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The planet is in peril. We’re building Congress’s strongest-ever climate bill | Bernie Sanders

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2021/08/18
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You want the real answer?

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2021/07/03
05:40 UTC

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Amazon Exec Goes After Bernie & Gets Pummelled

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2021/03/25
17:56 UTC

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Neera Tanden is an indefensibly corrupt corporatist and toxic against progressives. Alexandra Rojas should step down from Justice Democrats for defending Tanden. Please don't make us regret supporting JD — or change the name to Injustice Democrats.

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2021/02/23
06:15 UTC

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Sneaky AOC 😁

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2021/01/27
22:33 UTC

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People's Party Registers in Colorado

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2021/01/16
17:33 UTC

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My message to the lazy/defeatist leftist

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2021/01/13
07:40 UTC

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Nina Turner — Never Stop Fighting For Justice

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2020/12/11
05:27 UTC

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WARNING: These people are unhinged

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2020/11/16
21:37 UTC

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Where on earth would we get money to help pay for the average American to survive through needed shut downs?

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2020/11/15
22:36 UTC

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Corp Dems and their conservative agendas lost while progressives and progressivism triumphed.

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2020/11/09
19:22 UTC

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PSA America — Focusing on symptoms while brushing aside causes of disease needs to stop NOW.

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2020/10/16
17:43 UTC

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Medicare For All is downright revolutionary economic AMERICAN FREEDOM

Progressives must work to make this very real power structure understood by mainstream Americans.

Fear of freedom is exactly why there's so much resistance to Medicare For All by corporatists including the multi-billion dollar Corporate Media Complex (that includes search engines and social media built to stunt progressive outreach into the mainstream).

Your average American doesn't have a clue how absolutely revolutionary Medicare For All will be for them in the sense of personal freedom. However, the powerful know it very well and that's exactly why Corporate Democrats and Republican lackeys to the powerful are doing everything they can to quell Medicare For All at near all costs.

Once healthcare is removed from employment it will give the average American much more freedom to choose their own destiny without fear of being wiped out by an illness for themselves and their family.

Putting power like that in the hands of average Americans terrifies the status quo that want us to remain struggling, docile and subservient.


Medicare For All is economic AMERICAN FREEDOM

FREEDOM from the chains of job lock for professional and personal growth.

FREEDOM from the chains of bankruptcy for the crime of having an illness.

FREEDOM from the chains of fear for the pursuit of entrepreneurship, happiness and whistleblowing against corruption.

MFA will remove job lock which will create a massive boost in entrepreneurship creating small businesses. Small business is THE top driver of job growth in the United States by far and lifts up poor and middle class Americans in a very decentralized manner that corporations can't or won't do.

Removing job lock will also enable overqualified people to more safely upgrade by switching careers and/or taking other jobs they are more qualified for without fear of gaps in their health insurance for themselves and their families. That will free up good jobs for college graduates — and create less friction, stress and suppression within our workplaces.

All that combined with a living wage, free college and affordable housing policies will be a huge boost to empower the poor and middle class to shape their own destiny in regard to automation — as apposed to a top-down approach where they are at the mercy of corporations notorious for exploitation of changing circumstances for workers.


We progressives need to do so much more to remove the commie/socialist stigma behind this lock on our freedoms. That's why I agree with Chomsky that the critical issue with Bernie winning the primary was his adherence to the term "socialist".

Whether we like it or not, or want to face it or not — it's still a scareword for a huge segment of the American public (including Democratic voters). While it's very true that younger generations aren't as prone to being duped into the fearmongering against the term 'socialist', most of the rest of the nation has it very well already ingrained. We need to focus more on the core issues instead of platitudes.

Disassociating Medicare For All from scarewords and aligning it with core American freedoms and rugged individualism will go a long way into having it become a political reality in this country.

We need to let the American public know what's in it for them.

We're going to need to circumvent the CMC's massive firewall between progressive info and the general public.

We won't have much structural change until average progressives on the street actually do something and circumvent the terrible effects of the multi-billion dollar CMC.

The CMC is the root of corrupt money in politics, unchecked class warfare and the destruction of our struggling representative democracy within this now failing republic.

Americans are insulated from our reality by a massive CMC firewall. Online efforts are vital (and increasingly under attack) for progressive organizing and sharing information amongst ourselves, but we need to take our information to the people — and we simply can't do that fast enough through our (now traditional) means of online marketing.

