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We need to make more co-ops, mutual aid centers, help the homeless, etc. We need to show the lumpenproletariats what we're really about instead of the media being their source.
Yes! We need to create dual power structures in order to help others get by, especially our civilization is on the brink of collapse. Take my words with a grain of salt, but the threat of nuclear war by Russia would incentivize us to help our communities quickly when our governments are failing us.
"Collective responsibility and individual freedom. You can't have one without the other". This is great. It sucks when you have to explain concepts like this to grown adults. Thanks for your thoughts!
I have avoided speaking about this topic pretty much the entire time but I'm right on board with you. Pro-vaccine, anti-mandate. This whole pandemic has created a frothing mass of scared people that will just.. scream at anyone that has a differing opinion. Thank you for this.
So the one thing that particularly bugs me is how the "skeptics" are saying, very loudly and condescendingly, that it's "our fault" for their position because of the "way we talk to them". And then "talk to us" in the same "perfect way to not be listened to". It's almost like there's people egging them/us on to entrench themselves/ourselves into factional language barriers on purpose for... dare I say... "unknown reasons" and definitely not to the"benefit of any particular person"
its just obvious the language used is generally super overbearing, and the media has beat everyone over the head with misinformation to the extent that no one has actually see the conflicting covid info coming out until now after the media blitz
21:20 "when do we start making sure people don't end up homeless in a system that has no desire to help you out?" Well that's the problem right there, most people on the right do not want a system that is oriented around promoting the well being of the citizens. To them that's evil, that's anti-freedom, having obligations to society is anti-freedom according to them. Most conservatives believe this and try to pretend they don't b/c they know it sounds bad, the libertarians are at least honest, they know they want a system where it's every man for himself, the richest are the winners and losing means not surviving (hence why we call it social darwinism). - This is why it drives me nuts when socialists call themselves Libertarians. I don't care what that word is "supposed to mean" or what it means in other countries, in my country, my situation, libertarian means crazy a-hole who thinks taxation is theft, cp is fine and everything has to be monetized.
I'd frickin love to hear about the "preventing crime before it happens" I'm making a documentary for school about policing and I'd love to hear about alternatives to the police.
There are non you would ultimately just recreate the police or smaller more militarized version of them in certain areas where there are high rates of violent crime
@@lohollywood1f428 it will be a while. The assignment is due end of the school year, so maybe July or August. I'll upload it to my channel when it's done
I love your videos, man. You don't need any of that fancy shit with tons of editing, it's just straightforward speaking with, a microphone, a camera, some still images and something useful or interesting to say. Not that well produced stuff is bad, it's just good to see basic speaking like this. It's a good skill.
26:16 - ok, I'll bite. One thing I've been working on lately is participating in a group that's doing autonomously run political education, aimed at being accessible to the masses. They've got an introductory course that helps folks understand how capitalism works, that's run in three forms: the course in English, the same basic course in Spanish, and then a modified form aimed for high schoolers, which aims to be a bit easier and more fun to take in. Those who graduate that can take various other courses online, and we've recently spun off a group that's aiming to start an in-person campus for a full university program, including study abroad with another org in either Chiapas, Mexico, with the Zapatistas, or in Cuba. Pretty cool stuff. Others before me paved the way, and I'm helping to move it further along -- currently working on some stuff to increase technical literacy within the community, for example.
When you said "Go down in the basement" for whatever reason my hand instinctively went and touched my genit@lia. Don't ask why just do what i do and accept it happened
Damn that wass amazing. I'm a Canadian, been against the trucker's protest since the start, but you blew my mind! You are so right! You really shifted my perspective. Thanks! (I must say, I'm high rn, but I'm sure my sobered up ass would also agree).
Hey, I saw you subbed to my channel and I just wanted to say this vid is awesome! I've been having questions about what to think about the freedom convoy for a while now and this is by far the best vid I've seen on it.
I used to be a liberal but I want to look to the future and liberals seem to be fighting 10 years ago's battles that have all been co-opted by corporate interests. The truckers are on the right side of history. They are the resistance. I'm with them.
No vaccine is 100% effective. What they do is significantly reduce the liklihood of infection, and significantly reduce the likelihood that an infection will lead to severe symptoms.
I'm Canadian and in the heart of an ultra conservative voting district in Ontario. So it's not just media I hear but neighbours. Some who bought into the hype of the rallies. So I went hunting for info.... The people who were collecting the money and organizing the protests were all (each and every one!) ultra right wing, political and supremacist groups who do these protests every few years. They are not in any way truckers or ordinary Canadians who are being hurt by the systems. In fact all the truckers orgs spoke against the rallies. All of them. And frankly it's stupifying that the Conservative Party is involved and they say repeatedly that they'd do nothing whatsoever to help Canadians get thru the pandemic, not keep their businesses or homes, Yet all you hear from the organizers of the rally is anti-Trudeau rhetoric when the Liberals have actually helped ordinary Canadians. The biggest tell was how often the Conservative Party spoke against the aid efforts, yet applied for each and every single program for themselves.
