trying to
make college campuses a giant safe spacefor genocidal Zionist students. That's what this
is. And we don't even knowhow many Jewish students spoke to the Times
about their apparent discomfort with people disagreeingwith their support of a psychotic ethno state
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that's actively committing a genocide just outof curiosity. Though, you know,
if there was an All Lives Matterprotest, for instance, with students flying
fucking Confederate flags and like thin blueline blue Lives Matter fucking flags and black
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students said that they felt uncomfortable oncampus, that they felt threatened. What
would these people be saying, Thesefucking Republicans would be saying, get over
it, and they're sure shit.Wouldn't be a fucking congressional hearing led by
Republicans on the matter, that's forfucking sure. But none of of these
people are acting in good faith.I mean, the fucking free speech warriors
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went after these university presidents because theydidn't say the right speech. They didn't
expel the students advocating for basic humanrights on campus, and they didn't condemn
well enough a literally made up definitionof anti semitism. So they must be
thrown out, gotten rid of,replaced by someone who will limit speech on
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campus and create safe spaces for genocidalpsychopaths. Yeah, very normal. A
week after the hearing, the rightwing propaganda machines sprang into action and started
a parallel smear campaign to call intoquestion whether now former Harvard president Claudine Gay
committed the crime of plagiarism by runningher published work through online plagiarism detection programs,
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and of course they found several instancesof what might be improper citations,
which right wing media happily played upas much as they possibly could. Between
the sham hearing and the targeted attackson her academic ethics record, the Harvard
Board forced Gay to resign because thereare a bunch of dipshit cowards. In
her resignation letter, Gay wrote,quote, It's been distressing to have doubt
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cast on my commitments to confronting hateinto upholding scholarly rigor two bedrock values that
are fundamental to who I am infrightening to be subjected to personal attacks and
threats fueled by racial animus end quote. Since being thrust into the middle of
this sprawling, targeted campaign to forceGay resign, Gay has received death threats
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and says that she has been quotecalled the N word more times than I
cared to count end quote. TheUnited States Congress that is currently bankrolling the
actual, real life genocide of Palestiniansby funding the racist ethno state project that
is Israel, are wasting their timeon sham hearings like this, and the
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pundit class is wasting their time entertainingthe idea of academic ethics with the plagiarism
shit. Every aspect of this isa fucking joke. It's red scare tactics.
The whole country should be ashamed andembarrassed by this shit, but instead
we have everyone in the pundit classand apparently those sitting on college fucking boards
taking this mountain of steaming fucking bullshitseriously. The plagiarism allegations made against Gay
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came a week after the hearing Rightand are part of the wider right wing
campaign to remove those that they viewas threats from positions of power, specifically
the Ivy League schools. The attackon Gay was started by the leering far
right shit fluencer Christopher Ruffo, whocheered Gay's resignation on X, writing in
all caps scalped as though Gay wasa trophy of violence, invoking a practice
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used by American colonists who sought toeradicate Indigenous people from the land, kind
of exactly like what Israel is doingto Palestinians right now. Rufo, now
a leader on the right and incitingviolence against both black and LGBTQ plus people
is one of the most useful weaponsin their unceasing fucking culture war. Antics.
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Rufo and his army of racist dipshitswent and combed through her published works
looking for plagiarism and found a fewimproper citations, like quotes that weren't placed
properly, of which you know,no serious person believes are resignation worthy,
and Gay said that she had alreadysubmitted requests for corrections to amend those errors.
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So what are we doing? Whatthe fuck are we doing here?
This is like, improper citations issuch a regular occurrence in academia. It's
completely normal. This happens all thetime. And it's not like she was
just fucking copy pasting her way throughher career, Like the right would like
you to believe that that's not whatthis is. But you know, it
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doesn't matter. The fucking damage isdone. They've successfully done the fucking op
and critically, Christopher Ruffo and thelike have admitted openly to weaponizing credentialism to
remove people they don't like from positionsof power, specifically people they consider a
threat to the myth of a goodwhite Western world or whatever the fuck being
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destroyed by woke moralists and their theirdiversity, equity and inclusion programs or whatever
the fuck again, they're trying toturn colleges, specifically the elite ones,
into a huge safe space for Zionistsand the rest of the far right.
And let's be fucking honest, theZionist Israeli lobbies currently coddling the minds of
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the sons and daughters of Zionists likegenocidal billionaire scumbag Bill Ackman, Barry Weiss,
Jake Tapper of CNN, etc.Already have powerful influence over universities and
other institutions. It's not like it'snot like they don't anymore. They certainly
do, as evidenced by this fuckingthing that we're talking about. And let's
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not forget the most obvious example thatthe right is in full control over basically
every institution in the United States isthe literal funding of Israel and signing off
by the US Congress and the WhiteHouse for what the Israeli government is doing
to Palestinians. Where are the leftistsnowhere to be found? They're not like,
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there's no left wing, actual leftwing contingent in power anywhere in the
country, let alone at fucking Harvardor the White House. Give me a
fucking break, dude, Like,what are we talking about? Left?
Yeah, there's a bunch of communistsin power, in power where what evidence.
Why do you believe this? Whybecause Harvard has a copy of Capital
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by Karl Marx on a bookshelf somewhere. That's not evidence of fucking anything completed.
Because there's a DEI program in placesomewhere, Give me a fucking break.
I'll get into that in a minute. DEI is not evidence of fucking
anything left wing whatsoever. The USgovernment, headed up by fucking a Democrat
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in the White House right now,is bank rolling Israel's genocide with the help
of wait for it, Harvard Gratz. Yes, they're the ones doing this
and supporting it. All of thisis an attempt to further the maintenance of
US imperial interests with regard to Israelbeing a launching pad for the US military
into the Middle East, and allthese American businesses, large companies having capital
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interests investments in Israel, Rufo andCompany are racist sacks of shit shilling for
the imperial war machine. The intentionof claiming that black people must plagiarize and
use DEI programs to get ahead isemployed to undermine black history and anti race
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activism in academia, which of courseundermines white American mythology. These are the
same culture warriors who began with redefiningcritical race theory to prevent students from learning
about America's sordid history of racist bullshitnow attacking proponents of DEI to prevent organizations
from gate keeping positions based on race, a practice all too familiar in America.
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DEI is an attempt to increase thenumber of women and people of color
impositions of power and influence, orjust you know, the employment pool at
a whatever fucking company. The ideathat getting rid of DEI would somehow bring
back a mythical meritocracy that America lostto leftists is a fucking joke. Merit
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based hiring in the US has alwaysbeen a myth CEOs and corporate leadership roles.
Even our government positions have always beenfilled from day one, filled by
mostly white nepotism babies, their fuckingnepo babies, and fraudulent pseudo intellectuals who
lied, cheated, and ask kisstheir way to power. The only reason
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the ruling class is open to diversityand inclusivity is to widen the pool of
labor and pacify the left of centerso that they don't radicalize. Pretty simple,
and I'm not going to sit hereand pretend that we can DEI our
way out of the stranglehold of acapitalist dystopia where our oppressors have commodified every
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avenue of our existence. But thosewho believe in made up nonsense like a
woke mind virus or successor ideology orcultural Marxism or whatever other buzzword for an
ideological enemy within the primary threat toWestern civilization or whatever the fuck turn things
like DEI and CRT critical race theoryand diversity, equity and inclusion into supervillains
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because they need to for their worldviewto continue existing or to make any kind
of coherent sense at all. Butas soon as this stupid shit is demystified,
their entire worldview quickly falls apart andcan be correctly identified as the goofy
bootlecking distraction that it is the rightsconstant boogeyman seeking and shifting from buzzword to
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buzzword is what keeps their movement aliveand their base fervent with fear and anger,
always angry at the wrong people orthe right people for the wrong reasons.
Christopher Rufo has mastered the art ofweaponizing third way technocratic liberalism, which
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happily indulges in debating and platforming badfaith provocateurs like RUFO, and by master
the art, I mean literally simplymaking shit up and watching the entire US
journalistic establishment obediently chased after the fuckingballs that he throws. The Wall Street
Journal published an op ed by RUFOtitled how we squeezed Harvard to push Claudingay
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out. The New York Times,The Washington Post, and The Atlantic have
all published this sneering piece of shitin their opinion sections. Legacy media covered
the Claudine Gay story for weeks,doing all the legwork for people like RUFO.
