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bill-of-lefts.bsky.social
We are not required to finish the work, yet we are not free to abandon it.
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What I find remarkable is that ChatGPT has gotten worse at this with subsequent iterations
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2020 probably
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That seems much more similar to how we used AIM and whatnot when we were that age
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Yeah i plan on straight up not allowing my future child to have a phone or use social media
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Greatest gen -> boomers -> millennials -> gen alpha is a much more noble lineage than silent gen -> gen x -> gen z
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It wouldn’t shock me if Gen z is just uniquely cynical bc covid ruined part of their youth
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I saw some younger people but it really was millennial plus. Whereas the 2017 protests had a lot of young people
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I mean, to what degree is she in control of the LAPD
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I’m gonna file a class action against soros on behalf of all the people who didn’t get paid
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Verhoeven
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Don’t be an asshole
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There’s a really obvious demographic reason here why DSA would not be good at organizing north Philly
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Saying this while displaying a Russian flag
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If Douglass could look at the Constitution and call it a “glorious liberty document”—despite the enslavement of his people—we can find things to be proud of in our national tradition, even if there’s also plenty not to be proud of.
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That’s fair. I was just literally waving the flag, so I’ll say this: I think denying the fascists ownership of national identity is important, and that waving the flag probably in some small way makes it harder for the Trumpists to crack down. But I respect your point.
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I don’t think we necessarily disagree on values, just on how to articulate those values. I agree that rights don’t emanate from the nation.
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I don’t want to give the police credit for *not* brutalizing people but I guess the bar is low right now. They acted professionally.
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I think we can support a patriotism that is anti-ethnonationalist (“give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”), where immigration is a core part of national identity
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I mean it’s west Philly to some degree
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hostis humani generis says what
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I was never in Philly dsa but my understanding was that the factionalism really undercut membership
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Ooh that makes sense. I went up to a guy with one and said “I love the Andor reference” and he didn’t seem to know what I was talking about
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I also saw a bunch of these in Philly; one “oppression is the mask of fear,” another “rebellions are built on hope”