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At some point we will think of something better and then it will be a very ugly centuries long conflict to fight The Last War and it will be people who die and people who win, and the accumulated labor value of thousands of years and the ghouls who hoard it will be defeated by the living

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In ancient Rome, they threw you from the Tarpeian Rock (25m/80ft) for touching a Tribune of the People

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Israeli leaders routinely express support for explicit extermination of Palestinians and American media still tells the public that Arabs are born with congenital antisemitism

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A vital corrective to American myth over WWII: in terms of saving lives, we absolutely objectively failed for years until we decided war served our purposes, and even then, saving human lives was incidental That said, founding the UN and the 1965 immigration law were real successes and praiseworthy

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Every western country has absurd news bias that favors the ruling classes and yet Sheinbaum, Lula, Petro, and Sanchez were able to build leftist majorities. We don't need media hegemony to win and it may even be harmful to have our every delusion verified that way.

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The most successful terrorists of the last hundred years

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the "where are all the protests against trump" people became the "these protests against trump are bad optics" people so quickly you may have missed it

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People treat American hegemony like a natural law but it is worth emphasizing, perhaps repeatedly, that when the US is again and again intervening on behalf of a very unpopular state which opposes a political solution that every other state on the planet supports, US influence is decreasing.

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"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met." Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time time.com/collections/...

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The lower bound estimate for just the cost of shipping the M1 Abrams and Bradleys to Washington DC by rail is $750,000.00 Just the shipping costs. Using 2023 freight shipping costs. Could feed and house a family for 30 years

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Something that I think weighs on many is that everyone knows that if ever the Democrats were fully in power at the Federal level again, they will not immediately move to reverse what has been destroyed and build something new. This reality just sits out there like an anchor.

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What's at stake here is whether it is permissible for modern states to enlarge themselves through contests of killing. It is sickening that the Great Powers are dithering when this absolutely will not stop at Ukraine. It didn't even start with Ukraine!

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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I oppose the people who want to make life harder for nonwhites

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Worth saying out loud and repeatedly. Even supposed benevolence in the 1990s supported a sub-state tier for Palestinian national aspirations. The US has been a bad faith actor for decades. It's just extremely worse now thanks to Biden and Trump

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Debating flags and optics is so fucking pathetic after a genuinely shitty defeat Stop acting smart, just support the humanity of trans people, people of color, immigrants, and Palestinians Honestly this is a pathetic weepy vibe but anybody who doesn't recognize others' humanity needs to gtfo

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As marines descend on LA, as Trump moves closer and closer to martial law, it will be tempting to victim-blame. To equivocate. To find some reason the protesters deserve what’s coming. They don’t.

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Whatever is happening now is exactly what will happen when he suspends elections

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Turkey destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages, Saudi created a cholera outbreak and starved Yemen, and Israel does what the world is now seeing American allies get weapons and financing. Others get bombed by NATO. Israel is merely the worst and most visible and interferes in American elections.

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We're at a stage where liberal state leaders are going to do the Pakistan thing: object publicly, facilitate privately Federalism is not going to save any of us

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Ditto everything i just said

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