All they had to do was createthe thing, throw the ball,
and the fucking dogs ran after it, and the only substance of the so
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called controversy was that she may havemisplaced some fucking quotes. All of these
legacy media institutions see themselves as tedious, literal minded, faux neutral arbiters of
whatever the latest scandal may be,no matter how manufactured, it is stripped
of all political and social context.Of course, despite the fact that there's
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no such thing as a neutral institution, which I mean fucking these pompous,
self interested centrists on the editorial boardsof news organizations continued to do the bidding
of leering fascists like Christopher Rufo,claiming that their hands are clean because they're
simply giving voice to both sides.This third way technocratic liberalism shit priding itself
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on having no ideology whatsoever, iseasily weaponized by the right and has been
for a long time. Rufo isjust the latest shithead to figure out how
easy it is. News organizations decidingwhat to publish based entirely on their bottom
lines drives them to publish people likeRufo. It generates controversy, clicks,
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and revenue. The data show thismodel to be good for business, to
its peril, though, the samemodel of amplifying the right for money is
simultaneously driving the right to actively coordinatethe destruction of the very same institutions that
are giving them oxygen. It's actuallya perfect and literal analogy for capitalism itself
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eating its own fucking tail until itdies from eating itself, and a fascist
takes over, until the people riseup and hang him from the rafters,
and then the pole fucking process startsover again like it has for the last
one hundred fucking years. Hillary Clinton'stwenty sixteen presidential campaign, Wow, also
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relied on data metrics, as opposedto oh, I don't know, knowing
what actual human Americans need from afucking leader and fighting for their vote.
The Clinton campaign relied on a computeralgorithm called Aida that reportedly guided all the
campaign's critical strategic decisions, frequently overwritingthe judgment and local knowledge of democratic activists
on the ground. And we allknow how that worked out. Instead of
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listening to less affluent Americans and whatthey need, the Clinton campaign followed the
advice of a fucking algorithm created bywhite collar coastal Democrats and gleefully chased the
votes of suburban conservatives while courting WallStreet and tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley.
This is the Liberal center in theirtechnocratic vision, a humiliating, fucking failure
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that results in wanna be autocrats assumingpower and having their horde of faithful chuds
try to install them permanently in thedumbest coup attempt in human history. And
instead of blaming themselves, Democrats blamethird party candidates for taking votes from them,
and the American people for not doingtheir democratic duty and voting for them,
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and It's not like this is anew phenomenon. Center left and center
right formations across the democratic world havebeen losing at the ballot box, having
their asses handed to them by farright opponents over the last decade or so.
All indications show that the global farright movement is politically coordinated and primed
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to continue defeating third way liberalism goingforward, and if history is any indicator,
the only thing that can stop itis a coordinated counter movement from the
left. Joshua Hill wrote in hissub stack a piece titled is the Age
of Liberalism Coming to an End?The collapse of Neoliberalism, the rise of
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fascism, and building the Left?And I think it's pretty good. I'm
gonna drop it in the show notes, but I'm gonna pull some quotes.
He starts off the article talking aboutthe anarcho capitalist, fucking lunatic Javier Malay
who won the Argentinian election two monthsago and his fascist crackdown on civil society,
left wing protests and workers' rights.In the article, Hill says that
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Malay quote has an absurd head ofhair and crude far right politics. Like
Trump, he wants to be adictator like Orbon of Hungary, and many
of his policies were crafted by theAtlas Network. Like Liz Truss and Rishie
Sinok, Hill goes on, quotefrom Argentina to Hungary to the United States,
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we need to reckon with liberalism's variousdifficulties, from inability to unwillingness,
with fighting fascism. I'm talking hereabout liberalism large as one of the primary
systems of thought that has shaped institutionsin the West over the last several centuries.
I'm talking about a political and socialphilosophy that promotes individual rights, civil
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liberties, representative democracy, and freeenterprise as the foundation of society. It
is also a political system that relieson respect for institutions and rules of order.
This overarching approach to civilization and governanceis something far larger than being a
liberal as defined in the contemporary UnitedStates. Classical liberalism is one of the
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core features of Western society, butafter decades of political parties across the US
and Europe agreeing on the fundamentals,large swaths of the right increasingly reject core
tenets of this ideology. Hill thenquotes Matt McManus, writing for In These
Times, quote the intellectual and culturalvanguard of today's right, often called the
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new Right, is increasingly critical ofclassical liberalism, which was long the consensus
philosophy for both major political parties,and holds that a combination of limited government,
free markets, and ordered liberty onsocial issues, that is, the
protection of individual rights within a moderatelyconservative culture, would produce the best kind
of state. These views dominated theUS right for much of the late twentieth
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century, though never completely unchallenged.Now new doctrines have taken over, insisting
that the old fusionist right ceded toomuch ground to the left, that egalitarian
or economic principles rooted in classical liberalismhave led to decadence, primarily LGBTQ rights,
national decline purportedly through feminization and oversensitivityand growing disorder. Hill then says,
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quote I wanted to pull this wholequote because it's important to know that
we're dealing with people who are rejectingthe norms which have largely structured our politics
for decades centuries. Even these shiftsare taking place in the US and numerous
places around the world. But despitethe importance of this development, it's important
to note that their reasoning and explanationsare in many ways laughable. Their squabbles
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with feminization of men and queerness arejust vulgar social conservatism. This is worth
picking up on because it presents usthe left with an easy opening to make
much more convincing and appealing arguments,something we already see happening with young people
moving left and rejecting this nonsense.But it's also important to say that the
fascists and oligarchs orchestrating much of thisfascist surge around the world are less concerned
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with the LGBT community, Muslims,or whoever their current scapegoat is, and
more concerned with what works to helpthem further their agenda of preserving and expanding
capitalist exploitation. Hill goes on quotethe relentless drive of capitalists to expand their
profit margins and their mandate today demonstrateendless growth to shareholders had already planted the
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seeds that are today bearing fruit inthe form of the end of the classical
liberal ideology. This shift and declineof the liberal system organizing the West and
the international order had already begun withthe shift of neoliberalism. Under neoliberalism,
capitalist profit squeezing became even more ofan extractive force, one that uses deregulation,
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austerity, and exploitative arrangements between theWest and the global South to reinforce
and further an oppressive economic system.Over the last several decades, this arrangement
has accelerated the global crisis of liberalismthat we see today. None of this
is new. These massive international systems, both neoliberalism and classic liberalism, have
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been facing various challenges for some time. And pausing for just a second,
I want to make clear to listenersif you're not already aware, liberalism and
neoliberalism are the center left and centerright ideologies that I was describing earlier.
They are the two dominant ideologies ofthe world that dominate the global capitalist system
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that we all currently live under.They are incredibly similar in both reactionary by
nature right wing. They are theideology of every US president that we've ever
had, one or the other.And again, they're pretty fucking similar and
both hyper capitalist. Back to Hill'sarticle quote as an astute twenty eighteen paper
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by Phasey Ishmael and seng Ghita Kamat. My apologies on the pronunciations quote.
The nature of neoliberalism as a modeof accumulation that penetrates virtually all aspects of
economic, political, and social lifehas meant that the global financial crisis is
of course not limited to the economy. It has come to be accompanied by
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full scale political and social crises inboth the global north and south, and
a crisis of neoliberalism itself. Despitethe intellectual vacuity of neoliberalism as a system
capable of explaining the world and itsdeclining legitimacy the world over, the neoliberals
themselves appear to have no alternative toneoliberalism except authoritarianism. Hill then says quote
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the trend that the authors identify here, both the crisis of neoliberalism and its
proponents finding authoritarianism to be their lasthope have only been increasingly borne out in
the years since the writing was published. The decline of the neoliberal system has
been accelerated by the massive harms thatits extractive arrangements have wrought in developing nations,
by the loss of faith in theability of international organizations and arrangements to
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sufficiently mitigate these damages, and bythe multiple cancers at the heart of global
capitalism. Right now, the worldis seeing with frightening clarity that the international
political order is unable to stop agenocide happening in place sight. As Hill
wrote in early November regarding the UScontext, quote, it's frightening. Unconditional
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funding for genocide is terrifying, frankly, and it's already starting to create a
political realignment. But it's not justthat people might not vote Biden or Democrat.
