The NZ Left, Woke Twitter, the Emerald Stormtroopers, anyone who works at the Spinoff, micro aggression policing Millennials, PSA Staff, Â militant cyclists, para-military vegans, subscribers to ActionStation, most of the Green Party Caucus, Fourth Wave Feminists, gender binary activists and the Wellington Twitterati desperately need to see this video.
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Brilliant.
Must be played at the next Green conference on the big screen.
It’s wrong. I am left wing and nothing like what was described. Also by no means can the Democrat Party of America is no-where near being left! It is owned and run by a corrupt group. Watch the Jimmy Dore show!
Its crazy how benifitial marijuana is to society. Its crazy such a versitile harmless plant could be vilionized accross the world for so long. They even have hemp and CBD products for pets now.. Example A: https://cbdfx.com/collections/cbd-for-pets/ … and beyond the theraputic or medical benefits of marijuana there are so many industrial benefits like using it for paper, glues, etc. Save the forests!!!
Jazz Twemlow “Die-hard leftie but not a huge fan of lefties.”
Weirdly, sadly?, that his actual complete statement to describe himself.
Very much like people on bloggs who feel the need to say “I’m a Leftie but..” and then go on to reveal themselves as being very NOT Leftie.
But then again, if he thinks the like of Clinton are Left wing then no wonder he’s confused.
Maybe he’s just a self loathing Centrist.
Which is fair enough.
Enjoyed this video, think it made excellent points, and love Australian dry humour, but it is based on the assumption that on average people on the Left are innately smarter than people on the Right. The fact that a large number of people on the Left do dumb things is really no different to the fact that a large number of people on the right do dumb things. People on the Left just do different dumb things to those on the Right.
As an example, most smart people on the Left like Noam Chompski and Chris Hedges say Antifa is dumb as it just gives the Right an excuse for clamping down on the Left. While this is 100 percent true, there are always going to be people on the Left who will behave like Antifa, whatever you tell them, because that is their belief and their innate way of reacting.
Also, the Right will probably always be more able to control its followers because its followers enjoy being told what to do and think. People on the Left don’t. Getting to get the Left to do the right thing is a bit like trying to herd cats.
At last a glimpse of humour. Sad how so many have become so glum and solemn with the old bulwark of the old left, the industrial proletariat or their progeny, now seen as a ‘basket of deplorables’ or even as ‘fascist.’
They are the same people now as they were then but in the old days some of them actually read Marx or Jack London or even Gorky and very often ‘The Bible.’
These are replaced now by social media and the internet and the world and the left has turned itself inside out while population has doubled and the planet heats.
One day people will look back to the era of cultural Marxism as we now might look back at the Victorian corset.
I would love to comment.
However I left school at sixteen, served an apprenticeship, worked with my hands with other working class blokes. Also I did not go to university, let alone get a degree.
I have therefore been advised by my university educated siblings & in-laws that I am not qualified to have an independent opinion.
I would love to comment.
However I left school at sixteen, served an apprenticeship, worked with my hands with other working class blokes. Also I did not go to university, let alone get a degree.
I have therefore been advised by my university educated siblings & in-laws that I am not qualified to have an independent opinion.
Ah TB, you have commented. And don’t stop. Your history gives a flax-roots dimension which others don’t and is important or none of us know very much about each others’ experiences.
Working with your hands is pretty good, and may be the way of the future post apocalypse, so thank you for providing the future with your genetic coding ! Well done.
He’s still using terms like ‘alt-right’ and implying that his leftest views are the correct views and the only paradigm/lens proper to view the world through.
He concedes nothing, refuses to accept many so called ‘alt-right’ people have nuanced views – way more so than his leftest buddies. He fails to understand using terms like ‘left’ and ‘right’ is dinosaur speak.
This video is just tragic rubbish, predicated on sloppy, pseudo-intellectualism with a wet dream of the Overton window thrown in or good measure.
Dress up as Hitler mate, attack those on 4chan, poke fun at those who poke fun at yoga – quite pathetic really. He really misses the whole cultural point – the intellectual dark web would make mince meat this guy – but it would be a giant waste of our time
People don’t have ideas, ideas have people.
This is taking caricature to absurdity.
With climate chaos looming, with the global economy melting down, and with poverty, oppression, repression and war, as capitalism’s daily calling cards, lets get serious.
The “left” is a term of abuse for the right, and that includes everyone from liberal to communist, and is thus meaningless.
Essentially it conflates capitalists with anti-capitalists.
Because liberals are polite capitalists, while communists are rude anti-capitalists.
The ‘woke’ left is even more meaningless.
I prefer ‘class consciousness’.
The only red pill that makes one class conscious is the “red” one of Marxism, and that means avoiding being bogged down in liberal fetishes about defending bourgeois rights like free speech unless they help to make the billions of working people free of the tyranny of the 1%.
