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Very weird thing to say. Did you feel clever after sending it?
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Lol. Lmao even.
Absolutely not a real thing, loser.
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We should not cede any grounds on those. They'll take it and keep running with it.
Anyone who accepts these concessions is no real ally.
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You do not deserve any sort of hurt.
You deserve happiness.
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This is simply not true.
You have great insight on a lot of subjects and they're good contributions.
And no, you don't deserve being alone.
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It's even more insane because none of our rights ever were won by 'being respectable'. You don't bow down to the slave owner in the vain hope that he'll one day free you.
That's ridiculous.
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Doesn't it? It's not actually heavy, though. It's weird.
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Yeah, exactly. They really want to put communism on the same level as fascism. They constantly talk about the death toll of 'communism', for example, but capitalism is totally fine.
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Ah, of course the 'effective altruism' types. Not surprised that they love fascism.
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Real interesting angle to go for.
Wrong, of course, but it's weird the arguments people will cling to in opposition of us.
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I can talk for hours on end about this, so I'll end this here.
I do think it's interesting, however, how much lining the pockets of the rich and protecting capitalism is such a core aspect of the USA government.
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Smedley D. Butler, in his book "War is a Racket," called himself a "racketeer for capitalism" for participating in this farce, and he absolutely was. The United States, under the influence of Citigroup's predecessor, stole our money, killed our people, and destroyed our nation.
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Hard to agree when USA officials would pay themselves more money per year, using our funds, then they spent on the Haitian people.
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The USA believed that only they, as a force for good, could come in and help Haiti from the situation it was in. If not them, then Europe would. This was their backyard, so they'd handle it.
At least, that's what they claimed.
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The next year, the USA comes in and occupies Haiti and subjects the people to horrible and abusive actions for the next 19 years. We learn in school that the start of the invasion was the murder of Vilbrun Guillaume Sam in the French embassy by the people, but that's not the whole story.
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It took mere days for the gold to land in Wall Street banks.
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By 1914, Haiti was in such economic turmoil that the USA decided to take advantage. National Citybank, now Citigroup, gets into the USA's ear and gets them to do something ridiculous: march 8 US Marines into the national bank and get them to walk out with half a million dollars in gold.
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The debt was actually so ridiculous that France knew we wouldn't be able to pay it back. This was their punishment to us.
So where does Citibank feature in this story?
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2 decades later, France arrives with battleships and demands to be paid back for the money they lost. Money lost, mind you, from not being able to do slavery and keep its boot on our necks. It's absurd. Faced with no choice, however, Haiti complies and enters into a vicious cycle of debt.
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Let's take a step back and go back to 1804. Haiti defeats the French at the Battle of Vertières, gains its independence, and becomes the first enslaved country to win its freedom. It doesn't last, of course. Almost immediately, France gets angry and does what it can to destroy this new country.
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Pretty accurate, frankly. We're going to be seeing a lot of takes about how "terrible" This superbowl was.
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Oh, that *is* evil. I knew we had to eliminate them.
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I will not be continuing, simply because I've seen all that I care to.
I wish you grow a spine, one day. Learn to say what you mean and understand that facism and the right-wingers who court it are not your friends.
And also, seriously, of course I read. That was a weird accusation there.
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You'll both sides a conversation. You denounce the rise of AI while using AI generated images. You talk about the USA and its flag and the oath you swore and how terrible it is that Trump and Musk are in power, but not that this happened because the USA was always riding down the train of facism.
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I'm not the one crashing out. You are.
Your ego got the best of you.
You keep telling me how great you are, and honestly, it's kind of pathetic. You tell others you read, often in fact. You're quick to mention Butler, but it never quite seems like you have anything to say.
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Jealousy? This is what you think this is? No, Mike, I find you spineless.
You did not and can not engage in ideas. You crashed out over being called melodramatic (which you are. These messages are a chore to read, as are your articles)
You read, certainly, but I expect little from you.
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You scratch a liberal, Mike, and you get a facist. I'm sure you knew that. You've read a lot, after all.
Tell me more about how cool and smart you are for being a liberal. Tell me about how in awe I should be.
Then, after it all, you can take a real stance.
Coward.
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Then insist. Make noise. Prove to us what happens when you scratch a liberal.
Make more articles with AI generated images. Talk about how the right and the left should unite to save democracy. Pretend that Trump, that Elon Musk taking over your country is an isolated incident and not a symptom.
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Biological advantage was never an actual issue in sports. We have quite literally superhuman with biological advantages out there dominating fields, and we celebrate them.
This isn't an issue of fairness, and you know this. You can see it.
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Spare us the melodrama.
You speak pretty, but you're very much a liberal. I say this as a negative. You'll cede ground in the guise of "maybe there is something to the sports issue. This is a legitimate concern."
You then talk of fairness?
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Own it.
If you're bringing this up, then you've definitely got some belief in this "acknowledgment" of yours.
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Martin Niemöller rolling in his grave right now lol
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I feel like there might be a poem or something that warns about the dangers of ignoring groups being targeted.
Possibly. Maybe.
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Yes. Of course.
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Gonna make me miss the old days of lolspeak.
Amazing what people think "power" is.
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Are the ones you want to claim ones that make you happy? That you'd like to have?
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If the confusion is "what to call yourself?" then let me add to it.
Call yourself what you want to be called. Identify by what feels right.
If it doesn't later, change it. The only person any of these labels need to satisfy is you.
If it sparks joy? If it makes you feel seen? Then that's all.
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Sure it can, but... so can everything.
At some point, you have to be willing to accept that. You can also accept that it's not always malicious.
Sometimes, someone is just telling you what they are.