There IS a vital weakness in their corporatist Death Star that can and should be exploited.

In 2020, used laser printers that already have toner within them that's capable of printing thousands of copies can be purchased for relatively little money.

It's actually the first time in human history that the general public has had access to such a powerful platform (print) and distribution (automobiles and/or close proximity to each other in cities). Not to mention the unprecedented power to share compelling counter-propaganda with one another across the nation near effortlessly to print and distribute in a decentralized manner nationwide.

7 Ways the Printing Press Changed the World

https://www.history.com/news/printing-press-renaissance

If we utilize that utterly historic power in smart and strategic ways instead of squandering it — we CAN and WILL foment a true people's revolution within the USA that can't be stopped.

HERE'S HOW

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2020/08/06
19:33 UTC

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Is this organization going to follow LA's lead and support The People's Party?

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2020/05/12
14:22 UTC

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Plan that will *finally* circumvent online & TV censorship. Twitter killed my account so I couldn't share this on their platform.

PROBLEM: The multi-billion dollar Corporate Media Complex

• Right-wing radio

• So-called liberal news media including MSNBC, CNN, etc.

• Right-wing news including FOX News, OAN, etc.

• Social media platforms and search that censor progressive outreach to the mainstream. If anyone doubts this, open up a fresh VM on a VPN and browse online as if you're a typical American. Watch what YouTube presents to you from searches. It'll be corporatist narratives at best and right-wing propaganda at worst. Same goes for Twitter, Google search, Reddit, Google news aggregator, YouTube on Smart TVs, Facebook and on & on.

• Television programming in general. See "The View", etc. that constantly misinforms their viewers.


SOLUTION:

The Corporate Media Complex working in collusion with the CIA is the firewall that protects the donor class. Until we break through that firewall we're going to be moving at a glacial pace and even backwards in many areas. Climate disaster with multiple pandemics spreading around the globe all at once obviously aren't going to politely wait for us.

We should and could continue to organize strikes online, but that very real Corporate Media Complex firewall is going to severely limit attendance because we're mostly preaching to the choir — and not getting through to enough vital outreach outside of our online bubbles.

There IS a way to subvert that firewall that will bring about a true revolution and nationwide strikes to induce the 3.5% rule. There's something vital the progressive movement must do to mitigate and circumvent suppression of our outreach. Something we've never done before en masse in human history, but is now very attainable.

Never before have average Americans had access to decentralized, individual printing presses that can print for pennies on the dollar. Never before have we been able to share printable content on a nationwide online network with one another.

The implementation of this plan below will be a national nightmare for the corrupt who thrive on public ignorance. If we had started this years ago, the revolution would've already begun.

Deep organizing with a guerrilla twist:

🖨 We all must acquire used laser printers w/toner & get media READY NOW 🖨

We must create and share compelling printable content. It can be our favorite humorous memes that have a more universal appeal for outreach with interesting, factual content. Use humor to draw people in and utilize compelling, interesting content to keep them reading. Many tactics will be developed as we all work together to create, pick and/or vote up the best print content online.

We print our vital info (and promotion of YouTube channels) that corporate media desperately hides from the public. After Coronavirus abates we engage en masse to put that media within the pockets of clothing at Target stores nationwide (and all other department stores), on tables at Starbucks & other coffee shops & door-to-door to homes all over the country.

We utilize the print media to spark conversations for Deep Organizing. Ask people what matters personally to them in their lives and that of their loved ones and friends. Listen to them instead of just talking at them.

Instead of simply "finding the others", we must do our best to find mutual concerns within people all around us and champion their concerns that align with greater goals. Most people want the same, basic things. If you run into the occasional sociopath, don't allow them to vampire your time and just politely move along towards the majority of people that are good, decent people with a moral compass.


Some concerns people may have and rebuttals:

CONCERN: It kills trees.

REBUTTAL: That's like saying climate scientists who are working on solid solutions (and spreading information) to combat climate disaster shouldn't travel or use electricity in the meantime because it'll burn fuel and take up resources that contribute to climate change.

We shouldn't fall for that kind of defeatist rhetoric. That's the same kind of nonsense that climate deniers use to keep climate action at bay. It's missing the forest for the trees.