In ordinary situations, I'd agree that the govt should be less invasive and had it not been a pandemic, I'd be anti-mandate and screaming about overreach too. But this was a community need, And the alt was to let far too many people die. Mostly front line workers and health care staff. IMO the mandates were necessary. And they could have started some better strategies for the future ie work from home and building revamps so air quality and circulation were improved. Web connections could have been improved and costs reduced for them. They could have worked on improving local trade systems so people were fed no matter what was happening in the world. But as soon as they could they were trying to romanticize what we had in 2019 and earlier. John Hopkins had tried to educate media and govts after 2003 when SARS 1 came thru Canada. But media and govt didn't follow their playbook. And we were caught with our pants down. That's why the mandates were necessary.
I will Never understand why the same ppl who are afraid of government tracking.. are also the same ppl opposed to using masks... I mean, legitimately, I fee like a Ninja
@@wandererstraining I’ve been interested in Anarchism for a few years but I’m young and ND and haven’t done much in terms of organizing. I have leftist and anarchist sympathizing friends, but I don’t know any genuinely committed anarchists. I know they exist here though, Spartacus books is a nice radical bookstore, there’s a zine called No More City made by a bunch of anonymous anarchists here. I’d love to get in contact with some other Vancouver Anarchists and really start doing some mutual aid stuff. What’s a safe way to do that?
@@blake7570 My friends are more, like, isolated pockets of normal people. But a safe bet would be to go talk to people. I haven't organized much yet either. I really want to, but I just got back in town after having lost all my savings and haven't gotten my shit together yet. 😅 But I want to start with the people surrounding me directly. Anyone who has affinities and wants to apply some praxis, they don't specifically have to be anarchists, just find anarchist solutions appealing - or else, we'll never grow in numbers.
Great talk, we should have this played out in public on TV. I liked particularly the call to action at the end. Hope your personal life goes okay. It seems like many of us are going through a rough time now, myself included. "Anti-mandate, pro-vaccine and pro-education". I agree, but I really don't see how anarchism would be against mandates. It is doesn't have to be decided in a top-down way or by the state, but as a community, or as a confederation of workers councils, we can collectively decide to require individuals to follow a set of rules, in this case for certain professions to have vaccines; just like we would require a semi-truck driver to complete a commercial road test, or for a doctor to complete medical training. It is simply that these rules should be decided in a non-hierarchical and democratic way, by the proletariat, and not the capitalists or the state. In the case of vaccines, a nurse can spread covid to many different people, as can a truck driver crossing international borders, and... we want them to be safe and healthy, and they are particularly vulnerable. Yes, covid vaccines are not quite as effective now with omicron, but hopefully vaccines will be developed that target omicron specifically.
Youve been doing dood distribution, solving homelessness and replacing the police?! Dude, you're not burnt out, youre busy! Good work! Please share your work and progress in a video diary documentary man! We can use this!!
The 3 vac cines available in the USA have been injected into over 160 million people. Your chances of getting an adverse reaction from the vax are about 8X less than getting serious, long term problems from catching c0v1d without the vaxx in your system. You're also more likely to spread c0v1d if you catch it and you're not vaxxed, because you'll have a higher viral load. You will be more infectious.
Don't trust them. Read scientific studies done by other people on the vaccines. The vaccines have been out long enough that we have 3rd party data to verify whether the claims are true or not. Yes to a great extent they are true. The only issue I have with this vaccine system is the lack of information for those who are either at risk (some kind of immuno-deficiency) of severe side-effects or at risk from getting blood clots. It's infuriating how no one is talking about the risk of blood clots and what precautions to take to make sure the people who are at risk can take medications to prevent it. There should be tests done to make sure people aren't at risk of getting blood clots. For people with immuno-deficiency, there's the risk from getting the vaccine and there's a risk of unknowingly contracting the virus. Both these risks need to be compared and must be taken into account before deciding to get or to not get the vaccine. I've seen a person die cuz they didn't get the vaccine, but they may have been able to get the vaccine and potentially still be alive. Another person I know got the vaccine, got extremely sick and had to be admitted to a hospital for a week, but when they contracted the virus 2 months later, they were pretty ok. This needs to be discussed more often
@@theflufflyfluffy Corbe vax isn't being discussed enough. It was developed as a patent-free, shelf-stable, easily-produced c0v1d vaxx intended for poorer countries. It uses older technology, can be grown in yeast culture, and has a 90% success rate. India has authorized it for emergency use. (Oddly enough, one of the development funders was a Texas vodka maker.)
