"Fringe groups" as u derogatorily call them do the most with the least and anyone whose ever actually been involved in mvmts understands this. Direct giving to activist groups is Effective Altruism. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1332427763257667593

They idea that donating to Biden's campaign or whatever other massive overhead scam is more productive per dollar and realistic is such a funny way to reveal yr theory of change is divorced from mvmt histories.

Local organizer bail funds >>>>>> any national campaign fund

Or just like pooling for a shitty printer and computer for local info shop or w/e. Will help build tons of infrastructure for a fraction of the cost. Especially if yr focused on supporting BIpoc or global south projects.

Trivial example starfish camp on Lesvos was 1000x more effective than the UNHCR at actually helping refugees in Greece from Syria with a fraction of a fraction of the budget.

"Counterproductive rhetoric" only applies to his narrow liberal wonk view of what constitutes or leads to change.

And then btw after Starfish camp it wasn't the UNHCR who picked up and housed ppl and protected them from Golden Dawn it was SQUATS! Mostly all volunteers w values not middle managers looking to subcontract and get promoted.

But how could u just squat an abandoned building and directly give aid??? That's counter productive rhetoric.

These kids where I live run a punk show and make $50 and turn that into 500 harm reduction kits and a drop in space like... it's not even comparable to that $50 into like a PAC.

Even by the EA community standards these baby punks are out here actually saving more lives than Against Malaria or w/e to the dollar. Qualia....

His take is bad for the reason that progressivism is bad btw. Him and his out of touch clique have a plan for us all and it's better than whatever counter productive rhetoric is coming from locals w actual knowledge of the real problems they face.

MY wants one billion more US Americans or w/e but he's not gonna listen to any of them.

I did write about this a bit awhile ago: https://c4ss.org/content/51403 

Anyways this is why Soros only funds pallets of bricks now.