john-dewey.bsky.social
`Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.'
Anarcho-syndicalist. Feminist. Social Ecologist. Pragmatist. Black & white. Dual citizen. ♀️
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"Cream Sausage Tomato," sounds like a Campbell's soup flavour. Something my grandpa would've eaten with 18 million crackers crushed into it.
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Historically, there have been persistent rumours that Jesus was a woman.
It's def. been a standby of cranks & charlatans e.g. "Holy Blood, Holy Grail."
If we're to believe that Mary conceived a child without a bio. father, it would only make sense that the baby was a clone of its mother.
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At a minimum, someone should've advised him that centering his PTSD over someone else's death paints him as an egomaniac.
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Please, take a break.
Pessimism is a stalling mechanism that clouds your ability to perceive options & poisons the spirits of the people around you.
It's understandable - the threat is primarily existential right now & people are frozen. As the threat grows more material, we need people to fight.
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Step 1: Insist that government is captured by nefarious forces
2: Capture gov't by any means necessary
3: Dismantle federal systems and/or render them nonfunctional through sabotage
4: Reassert #1
5: Privatize federal systems + re-assign defense/aerospace contracts to Musk & plutocrat cronies.
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Have you seen Jackson's, "They Shall Not Grow Old?"
Questions about intentions gnawed at the back of my brain for a while afterward, because he also made, "Forgotten Silver."
I fear that one of the most influential auteurs doesn't believe in a functional difference between source & AI-gen footage.
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"...with normal frogs whom still brain,
even a frog what brains will remain."
It's like accidental poetry that evokes the feeling of the experimental subjects being described.
Brilliant.
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The GOP has spent a decade and a half giving a masterclass in malicious noncompliance, but apparently the Dems are fixated on focus-testing wry tweets.
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Our mad king threatened to annex Canada.
Of course they're booing that, "...bombs bursting in air," bullshit.
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I'm not sure why your conclusion is that Democrats have a messaging problem.
I see a deficit in the underlying philosophy. I see a moribund party with a superficial commitment to stated values & a deep allegiance to institutional tradition.
They have to believe in something in order to message it.
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Like everything in a Kendrick performance, Serena g-walking was multi-layered.
Remember, Serena has been heavily scrutinized & harshly judged for things about her as a person, like her physique, that are inseparable from her Blackness.
Exhibit A: g-walking after a tennis win.
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Yes, because elections = legitimacy, esp. when autocrats are running.
Examples: Saddam Hussein won 100% of votes in 2002
Vladimir Putin 88% in 2024
Lukashenko 84% in 2025
But wait, those were rigged - a fascist couldn't win a fair election, right?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_Ge...
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Can Congress members request an escort from Capitol police?
I don't know of any other mechanism of enforcement that they have for situations like this. What's to stop Musk from locking them out of SCIFs, etc.?
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This seems like a pretty surface-level assessment of a complex set of interactions.
I'm curious if this is still how you view the reaction video trend eight months later. I see it somewhat differently, but I also have reservations & wonder whether other people are seeing the same things.
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To state it more explicitly: Black Americans have consistently demonstrated understanding of & willingness to engage in class solidarity. In the U.S., the primary impediment to class solidarity is white supremacy. When white folks call for solidarity w/o specifying from whom, it undermines the call.
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Agreed & that was my point - intersectionality vs. the strictly class-based solution being posited by OP.
I didn't write that we need to, "fix racism," first, I wrote that white people need to do anti-racism work before class solidarity can occur, i.e. it's an integral part of the process.
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You're using 3rd person pronouns, implying you're not a member of the white working class. This would explain why you're trying to 'chicken & egg' your way out of what Black folks keep saying.
Black folks know what socioeconomic class we're in - the issue is white folks ignore the social part.
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There's a whole lotta anti-racism work that white folks need to do before that'll ever happen, not to mention the feminist praxis.
Black Americans have offered continuous solidarity but have been met with white supremacy, proving that class analysis doesn't subsume all.
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Definitely. This is one of the many consequences of severing the labour movement from leftist organizing in the U.S.
We've collectively forgotten that the #1 function of a union is education; organizing is education. Esp. given that we know public ed. exists to serve power.
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Took me several watches to realize what made him dump the bike. I'm choosing to believe the skateboard was intentional.
Thanks for the laughs!
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You're not wrong. You're seeing, in real time, the inherent frailty of leftist Poli. Sci. discourse.
There is neither wide understanding nor agreement on terminology; exchanges quickly devolve into bickering over words rather than the underlying ideas. Ego overrides consensus in settling on terms.
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The scare quotes tipped it over into smack down territory.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXvw...
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Breitbart replacing NPR seems more consequential.
OANN rather than FOX also raises some questions.
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Those are some very aggressive whorls on that fingerprint.
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Thank you for giving me an opportunity to use the word, "whorls," in a sentence.
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So, who's going to enforce the law?
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Anyone? Bueller... Bueller?
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Also, because procreation is a defense against genocide. A dangerous, possibly futile route, but often it's the only material option that dispossessed people have.
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Nope, just not falling for the okey-doke.
You literally just tried to downplay the foundational nature of slavery in the U.S., aka the prefatory step to denying that white supremacy is intrinsic here.
If you don't want to be challenged, don't say nonsense in a public forum.
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Gosh, how disarmingly glib you are!
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Said no one, ever.
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Also slavery.
Curious how some people always leave out slavery.
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That's precisely why they shouldn't have been there.
The inauguration is a ceremonial event, short of Capitol Riot 2 Electric Boogaloo, the Dems can't DO anything to disrupt.
What's left? Symbolic actions. We know they wouldn't go & hold up signs, so don't go.
Non-participation is protest.
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Everybody knows that the peaceful transfer of power is how we know everything is fine & we don't need to worry about authoritarianism.
Right?
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Yeah, I definitely smell whiteness.
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Your, "proof," is identical in character to your entire account: machine-generated with willfully ignorant human assistance.
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Ah, so your amateurish attempt to twist the plain meaning of a phrase failed when you met one (!) educated Black person, so now you're intimating violence.
Nice try, but I can see through you, Mr. Cellophane.
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OK, now this is just funny. Once again, the link you cited makes no mention of, "piece of shit," as an historically racist or ethnocentric term. It's about as literal a descriptive phrase as one can get.
You're making up a specifically racist connotation that doesn't exist. Why?
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"Piece of shit," is literally not in the shallow, clickbait slideshow you posted.
Regardless, your link was a dubious source, at best.
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Child, please.
Please, drop some knowledge on the rest of us about the racist etymological history of, "piece of shit."
Spoiler: you won't because that's idiotic.
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It makes him look worse.