Yes I agree with all that. Also I’m sort of a nerd that way. Though as I’ve gotten older and life has gotten harder and the challenges are affecting me more personally, I care less about that stuff than I do about fighting the people who are immediately attacking me and finding solutions to the immediate problems. But…

yes I agree. It’s hard to talk about this stuff online, especially since the left is so broad and none of us are experts (or at least not me, and you say you neither).

Antifa and black bloc are the same thing, at least unless something has changed very recently. Antifa just means antifascist and black bloc is a street tactic. Antifa is decentralized so you can show up and be antifa. They have local autonomous chapters. They include anarchists, communists, socialists, everyone on…

People disagree about this stuff, and since it’s all theoretically anyway, the wisest response (IMO) is that it’s stupid to go on and on in detail planning a society that is nowhere near existing. Systems arise in circumstances and with need. But briefly, I can say that your question might be a little muddled? What do…

I don’t see how conservatives and libertarians (in the American sense- classical and European libertarianism are very different) fit into this. But as for socialists and big government- socialists (at least the democratic ones common here) are not opposed to government. They are opposed to imperialism and state…

They aren’t aligned. The left often fights itself. They are trying to be aligned in a big tent sort of way right now because they are fighting the same short term battles, but long term they have very different ideas about what they want. To answer your question in the short term though, everyone on the left agrees…

Antifa is not a unified group and has no cohesive ideology about government. The Antifa I know and see at rallies range from communists (some of whom have very clear ideas about the role of government) to anarchists who believe all authority should prove their necessity, etc. to various factions between those. Also I…

Not sure what you are trying to say. What ideology do conservatives and libertarians (as understood by the American usage) share with antifas? I can’t even guess what you mean by conservatives, though with libertarians I’m guessing you mean the sort of anti-authoritarianism that some of them might share with…

No what we are seeing is how deeply the socialization of entitlement runs for rich athletic white men. Now that she’s sometimes personally affected by the things that rich white men in power do to others, she’s facing massive cognitive dissonance.

I’m not in the Bay Area hence the maybe. But just want to point out that I’m not talking about people showing up and causing minor property damage or even physical confrontations and violence. Fine- no one is disputing that, it’s apparent. I was talking about the “bored kid” part or (in other people’s posts) the “rich…

As one of the olds, I saw antifa in the punk scene which did, at that time, include white supremacist skin heads (though you younger folk may not know that skin heads were not originally white supremacist) and antifa was there to fight them. As a woman, it was cool to have a group of people beating down the assholes…

Maybe but that has not been my experience.

I think the media plays this shit up. I was at a one of the antiracist rallies recently in the crowd standing right behind antifa - there were families and the mayor of a nearby municipality and just regular protestors plus a bunch of other activist groups etc- we were all right behind the antifa folks. Some of the…

Technically, it just means being antifascist. The difference between them and more liberal opposition to fascism is that they are using force rather than just nonviolent protest. In practice, they are leftists, but they range from socialists (even dem socialists) to communists to anarchists. It’s not an organized…

Hey I think we need to clarify that anarchism does not mean causing violence. Neither does communism. So while all the antifascist groups are willing to respond with violence or fight nazis etc, and most of them are also somewhere on the anarcho-communist spectrum, that does not mean they or anarchists in general are…

There isn’t really a difference between those two words unless it’s a fairly recent thing.

Some are anarchists. I think most people don’t know what that really means though as it doesn’t mean causing violence. Others are communists. Most are somewhere along the anarcho-communist lines. Some are just antifascists. But the thing that is missing is that the ones instigating violence (usually wanting a…

Certainly not the Dems. That’s the whole point. And yet even still, voter turnout was around 50% which is not too far from national trends for elections in non presidential years, and he only got slightly over half of that vote. Now consider also gerrymandering, voter suppression and the fact that the Libertarian…

I think Beto is going to come really close to taking Cruz’s seat. Well, rephrase that. He has a chance at it if he runs a smart and uncompromisingly progressive campaign. I don’t think he’ll actually win this time, but it will be close enough that I think the DNC will notice. On one hand, that’s great. On the other,…

I think we agree on most things Semilla. I’m not saying there are more bigots in other places- rather that this is an American problem that is shared across the states. The white supremacists who want to establish an ethnostate have picked eastern WA and OR for that, and they are active there despite being in states…