It's that people are fed up withthe system as a whole. So
people are joining organizations fighting for structuralchange and transformation, organizations trying to shut
down the war machine, Organizations thathave a serious analysis of the systemic nature
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of imperialism and colonialism and capitalism endquote. Hill then says, quote and
in this pivotal moment, people aroundthe world are making a number of connections
between Israel's genocide and gaza, theneoliberal system of extraction and exploitation of the
global South, and the increasing failureto provide the basic needs of people at
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home. These connections and the ongoinginability to address these problems are or at
the very heart of the current crisisof liberalism. Again and again, we
see posts on every one of thedozen or more social media platforms in use
today where people express their frustration atthe Pentagon getting another trillion dollars while we're
told that we can't have universal healthcare, or the cancelation of student debt
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or decent public transportation. These sentimentsare, of course, just a beginning,
just an entry point into a fullerand more comprehensive critique of the political
and economic order. Hill says nowthat criticism must be paired with education and
organizing to be fleshed out and translatedinto action. End quote. Now,
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for the sake of not reading hisentire article, I'm going to skip down
a bit, but I do encourageyou to read the whole thing. It's
good and share, Hill writes,quote. A failure to acknowledge and address
the reality that liberalism is likely falteringand breaking down leaves the right with every
advantage. It allows them to continueto surge while a lot of people stagnate
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in the collapsing center. Once weaccept that reality, we can move left,
can build up a real alternative bothto the decaying world order and to
the fascist response that is rising aswe speak. The only real, sustainable,
just alternative to the current dominant systemsmust involve moving beyond capitalism not doubling
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down on it and pairing its extractionwith even more authoritarianism and violence. And
it's up to us to present thatalternative. We must show people that the
world can run without scapegoating, withoutpolitical oppression, and without economic exploitation.
We must show people that we canbuild a world where human needs come before
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free markets in scare quotes, andwhere we collectively take responsibility for one another
instead of telling anyone struggling to simplypull themselves up by their bootstraps. While
fascists pretend to oppose the system,they are really working to protect and expand
it. End quote. So yeah, go read that whole thing. I
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think that that's good and share it. I like Joshua's content. He's a
Jewish guy who is anti genocide.You know, imagine that. Wow,
how fucking radical. You can alsofind more of his content at jp hill
dot com and that's jp Hill withthree l's. So, meanwhile, while
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the left is trying to you know, figure this out, democrats, the
fucking liberalists in the US insist thatneither policy nor strategy need change and refuse
to give a fucking inch to theeconomic left. Finsitting centrist dogmatists like Jonathan
Chade of the Atlantic continue to playthe tune of Bidenomics like it's some magical
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selling point to voters, even asmost Americans are wholly unset satisfied with its
modest results, if there really areany at all, and that selling Bidenomics
seems to only mean berating anyone whocomplains about their economic circumstances and telling them
that they're actually doing great. Thirdway democratic politics is failing, because,
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of course it is, not becauseit's somehow worse than the rights straight up
fucking fascism, but because it's missingthe economic revolution. The rich continue to
get richer the poor poor, andno amount of rainbow flag waving and draping
themselves in kenta cloths or strongly wordedletters to corporations to lower their fucking prices
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is going to fix that. Biden'swhole shtick is being able to work with
Republicans, neoliberals, and liberals workingtogether. He made it a key feature
of his campaign, and it's nothingnew for Democrats. They get along just
fine with the right. Despite thepointed remarks for the cameras to maintain the
mirage of difference between the parties economically, we know indulge and debating bad faith
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minutia with the right is both theprimary flaw of third way liberalism and its
biggest selling point. Third Way democratsare virtually indistinguishable from reactionary billionaires at this
point, like they're all in thesame fucking group. They don't give a
fuck about what the people need.They're self interested and will happily turn over
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whatever's left of democracy to fascists ifit means keeping all those radical commis at
bay. Third Way Democrats liberals,with their complete lack of ideology other than
moneymaking, are of course ambivalent aboutthe outcome of the right's hit campaign against
Claudine Gay, saying that the rightacted in bad faith, but her resigning
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is totally appropriate because plagiarism is sovery terrible and simply cannot be tolerated under
any circumstances. Imagine just for amoment, thinking, or at least pretending
to think that citation, ethics,or whatever the fuck it is that these
people are so upset with is aconcern. Is a serious concern that anyone
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but the snobs and the pundit classclaim to give a fuck about. As
Adam Johnson said on X We're gonnaaddress our enemies in good faith, our
way to extinction. This shit isso disconnected from the actual world, you
know, like the world in whichlike real people with real problems reside outside
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of the ruling class in their fuckingivory towers. It's frustrating, to say
the least, watching these people placateright wing grievances while so many remain living
on the edge of poverty if they'renot already there. The ruling class consistently
proves to their critics that they're rightwhen they say that they're out of touch
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with fucking everyone. When the punditclass or a member of the ruling class
says, as they usually do thingsthat demean and dehumanize the working class,
people tend to hate them, andyou know, seek alternatives. And unfortunately,
for whatever fucking reason, like straightup fascism seems to be appealing to
a lot of people. And Isay, for whatever reason, but you
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know, we know why. It'sjust the result of an incessant drumbeat of
propaganda emanating from the right all thetime forever. And just to continue Joshua's
point, when it comes to foreignpolicy third way Democrats liberals currently in the
White House are conducting business as usualfor imperial and capital interests. The US
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State Department said just yesterday, maybetwo days ago, given when you're listening
to this, that Blinken told Jordanthat the US opposes forcible displacement of Palestinians
from the West Bank and Gaza,while the Israeli government meanwhile, has been
openly saying that its plans include voluntarydisplacement, creating conditions so unbearable, literally
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unlivable, that Palestinians quota quote voluntarilyleave when there's nothing fucking voluntary about it.
Israel, with the explicit backing ofthe Biden administration, is conducting a
genocide just to beat that horse todeath. And the only difference between this
administration and the Trump administration would bethat Trump would be retweeting pictures of dead
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bodies with laughing emojis. But atleast Biden makes liberals feel like blood might
not be on their hands. Butcircling back to the plagiarism shit, Trump
appointed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch plagiarizedTrump's pedo zionist lawyer Alan Dershowitz, plagiarized
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wife of right wing billionaire Bill Lackman, the billionaire bankrolling this targeted op plagiarized,
and Christopher Ruffo lied about having amaster's degree from Harvard. But it
doesn't matter. I honestly don't givea fuck about those people, and they're
totally expected hypocrisy. We don't beatthese motherfuckers by proving that they are a
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bunch of lying hypocrites, Like weknow this and they know it. Nothing
changes until news media stops acknowledging therights artificial moral panics. Remember, this
isn't about plagiarism. They don't givea fuck if Claudine Gay plagiarized. They
give a fuck that she's black,and wouldn't explicitly condemn and punish those calling
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for the protection of human rights globallyand an end to US imperialist and capital
interests. This coordinated attack on leftwing people in academia has only one purpose,
and that is to maintain white Christiancapitalist supremacy inside American power. The
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rights targeted attack on Gay and othersis about anti blackness. It's about control
domination. Gay's testimony on December fourthfucking sucked. Yeah, it was cold,
clinical and made her look bad,not just to conservatives, which was
gonna happen no matter what she fuckingsaid, but also to leftists. She
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missed an opportunity. I don't knowwhy the fuck she was blindside I don't
know why any of these people wereblindsided by this, Like anyone paying remotely
any attention that isn't sitting in positionsof power like that, completely insulated from
the world, saw this coming froma mile away, but too late.
Fucking move too slow, liberals,pick up your fucking feet. But you
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know, every time I hear someonesay how bad it is that Palestinian people
are resisting their oppressors, I thinkof this quote by C. L.
