Hear what the other side is actually saying.

❝So that was since the 1990s that social movements, so the human rights movements, the students, labor unions, critical journalists and lawyers have been mobilizing against what we call the semi-authoritarian regime of Blair's Comparé against impunity, corruption, social inequality. And it was these two decades of mobilization that actually led to the popular uprising of October 14.

❝This is not that they, in general, want the military in power, but they see the military coup as an option, as the last means to, let’s say, reset democracy when elected leaders abuse their power.

❝Well an important point actually for me is that the reference to Sankara is used as a source of legitimacy for Traore and had given rise like some sort of personality cult that I feel is not very helpful as it rather doesn't promote but rather hinders a debate on political strategies and visions, which is something that I think we urgently need.

❝It’s really a matter of good versus evil. It’s a matter of decent versus cruel. It’s a matter of honest versus corrupt.

❝He doesn't stand for anything. He's a disgusting creature that only wants to move forward his own agenda, no matter what trail of violence and destruction he kind of leaves behind him.

❝After a bizarre and deranged trip yesterday in South Carolina, Donald Trump is in Iowa today, where I'm sure he'll be talking about men's asses. He’ll be making a bunch of weird noises.

❝That's about Lindsay Graham being gay and using three male escorts. Everybody had talked about it as rumors. We've now finally proven it.

❝This has nothing to do with their non-existent nuclear weapons program. This has nothing to do with anything but we have to topple the Iranian regime so Israel has hegemony over the Middle East.

❝And he’s trading American foreign policy interests that relate to us, including war, where American service members can die. He’s trading that for money that he could use for his own personal benefit. It doesn’t get any more corrupt than that.

❝And then here she is addressing the other more infamous conspiracy theory about her marrying her brother, this rank racist garbage.

❝But it also can be wrong to not paint that picture as well because it doesn't, I guess, the act of resistance in and of itself, the showing up to learn, the rebuilding, even as the yellow line creeps further and further in, this is how you actually resist a colonial genocidal occupation. You have to find these moments of hope and humanity.

❝He's tried to intimidate his critics like Representative Ilhan Omar attempting to target her in a racist way to intimidate voters in Minnesota.

❝Because the lack of sustainability or the kind of issues with the system largely came out of that aspect of it, right? Just the scale and the demands that come with expecting everyone to have their own automobile and things like that.

❝And then of course, through that, of course, you know, I'm looking at those specific sections, but I also have this, you know, wider story that I'm trying to tell as well, right, about the scale of the build out of computation, about how much computation is required, and about why this feels fundamentally unsustainable and is driven by particular ideas, narratives, business goals by these tech billionaires that I think are very disconnected from the reality that most people face in their lives, but also what would be best for people if we were thinking about building out technology in a way that actually served the public rather than serving these billionaires and their whims and their interests and things like that.

❝And, you know, I feel like a lot of people don't realize that they are spending a lot of money and expending a lot of lobbying power to actually shape the way that carbon accounting rules are being written so that they can do these deceptive practices and not be held to account for the actual amount of emissions that they are emitting into the atmosphere, right? Especially as they have really thrown their climate targets to the side in order to pursue generative AI and the build out of these massive data centers.

❝It underwrote the resistance videos, which I basically did for charity, and it put on the record the fact that somebody had to say all that in 2017, that Trump is effing crazy, and this is not some kind of joke.

❝Exactly 822 days until the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame-brained term, unless it ends early because one of Trump's doctors listens to my plea and goes public about the IQ tests that are actually sanity tests and becomes 21st century psychology Jesus.

❝Trump has gone back to bringing up these effing dementia tests every few minutes...presumably because this crowd of doctors that he travels with...see signs in private that we do not see in public that he has dementia or something like it, or is perhaps more colloquially effing crazy.

❝And if you study closely the work of these figures, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and many others affiliated with the same tradition, in spite, moreover, of what one might hear within certain academic settings or even within certain corners of the activist world, all of these thinkers are anti-communist and they're quite explicitly and often outrageously anti-communist.

❝I also direct the Critical Theory Workshop, and I've been publishing a series of exposés and now books related to the history of the Western left intelligentsia and their complicity with empire because of the extent to which they are also products of the imperial reconfiguration of the system of knowledge production and distribution. Absolutely.

❝At this point in time, one of the most important theoretical class struggles to be involved in is to connect the question of a free Palestine to the right to armed self-defense on the part of the peoples of West Asia so that people recognize that if you don't want to see dead babies in Palestine on your phone, it makes a lot of sense to support the anti-imperialist forces in the region who are trying to make that not a reality and a continuing reality.

