zbyte64

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If you condition your soldiers to accept the illegal acts of others, then it is psychologically easier for them to conduct illegal themselves.

That's funny from a guy who just got appointed to a made up job in a made up department.

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Senators look in the mirror and see a future president. They might not have spines, but the size of their ego let's them stand.

Relevant username

Hey fun fact, the Kennedy family made their fortune from the first great depression.

They said capitalism breeds innovation. They just didn't specify what kind of innovation.

A serial philanderer definitely knows what it means and probably encouraged this story.

In this case I think it was also to get her to shut up about Matt Gaetz.

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Then who is supporting Nancy Pelosi?

Quip aside, let's bring on the sunlight.

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Good. Do things like this at every chance. Normalcy is for loosers that this point.

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Parent said it has NOTHING to do with building concentration camps. So it would be odd to expect that word in the article. Or did you realize they were being sarcastic? Then I guess you just didn't like the joke and responded with being pedantic to distract from the point.

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Why should I feel sorry for you and answer your question?

They could have moved to Canada or Europe with their level of privilege, but they bent the knee instead. It's a matter of keeping that privilege for them.

Many things can be true. You can be sarcastic along with all the other observations made.

We can blame voters or fix our media landscape. You can do both, but we need to do the latter to have a functioning democracy.

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Don't blame me, I voted for Dr Eggman.

These were the guys that told Biden not to step out of the race. These people also claimed Trump was fascist at one point. What changed? Did they ever have spines?

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SCOTUS: we stopped caring about being consistent

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Seriously good read on what to do next: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/

The fascist power structure is unjust and so it is like an upsidedown pyramid being propped up by pillars: people who do the actual work are the pillars. This pyramid topples when those pillars are removed. This can be a workers' strike in a certain sector (example given was the eastern shoremen refusing to load weapons for a war).

I'm also struck by how the article says to handle fear. We need to act as community and flip the script on their fear tactics.

The author of the article also has an interesting interview with Sam Seder where they talk about more historical examples: https://youtu.be/YLBM2SEL6Rc

Oracle or someone worse would buy them. That's how capitalism works.

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NAFTA and Wall Street bailouts come to mind.

In regards to Bernie, his premise is that wealth inequality is the core problem, which means tax the rich until they can't have an outsized influence on our politics.

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only way to fix the media is to fix the voters.

This narrative serves the capitalist class and cannot be proven. You don't "fix" voters, you create solidarity by dealing with their material conditions (engage in mutual aid).

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Nah, this is why citizens need guns. If a good guy with a gun was there then the body count would have been much lower. The car incident is why we should also give people their own personal shoulder mounted RPG.

Consider that many people who watched the Joker and idolize him didn't get that the movie was speaking against the character. Fascists don't understand camp, and so they don't get that it's a critique unless the director explicitly tells them so.

Male FUPA. The lower abdomen above the genitals that is extra fatty on the individual.

How do we gum up the works?

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GitHub definitely would and has in the past. YouTube-dl is on GitHub and gets a pass because it is used by researchers and archivists, both are fair use. forgejo.org would let you be your own fedi-github and might be worth checking out (could be easier than designing a plugin system and additional repos).

Fred Hampton spent more time building coalitions then he did calling his own cowardly.

Look, I'm not asking them to fall in their swords. I'm just asking that they don't fly out to Maro Lago to say he's normal actually.

When they say it's about race, it's about class. When they say it is about class, it's about gender. And when they say it's out gender, it's about race.

Or at least that's how it feels sometimes.

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Hell, I would support my kids doing exactly this.

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An alternative phrase to disabled I like is "less exploitable".

I imagine the capitalist saying: Sorry, I can't exploit your labor as much as the other. You may starve now.

If your religion tells you to be an asshole to kids, find a new religion. Weird how there are many Christians who don't have this problem, almost like this is not how normal people act but we have an asshole looking for an excuse 🧐

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It's about the narrative that there are outside agitators rallying the protest, but virtually all of the arrests are of students 🧐

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I don't think they're talking about buying something normal and turning it into a weapon. But buying something normal and getting a weapon instead.

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She's not that young, she's been doing music for a decade and working service jobs till now. And you can understand something and still feel it is unacceptable.

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Any dad that says something like that to another dad is infinitely worse.

That's like splitting hairs over whether a abortion is banned in Texas, cuz technically it is allowed under very narrow circumstances that no hospital is willing to try.

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I love it when terrible people do terrible things to their own wealth. What I don't love is how after a certain number of billions, you have an infinite wealth cheat code to fuck around with.

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Just like Trump, Jesus was famous for stiffing carpenters back in the day.

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