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Marco ArmentRE: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/115985224639778868
Holy shit. Bravo.
This — ALL of it — is worth your time.
Matt Wilcox@marcoarment I was hoping you’d see this. I’m hoping it’s touched on in the next ATP.
I’ve so much respect for Alec and his being brave enough to do this.
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐@mattwilcox This video is filled with so much incorrect information that it's embarrassing.
Xylight
jramskov@gcvsa you can't just refute an argument by saying "study this topic lol", no need to be hostile. thank you for putting your actual arguments down though.
@Xylight This isn't a formal debate, and you aren't paying me to do research for you, so I'm pretty sure I can respond in whatever way I feel is appropriate. Your response to my comment has every indication of constituting sealioning, rather than being a genuine request. This isn't my first day on the Internet.
FreediverX
Peter N Lewis@gcvsa @mattwilcox it’s funny how whenever some posts a rational, well referenced and though out article about how renewables are clearly the best solution (or most other subjects for that matter) someone will always come along and say "That’s all lies" or "That's got lots of things wrong" - but then never actually say where the actual lie is, what is actually wrong. There were about a thousand individual facts in that video. Many with explicit source material. Which ones were incorrect?
Merlin MannI liked the technology, and then I also liked the connections.
Aaron 
@marcoarment That final 30 min is a work of art.
MegatronicThronBanksYeah he really does manage to eloquently just sum up EVERYTHING, hey.
@marcoarment @TechConnectify
A blind spot in the conclusion is reducing politics to partisanship without pointing out that both parties have been co-opted by the same moneyed interests.
It’s insufficient to just vote for Democrats. We must vote for good candidates and against the bad ones regardless of what color tie they wear.
Look at their donors. Schumer, Jeffries, Newsom, and others of their ilk might as well be Republicans.
@freediverx @TechConnectify He did discuss that about the Democrats.
You’re not wrong. There’s a time for that, and it’s the primaries.
But in the general election, in the absence of ranked-choice voting, there is only one choice: you either vote for the Democrats nominated for each position, or you let Republicans win and implicitly support what they’re doing.
@marcoarment @TechConnectify
But we’re not even in the primaries yet and we’re already being lectured by the Blue MAGA “vote blue no matter who”, Israel-first brigade.
Unless we recognize how we got to where we are today, we have little hope of a meaningful course correction.
@marcoarment @TechConnectify
We can’t wait until an election is upon us to discuss these issues. We need to start vetting and derailing the campaigns of bad candidates now, before they can build up the momentum to roll over public discourse with campaign ads, favorable coverage from the corporate media, and neoliberal sycophants like Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias.
We can’t wait until an election is upon us to discuss these issues. We need to start vetting and derailing the campaigns of bad candidates now, before they can build up the momentum to roll over public discourse with campaign ads, favorable coverage from the corporate media, and neoliberal sycophants like Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias.
Magnus Ahltorp@freediverx @marcoarment Insufficient, yes, but necessary.
As I wrote in the linked thread just a couple of minutes ago: Even though it's possible to organise resistance in a fascist dictatorship, it's much easier under a dysfunctional and comparatively mildly hostile government.
@ahltorp @marcoarment
I agree, but I view this from a different perspective.
Some believe we should just tell everyone to vote for Democrats. If you recall, that didn't work so well in 2016 or 2024.
I believe the best path lies in energizing young, working class, and progressive voters. But to do that, we must first have a candidate that inspires those voters with a platform centered on their material needs with specific policies, rather than on billionaires, Wall Street, and Israel.
Christian Kent 𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥@marcoarment I’ve certainly enjoyed the past 4 years — we spun off a local volunteer group to help people move to solar+batteries and stick it to the mining giants who want to stop us being energy producers (in our own home) — I like to open with, “Come and cut your power bills by 150%” haha. This was started after we (and a string of neighbouring seats) replaced our safe-seat conservative MP with an independent who is pro-climate action and takes no orders from a party machine outside our area.
Ours and the two neighbouring ones even increased their vote when re-elected 👍 it’s the sort of professional you can send a class of 12-year-olds to see from the parliamentary gallery on a school trip, without them getting nauseous and turned off politics for life.