The Picture Show: How We End Climate Imperialism on Patreon

 

Editor's note: the Picture Show is a short-burst analysis feature over on my (always free to read) Patreon Blog, exploring the world of lefty YouTube videos you can enjoy in twenty-two minutes or less.

 

Green Socialism and Climate Justice

In our latest edition of In the Aggregate, I mentioned in passing that I wanted to do something a little different with my still relatively new Picture Show segment. In light of the fact that it's pretty hard to righteously analyze a good pinko YouTube video in four hundred words or less, I ultimately decided to just start a new feature entirely. Shorter, more conversational, and more opinion-based than my Film Sessions essays, I hope to publish these informal blogs semi-regularly over on my (free) Patreon; which has a platform feature designed specifically for sharing offsite videos online.

In our inaugural stand-alone Picture Show blog, we're looking at the climate legacy of colonial capitalism and the disproportionate burden in combatting climate change currently borne by the Global South. Using a short, but informative video by Our Changing Climate as a basis for discussion, I explore the important concept of Climate Debt and why reparations from the imperial core, to the hyper-exploited developing world, are a necessary feature of both positive justice and any viable plan to prevent a climate apocalypse. Finally, I offer a few thoughts on how we might pay for all this in a fair and equitable manner for the labor class in both the imperial core, and the developing world.

 

"The hard truth here is that right now, the folks suffering the most severe consequences of climate crisis, are also the folks least responsible for the problem. Take for example, the region of Sub-Saharan Africa. As our video highlights, this area contains roughly fifteen percent of the world's population, while producing only two percent of the energy-related emissions driving climate crisis. Despite this, the region is currently shouldering a massive fifty percent of global adaptation costs in the face of man-made climate chaos. Given this disparity, how should Africans feel about fancy international conferences full of fiery rhetoric about collective responsibilities?"

 

To check it out over on my Patreon Blog by clicking on the quotation block above, or the title header below:

 

The Picture Show: How We End Climate Imperialism

 

nina illingworth

Anarcho-syndicalist writer, critic, and analyst. 

You can find my work at NIDC, Can’t You Read, Media Madness and my Patreon Blog

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The Skinny: Chuds, Social Media & Censorship Edition (Link)

 

Editor’s note: The Skinny is a semi-regular, informal journal, published on my (always free-to-read) Patreon Blog, that collects my work from social media; posts are typically edited and expanded from their original text for clarity.

 

Does Anyone Even Know What Free Speech Is Anymore?

In the aftermath of the January 6th, chud riot and attempted coup on Capitol Hill, an intense debate about censorship, free speech, and the rights of posters living under the tyranny of Big Tech platforms. There’s just one problem; namely that all of that is complete bullsh*t, and enforcing the terms of service agreement against wealthy white fascists is neither censorship, nor tyranny. Cobbling together my thoughts on this and other related subjects, I’ve published a new edition of an old classic, The Skinny, over on Patreon this morning.

From Dennis Prager, to Majorie Taylor Green, and including all the crypto-libertarian free speech absolutists in-between – we’re taking no prisoners in this informal journal piece. Check it out over on my Patreon Blog by clicking on the title header or quotation bloc below:

The Skinny: Chuds, Social Media & Censorship Edition

 

“More to the point however, even if you an I would agree that social media should be a publicly controlled utility, with an entirely people-powered moderation system that truly stood for free speech rights in the public sphere, surely it would still be against the rules to preach hatred, incite violence and literally organize a fascist insurrection on that new, Utopian social media platform, wouldn’t it? And that is of course, where the argument that Trump or any of his fascist cronies are the victims of corporate censorship, falls apart entirely as well; the right to free speech online does in fact end someplace before inciting fascist chuds to commit criminal acts of violence against your enemies.”

 

 

• nina illingworth

 

Independent writer, critic and analyst with a left focus. Please help me fight corporate censorship by sharing my articles with your friends online!

You can find my work at ninaillingworth.com, Can’t You Read, Media Madness and my Patreon Blog

Updates available on Instagram, Mastodon and Facebook. Podcast at “No Fugazi” on Soundcloud.

Inquiries and requests to speak to the manager @ASNinaWrites

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“It’s ok Willie; swing heil, swing heil…”

 

Patreon Blog Link: Why I'm Doing Okay Without Twitter in My Life

 

Editor’s note: In light of the fact that Twitter has largely broken the barrier between "media" and social media" it seems appropriate to include a link to this piece here on Media Madness; especially since the media influencers on Twitter, are some of the principle components of the propaganda machine the platform serves as. Check out this short essay about the sinister nature of Twitter and why I don’t miss it, over on my always free-to-read Patreon blog.

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Have you ever spent any time thinking about what Twitter really is? No, of course not, that’s the kind of question nobody who is actually using Twitter ever gets around to asking; and I’m really no different than anyone reading this in that respect. Of course, in light of Jack Dorsey and his increasingly omnipresent platform giving me the boot on Christmas Day, I’ve had a lot more time to ponder that question recently and it’s made me realize that perhaps being permanently suspended from a propaganda “Death Star” isn’t such a bad break after all. You see, far from being a mere chat program, I’ve come to more fully understand Twitter’s role as a vast and altogether quite sinister influence market; a company whose real business model is literally the unregulated dissemination of propaganda on behalf of the wealthy and powerful. As has become all too common in the later stages of a dying Pig Empire, the public has been encouraged to understand its own relationship with social media in an inverted, or ass-backwards way; find out more by reading Why I’m Doing Okay Without Twitter in My Life on my (free) Patreon blog.

You can check it out by clicking on the title header or the quotation block below:

 

 

 

Why I’m Doing Okay Without Twitter in My Life

 

 

 

• nina illingworth

 

Independent writer, critic and analyst with a left focus. Please help me fight corporate censorship by sharing my articles with your friends online!

You can find my work at ninaillingworth.com, Can’t You Read, Media Madness and my Patreon Blog

Updates available on Instagram, Mastodon and Facebook. Podcast at “No Fugazi” on Soundcloud.

Inquiries and requests to speak to the manager @ASNinaWrites

Chat with fellow readers online at Anarcho Nina Writes on Discord!

“It’s ok Willie; swing heil, swing heil…”