R. James. The cruelties ofproperty and privilege are always more ferocious than
the revenges of poverty and oppression.But of course this is not something people
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like Elie Staffanick and the rest ofthe ultra Maga Zionist cohort or third way
Democrat liberals like Biden ever think about, think, or at least claim to
think, that October seventh happened ina fucking vacuum and Arabs just hate them
for their freedoms or whatever. Thefuck completely ignoring and dismissing the sordid history
of anti semitism and white supremacy,real actual anti semitism and white supremacy that
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brought us exactly to this moment.Fucking idiots. And it's no surprise whatsoever
that the right in the United Statesis trying to dismantle education systems and weaponize
them to provide cover for their supremacistbullshit instead of actually educating people, because
you know, educating people is athreat, and they're fucking right. It's
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not just higher education that they're tryingto seize permanent control over. It's K
through twelve as well. And ofcourse the central part of this attack is
on black and Indigenous history and whitewashingit or getting rid of it entirely from
curriculum. Because nothing challenges white supremacyin American empire quite like highlighting its most
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heinous and ongoing atrocities against humanity.White supremacy is more difficult to maintain when
white children are aware of how destructivethat shit is, even to white people.
Fucking Oklahoma's top education chief in Januaryof last year, waging what he
called quote a spiritual war for thesouls of our kids, declared the teachers
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Union a terrorist organization, and lastsummer threatened a state takeover of Tulsa's fucking
school district, citing woke ideology andties to the Chinese Communist Party. What
the fuck, Yes, Tulsa,Oklahoma's school district has ties to the Chinese
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right. All of this incoherent psychobabbleand bad faith parental rights movement sheltering kids
from the gays and America's violently racistfounding emanating from the right stems from the
exact same white fragility and inherently fascistbullshit responsible for this mere campaign against left
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wing academics and journalists at the moment, which is ramping up, by the
way, that's not going to endanytime soon. I don't think these fucking
people blame societal woes on wokeism,in which they can't even fucking define,
instead of the real culprit of capitalistpower accumulation, the eroding of workers' rights,
which Elon Musk is accelerating with hislatest stunt in trying to get the
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US Supreme Court to rule the FederalLabor Enforcer unconstitutional so he can just do
whatever the fuck he wants with hisworkers. Maybe this should be, I
don't know, perhaps the primary focusthat Democrats should be adamantly pushing back on.
But they're not, and the punditclass continues to dutifully fill their headlines
with clauding gay stories. Instead oflords of industry seizing whatever how our workers
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have left from them, and insteadof fighting to wrest power back from our
capitalist overlords, most Americans are justscreaming online about Jeffrey Epstein's pedo friends who
they want hanged, and then backto business as usual, while doing fuck
all to prevent it from happening again. The Epstein thing is not about an
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evil cabal of devil worshiping baby torturersor you know, people drinking the blood
of children to live longer, despitethe rights conspiracy pilled brains telling them otherwise.
It's about insanely wealthy men and womenaiding in a bedding and providing cover
for them, who are using theirnearly untouchable status as part of the ruling
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class of capitalists to get away withabusing sixteen year olds, not infants.
As Robert Evans wrote on x quote, this isn't better or less awful,
really, but the kind of peoplewho tend to see shadowy pedophiles behind everything
are also the kind of dudes whowould absolutely pay to fuck a sixteen year
old if they had the money.End quote, Evans is exactly right.
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Many of the same dudes fighting tokeep billionaires billionaires due to the off chance
that they too might be rich oneday are the same people who'd pay to
fuck kids if they had the money. There's a reason why certain people want
to protect power, and uh,this is one of them. So screaming
and fucking losing your fucking minds aboutyou know, I can't believe that these
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powerful elitists are doing this shit.What what do you what do you think
allows them to get away with itfor fucking so long and literally forever,
Like none of them are being punished. I don't know if you've noticed.
It's the money. They're shielded andcompletely insulated because of the money. They
don't operate on the same level asninety nine point nine percent of the planet,
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and that's a fucking problem. Theyall need to be brought down to
size. But Robert Evans also wrotein the same thread that this is quote
your reminder here that the powerful allianceof churches and Christian religious leaders have steadily
worked to expand the number of stateswhere an adult can marry a fourteen year
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old yes. In February last year, the Wyoming Republican Party sought to kill
a bill that was working its waythrough the state legislature proposing to raise the
state's legal marriage age to sixteen fromfourteen. In America in twenty twenty three,
the Republican Party in Wyoming was arguingthat putting quote unquote arbitrary limits on
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child marriage interferes with parental rights andreligious liberty. The bad guys are the
rich and powerful and the Christian nationalistsper usual. It's not the drag queens
and leftists. It's the reactionist christto fascists. And no, the liberals
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cited in the Epstein documents are arenot leftists. They're liberals. Comb all
of those documents and you will notfind one fucking Marxist, not one communist,
not one socialist, And no,you will not find a drag queen.
The right wing conspiracists, in sucha frenzy over the Epstein docs are
again showing their entire asses. They'reagain proving to everyone that the Pizzagate QAnon
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phenomenon and its various offshoots since twentyfifteen sixteen. They're showing what they really
are. The children are just aprop used to defend far right figures like
Trump and white supremacists as the heroesof the story that they tell anyone who
attacks Trump and the like become apedophile themselves, because that's how you slander
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somebody for daring to defy the godEmperor Donald never Mind that Trump has always
ran in exactly the same circles asthe Clintons and others associated with Epstein and
his other creditor friends. Never mindTrump being a documented sexual predator himself going
back decades. Never mind all evidencepointing to Trump being part of the exact
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problem that right wing conspiracists claim tocare so much about. And again,
as I point out the blatant hypocrisyof the right, it doesn't matter.
The right will never be convinced thatall of their heroes are equally implicated in
heinous criminal behavior. They don't carethat an Epstein victim described Donald Trump's alleged
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sexual proclivities and then recanted for fearof her life, among many other accusations
over the decades, they don't fuckingcare. It's the exact same thing as
when the devoutly religious who still refuseto recognize and accept that their religious leaders
have been abusing their power to harmchildren going back centuries. We don't beat
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these motherfuckers by proving them hypocrites.We beat them by showing them how to
build a just society that puts peopleabove free enterprise. As Joshua Hill wrote,
quote, only a real, strong, powerful left can step into the
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vacuum that is expanding right now,defeat the fascists who rush to claim that
space and build a better society.All right. That was episode forty four
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another guy pod all right under theshow. All right, So the right
is having a fucking field day overthe resignation of now former Harvard President Gay.
If you didn't notice. The daughterof Haitian immigrants, she was the
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university's first black president and the onlythe second woman to take the role in
the university's nearly four hundred year history, and her tenure is now the shortest
in history, lasting only six months, to the great pleasure of right wing
shitfluencers who set all of this inmotion in the billionaires who bankrolled it.
Her resignation comes after sham allegations ofplagiarism and backlash over her testimony out of
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congressional hearing on anti Semitism on universitycampuses on December fourth. The backlash is
part of a broader campaign on theright to restrict pro Palestinian speech on college
campuses. Yes, you're hearing thatcorrectly. The same people constantly saying what
about free speech, Han, dowe not live in a free country are
actively trying to limit the speech ofPalestinian liberation activists. Despite Gay's resignation,
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she will remain at Harvard as atenured professor in government and African and African
American studies. The university's board forcedher out after caving to pressure from bad
faith racists. Those sitting on theboard, including the University of Pennsylvania's board,
whose president was also forced to resign, Can all get bent, fucking
idiots. Penn, MIT and Harvardpresidents were pulled in front of a congressional
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hearing led by Republicans where they grilledthem about supposed anti semitism on college campuses.
Their responses to Congressional Republicans bad faithframing was subpar. To put it
mildly, but let's not pretend thatanything they would have said would have satisfied
them. It wouldn't have. Ofthe three presidents, only the MIT president
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remains in her position, and she'sJewish. The goal of the sham hearing
was to smear the university presidents withaccusations of being anti Semitic by refusing to
punish students for using Palestinian liberation sloganslike from the River to the Sea and
Antifada slogans intentionally conflated with anti Semitismby Zionists, even though there's nothing anti
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Semitic about them. Republican congresswoman atleast Stephonic. Stephanic, I don't fucking
know who spearheaded the sham hearing destroyedany possibility of something remotely productive by erroneously
defining the slogan from the River tothe Sea as a call for the genocide
of Jews, which is a bullshitlie. From the River to the Sea
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simply means liberating Palestinians from Israeli terroroppression and violent occupation, allowing Palestinians' freedom
of movement and equal rights and representationon the land that was stolen from them
violently in nineteen forty eight. Anyonewho watched the hearing and has half a
fucking brain should be able to easilyidentify who the bad guys are In all
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this. Stephanic also incorrectly defined theterm antifada the exact same way. The
word antifada is an Islamic concept withboth spiritual and physical connotations. It has
no connotation of violence nor any ofthe noxious attributes that Zionists assigned to it.
