Third quarter blogroll updates: Bye to Jacobin, among others

I'd kept Down with Tyranny on my blogroll for several years. As a Green for prez, and a Dem for Senate, etc., when no Green alternative was available, it wasn't tremendously further to the right than me. It was, though, further to the right than others in its general neck of the woods, including being a 2020 Senate race Beto-stanner. It's also been somewhat of a sucker for grifting by some organized leftish Democrat pressure groups such as Justice Dems. But it was generally a useful "bookmark" for what mainstream Berners think.

But it crossed a bridge when it ran pieces by Chemtrails Bob Fitrakis two days in a row. He's also known here as Fake Green Party Ohio fiefdom Bob Fitrakis and other things. He's an Ohio 2004 recount conspiracy theorist (another parting of the waters with Brains there), along with being a chemtrails guy; info on both at that link.

Per this link of mine, Mark Lause has laid the lumber on Ohio as having one of the most "papery" of Green Party orgs of any state. And, before he finally quit, quit the Green shell game and the AccommoGreen pose and apparently took up his Dem blue true colors, he ran that shell fiefdom.

So, you're gone. I disconnect from conspiracy theorists in general. As of the time I started this, DWT just went to my links list. But it may be gone, period.

Beyond the above, it's tribalist blather. Take a recent post on the ongoing Libyan Civil War. Ignores that Dear Leader was the prez who ordered the bombing. In its sub-Dem tribalism, it ignores that Bernie was OK with that.

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Jacobin is getting closer to being there. It's hugely uneven and unfocused editorially, running from Russian Revolution stanning in November 1917 to being conventional Bernie DSA Roses in current domestic politics without ever mentioning third parties. Biggest part of that nuttery is editor Bhaskar Sunkata saying he was going to vote for Howie (which presumed Howie would get the GP nomination) while rejecting any idea of boosting the Green Party.

As I Tweeted back then:

Can .@PeterDreier and All Dems-only Biden-stanners  at .@thenation AND all the Berners-only Communist-loving but still Berners-only in the US duopolists at .@Jacobin, above all .@sunraysunray, go mutually fuck each other? #VoteGreen2020  https://t.co/HU3Ys1OGlT pic.twitter.com/jLYXHOIRI0

— The Ventura Freeway, Just.Another.Politician. 🚩🌻 (@AFCC_Esq) May 2, 2020

I stand by that. Even as I also stand by saying that the Green Party, and its usefulness as a third party of the left, have probably peaked.

I've also gotten into argument with Jacobin's Branko Marcetic over whether or not Evo Morales committed a semi-coup. He did, you and other non-skeptical lefties. As with others of his ilk on this issue, I said I'm willing to say what happened to him in his semi-coup election was a coup IF you will admit that what he did was a semi-coup. He refused.

And, this past week, Jacobin went too far. At least three encomia to the recently passed Michael Brooks, none of them mentioning he was a Green-disser, and having nothing about the passing a month ago of an actual Socialist, 2016 SPUSA presidential candidate Mimi Soltysik. Per Sunkata, Jacobin can blather about "socialism" all the time elsewhere, but when it turns its focus back to American politics, nothing further left than DSA Roseys is allowed. Bye, Jacobin.

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Carl Beijer, whom I should have dropped long ago, is now gone. When alleged former Green Party campaigner started not only stanning for the Dems but lecturing Greens about stuff related to the Green New Deal, he should have been gone. Now that "he" has changed platforms, and I realized that's why I hadn't gotten any recent feeds, and that his new site is a group blog, pass. And, he's apparently been doing group writing for some time. Roger Bellin, one of the persons allegedly associated with the account, is a DSA Rosey. The "he" creator is Berner Jacob Fawcett, with a protected Twitter account. I highly doubt he, Fawcett "Beijer," was ever the Green he pretended to be.


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Added: Wall Street on Parade. A great look at the lunacy and grift of the street itself, the Fed, and duopoly politicians.

Added: Encylopedia of American Loons. It adds entries about twice a week and is on the T's, so will probably be done this year. Maybe it will recycle or start anew after that.

Added: Yale Climate Connections. Good before, and now the home of the former Category 6 commentary from Weather Underground.

Added: Capital and Main. It's "Democratic," but challenges ConservaDems, and in ways, and on specific ConservaDem persons (Cal gov Gavin Newsom on coronavirus) that Down with Tyrrany was suckers about. That said, even at the sub-presidential level, I doubt it would tout a third-party candidate.