The capitalists fool us into thinking that their “rights” are universal, and many of us join the rat race in this hope.
The maverick capitalist Trumps shows us that while rights are worth a lot to him they are worthless to us.
Anti-capitalists have to take those rights from the capitalists who use them to trap us inside their dying system.
But that means they cease to be bourgeois rights and become workers rights.
Like the workers right to a job on a living income, decent affordable health, education and housing, and the right to live in a healthy, sustainable environment, currently sacrificed to the bosses’ right to profit.
None of which capitalism can deliver us, but which the end of capitalism can give as a fighting chance to make for ourselves.
Frankly all this “woke left” and “identity politics” stuff just comes across as grumpy old farts insulting millennials. It is ridiculous to expect the under 30s to have the same opinions and attitudes as you, they grew up in an entirely different world and don’t even remember a time when there was no internet.
Has the video been removed? I can’t see it, and I’ve nothing that would block it.
I reckon Jonathan Pie gets much right, in his videos and shows.
Seems to be working. Basically says asking or modulating the same questions over and over means somebody ran out of stuff to say.
A lot of people both left and right creates atmospheres around emotive and controversial issues where dissent against the consensus gets people in serious trouble. How many assholes do you see trying to get people fired – an extremely bad thing to have happen to you at the best of times, let alone with your name being publicly known as someone who got fired – with online campaigns? It makes people scared to be honest about their views which I’d hope we could all agree is a negative. How often does fake news, often demonising people, get spread because of people who want to be seen as being virtues by their friends? Maybe the latter is more about social media in general than the left, but what is posting on social media if not virtue signalling.
Yep that’s what the kiwi left need, neolib nonsense from a blairite unable to discern the difference between anti-zionism and anti-semitism. Needless to say this foreigner’s patronising cultural ignorance means that despite the EU being the primary wedge used by corporate capitalists to split europe’s protetariat and encourage unions’ obeisance to the bosses (frequently despite intense opposition from members), this oh so wise agent of the oppressor argues against brexit.
Why would kiwis who stood against the TPP believe the same song under a new name, ‘the EU’, would be good for thr average euro sh1tk1cker?
One thing that is mos def surplus to requirements in Aotearoa & Oz is an ersatz left that charlatans such as the protagonist on this vid, desperately seek to promote.
SJW and the ‘woke’ movement always reminds me of the Pulp song ‘Common People’ – it’s the easy spark, with no personal struggle or pain involved. And it helps no one.
Brilliant.
Must be played at the next Green conference on the big screen.
It’s wrong. I am left wing and nothing like what was described. Also by no means can the Democrat Party of America is no-where near being left! It is owned and run by a corrupt group. Watch the Jimmy Dore show!
Its crazy how benifitial marijuana is to society. Its crazy such a versitile harmless plant could be vilionized accross the world for so long. They even have hemp and CBD products for pets now.. Example A: https://cbdfx.com/collections/cbd-for-pets/ … and beyond the theraputic or medical benefits of marijuana there are so many industrial benefits like using it for paper, glues, etc. Save the forests!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKhN1t_7PEY
Jazz Twemlow “Die-hard leftie but not a huge fan of lefties.”
Weirdly, sadly?, that his actual complete statement to describe himself.
Very much like people on bloggs who feel the need to say “I’m a Leftie but..” and then go on to reveal themselves as being very NOT Leftie.
But then again, if he thinks the like of Clinton are Left wing then no wonder he’s confused.
Maybe he’s just a self loathing Centrist.
Which is fair enough.
Enjoyed this video, think it made excellent points, and love Australian dry humour, but it is based on the assumption that on average people on the Left are innately smarter than people on the Right. The fact that a large number of people on the Left do dumb things is really no different to the fact that a large number of people on the right do dumb things. People on the Left just do different dumb things to those on the Right.
As an example, most smart people on the Left like Noam Chompski and Chris Hedges say Antifa is dumb as it just gives the Right an excuse for clamping down on the Left. While this is 100 percent true, there are always going to be people on the Left who will behave like Antifa, whatever you tell them, because that is their belief and their innate way of reacting.
Also, the Right will probably always be more able to control its followers because its followers enjoy being told what to do and think. People on the Left don’t. Getting to get the Left to do the right thing is a bit like trying to herd cats.
At last a glimpse of humour. Sad how so many have become so glum and solemn with the old bulwark of the old left, the industrial proletariat or their progeny, now seen as a ‘basket of deplorables’ or even as ‘fascist.’
They are the same people now as they were then but in the old days some of them actually read Marx or Jack London or even Gorky and very often ‘The Bible.’
These are replaced now by social media and the internet and the world and the left has turned itself inside out while population has doubled and the planet heats.
