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What you're saying now is what you would be saying in 1933. A renaissance woman trying to start a renaissance www.daphnelawless.com at the same username on mastodon.social
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There is a whole history of it in Australia, where all elections are run that way, and the politics aren't much better than the US.
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I like that song Lemmy from Motörhead wrote for him
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a) KC have never used moogs, said a synth nerd; b) they organised full scale uprisings to force free entry to Van Der Graaf Generator shows
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Because they like war and they want to destroy their opposition rather than defeat it
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I would love to get you in a serious dialogue with the anarchists thinkers who would start from "what's wrong with anarcho-lynch mobs" and continue to "the first thing those mobs would do is kill the ex-cops" and "why don't you think we can know who the bad guys are, are you a radical skeptic"
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In short, if you look around the world and are scared and think “Holy shit I need a gun” it’s too late to develop the skills and mindset necessary to use it properly and you’re just putting money in fascist pockets. Learn a life saving skill instead.
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Conclusion: Musk is going to try to buy Bluesky too
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The problem is that if Israel's moral mistakes don't lead to military setbacks, there is no hope, no hope at all; they can keep doing whatever they want
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"... and when you hear your master, you will come a little faster thanks to... " www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq3Y...
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“Well, you should have seen the cover they wanted to do. It wasn't a glove, I can tell you that!”.
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It seems to have the same magic effect as transphobia, and it's not a coincidence that the transphobes and the Israel lobby in my country are the same people
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They don't even think about how many Palestinians would be vaporized by "a nuke sent into Israel"
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The Scylla and Charybdis here are: (a) stupid fights and noxious community dynamics based on clique politics; (b) the kind of noxious "unity" which means that we aren't allowed to disagree with anyone calling themselves a Socialist. When can we ever learn to have POLITICAL debates
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I wonder how many of the people saying that were *themselves* hilariously "dunking" on people in the 2010s
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I suppose I'm having an allergic reaction because I'm one of those people you talk about getting monstered, and I don't blame social media, I blame clique politics. Similarly, the opposition to Vijay Prashad went nowhere because people misidentified it as a "social media pile-on".
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I don't know if this photo is real, but it should be disseminated widely
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One of the reasons I'm so excited about the Library Project is that these teen tankies HAVE to sit down and eg. read the history of US Maoism in the 70s and realise, Battlestar Galactica-style, that "all this has happened before". Same pathologies, different media. www.marxists.org/history/erol...
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The vast majority of the replies to that post from the Democrats social media account are people screaming angry at... the Democrats, for "letting this happen"
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I really have to go back to my point that this crap was happening on the radical Left long before the Internet, let alone social media; it just happened slower
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If it's Pezeshkian AND Rouhani - they want to kill the moderates. They want to do with Iran what they did with Gaza in the decades preceding 10/7.
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* 1991, I can no longer count
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He only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases voetica.com/poem/6034
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You gotta let me go there, don't deny me my freedom of Spiš
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Read the replies. It's NOT popular.
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Have you read the stuff he wrote as part of the Trotskyist movement before then?
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To some extent, trans people do go through a "second puberty" and there are behavioral as well as physical sequelae of that - but infantilisation is not the right response
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Libertarians are only pro-capital and anti-state insofar as the state is woke. When the state is antiwoke, that reverses.
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You have to get past the unquestionable central dogma of the online Left: "yelling at GOP does nothing. Yelling at Dems gets results, because the latter care what you think of them."
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Yeah, that's not Levine's real argument though. He's been on this kick for ages that the Internet AS A WHOLE - especially the WWW - was pretty much a Pentagon psyop and rotten from the start. The Left was prone to shitty clique politics long before social media bsky.app/profile/exco...
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Yeah, he did a lot of good work, _Capitalist Realism_ kicks, but doesn't it say so much about the current moment that "Vampire Crisis" is the thing that keeps getting quoted
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I will be that David will never get a response: but Ruth will message the other members of her TERF groupchat saying "LOLOL I triggered the wokies with that one"
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So the question is: give up, integrate into the circle, bite your tongue at the Red-Brownery and the people who spat filth at you being the leaders of the new movement? Or give up, stop trying to be included, enjoy your irrelevance? In either case, it's *you* who're the problem.