❝He gets to say incomprehensible things.

❝Whenever they go, Trump brought down inflation from 9% to 3%, that is a lie. That would lead one to assume that when Trump took office, inflation was at 9%. Was it? No, it was at 3.

❝But that's all you need to know after the election is over is to find out that you've elected a pervert.

❝Turns out, when your policies are that you are going to go out of your way to make people's lives materially harder and more onerous and more dangerous and more miserable, you are going to go out of your way to immiserate and impoverish people on purpose as a policy that you voted for and put into effect knowing what it's going to do, turns out to not have a theoretical effect on your constituents, and it does not have a theoretical effect on the political consequences for you.

❝So among all the other things this radical leap means, Trump hopping into Putin's pants right before the midterms makes no political sense at all.

❝But if we have free and fair elections this year, we will overwhelmingly be successful because the American people, regardless of their partisan affiliation, are tired of this guy and his awful policies.

❝This is actually fundamentally, suddenly, the president of the United States saying he is on Putin's side in a conflict which has, you know, I mean, it has endangered and ended so many people’s lives and encouraged one of the most vicious autocrats, dictators in the world in a path of utter destruction.

❝What does potentially the end of democracy feel like? I've never experienced that before.

❝Elon Musk is exhibit A in terms of why we need to get big money out of politics, why we need to have a wealth tax, and also why we have got to stop allowing these billionaires to buy up media like X.

❝Look, I got elected in a wave year, and the anger was off the charts. The anger now dwarfs the 2010 anger. Dwarfs.

❝When I say we have a Russian asset in the White House, do you understand how like we have that means we have someone in the White House who's utterly compromised?

❝I mean, like, the multiple betrayals, the biggest one being Donald Trump, who, I mean, it's treason. I keep having that line in my head from which one of the Star Wars movies, I think it was Revenge of the Sith, where he's like, it's treason, man. I mean, it's treason.

❝I am preaching the end of the world, which is an inevitability, and no one can do anything about it. And it just needs to be, you know, it just needs to occur.

❝We do believe in human flourishing. We do believe in a human fucking future. And if you try to take that away from us and our children and our children's children and any child on the planet, you are an enemy and you're going to have to fucking fight us and you're going to have to kill us to get your shit through.

❝And the sentence I would place in the front of this conversation, which we can fill out the details of as we go through, is that for Nick Land, AI is capitalism waking up. It is capitalism becoming conscious.

❝We have socialism for the very rich, rugged individualism for the poor.

❝The typical form of the workplace in the United States, its constitution, is a dictatorship. That's what I worry about. Not that there's authority relations within the firm, but that the relations are unaccountable to the workers themselves.

❝And I'm sorry to report, the Protestant tradition is all a creation of people who want to manipulate you in a particular direction.

❝I mean, Zionism needs anti-Semitism.

❝Everyone in politics is crazy. He’s like one of the least crazy people in politics.

❝Blumenthal, and they said, we've been watching you on Judge Napolito.

❝So they are riffing on old fascist themes of supremacy, of eugenics, right?

❝And it was this rapturous unveiling of what they called New Gaza. And they had all their AI props and so on, but they were genuinely excited. And Steve Witkoff was fighting back tears. Like he was just like, it was going to be so beautiful.

❝They were also like, and for some reason, the U.S. government seems hell-bent on making every single one of these threats worse and dismantling the existing regulations that are trying to kind of pull us back from the brink, right?

❝I mean, we wrote this book because we want people to fight them and beat them.

❝And I don't think it's as simple as saying that, okay, they're lining up behind it because they know who he is and it's good for them because they could have done that last time and it would have been the same dynamics.

❝I think building multiracial democracy is harder than building fascism or authoritarianism, right? Because we don't want to just grab the levers of power.

❝And that's when the FBI went into his house and killed him while he was sleeping next to his pregnant wife.

❝The way our current society is designed, it's literally designed to drive a person insane. They expect too much out of us. They expect us to work all of our waking hours for little to no pay. They can treat us however they want. We're not supposed to crash out or talk back. We're just supposed to mainly shut up and take it. And if you have a bad reaction or you eventually get to a point where you've had all you can take, everybody just looks at you like you're some type of a cancer on society.

❝Communism has succeeded in every country. It was tried.

❝The American people will understand something that too often my friends inside the Beltway in Congress and the media don't catch on to. And that is ordinary Americans understand that the current economy is rigged.

