Re: <nettime> Leftists, don't fall in the trap!

[podinski via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Hi Brian and Nettimers,

Good to see some caring and careful analysis for imagining what the
global citizens ( and non-citizens ) can do to defend ourselves and each
other now in the era of the re-throned Agent Orange !
…

As media artivists + hacktivists, one crucial angle of resistance we’ve
noticed and find very disturbing and off-target is this ACCEPTANCE of
The (S)election Shamocracy.

As if this was a failure of this or that: Harris/Biden, Dems, Lame
Campaigns, Voters, etc,
There was NO FREE NOR FAIR ELECTION ! There is NO MANDATE ! The
Grand-Guignol Democracy Theater IS NOT DEMOCRACY ! …

 „Democracy“ is probably not even a proper answer to any question
related to how to exit these populist power grabs in the
hyper-industrialized age of the billion-dollar brain-parasites
infestation + overdose + vulture krapitalism. 

We must REFUSE a mediated stench-of-death Fabrik and the fully
Man-U-fractured Consent ! And the Colluding Duopoly's Repeatedly Stolen
Elections !

The Dems Vs Reps Shitshow is a nauseating *Spectacle* that the
billionaire-owned media use to herd in the masses in such a way so as to
eliminate any real opposition, and pre-empt any real demands + real
causes + real actions for change !

So if anyone still says things like „a clear majority“ or „trump won
over the other party“ or Harris might have won, if only….

Send em to this link to the poetic jam master Gil Scot-Heron, to get
their brains rewired !

This pretty ancient media specimen still has some incredible lyrical
fire, and a few extra footnotes spliced in... ( sorry for the Gootube
link ) ... "First thing i want to say is Mandate my Ass !"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBu2Dz9NZMI

This (s)election shit’s been the same game - at the very least - since
1982 and the times of Cowboy Ray-Gun !  Except of course for all the new
high-tech + web delivery of The Cubicle-ized Brainwash ... and the much
more accelerated layers of complicity, corruption, collusion and xtra
neo-lib-fascism to boot !

…

One point here is that, from a media activist and/or escape artists’
perspective, new strategies will have to be developed and launched to
unlock and subvert and jam and/or evacuate the Bullshit Narrative Matrix !

We might say this will probably entail far less tech solution, but heaps
of new rebellious and disobedient attitudes mixed with direct action… 

Currently revisiting Aric McBay’s „Full Spectrum Resistance“ ( 2019) for
some good guidance + concrete ideas about how to FIGHT and WIN … w/
inspirations + anecdotes +urgencies from ongoing indigenous (and other)
mobilizations and movements. …  for a new XLt Article, coming soon.

Drop us an email if you would like to receive our newsletter ( w/o a
pay-wall ).

...

4 more years of Agent Orange is STILL NOT AN OPTION !

In global solidarity against the rise of the fascist lunatics parade !

the XLterrestsrials


p.s. NOW is a very crucial time to $$$upport independent and real
opposition channels of information and communications ... otherwise we
will continue to "Get Owned" and "Sold Down River" by the
billionaire-owned matrix !





On 12/11/24 11:59, nettime-l-request@lists.nettime.org wrote:
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>    1. Re: Leftists, don't fall in the trap! (marc.garrett)
>    2. Re: the great re-alignment (Jon Lebkowsky)
>    3. Re: the great re-alignment (David Herzog)
>    4. Re: the great re-alignment (David Herzog)
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> On Monday, 11 November 2024 at 10:21, Brian Holmes via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org> wrote:
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>> So, now that the unthinkable has happened, now that the fascist, racist,
>> misogynist Trump has been elected by a clear majority of Americans, we on
>> the left are supposed to admit that we are wrong by essence, offer our mea
>> culpa, and move to the center where our Democratic leaders want us. In this
>> way, elections can supposedly be won by a party representing the
>> repressive, militarist and above all plutocratic elites of a social order
>> forged by triumphant neoliberalism and ready to maintain class privileges
>> by whatever grotesque war it takes to keep empire alive.
>>

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