What effect are we having on the environment by wasting electricity online with ineffective strategies? How much worse will climate disaster get while we spin our collective wheels online within a hostile environment for outreach?


CONCERN: People will just chuck print media in the garbage.

REBUTTAL: If people find a brochure in their pocket and it has intriguing/compelling/funny content, it'll work just the same or better as enticing online content does. The major difference is there's no filter between the medium and the people. Twitter cannot shadow-ban, bury or mute print media. Google search can't bury it to the bottom of a pile of corporate newspapers.

As long as the media is engaging, it'll work. It's not the medium, it's the content and the way it's distributed with novel, attention-seeking methodologies. Corporate print media can't compete with that because they'd be sued out of existence.

Flyers that're restricted by traditional distribution are successful. Flyers, brochures and pamphlets that're distributed by novel means (because guerrilla tactics don't have the same restrictions for distribution and content) will be even more successful.

It's one thing to find a typical ad stuck in your mailbox (which still work, that's exactly why there's print marketing) — it's quite another to find an interesting brochure in your pocket that looks like an ad but is spoofing a corporation with their logo — and has solid informative content within it with a dash of humor/parody/etc.

Rough example: https://i.imgur.com/NPWK9wk.jpg

People are going to do a double-take when they find what appears at first glance to be a Target, Starbucks, Walmart, etc. brochure in an unusual spot — and it has a message loaded with facts within it and is a humorous parody that's been distributed to them in a novel manner that's never been done before.

This is the worst nightmare for the donor class who has expertly kept information from Americans for decades.

https://i.imgur.com/9So2nKe.jpg


CONCERN: People are too stupid, brainwashed and obtuse to absorb new information.

REBUTTAL: Bernie had a landslide in the the primary for Americans who voted from overseas. These are Americans who aren't subjected near as much to MSNBC as Americans at home are:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/politics/bernie-sanders-wins-democrats-abroad/index.html

There's a LESSON to be learned by this result and we must strategize accordingly. This just goes to show that the Corporate Media Complex is all that stands between NotMeUs-style movements and the American people.

This is clearly information warfare and we can mitigate and circumvent their attack if we think strategically instead of trying the same online things over and over again and expect better results.

Progressives become progressives in the first place through exposure to information that's counter to the half-truths and outright lies the massive Corporate Media Complex presents. Without that counter-propaganda, many of us would've supported Biden in the primary over Bernie.

Americans don't magically lean right-wing. This isn't some pre-determined human condition. The ONLY reason younger people are much more pro-Bernie is because they're less exposed to purposeful misinformation.

The public are pushed right-wing through relentless propaganda via the multi-billion dollar CMC that has refined its influence machine over many decades. You can see a sample of this when Medicare For All polls are presented in disingenuous "full government takeover" terms and polls lower, but polls vastly much higher when its presented accurately.

THAT is the power of propaganda.

In our current environment, a huge amount of Americans are never exposed to truthful information in the first place. We change that situation, we pave the way for a real revolution.


CONCERN: If this kind of guerrilla marketing would be successful every corporation would be doing it already.

REBUTTAL: Companies can't mimic other brands due to copyright law. Companies can't distribute their marketing in stores without permission and/or paying for it.

Guerrilla marketing via acts of civil disobedience is something the business sphere simply can't do, nor compete with when the largest, nationwide campaign movement in US history switches gears from NotMeUs Bernie support to true guerrilla badassery — Something Bernie couldn't or wouldn't ever publicly endorse but will secretly fist pump within the confines of his home with Jane when they hear about it.


CONCERN: We could do all this much more effectively online.

REBUTTAL: Online strategizing, organizing and information sharing is vital and must continue. However, social media platforms are very successfully censoring progressive outreach.

Do this test if you have any doubts.

Open up a fresh VM on a VPN and browse online as if you're a typical American. Watch what YouTube presents to you from searches. It'll be corporatist narratives at best and right-wing propaganda at worst. Same goes for Twitter, Google search, Reddit, Google news aggregator, YouTube on Smart TVs, Facebook and on & on.

We must break through that firewall.


CONCERN: Okay, but is there any evidence that 'Deep Organizing' really works? Are there any examples of offline success?

REBUTTAL: Hell yes there is.

This is how Deep Organizing works with an amazing success story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl6P_2jt_Vs

It's the blueprints to the Second American Revolution.