This bad faith framing, though,is why the presidents came off so
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awkwardly in their cold legalize responses toStefani's bullshit fucking questions. And it's why
the universities should have never agreed toeven show up to the bullshit hearing.
They knew what it was going tobe. I mean, everyone knew what
it was going to be. It'snot like anyone was fucking hoodwinked here.
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That's the thing that bothers me themost about it. They should have followed
Columbia University, which refused to sendtheir president citing a scheduling conflict. Yes,
do that the fuck. The peoplewho thought that capitulating to these rat
fucking liars was a good idea shouldbe the ones being forced to fucking resign,
but of course not. And thewhole thing about supposed anti Semitic speech
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on college campuses is based entirely onunease felt among some Jewish students who apparently
felt threatened by Palestinian liberation activists oncampus. Yes, oh my god,
anti genociders. A Times article onthis mentions that some of the Jewish students
feel uncomfortable with pro Palestinian sentiment oncampus and uncomfortable with the fact that some
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Jewish students have participated in those verysame pro Palestinian protests. Fucking snowflakes.
There's scared little Zionists that can't handlethe fact that Jewish people are standing up
against a fucking genocide where over tenPalestinian children lose one or both of their
legs every day. You heard thatright, An average of ten children in
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Gaza lose one or both of theirlegs every fucking day in the Israeli bombardment
of the Gaza strip. Yeah,I'm pretty sure that that alone has met
and then far surpassed proportionality to whatHamas did on October seventh. But you
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know who the fuck am I.Zionist Congress members like Stefanic are trying to
make college campuses a giant safe spacefor genocidal Zionist students. That's what this
is. And we don't even knowhow many Jewish students spoke to the Times
about their apparent discomfort with people disagreeingwith their support of a psychotic ethno state
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that's actively committing a genocide just outof curiosity. Though, you know,
if there was an All Lives Matterprotest, for instance, with students flying
fucking Confederate flags and like thin blueline blue Lives Matter fucking flags and black
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students said that they felt uncomfortable oncampus, that they felt threatened. What
would these people be saying, Thesefucking Republicans would be saying, get over
it, and they're sure shit.Wouldn't be a fucking congressional hearing led by
Republicans on the matter, that's forfucking sure. But none of of these
people are acting in good faith.I mean, the fucking free speech warriors
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went after these university presidents because theydidn't say the right speech. They didn't
expel the students advocating for basic humanrights on campus, and they didn't condemn
well enough a literally made up definitionof anti semitism. So they must be
thrown out, gotten rid of,replaced by someone who will limit speech on
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campus and create safe spaces for genocidalpsychopaths. Yeah, very normal. A
week after the hearing, the rightwing propaganda machines sprang into action and started
a parallel smear campaign to call intoquestion whether now former Harvard president Claudine Gay
committed the crime of plagiarism by runningher published work through online plagiarism detection programs,
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and of course they found several instancesof what might be improper citations,
which right wing media happily played upas much as they possibly could. Between
the sham hearing and the targeted attackson her academic ethics record, the Harvard
Board forced Gay to resign because thereare a bunch of dipshit cowards. In
her resignation letter, Gay wrote,quote, It's been distressing to have doubt
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cast on my commitments to confronting hateinto upholding scholarly rigor two bedrock values that
are fundamental to who I am infrightening to be subjected to personal attacks and
threats fueled by racial animus end quote. Since being thrust into the middle of
this sprawling, targeted campaign to forceGay resign, Gay has received death threats
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and says that she has been quotecalled the N word more times than I
cared to count end quote. TheUnited States Congress that is currently bankrolling the
actual, real life genocide of Palestiniansby funding the racist ethno state project that
is Israel, are wasting their timeon sham hearings like this, and the
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pundit class is wasting their time entertainingthe idea of academic ethics with the plagiarism
shit. Every aspect of this isa fucking joke. It's red scare tactics.
The whole country should be ashamed andembarrassed by this shit, but instead
we have everyone in the pundit classand apparently those sitting on college fucking boards
taking this mountain of steaming fucking bullshitseriously. The plagiarism allegations made against Gay
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came a week after the hearing Rightand are part of the wider right wing
campaign to remove those that they viewas threats from positions of power, specifically
the Ivy League schools. The attackon Gay was started by the leering far
right shit fluencer Christopher Ruffo, whocheered Gay's resignation on X, writing in
all caps scalped as though Gay wasa trophy of violence, invoking a practice
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used by American colonists who sought toeradicate Indigenous people from the land, kind
of exactly like what Israel is doingto Palestinians right now. Rufo, now
a leader on the right and incitingviolence against both black and LGBTQ plus people
is one of the most useful weaponsin their unceasing fucking culture war. Antics.
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Rufo and his army of racist dipshitswent and combed through her published works
looking for plagiarism and found a fewimproper citations, like quotes that weren't placed
properly, of which you know,no serious person believes are resignation worthy,
and Gay said that she had alreadysubmitted requests for corrections to amend those errors.
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So what are we doing? Whatthe fuck are we doing here?
This is like, improper citations issuch a regular occurrence in academia. It's
completely normal. This happens all thetime. And it's not like she was
just fucking copy pasting her way throughher career, Like the right would like
you to believe that that's not whatthis is. But you know, it
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doesn't matter. The fucking damage isdone. They've successfully done the fucking op
and critically, Christopher Ruffo and thelike have admitted openly to weaponizing credentialism to
remove people they don't like from positionsof power, specifically people they consider a
threat to the myth of a goodwhite Western world or whatever the fuck being
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destroyed by woke moralists and their theirdiversity, equity and inclusion programs or whatever
the fuck again, they're trying toturn colleges, specifically the elite ones,
into a huge safe space for Zionistsand the rest of the far right.
And let's be fucking honest, theZionist Israeli lobbies currently coddling the minds of
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the sons and daughters of Zionists likegenocidal billionaire scumbag Bill Ackman, Barry Weiss,
Jake Tapper of CNN, etc.Already have powerful influence over universities and
other institutions. It's not like it'snot like they don't anymore. They certainly
do, as evidenced by this fuckingthing that we're talking about. And let's
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not forget the most obvious example thatthe right is in full control over basically
every institution in the United States isthe literal funding of Israel and signing off
by the US Congress and the WhiteHouse for what the Israeli government is doing
to Palestinians. Where are the leftistsnowhere to be found? They're not like,
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there's no left wing, actual leftwing contingent in power anywhere in the
country, let alone at fucking Harvardor the White House. Give me a
fucking break, dude, Like,what are we talking about? Left?
Yeah, there's a bunch of communistsin power, in power where what evidence.
Why do you believe this? Whybecause Harvard has a copy of Capital
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by Karl Marx on a bookshelf somewhere. That's not evidence of fucking anything completed.
Because there's a DEI program in placesomewhere, Give me a fucking break.
I'll get into that in a minute. DEI is not evidence of fucking
anything left wing whatsoever. The USgovernment, headed up by fucking a Democrat
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in the White House right now,is bank rolling Israel's genocide with the help
of wait for it, Harvard Gratz. Yes, they're the ones doing this
and supporting it. All of thisis an attempt to further the maintenance of
US imperial interests with regard to Israelbeing a launching pad for the US military
into the Middle East, and allthese American businesses, large companies having capital
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interests investments in Israel, Rufo andCompany are racist sacks of shit shilling for
the imperial war machine. The intentionof claiming that black people must plagiarize and
use DEI programs to get ahead isemployed to undermine black history and anti race
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activism in academia, which of courseundermines white American mythology. These are the
same culture warriors who began with redefiningcritical race theory to prevent students from learning
about America's sordid history of racist bullshitnow attacking proponents of DEI to prevent organizations
from gate keeping positions based on race, a practice all too familiar in America.