❝Well, it's worse now. The inequality is worse now than during the Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan era of the late 19th century.

❝And the truth is that a majority of the American people do not want to continue to provide billions of dollars to the extremist government in Israel. And among the Democrats, that number is off the charts.

❝If it's so great and so awesome, come out here and talk to these communities whose lives you are turning upside down.

❝We've got to make AI and robotics work for ordinary people, not just to make Elon Musk and Zuckerberg even richer than they are.

❝We did a town meeting at Georgetown. And he told me, he said, look, Senator, AI will sooner or later become smarter than human beings. And it is then likely that human beings will lose control over AI, which could be an existential threat to the planet.

❝But it is basically, to put a technical term on it, bigotry that he was selling and that they were liking.

❝Trump has demonstrated that his deals are completely unreliable. He breaks them at the first opportunity.

❝The Trump administration is responsible for the legitimization of political violence in America.

❝America will be dancing in the streets when Donald Trump dies. They will be. This country will feel a great weight lifted from its soul.

❝And that elephant in the room is that Trump is dying. We heard about this earlier in the week, but I want you to understand something.

❝This is what Trump did to America. It's what Trump did to you guys. He tricked you.

❝And what we see billionaires doing right now, we see oligarchs doing right now is using some of the most dangerous theories known to humanity to ensure that they can continue to hoard wealth and power...

❝It is connected. It is all pointed at November, and I think they’re trying to engineer the outcome of an election.

❝Well, baby, this is the vestiges of slavery. This is just like what happened after the fall, or the collapse of Reconstruction.

❝Well, UNIDOS made some decisions based on our previous experience from 2016 and we were tracking policy that was really showing us that having a large infrastructure with the amount of money that the Department of National Security was getting, like $60 billion, represented an incredibly big challenge to regular community organizing.

❝We will become agents of trust, we will become truth keepers, and we will be the external vehicle for the Truth Council to be successful.

❝We are very aligned with the purpose of creating a formal public record of the experiences of victims and survivors of human rights violations, regardless of immigration or citizenship status.

❝Her daughter had a pointed question that puts Jacoby on the verge of tears.

❝I worry about the consequences of this decision very rarely, and I find that my anxiety about the world is much higher when I am not taking action.

❝I was thinking about the number of times that I had gotten tear gas and pepper sprayed or hit with pepper pellets at anti-ICE protests over the course of the last year, which at this point is probably at least a half dozen times.

❝I think it is uh it is a challenging thing to be to get to that place, like it requires a certain compromise of values.

❝There are now six billionaires who own a majority share of American news media. And one family in particular, headed by Oracle CEO, IDF donor, and AI data center Kingpin Larry Ellison is on the verge of controlling CBS, CNN, HBO, MTV, BET, Nickelodeon, Pluto, and the actual algorithmic infrastructure of TikTok itself, which in itself may be more influential than all those outlets put together.

❝Yeah, media capture is about who actually controls the platforms and the channels that deliver news and information to us. And part of what we're trying to communicate is the that it's increasingly a smaller and smaller number of people.

❝The fact that we reward it over work is crazy to me.

❝It was tax returns of many of our richest Americans paying zero in taxes. And so now it's no longer possible for people to say it's just theoretical, because we know that it's not.

❝It does piss me off that people above me are not paying taxes.

❝Yeah, we're here because elections have consequences, and we re-elected a mayor who wants to invest in the police first and foremost.

❝And so our affordable housing nonprofits have been asked to do something impossible.

❝Um, everybody knows that so many people were trapped in their homes hiding from the federal government.

❝What percentage of the men that that the trade do you think have wives? Well, you know, the marriage rates are falling. Birth rates are falling, and they're blaming it all on us.

❝He was talking so freely about game, and I said, Hassan, you better fuck a man or hush it up. I know that’s what I would agree. And I would say absolutely first in line for that.

❝I will say to finish my point of what I was saying is I do have that fear that someone could do something or disrespect me or try to harm me. But I don't care. I still have to use my voice, even if it means one day that they would try to take my life away from me. We have to use our voice. We have to speak because we cannot allow them to make us feel afraid and to make us feel like we can’t fight for the things that we believe in.

❝Trump is a big son of a bitch, man. I just don't get it. Trump has no decency. He doesn't.

❝Cuba's future belongs to no one but the Cuban people themselves.

❝The entire country is, and it's a total man-made disaster.

❝I'm an old school Democrat. I'm a Dick Kennedy Democrat, Clinton Democrat, Obama Democrat, and I'm tired of these San Francisco values being infiltrated in our city.