@@theflufflyfluffy I want it to be licensed in the USA because it covers a lot of the objections antivaxxers have-it's not developed by big pharma, it's not mRNA based, it's based on old technology. ...A large number of them will come up with new excuses rather than admit being antivaxx had become a tribal thing to them, it'll be darkly amusing to see.
Hello Aaron, I have a question as a beginner Anarcho-Communist After Abolishing the state and capitalism, how are we going to deal with Right-wingers? including liberals and Far-right.
Hopefully you can show them a better way for each person's life under true anarchy and socialism, but they will fight to the death against anything contrary to capitalism.
Allright, Aaron is back, calm, reasonable and intelligent. I'll add that this movement and the protests that preceded it, have been an absolutely abject failure to move the Overton window at all, on any issue. Shitty organization, shitty rationale, shitty tactics. Gotta take the L on that one. This whole movement is actually a cheering section FOR the status quo and capitalist exploitation. The moment this turned into an occupation you guaranteed the use of force, because the government won't surrender its monopoly on violence, full stop.
The biggest thing that should make us suspicious of this convoy protest is that they have no working class demands, and actually most people in Canada do not agree with them. The very idea that the only thing keeping workers not free is mandates, is itself implying that everything from union-busting to exorbitant housing prices, and low wages, is perfectly fine and somehow does not hamper ppl's freedom, but having to prevent infection to save workers lives does hamper freedom. Ultimately the movement is one of anti-science and divisiveness, creating anger against health workers and those vulnerable. A much bigger sign of fascism than of any rational workers movement.
@@person-yu8cu I'm the President of a union local and I agree. I recognized very little of the many demands and bargaining positions I've taken or any of the campaigns I've led or been part of in the rhetoric I heard. I know many people who supported this and I've been in debate with them for weeks on this so, if it was there, I would have found it.
Wait, in grocery stores in Canada, the plastic shield at the counter doesn't have a hole in it for the EFTPOS or card machine or has the machine by the conveyor belt 1m away from the cashier, but rather you walk past the shield and the cashier hands it to you 😐 what the hell is the point of that?
Yes exactly. I think it was a cost cutting measure, a lot of smaller grocery stores don't even have proper shielding at all, and sometimes it's just a piece of plexiglass held by chains from the roof. It might not be like that everywhere, and is probably more refined and bigger cities... But as it stands, it's completely ridiculous.
@@DeadHeadAnimation Wow, no wonder there's such confusion about the efficacy of Covid restrictions that can be exploited by the far right when some of them seem so counter-intuitive and fit into the security theatre model you discussed the video. Thanks for the info.
It's an interesting topic (whether a vaccine mandate is possible in an anarchistic society). I think it isn't. However, you could still have people collectively decide to interact with people on an individual basis depending on their vaccination status. Say give a token of some kind to people who've gotten the jab, y'know? The token would have to be given by some council or elected body, probably (unless everyone in this society somehow knows how to do an antigen test). I know it's not an ideal solution, but if your society wants to impose vaccination at all upon its people, that's really the least-intrusive way to do it IMO. Just make it so people can tell whether or not someone's been vaccinated, and then make their own decision.
i've been doing a lot of disability justice organizing lately. i've found that even just sharing space with fellow disabled people can help ease the weight of living in a world that's actively trying to kill us. the mutual aid structure that's inherent in so many disabled communities is breathtaking, and i really hope that abled organizers start paying attention to what we've been doing and listening to us
Protecting the sick and weakest among us is our biggest priority. If you want to participate in society, follow what the guidelines set by the community. If you don’t want to get vaccinated that is 100% your right, but don’t expect to participate in our community. Go off somewhere with all the other anti-vaxers on an island somewhere and start your own community.
But the problem is the number of people who will die or face serious medical is small compared to how people there are on the planet so it doesn’t make sense to focus on the bigger population of people who won’t die rather than the smaller group who will and just to be clear I’m not a anti vaccine cunt I just find the whole get the vaccine to protect the weak has a lot of holes in it like your not actually protecting them
I agree with your view on pro-vaccination and anti-mandates. However, since this mandate does little material harm to people, I don’t have too big a problem with it. Instead I would rather use my energy on all the other, bigger issues with our current system
The Fascism of "the right opinions" practised by self proclaimed "liberal progressives" and ever growing government control is definitely the bigger issue
sorry to hear about the burnout. is there anything us here can help you with the burnout? i'll be checking out your twitter for the direct action stuff. i guess twitter is a better place for documenting and getting direct action messaging out compared to youtube? (for privacy reasons i could see people not wanting to be on camera for a "a day in direct action" style video. but it would be cool to see. in the interim i'll check out your other platforms.)