One day people will look back to the era of cultural Marxism as we now might look back at the Victorian corset.
I would love to comment.
However I left school at sixteen, served an apprenticeship, worked with my hands with other working class blokes. Also I did not go to university, let alone get a degree.
I have therefore been advised by my university educated siblings & in-laws that I am not qualified to have an independent opinion.
I would love to comment.
However I left school at sixteen, served an apprenticeship, worked with my hands with other working class blokes. Also I did not go to university, let alone get a degree.
I have therefore been advised by my university educated siblings & in-laws that I am not qualified to have an independent opinion.
Ah TB, you have commented. And don’t stop. Your history gives a flax-roots dimension which others don’t and is important or none of us know very much about each others’ experiences.
Working with your hands is pretty good, and may be the way of the future post apocalypse, so thank you for providing the future with your genetic coding ! Well done.
He’s still using terms like ‘alt-right’ and implying that his leftest views are the correct views and the only paradigm/lens proper to view the world through.
He concedes nothing, refuses to accept many so called ‘alt-right’ people have nuanced views – way more so than his leftest buddies. He fails to understand using terms like ‘left’ and ‘right’ is dinosaur speak.
This video is just tragic rubbish, predicated on sloppy, pseudo-intellectualism with a wet dream of the Overton window thrown in or good measure.
Dress up as Hitler mate, attack those on 4chan, poke fun at those who poke fun at yoga – quite pathetic really. He really misses the whole cultural point – the intellectual dark web would make mince meat this guy – but it would be a giant waste of our time
People don’t have ideas, ideas have people.
This is taking caricature to absurdity.
With climate chaos looming, with the global economy melting down, and with poverty, oppression, repression and war, as capitalism’s daily calling cards, lets get serious.
The “left” is a term of abuse for the right, and that includes everyone from liberal to communist, and is thus meaningless.
Essentially it conflates capitalists with anti-capitalists.
Because liberals are polite capitalists, while communists are rude anti-capitalists.
The ‘woke’ left is even more meaningless.
I prefer ‘class consciousness’.
The only red pill that makes one class conscious is the “red” one of Marxism, and that means avoiding being bogged down in liberal fetishes about defending bourgeois rights like free speech unless they help to make the billions of working people free of the tyranny of the 1%.
The capitalists fool us into thinking that their “rights” are universal, and many of us join the rat race in this hope.
The maverick capitalist Trumps shows us that while rights are worth a lot to him they are worthless to us.
Anti-capitalists have to take those rights from the capitalists who use them to trap us inside their dying system.
But that means they cease to be bourgeois rights and become workers rights.
Like the workers right to a job on a living income, decent affordable health, education and housing, and the right to live in a healthy, sustainable environment, currently sacrificed to the bosses’ right to profit.
None of which capitalism can deliver us, but which the end of capitalism can give as a fighting chance to make for ourselves.
Frankly all this “woke left” and “identity politics” stuff just comes across as grumpy old farts insulting millennials. It is ridiculous to expect the under 30s to have the same opinions and attitudes as you, they grew up in an entirely different world and don’t even remember a time when there was no internet.
Has the video been removed? I can’t see it, and I’ve nothing that would block it.
I reckon Jonathan Pie gets much right, in his videos and shows.
Seems to be working. Basically says asking or modulating the same questions over and over means somebody ran out of stuff to say.
A lot of people both left and right creates atmospheres around emotive and controversial issues where dissent against the consensus gets people in serious trouble. How many assholes do you see trying to get people fired – an extremely bad thing to have happen to you at the best of times, let alone with your name being publicly known as someone who got fired – with online campaigns? It makes people scared to be honest about their views which I’d hope we could all agree is a negative. How often does fake news, often demonising people, get spread because of people who want to be seen as being virtues by their friends? Maybe the latter is more about social media in general than the left, but what is posting on social media if not virtue signalling.
Yep that’s what the kiwi left need, neolib nonsense from a blairite unable to discern the difference between anti-zionism and anti-semitism. Needless to say this foreigner’s patronising cultural ignorance means that despite the EU being the primary wedge used by corporate capitalists to split europe’s protetariat and encourage unions’ obeisance to the bosses (frequently despite intense opposition from members), this oh so wise agent of the oppressor argues against brexit.
Why would kiwis who stood against the TPP believe the same song under a new name, ‘the EU’, would be good for thr average euro sh1tk1cker?
One thing that is mos def surplus to requirements in Aotearoa & Oz is an ersatz left that charlatans such as the protagonist on this vid, desperately seek to promote.
SJW and the ‘woke’ movement always reminds me of the Pulp song ‘Common People’ – it’s the easy spark, with no personal struggle or pain involved. And it helps no one.
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