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DEI is an attempt to increase thenumber of women and people of color
impositions of power and influence, orjust you know, the employment pool at
a whatever fucking company. The ideathat getting rid of DEI would somehow bring
back a mythical meritocracy that America lostto leftists is a fucking joke. Merit
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based hiring in the US has alwaysbeen a myth CEOs and corporate leadership roles.
Even our government positions have always beenfilled from day one, filled by
mostly white nepotism babies, their fuckingnepo babies, and fraudulent pseudo intellectuals who
lied, cheated, and ask kisstheir way to power. The only reason
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the ruling class is open to diversityand inclusivity is to widen the pool of
labor and pacify the left of centerso that they don't radicalize. Pretty simple,
and I'm not going to sit hereand pretend that we can DEI our
way out of the stranglehold of acapitalist dystopia where our oppressors have commodified every
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avenue of our existence. But thosewho believe in made up nonsense like a
woke mind virus or successor ideology orcultural Marxism or whatever other buzzword for an
ideological enemy within the primary threat toWestern civilization or whatever the fuck turn things
like DEI and CRT critical race theoryand diversity, equity and inclusion into supervillains
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because they need to for their worldviewto continue existing or to make any kind
of coherent sense at all. Butas soon as this stupid shit is demystified,
their entire worldview quickly falls apart andcan be correctly identified as the goofy
bootlecking distraction that it is the rightsconstant boogeyman seeking and shifting from buzzword to
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buzzword is what keeps their movement aliveand their base fervent with fear and anger,
always angry at the wrong people orthe right people for the wrong reasons.
Christopher Rufo has mastered the art ofweaponizing third way technocratic liberalism, which
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happily indulges in debating and platforming badfaith provocateurs like RUFO, and by master
the art, I mean literally simplymaking shit up and watching the entire US
journalistic establishment obediently chased after the fuckingballs that he throws. The Wall Street
Journal published an op ed by RUFOtitled how we squeezed Harvard to push Claudingay
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out. The New York Times,The Washington Post, and The Atlantic have
all published this sneering piece of shitin their opinion sections. Legacy media covered
the Claudine Gay story for weeks,doing all the legwork for people like RUFO.
All they had to do was createthe thing, throw the ball,
and the fucking dogs ran after it, and the only substance of the so
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called controversy was that she may havemisplaced some fucking quotes. All of these
legacy media institutions see themselves as tedious, literal minded, faux neutral arbiters of
whatever the latest scandal may be,no matter how manufactured, it is stripped
of all political and social context.Of course, despite the fact that there's
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no such thing as a neutral institution, which I mean fucking these pompous,
self interested centrists on the editorial boardsof news organizations continued to do the bidding
of leering fascists like Christopher Rufo,claiming that their hands are clean because they're
simply giving voice to both sides.This third way technocratic liberalism shit priding itself
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on having no ideology whatsoever, iseasily weaponized by the right and has been
for a long time. Rufo isjust the latest shithead to figure out how
easy it is. News organizations decidingwhat to publish based entirely on their bottom
lines drives them to publish people likeRufo. It generates controversy, clicks,
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and revenue. The data show thismodel to be good for business, to
its peril, though, the samemodel of amplifying the right for money is
simultaneously driving the right to actively coordinatethe destruction of the very same institutions that
are giving them oxygen. It's actuallya perfect and literal analogy for capitalism itself
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eating its own fucking tail until itdies from eating itself, and a fascist
takes over, until the people riseup and hang him from the rafters,
and then the pole fucking process startsover again like it has for the last
one hundred fucking years. Hillary Clinton'stwenty sixteen presidential campaign, Wow, also
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relied on data metrics, as opposedto oh, I don't know, knowing
what actual human Americans need from afucking leader and fighting for their vote.
The Clinton campaign relied on a computeralgorithm called Aida that reportedly guided all the
campaign's critical strategic decisions, frequently overwritingthe judgment and local knowledge of democratic activists
on the ground. And we allknow how that worked out. Instead of
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listening to less affluent Americans and whatthey need, the Clinton campaign followed the
advice of a fucking algorithm created bywhite collar coastal Democrats and gleefully chased the
votes of suburban conservatives while courting WallStreet and tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley.
This is the Liberal center in theirtechnocratic vision, a humiliating, fucking failure
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that results in wanna be autocrats assumingpower and having their horde of faithful chuds
try to install them permanently in thedumbest coup attempt in human history. And
instead of blaming themselves, Democrats blamethird party candidates for taking votes from them,
and the American people for not doingtheir democratic duty and voting for them,
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and It's not like this is anew phenomenon. Center left and center
right formations across the democratic world havebeen losing at the ballot box, having
their asses handed to them by farright opponents over the last decade or so.
All indications show that the global farright movement is politically coordinated and primed
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to continue defeating third way liberalism goingforward, and if history is any indicator,
the only thing that can stop itis a coordinated counter movement from the
left. Joshua Hill wrote in hissub stack a piece titled is the Age
of Liberalism Coming to an End?The collapse of Neoliberalism, the rise of
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fascism, and building the Left?And I think it's pretty good. I'm
gonna drop it in the show notes, but I'm gonna pull some quotes.
He starts off the article talking aboutthe anarcho capitalist, fucking lunatic Javier Malay
who won the Argentinian election two monthsago and his fascist crackdown on civil society,
left wing protests and workers' rights.In the article, Hill says that
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Malay quote has an absurd head ofhair and crude far right politics. Like
Trump, he wants to be adictator like Orbon of Hungary, and many
of his policies were crafted by theAtlas Network. Like Liz Truss and Rishie
Sinok, Hill goes on, quotefrom Argentina to Hungary to the United States,
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we need to reckon with liberalism's variousdifficulties, from inability to unwillingness,
with fighting fascism. I'm talking hereabout liberalism large as one of the primary
systems of thought that has shaped institutionsin the West over the last several centuries.
I'm talking about a political and socialphilosophy that promotes individual rights, civil
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liberties, representative democracy, and freeenterprise as the foundation of society. It
is also a political system that relieson respect for institutions and rules of order.
This overarching approach to civilization and governanceis something far larger than being a
liberal as defined in the contemporary UnitedStates. Classical liberalism is one of the
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core features of Western society, butafter decades of political parties across the US
and Europe agreeing on the fundamentals,large swaths of the right increasingly reject core
tenets of this ideology. Hill thenquotes Matt McManus, writing for In These
Times, quote the intellectual and culturalvanguard of today's right, often called the
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new Right, is increasingly critical ofclassical liberalism, which was long the consensus
philosophy for both major political parties,and holds that a combination of limited government,
free markets, and ordered liberty onsocial issues, that is, the
protection of individual rights within a moderatelyconservative culture, would produce the best kind
of state. These views dominated theUS right for much of the late twentieth
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century, though never completely unchallenged.Now new doctrines have taken over, insisting
that the old fusionist right ceded toomuch ground to the left, that egalitarian
or economic principles rooted in classical liberalismhave led to decadence, primarily LGBTQ rights,
national decline purportedly through feminization and oversensitivityand growing disorder. Hill then says,
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quote I wanted to pull this wholequote because it's important to know that
we're dealing with people who are rejectingthe norms which have largely structured our politics
for decades centuries. Even these shiftsare taking place in the US and numerous
places around the world. But despitethe importance of this development, it's important
to note that their reasoning and explanationsare in many ways laughable. Their squabbles
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with feminization of men and queerness arejust vulgar social conservatism. This is worth
picking up on because it presents usthe left with an easy opening to make
much more convincing and appealing arguments,something we already see happening with young people
moving left and rejecting this nonsense.But it's also important to say that the
fascists and oligarchs orchestrating much of thisfascist surge around the world are less concerned
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with the LGBT community, Muslims,or whoever their current scapegoat is, and
more concerned with what works to helpthem further their agenda of preserving and expanding
capitalist exploitation. Hill goes on quotethe relentless drive of capitalists to expand their
profit margins and their mandate today demonstrateendless growth to shareholders had already planted the
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seeds that are today bearing fruit inthe form of the end of the classical
liberal ideology. This shift and declineof the liberal system organizing the West and
the international order had already begun withthe shift of neoliberalism. Under neoliberalism,
capitalist profit squeezing became even more ofan extractive force, one that uses deregulation,
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austerity, and exploitative arrangements between theWest and the global South to reinforce
and further an oppressive economic system.Over the last several decades, this arrangement
has accelerated the global crisis of liberalismthat we see today. None of this
is new. These massive international systems, both neoliberalism and classic liberalism, have
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been facing various challenges for some time. And pausing for just a second,
I want to make clear to listenersif you're not already aware, liberalism and
neoliberalism are the center left and centerright ideologies that I was describing earlier.
