markr51.bsky.social
Retired software engineer. I only eat plants. Unprofessional artist. Unreconstructed 1960’s leftist. They were fascists then too. Zero troll tolerance.
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Apparently if all the cuts only affected minorities they would be fine.
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Protest is not about "sending a message." It is about creating a crisis that those in power cannot ignore. Every successful movement follows three essential principles:
1. Clear, Non-Negotiable Demands
2. Escalating Pressure
3. Noncooperation: Stop Enabling the System
Please share
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The virus is spreading across our food chain animals. Pasteurizing keeps milk safe, but only slows down one contagion path.
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Well it is pretty smart for the people monetizing your attention.
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Great. Hell should warm things up and get the ice off my roof and driveway.
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There’s a setting for that. Use it.
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Doge math.
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We should Abolish Billionaires. You get to 1B, you get a gold medal. Every cent over that limit gets taxed. Put both a floor and a ceiling on wealth.
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I took a break from thinking visually how to move forward on the series of paintings I’ve been working on to put colored stickers on colored paper with my grandson. We made art.
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Indeed, a military purge is likely a prelude to some gross military adventure(s).
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This war has transformed warfare. For example: tanks are utterly useless. A cheap drone can easily take out a hugely expensive tank. Artillery has to keep moving further away because drones again. Ships are sitting ducks: drones again.
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Watching Zero Day and no, this reality is much worse than that silly conspiracy.
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Think of it as ‘receiving confirmation’.
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Hey they kept the Austro-Hungarian Empire going for a century after the Revolution. Got to give them some credit.
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Championing and implementing is what Israel is doing. All wrong.
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Murder wrong. Genocide, a particularly egregious form of murder, also wrong. Opposition party spinelessness toward fascism, wrong. So much is wrong now. And yet we need to work together to build a mass opposition to the crisis.
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The mass destruction is the point. The techno-feudalists intend to destroy the federal government and establish regional and metropolitan replacements. See Yarvin et al for details.
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Well obviously they didn’t. It didn’t help that a well funded and sophisticated psyops campaign was concurrent.
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Trump inherited a rather good economy in the us. The pandemic caused a psychotic break of sorts for many people. They came out of it as the pandemic waned early in the Biden regime. It was as if 2019 and 2020 got spliced out.
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He prefers killing children over admitting he has been idiotically wrong for 20 + years. Monsters among us.
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It might indeed be better than a future economy but for many people it was worse than the economy under the previous Trump regime.
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And there it is again. We are both too weak to care about and so strong that the small fraction of us who sat out the election defeated Harris.
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If China just stopped monitoring bats this would not be happening.
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Good. Force them to negotiate.
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I want to know who put her inside the campaign and how much influence did she have. She is quite obviously a rat-fucking mole.
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Well as 'institutionalists', which is what they are, what the flying fuck does that mean when the institutions are being dismantled?
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They all appear to be either shitting their pants in fear, or more likely, they have all been advised to do nothing and wait for the midterms. Either way it is enabling fascism and the end of the republic. It is despicable.
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Nobody deserves to be in a illegal torture and concentration camp.
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Colonialist bullshit. Yes the rebuilding will be expensive, which is why Russian reparations are required.
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Well there was. See Springtime for Hitler in The Producers. But that was back when we mistakenly thought fascism had been defeated and was no longer a threat.
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Abolish 50 millionaires doesn’t have the same emotive value.
The point is to have floor and ceiling on wealth.
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Here is a taunt: NYT go fuck yourself.
Here is a threat of military invasion by the president of the United States: Canada should become the 51st state.
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I might violate my boycott of the horrible Prime because Alan is one of the good people.
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My brother and I tried to find the hamlet where our grandfather was raised. We had been there more than 50 years earlier with our father. It was farmland then, and the house was abandoned but still standing. Now all forest. Norwegian pines.
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Oh so now planes good eggs bad? I’m so confused.
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I don't care how they hoard their wealth. I'm absolutely fine with taxing unrealized gains that total over 1B. You get to 1B, you get a gold medal, any wealth over the cap is taxed at 100%.
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Abolish Billionaires!
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It is on us that we have failed to communicate effectively. Failed to organize effectively. The history of the left is and always has been a history of failure. Even our victories have been tragic disasters. And yet here we are. What now?
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Groping is fine now, right?