>anti-mandate pro-vax IS a consistent stance with antihierarchical beliefs. anit-mandate is not the same as anit-vax and too many people make them out to be the same. glad you voiced that. >outside of the conservative right wing angle on the protests, the message itself is something that a leftist could reasonably argue too. like you said, "these people these protesters a lot of them anyway were you know legitimately concerned with a lot of real world problems that they were facing because of the covid 19 pandemic and all of the ridiculous security theater that was put into place by the government in canada to make us seem like we were being more safe while more and more people were seeing that they really weren't that much more safe" "the concerns that a lot of the regular people that aren't nazis might have are based in something legitimate and if we're able to give socialistic solutions to a lot of those actual systemic problems then we can stop anybody who isn't a nazi or isn't a fascist or isn't a right winger at all from seeing that protest as anything beneficial and you know shepherd those people towards doing something that actually matters direct action mutual aid things that actually might change the system in a real systemic way" > im confused, yes the protests are a jumble of ideological issues but lets focus on the voiced point of the protests vaccine mandate. how can direct action and mutual aid address anti-vaccine ideas? "hey do know that there are problems and a lot of them do feel that within their families their communities and even yeah in their pocketbooks things aren't looking so good so they want to do something to stop this incredible problem that's happening then a lot of them are confused on what to actually do about it . so when they visibly see a bunch of people that are fighting against the system and those people somewhat getting concessions from that system they tend to actually think that it might be beneficial to them " >IMO it is a lack of available solutions. there is minimal guidance for people. just being a follower to a charismatic leader is not what i am talking about either. i am talking about organizations leading the way through their action. bringing to fruition sustainable working systems and having places for new people to work in the organization. there are plenty of people that are willing to join in and help make the change needed in the world, i find they just don't want to risk everything to be the people starting the process of change. the common person does not have that entrepreneurial instinct. you say yourself a little later: "so it should be up to us to give them those solutions and to teach the regular people within our lives people that might be sympathetic to this entire idea that there is a real way forward and it's together not divided". you also mention burn out. people are burnt out just surviving. i see people avoiding being the change in the world becasue there are not systems in place to make their actions easy. there is no support systems in place to get people able to do direct action. we need all hands on deck... but no one ever tells us at what port that deck is on and the directions to the marina. " entire workforce in general has isn't against necessarily the mandates themselves it's against everything else that caused these problems all of the real systemic things that make it harder for you to live rising prices inflation job loss the lack of proper medical care or pharmacare vanishing pensions the ability for people to actually work a single job and pay their rent at the same time having a family where not everybody has worked to death the idea of eventually owning your own home all of these things are what's really plaguing the canadian and american people right now " > a hard disagree here. yes, all the things you listed are much more real problem. but this protests is, on its face, about mandates. its a cop out to to not address this directly. what is the antihierarchical left response to people that do not want to get vaccinated? "these hierarchical forces that have been holding us down this entire time they're going to convince us every single time that we should never work together and we should never fight for something that would equally benefit all of us" > i could see this very easily being used to get the left to support the mandate protesters.
If you would want to keep up on YT content creation without making it so much a rival for your time and energy with real-world direct action, videos _about_ those actions (where it is safely possible, of course) would be critically important teaching tools and inspiring examples. The biggest hurdle to making anarcho-communism - or socialism or anarchist tropes generally - popular isn't disagreement, it's inability to imagine them in practice.
@@pyrrha_ For disagreements, I'm with you. However, for the commission of, or the conspiracy to commit sabotage, violence, murder, or genocide, something has to be done. But I do not agree with caging humans as a form of rehabilitation. It is not rehabilitation -- it is torture, and I do not condone torture. I think we should give those people a separate, monitored and contained place to live -- monitored and contained, but not caged -- and give them all the things they need to create their own food, clothes, and shelter, OR we drop them off on one of the countless remote islands where they can live out their individualist wet dreams. I'm even open to giving most of them a choice. My guess is that most people will choose the gula... monitored, contained, separated living area.
Societies have a right to defend themselves, and one way they do this is vaccines. The "trucker" protest is a fundraiser grift, pure and simple. It's run by people who have done other fundraiser grifts in the past.
You mean just like antifa and BLM? Protesters should not receive funds. and if they do it certainly means that all protesters are grifters, aight? Anyway, you're next. Watch when they block your bank account for protesting and don't complain.
@@sompompir There's a difference between sporadically protesting in various places on foot and permanently blocking selected infrastructure with machinery. There's a difference between a majority of people protesting for the equity of an oppressed-minority and an unoppressed-minority of people utilizing mob-rule to whine about their desire to oppress the majority of people. Ignorant working-class addicts who can't tell the difference are the reasons why the wealthy-class addicts instituted mandates in the first place. At least the disgusting wealthy-class understands that viruses don't care about your socioeconomic position. A large portion of the working-class have been rendered to ignorant to understand and too selfish to care.
77 years after the capitulation of the 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der S S, Ukranians are once again fighting the russian army under the swastika banner in the Azov Battalion, isn't that at least great news