❝Far too many of our elected officials are not responding the way they must to the Trump administration. No kings, no war, and no ICE.

❝Because the game, Jason, that they play that we watch is if they have competitive races in a Democratic seat, then that's less resources Democrats can put into a Republican seat. And Democrats just have kind of loaded the board with more competition for Republicans.

❝“He is now accusing Trump of using a wartime crisis to push a project that has been tangled for months in court and before state regulators.”

❝“Trump knew his war with Iran would raise gas prices. Now he wants to illegally resurrect a pipeline shut down by courts and facing criminal charges, and it won't even cut production. This is fascinating. He concluded by saying, I refuse to let Trump's efforts sacrifice Californians, our environment, or our $51 billion coastal economy.”

❝“Californians have repeatedly rejected dangerous drilling off our coast for decades. Now, after dragging the U.S. into a war with Iran and driving up oil prices, the Trump administration is trying to exploit this crisis to further enrich the oil industry at the expense of our communities and our environment.”

❝They had his um uh they had their knee on his neck. I believe his exact words, they tried to George Floyd me, is what he told me.

❝Now the police did the 7th police district, um, and I believe the fifth or the second, it was something like that, where now cops themselves can pull a felony charge on you that can bypass the judges.

❝It's political repression.

❝Absolutely I would say whether or not you've been plugged in, whether or not you have questions, um the point is for us to get together that that this is just a moment, but we have been through many moments in the last decade alone. But what we need to be up to is getting together and staying together to fortify for whatever comes next, and Lord knows what that'll be. We want to get ready so we can stay ready.

❝The reason in which we want to, you know, bring uh as many black people together as possible because we understand uh the moment that we're in in this country. Um we've seen what's been happening in Minneapolis via the federal occupation, um, and we understand that there is a bunch of black people who actually want to uh throw down in this moment, people who want to be a part of both protecting their neighbors, but also holding the federal government accountable um to the work that it's supposed to be doing.

❝Regardless if your ancestors came here as prisoners of war via the transatlantic slave trade, so they came here on a boat or airplane, searching for a better life. All of our liberation is intertwined. Um we have to recognize that in this moment.

❝We mostly only give federal subsidies to a pretty small number of commodity crops rather than promoting more diversified agriculture in our country that would not only lead to more economically sustainable markets, but more environmentally sustainable markets.

❝Our moral obligations are to stop sending military aid to Israel.

❝I 100% support ending the filibuster.

❝I think like ultimately we need to we need to get rid of policing. We need to create other institutions that take care of people that make policing obsolete.

❝Trump made our city and state a proving ground for fascism, destroying lives, killing violence, spreading terror.

❝One of the leader guys locally is this Bavino brown shirt fascist who loves to make himself look like Heinrich Himmler.

❝I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist. I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.

❝We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

❝For too long in our city, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.

❝We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

❝No longer will City Hall hesitate to use its powers to improve New Yorkers' lives.

❝For too long, we have turned to the private sector for greatness while accepting mediocrity from those who serve the public.

❝Uh, if you don't build houses, people don't live in houses. It's pretty simple, right?

❝We've lost our humanity as a society when we can look at a group of people, and I and I need people that understand this. 60%, according to the federal government, of our people on the streets are disabled.

❝Because there's no, it's not like uh, and you would know this, but it bears fucking repeating. It's not some quality of homelessness as a person.

❝First of all, I just want to start by saying everybody here hates the Democratic Party.

❝We've been told that the most important thing is to just do whatever fulfills you at any given moment. And you're the only person you should think about.

❝New York City could provide trans health care for every trans person in the country who, you know, can't afford it.

❝We've built stadiums and parking ramps with public money. We've given away tax increment financing dollars and left and right to entice development in this moment. We should build a grocery store that feeds our neighbors and pays its own bills too.

❝This is the exact opposite of what the city of Minneapolis needs. They are sending the message that anyone who comes to Minneapolis now has to compete with the government.

❝We want to see what options are ahead of us and how we can leverage every tool we have at the city to make sure our residents have access to fresh produce.

❝So the government acquires land and housing to you know to develop freeways and roads, and also to prevent the working class people, the people of color from becoming homeowners.

❝We're in a moment where Benito's direct action is calling forward all of the harm that is done and that is created when they manufacture homelessness and a housing crisis when we have empty homes that are boarded up, that are owned by the state, bought by, and paid for by our taxes.

❝I will not surrender the house, I will not surrender myself, and I if I need to die as a martyr, I will die to call the attention to all this corruption.