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What is Capitalism and why are we doing it?
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Did you let them know the easiest thing to do is just COLLECTIVELY NOT ANSWER. They literally *CANNOT* fire all federal employees. Musk only thinks he has power.
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It is our DUTY and moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. In order to save this country from its worst tendencies we MUST break the law. We can say right back to the Fascist in chief: He who saves the nation, breaks no laws.
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Collectively we ALREADY have the power to end Trump and the rise of fascism forever, we must simply be willing to risk the use this power.
This means Union leaders need to wake up and risk their lives and safety in order to preserve democracy and rule of law.
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It's WORLD-defense.
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I think you've missed what the Lord our God has commanded.
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Release Luigi!
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Simple! Bake another one!
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It's simply too risky, too immoral, too damaging to society to allow such massive private accumulation. We should already know this from the late 19th and early 20th century!
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Yes, this doesn't degrade the Biden admin, which was beyond expectations, but it was *TOO LITTLE* too late. What's long been needed (since Carter admin at least) is a clear and direct message: ABOLISH BILLIONAIRES.
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Embarrassing this astronaut starts with some apologetic groveling instead of just roasting this complete fucking dumbass Musk.
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I'd argue NOT ENOUGH because this dumb motherfucker is still breathing.
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Amazing! 🙌 If only the democrats in DC would have been investing in middle class families over the last 30 years perhaps we wouldn't be in this pickle we find ourselves in. Keep up the good work! I hope to see you continuing the work and taking federal office! We need oceans more of blue-collar dems
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I'm not sure what you mean by "working" (is capitalism "working"?), but it sounds like your position is: "well, our entire system depends on slavery and mass suffering, oh well! I'm living ok so it's 'working.'" as we are creatures who reason, it's not unreasonable to develop better systems.
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My anti-futurism is purely driven by the need to move beyond capitalism, and the future is capitalism's ultimate invention. Desired deferred indefinitely by the commodity form. So the basic premise of this psychoanalytically informed Marxism is more or less build a new future by changing the past.
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Thank you for assessments! If you meant to lecture me into being a good boy, what have you become in the process? You're very hung up on the unfortunate reality that everything has always been and will always be fucked up, this doesn't have to mean your life is meaningless tho, so don't worry!
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Uhhh.... Berlin, Beijing, London??? Damn they are hellbent on totally destroying the country in every possible way. It's crazy.
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That's the same thing, isn't it?
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If we stop investing in the future, we can reckon with this present moment, which is all we ever have. Then maybe, we can begin the work of creating the conditions for the world we actually want to live in. Instead of dreaming of a revolution, we must become what the revolution is dreaming of!
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I very much disagree! If we're forced to realize that our notions of "stability" and "safety" was *ALWAYS* predicated on the mass suffering of others and was never actually stable nor safe, this is precisely what can spur us into actively creating a different future than the one given us!
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YOU were having a better experience. This does not change the fact that life was always fucked up. Now you're facing a little more what always true. The point is, there's no way to "retreat" to a "better time" because there was no better time. We MIGHT be able to make a less shitty future though! 🤗
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That is we do not "trust science" because science isn't "the truth" only a process of arriving at a stopping point. Science itself is amorphous and permanently changing. When you cast yourself as "someone who knows" it makes it all too obvious that you DO NOT know and your message falls on deaf ears
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I think you're missing the forest for the trees. There *cannot* be ethical, equitable, or violence free consumption in a liberal market economy, structurally. The whole concept is built on pain, slavery, and death, but obscured to the consumer who only experiences market transactions.
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I guess until you think about what new horror this will bring to the senate. At least he sometimes hated Trump. We can always hope for the future though, maybe by some bizarre circumstance a Sanders-style leftie will seize this opportunity and run as an independent and win! The future is wide open
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I LOVE HIM! 🩷🤗🥺
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Reflect further on how it was that came to be and you'll see, indeed, it was always built on pain, slavery, and death. Only your perception on the situation has now changed because of your personal experience. The reality is, life on this earth has always been and will always be, totally fucked up.
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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! It always has! 🤗
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Which again, never succeeded! It's all very Freudian - "the return of the repressed." One anecdote to sum up how/why we are where we are which I find amusing: G. Washington was the Elon Musk of 1776 - the richest man had the teeth of his own SLAVES pulled out from their mouths so he could use them.
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I was just reflecting about how this movement is the return of the confederacy. The Civil War never fully vanquished their movement, it was simply an economic realignment and which was mythologized as some "emancipatory" struggle, which is why 100 years later this nation still needed the CRM.