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I was astonished that this became TOTW after the thread from two days ago.

I am not going to respond to things here (except for one thing below), but I will respond to the most salient themes from comments from this and the previous thread in the next episode. High-energy haters are welcome to e-mail me at bellamyfitzpatrick@protonmail.com - if you write something coherent and fleshed out, I will read it verbatim, insults and all (creativity welcome, but maybe not the 'masturbating covered in peanut butter' thing again), and respond on air.

Let me just say once and for all: neither Amory nor I were, are, or would call for state violence on dissidents or anyone else, and it is either paranoid (given the content of my numerous past media projects), dishonest, or delusional to keep insisting that this is what happened. People claiming this have nothing but the mind-reading of strangers and bizarre ideas about what would obviously be ineffectual, moron-level infiltration conspiracies (launching a show about radical politics while simultaneously tweeting to 7 followers calls for state violence...what on Earth would be gained if we *were* trying entryism?) to support their argument. Criticisms of my secessionist strategy are honestly perfectly welcome, and I am genuinely quite sympathetic to why some people find the idea troubling; but pretending someone's views are different from what they are helps no one, including the critic. The whole point of doing a video-based show is to have rapid response time to feedback: if people want to debate, let's please have a real and substantive debate. I am not claiming to have all of the answers, only some ideas and interest in dialogue.