They are the two dominant ideologies ofthe world that dominate the global capitalist system
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that we all currently live under.They are incredibly similar in both reactionary by
nature right wing. They are theideology of every US president that we've ever
had, one or the other.And again, they're pretty fucking similar and
both hyper capitalist. Back to Hill'sarticle quote as an astute twenty eighteen paper
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by Phasey Ishmael and seng Ghita Kamat. My apologies on the pronunciations quote.
The nature of neoliberalism as a modeof accumulation that penetrates virtually all aspects of
economic, political, and social lifehas meant that the global financial crisis is
of course not limited to the economy. It has come to be accompanied by
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full scale political and social crises inboth the global north and south, and
a crisis of neoliberalism itself. Despitethe intellectual vacuity of neoliberalism as a system
capable of explaining the world and itsdeclining legitimacy the world over, the neoliberals
themselves appear to have no alternative toneoliberalism except authoritarianism. Hill then says quote
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the trend that the authors identify here, both the crisis of neoliberalism and its
proponents finding authoritarianism to be their lasthope have only been increasingly borne out in
the years since the writing was published. The decline of the neoliberal system has
been accelerated by the massive harms thatits extractive arrangements have wrought in developing nations,
by the loss of faith in theability of international organizations and arrangements to
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sufficiently mitigate these damages, and bythe multiple cancers at the heart of global
capitalism. Right now, the worldis seeing with frightening clarity that the international
political order is unable to stop agenocide happening in place sight. As Hill
wrote in early November regarding the UScontext, quote, it's frightening. Unconditional
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funding for genocide is terrifying, frankly, and it's already starting to create a
political realignment. But it's not justthat people might not vote Biden or Democrat.
It's that people are fed up withthe system as a whole. So
people are joining organizations fighting for structuralchange and transformation, organizations trying to shut
down the war machine, Organizations thathave a serious analysis of the systemic nature
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of imperialism and colonialism and capitalism endquote. Hill then says, quote and
in this pivotal moment, people aroundthe world are making a number of connections
between Israel's genocide and gaza, theneoliberal system of extraction and exploitation of the
global South, and the increasing failureto provide the basic needs of people at
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home. These connections and the ongoinginability to address these problems are or at
the very heart of the current crisisof liberalism. Again and again, we
see posts on every one of thedozen or more social media platforms in use
today where people express their frustration atthe Pentagon getting another trillion dollars while we're
told that we can't have universal healthcare, or the cancelation of student debt
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or decent public transportation. These sentimentsare, of course, just a beginning,
just an entry point into a fullerand more comprehensive critique of the political
and economic order. Hill says nowthat criticism must be paired with education and
organizing to be fleshed out and translatedinto action. End quote. Now,
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for the sake of not reading hisentire article, I'm going to skip down
a bit, but I do encourageyou to read the whole thing. It's
good and share, Hill writes,quote. A failure to acknowledge and address
the reality that liberalism is likely falteringand breaking down leaves the right with every
advantage. It allows them to continueto surge while a lot of people stagnate
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in the collapsing center. Once weaccept that reality, we can move left,
can build up a real alternative bothto the decaying world order and to
the fascist response that is rising aswe speak. The only real, sustainable,
just alternative to the current dominant systemsmust involve moving beyond capitalism not doubling
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down on it and pairing its extractionwith even more authoritarianism and violence. And
it's up to us to present thatalternative. We must show people that the
world can run without scapegoating, withoutpolitical oppression, and without economic exploitation.
We must show people that we canbuild a world where human needs come before
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free markets in scare quotes, andwhere we collectively take responsibility for one another
instead of telling anyone struggling to simplypull themselves up by their bootstraps. While
fascists pretend to oppose the system,they are really working to protect and expand
it. End quote. So yeah, go read that whole thing. I
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think that that's good and share it. I like Joshua's content. He's a
Jewish guy who is anti genocide.You know, imagine that. Wow,
how fucking radical. You can alsofind more of his content at jp hill
dot com and that's jp Hill withthree l's. So, meanwhile, while
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the left is trying to you know, figure this out, democrats, the
fucking liberalists in the US insist thatneither policy nor strategy need change and refuse
to give a fucking inch to theeconomic left. Finsitting centrist dogmatists like Jonathan
Chade of the Atlantic continue to playthe tune of Bidenomics like it's some magical
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selling point to voters, even asmost Americans are wholly unset satisfied with its
modest results, if there really areany at all, and that selling Bidenomics
seems to only mean berating anyone whocomplains about their economic circumstances and telling them
that they're actually doing great. Thirdway democratic politics is failing, because,
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of course it is, not becauseit's somehow worse than the rights straight up
fucking fascism, but because it's missingthe economic revolution. The rich continue to
get richer the poor poor, andno amount of rainbow flag waving and draping
themselves in kenta cloths or strongly wordedletters to corporations to lower their fucking prices
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is going to fix that. Biden'swhole shtick is being able to work with
Republicans, neoliberals, and liberals workingtogether. He made it a key feature
of his campaign, and it's nothingnew for Democrats. They get along just
fine with the right. Despite thepointed remarks for the cameras to maintain the
mirage of difference between the parties economically, we know indulge and debating bad faith
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minutia with the right is both theprimary flaw of third way liberalism and its
biggest selling point. Third Way democratsare virtually indistinguishable from reactionary billionaires at this
point, like they're all in thesame fucking group. They don't give a
fuck about what the people need.They're self interested and will happily turn over
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whatever's left of democracy to fascists ifit means keeping all those radical commis at
bay. Third Way Democrats liberals,with their complete lack of ideology other than
moneymaking, are of course ambivalent aboutthe outcome of the right's hit campaign against
Claudine Gay, saying that the rightacted in bad faith, but her resigning
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is totally appropriate because plagiarism is sovery terrible and simply cannot be tolerated under
any circumstances. Imagine just for amoment, thinking, or at least pretending
to think that citation, ethics,or whatever the fuck it is that these
people are so upset with is aconcern. Is a serious concern that anyone
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but the snobs and the pundit classclaim to give a fuck about. As
Adam Johnson said on X We're gonnaaddress our enemies in good faith, our
way to extinction. This shit isso disconnected from the actual world, you
know, like the world in whichlike real people with real problems reside outside
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of the ruling class in their fuckingivory towers. It's frustrating, to say
the least, watching these people placateright wing grievances while so many remain living
on the edge of poverty if they'renot already there. The ruling class consistently
proves to their critics that they're rightwhen they say that they're out of touch
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with fucking everyone. When the punditclass or a member of the ruling class
says, as they usually do thingsthat demean and dehumanize the working class,
people tend to hate them, andyou know, seek alternatives. And unfortunately,
for whatever fucking reason, like straightup fascism seems to be appealing to
a lot of people. And Isay, for whatever reason, but you
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know, we know why. It'sjust the result of an incessant drumbeat of
propaganda emanating from the right all thetime forever. And just to continue Joshua's
point, when it comes to foreignpolicy third way Democrats liberals currently in the
White House are conducting business as usualfor imperial and capital interests. The US
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State Department said just yesterday, maybetwo days ago, given when you're listening
to this, that Blinken told Jordanthat the US opposes forcible displacement of Palestinians
from the West Bank and Gaza,while the Israeli government meanwhile, has been
openly saying that its plans include voluntarydisplacement, creating conditions so unbearable, literally
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unlivable, that Palestinians quota quote voluntarilyleave when there's nothing fucking voluntary about it.