CONCERN: We have the power to elevate members of our own base, and create our own political celebrities.

REBUTTAL: Not online. AOC, for example, rose to prominence through offline hard work. Online efforts, of course, bolstered her afterwards but she would have been dead in the water in the first place if it wasn't for her initial offline efforts. As a matter of fact, if you research AOC you'll see she had to use some offline guerilla-style marketing tactics to overcome censorship.

https://tldrify.com/y4b - " ... knocked on a hundred and twenty thousand doors ... "

And, that goes back to exactly my point. We need to create pathways for progressive leaders. The reason progressive leaders are so far and few between is due to the fact that the populace is purposefully misinformed by a multi-billion dollar Corporate Media Complex and that makes for a very hostile environment.

Online efforts are needed, but they are very stunted for outreach due to censorship and television blackouts of progressives.

Aside from smoke signals, the workaround is print marketing. And, since we're limited with traditional print marketing, the workaround is guerrilla marketing with all the methodologies I've already described above.

AOC is helpful but she's only part of a handful of progressives getting any mainstream outreach and if you analyze her success it's very limited because for every positive appearance she makes there's vastly more negative segments trashing her and her ideas.

If AOC was as powerful as we'd hoped, her endorsement and campaigning for Bernie would've made him the nominee.

Just goes to show how limited top-down power is for progressive movements. Again, it's good she's there but the real power that could enable her and many more progressive politicians is via an educated populace that understands facts the Corporate Media hides when they edit her segments on national TV, etc.

Again, online helps but we've very obviously seen its limitations in this primary and we need to work on other modes of outreach. That's where print guerrilla marketing comes in and will WORK.


🖨 Put your memes on the table 🖨

TIME TO LET THE DRAGON LOOSE AND MAKE THE LIES DIE

BTW: If you've never watched the closing credits for the film The Other Guys there's a major easter egg in there for progressive activists. Watch the closing credits and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. We have allies in high places, they're just waiting for US to make a move.



TL;DR: As the plan states here: https://tldrify.com/y6p

We need to acquire used laser printers and work together to create and distribute printable, compelling media that circumvents censorship of vital information the Corporate Media Complex desperately hides from the public (for good reason).

Used laser printers are relatively cheap and often already have toner within them where one can print thousands or even tens of thousands of copies for pennies on the dollar until one needs more laser toner — and even that can be cheap if one fills the toner powder into the cartridges instead of purchasing new toner cartridges.

Those without the means to purchase laser printers and/or paper or toner can set up gofundme or patreon to do so. Also, those with the means can print out content for others and collaborate to distribute the media. The means for distribution is already in my plan above.

Every war in human history has been won and lost via propaganda and counter-propaganda. Progressives haven't done shit to counter Corporate Media Complex propaganda that influences tens of millions to act and vote against their own best self-interests because we are greatly censored from online outreach and face TV blackouts.

The answer is Deep Organizing that's boosted with guerrilla tactics. That's the action. That's the plan.

And sprinkle some of the best, most humorous memes with universal appeal on the cover of the pamphlets to pull in people so they'll read the info inside. Due to the fact we info guerrillas aren't limited by copyright as corporations are, we can parody namebrands in the process. This isn't simply standard marketing with all its limitations in copyright and distribution. And it's not just guerrilla marketing. It's acts of civil disobedience with a distribution model that can't be censored by the media.

After Coronavirus abates, we'll put this media within the pockets of new clothing at department stores such as Target. Put parodies of Starbucks corporate brochures on the tables at Starbucks and other coffee shops that contain vital information Corporate Media hides from the public within them.

Everything else we do is hidden from the public because we're attempting to reach them through assorted middle-men that actively censor our reach to the general public.

We not only cut out the middle-men, we do it with extreme prejudice.


It's going to be like Project Mayhem in the film Fight Club, but the only mayhem will be the nationwide nightmare for the corrupt who thrive on keeping the American public purposefully misinformed.

https://imgur.com/gallery/ZLYXG

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2020/04/24
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Join the Virtual Debate Watch Party in Discord to watch Bernie 1v1 Biden tonight at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT on CNN!

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Join the Virtual Debate Watch Party in Discord to watch Bernie 1v1 Biden tomorrow at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT on CNN!

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