i just want to say:

this blog loves and supports jewish people.

this blog does NOT conflate the israeli government, or the atrocities it commits, with jewish people.

this blog is disgusted with those who use or express antisemitism.

this blog knows that if someone needs to invoke antisemitism, they do not actually care about helping palestine or the palestinian people.

That is only one tactic and one way of viewing how to protest and is as a result limited in where it can and should be implemented as a tactic.

But as I stated this is only one way of viewing power; the lens through which capitalists and capitalist enterprises maintain their control and thus what should be deprived of them to wrest that control from their hands. In reality, money is a proxy. And as a proxy, it only has power by the nature of what it represents. Labor. Capitalists derive most of their power from money: the accumulation of labor value that is extracted from their workers and converted into little pieces of paper that represent that value.

And because money is such a tempting form of power to focus on. We often forget that labor in and of itself is powerful and as such, can also be leveraged in the same way.

Take your average city for example. There are most likely a large number of different and varied businesses, some of which may be fantastically wealthy. However, if you focus on which forms of labor are most vital to the operation of the city, then you get a much more accurate representation of where the most valuable labor is being performed than if you only look at where wealth is concentrated.

Places like water treatment plants, garbage and waste management, electrical and gas infrastructure, transportation infrastructure such as roads or bus garages and specifically areas where transit is most concentrated, and more recently; centralized digital infrastructure.

These are the hubs of labor power that can shut a city down (or a state or nation even).

They are also the locations that (with some exceptions) should generally be a last resort due to the massive negative externalities which would occur if one were to for example blockade a water treatment facility to prevent the work from being done. Such forms of direct action lends incredible bargaining power to movements that can pull it off but should be weighed against the negative consequences.

Buckle down lol this is gonna need a primer:

Steven Crowder is one of the biggest youtube right-wing voices to make the unfortunate habit of reaching people's ears.

He's a failed comedian debate bro who's spewed out every form of bigotry known to man. Several people who are close to him have advised that he doesn't believe a word that comes out of his mouth and just repeats talking points for money. He got famous from his claim that he'll "debate anyone" and that he "just wants to have an exchange of ideas". He then demonstrates this divine debate ability, like all the greats do, by debating unprepared 18 year olds while he has a full book of references and false stats sitting in his lap.

He's the "change my mind" asshole. If you see people mentioning it, they're referencing him, whether out of reverence or abhorrence is up to context lol.

Enter Sam Seder, host of the left-leaning news show Majority Report. Sam Seder has had some of legitimately the best debates I've ever heard against right libertarians, and while I'm biased as I enjoy political debate, I'm not lying when I say it's a joy to listen to these bootstrap bozos get a taste of the logic they're trying to force on everyone else. Sam is a talented rhetorician, and it's obvious to anyone who watches him.

Sam Seder and Crowder were scheduled to have a debate years ago at Politicon, but at some point (presumably Crowder had the courtesy to google Sam), Crowder's crew ghosted the people attempting to set up the debate. The only explanation that the scheduler was able to give Seder for Crowder's disappearance was "he had cold feet" and "his booker (his dad lol) wouldn't let him".

You can probably imagine, Anon, but Crowder has been considered a joke in left wing spaces ever since, though unfortunately it hasn't really spread outside of lefty political knowledge.

Fast forward to now, and Crowder made an unfortunate mistake. He got into a fight with Ethan Klein of H3H3 because Ethan made the unforgivable blunder of advising that people wear masks and get vaccinated during a pandemic.

Crowder offers to debate Ethan to settle the drama, because of course he does. Ethan Klein is not a debater. He's not a politically active channel and isn't up to date on current events. It's an unfair fight and that's why Crowder offered in the first place.

I'm not saying Ethan hasn't had some terrible takes in the past. I'm not saying he's the best person ever. I'm not saying he didn't play a major role in the anti-sjw years of 2016. I'm not even saying that I personally like him. What I AM saying is that Klein's personal politics lean center to progressive, and he Does Not Enjoy Steven's grifting bullshit.

So Ethan Klein and his editor, Dan, let his large, centrist audience in on a little secret. The Legend of Cold Feet Crowder. Klein accepts the offer to debate, and then at the last minute they loop Sam Seder into the call. The result is Crowder losing his shit, looking like a tool on live broadcast, and running away at the speed of light, but not without dropping the little tidbit in the heat of the moment that he thinks that all of his fellow right-wingers are complete morons.

Crowder has harassed practically every minority under the guise of "it's just jokes!!! i thought the left was in favor of freedom of speech!!! sO mUcH fOr ThE tOlErAnT lEfT".