Israel, with the explicit backing ofthe Biden administration, is conducting a
genocide just to beat that horse todeath. And the only difference between this
administration and the Trump administration would bethat Trump would be retweeting pictures of dead
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bodies with laughing emojis. But atleast Biden makes liberals feel like blood might
not be on their hands. Butcircling back to the plagiarism shit, Trump
appointed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch plagiarizedTrump's pedo zionist lawyer Alan Dershowitz, plagiarized
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wife of right wing billionaire Bill Lackman, the billionaire bankrolling this targeted op plagiarized,
and Christopher Ruffo lied about having amaster's degree from Harvard. But it
doesn't matter. I honestly don't givea fuck about those people, and they're
totally expected hypocrisy. We don't beatthese motherfuckers by proving that they are a
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bunch of lying hypocrites, Like weknow this and they know it. Nothing
changes until news media stops acknowledging therights artificial moral panics. Remember, this
isn't about plagiarism. They don't givea fuck if Claudine Gay plagiarized. They
give a fuck that she's black,and wouldn't explicitly condemn and punish those calling
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for the protection of human rights globallyand an end to US imperialist and capital
interests. This coordinated attack on leftwing people in academia has only one purpose,
and that is to maintain white Christiancapitalist supremacy inside American power. The
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rights targeted attack on Gay and othersis about anti blackness. It's about control
domination. Gay's testimony on December fourthfucking sucked. Yeah, it was cold,
clinical and made her look bad,not just to conservatives, which was
gonna happen no matter what she fuckingsaid, but also to leftists. She
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missed an opportunity. I don't knowwhy the fuck she was blindside I don't
know why any of these people wereblindsided by this, Like anyone paying remotely
any attention that isn't sitting in positionsof power like that, completely insulated from
the world, saw this coming froma mile away, but too late.
Fucking move too slow, liberals,pick up your fucking feet. But you
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know, every time I hear someonesay how bad it is that Palestinian people
are resisting their oppressors, I thinkof this quote by C. L.
R. James. The cruelties ofproperty and privilege are always more ferocious than
the revenges of poverty and oppression.But of course this is not something people
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like Elie Staffanick and the rest ofthe ultra Maga Zionist cohort or third way
Democrat liberals like Biden ever think about, think, or at least claim to
think, that October seventh happened ina fucking vacuum and Arabs just hate them
for their freedoms or whatever. Thefuck completely ignoring and dismissing the sordid history
of anti semitism and white supremacy,real actual anti semitism and white supremacy that
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brought us exactly to this moment.Fucking idiots. And it's no surprise whatsoever
that the right in the United Statesis trying to dismantle education systems and weaponize
them to provide cover for their supremacistbullshit instead of actually educating people, because
you know, educating people is athreat, and they're fucking right. It's
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not just higher education that they're tryingto seize permanent control over. It's K
through twelve as well. And ofcourse the central part of this attack is
on black and Indigenous history and whitewashingit or getting rid of it entirely from
curriculum. Because nothing challenges white supremacyin American empire quite like highlighting its most
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heinous and ongoing atrocities against humanity.White supremacy is more difficult to maintain when
white children are aware of how destructivethat shit is, even to white people.
Fucking Oklahoma's top education chief in Januaryof last year, waging what he
called quote a spiritual war for thesouls of our kids, declared the teachers
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Union a terrorist organization, and lastsummer threatened a state takeover of Tulsa's fucking
school district, citing woke ideology andties to the Chinese Communist Party. What
the fuck, Yes, Tulsa,Oklahoma's school district has ties to the Chinese
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right. All of this incoherent psychobabbleand bad faith parental rights movement sheltering kids
from the gays and America's violently racistfounding emanating from the right stems from the
exact same white fragility and inherently fascistbullshit responsible for this mere campaign against left
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wing academics and journalists at the moment, which is ramping up, by the
way, that's not going to endanytime soon. I don't think these fucking
people blame societal woes on wokeism,in which they can't even fucking define,
instead of the real culprit of capitalistpower accumulation, the eroding of workers' rights,
which Elon Musk is accelerating with hislatest stunt in trying to get the
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US Supreme Court to rule the FederalLabor Enforcer unconstitutional so he can just do
whatever the fuck he wants with hisworkers. Maybe this should be, I
don't know, perhaps the primary focusthat Democrats should be adamantly pushing back on.
But they're not, and the punditclass continues to dutifully fill their headlines
with clauding gay stories. Instead oflords of industry seizing whatever how our workers
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have left from them, and insteadof fighting to wrest power back from our
capitalist overlords, most Americans are justscreaming online about Jeffrey Epstein's pedo friends who
they want hanged, and then backto business as usual, while doing fuck
all to prevent it from happening again. The Epstein thing is not about an
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evil cabal of devil worshiping baby torturersor you know, people drinking the blood
of children to live longer, despitethe rights conspiracy pilled brains telling them otherwise.
It's about insanely wealthy men and womenaiding in a bedding and providing cover
for them, who are using theirnearly untouchable status as part of the ruling
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class of capitalists to get away withabusing sixteen year olds, not infants.
As Robert Evans wrote on x quote, this isn't better or less awful,
really, but the kind of peoplewho tend to see shadowy pedophiles behind everything
are also the kind of dudes whowould absolutely pay to fuck a sixteen year
old if they had the money.End quote, Evans is exactly right.
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Many of the same dudes fighting tokeep billionaires billionaires due to the off chance
that they too might be rich oneday are the same people who'd pay to
fuck kids if they had the money. There's a reason why certain people want
to protect power, and uh,this is one of them. So screaming
and fucking losing your fucking minds aboutyou know, I can't believe that these
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powerful elitists are doing this shit.What what do you what do you think
allows them to get away with itfor fucking so long and literally forever,
Like none of them are being punished. I don't know if you've noticed.
It's the money. They're shielded andcompletely insulated because of the money. They
don't operate on the same level asninety nine point nine percent of the planet,
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and that's a fucking problem. Theyall need to be brought down to
size. But Robert Evans also wrotein the same thread that this is quote
your reminder here that the powerful allianceof churches and Christian religious leaders have steadily
worked to expand the number of stateswhere an adult can marry a fourteen year
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old yes. In February last year, the Wyoming Republican Party sought to kill
a bill that was working its waythrough the state legislature proposing to raise the
state's legal marriage age to sixteen fromfourteen. In America in twenty twenty three,
the Republican Party in Wyoming was arguingthat putting quote unquote arbitrary limits on
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child marriage interferes with parental rights andreligious liberty. The bad guys are the
rich and powerful and the Christian nationalistsper usual. It's not the drag queens
and leftists. It's the reactionist christto fascists. And no, the liberals
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cited in the Epstein documents are arenot leftists. They're liberals. Comb all
of those documents and you will notfind one fucking Marxist, not one communist,
not one socialist, And no,you will not find a drag queen.
The right wing conspiracists, in sucha frenzy over the Epstein docs are
again showing their entire asses. They'reagain proving to everyone that the Pizzagate QAnon
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phenomenon and its various offshoots since twentyfifteen sixteen. They're showing what they really
are. The children are just aprop used to defend far right figures like
Trump and white supremacists as the heroesof the story that they tell anyone who
attacks Trump and the like become apedophile themselves, because that's how you slander
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somebody for daring to defy the godEmperor Donald never Mind that Trump has always
ran in exactly the same circles asthe Clintons and others associated with Epstein and
his other creditor friends. Never mindTrump being a documented sexual predator himself going
back decades. Never mind all evidencepointing to Trump being part of the exact
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problem that right wing conspiracists claim tocare so much about. And again,
as I point out the blatant hypocrisyof the right, it doesn't matter.
The right will never be convinced thatall of their heroes are equally implicated in
heinous criminal behavior. They don't carethat an Epstein victim described Donald Trump's alleged
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sexual proclivities and then recanted for fearof her life, among many other accusations
over the decades, they don't fuckingcare. It's the exact same thing as
when the devoutly religious who still refuseto recognize and accept that their religious leaders
have been abusing their power to harmchildren going back centuries. We don't beat
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these motherfuckers by proving them hypocrites.We beat them by showing them how to
build a just society that puts peopleabove free enterprise. As Joshua Hill wrote,
quote, only a real, strong, powerful left can step into the
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vacuum that is expanding right now,defeat the fascists who rush to claim that
space and build a better society.All right. That was episode forty four
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of Another Fucking Guy with a Podcast. You can follow me on the socials
at another Guy pod everywhere and subscribeon Patreon if you really liked it,
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