oligomachy.bsky.social
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Use Genius to look up lyrics. Listen to To Pimp a Butterfly, it's arguably his best album. It's also a concept album. Like a rap opera, if you will. It tells a story
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Ours. ✊
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Something something current politics
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It's amazing how quickly we jumped over 1963 and went to 1860. Surely we could have afforded a month in the 60s at least.
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But I thought libruls ran the big nasty govuhmen!
Are you trying to say the enemy is both strong and weak?
Damn son, that's sign number 8 of fascist thinking...
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modern ssd + swap files = enough ram for 706 tabs
This wouldn't work on spinning rust
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It is possible to do both
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David Hogg just won DNC vice chair. Rest assured that this will change. I imagine it will be impossible to fully revise it this year, but you should at least expect it to get up to the Firefox heyday era by Jan 2026.
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The context for that quote improves it slightly, but I hear you.
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Short term fan sentiment is too fickle to base large decisions on.
It's the problem of the judge giving a different verdict based on whether he has eaten lunch yet or not.
Revealed preferences over a span of time must be counted alongside verbalized sentiment.
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look skeptically at anyone who cares about politics. Politics are left for fancy people.
The idea of civic engagement is not actually taught in these cultures. It is counterproductive to the very people who sit on their school boards. Why stir people up? It makes it harder to rule them.
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No, I'm trying to convince you that they mostly don't think he's lying.
Many of them barely listen to him at all. Know why "TDS" was a thing? They think we are odd for paying more attention to him than they do. Which...we do.
Their cultural programming to prep them for strict hierarchy makes them
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I'm on their death list, too, Betta. Just not by starving.
Name a charity that would help folks like you, pick a number between 60.00 and 70.00, and I'll send you the receipt and share their name with what people I can.
Don't think because I won't hate for you that I won't help you.
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I'm not shooting for good German, Betta. I'm shooting for Lincoln.
You cannot kill or imprison tens of millions of Trump voters. What would you do to "these monsters"? I don't mean Musk. He should be in prison. A few hundred or few thousand should.
But what about the rest, Betta? Any ideas?
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xenophobia is a partly natural tendency in humans.
But you're right that it gets cultivated. And it starts out here at birth.
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Did you grow up in an environment in which 9/10 authority figures thought this way?
You mentioned lies. You don't know Trump is lying because of kindergarten. You know because people have taught you why his policies are bad and what tyrants look like.
They aren't taught that.
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Ok, culture shock time. When I was in a rural elementary school, I was taught:
- to cross out 65 million years ago in my textbook when it talked about dinosaurs
- we all come from Adam and Eve so be nice
- girls don't need to exercise
- Columbus was a hero
- civil war was not about slavery
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You must have had a healthy interest in getting an education, then.
When I taught in a rural town, Jen, there were kids like that. Some also thought it was stupid to go to school because they were just going to work on the farm. They skipped school on day 1 of hunting season. Different world.
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That's what really needles me about people acting like these folks are so bad.
It kind of proves that it's a bit of an accident that some of us know better than others. I'm not better than them. I'm luckier. I learned more.
Doesn't mean I give them the controls or kiss their ass.
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Probably for the same reason Damian just did. It seems incredibly easy and obvious to do The Right Thing and it's inexplicable that They Aren't Doing It.
Only for them, it's you. All the stuff you've said in this thread, Jen, is the same stuff they say about you. Just change a couple words.
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That's something to be proud of. What made you go through that trouble? Genuine question. What was in your head when you sat on that subway seat?
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They're not fucking orcs from LOTR. They're people. You know. Two arms, two legs. Sometimes they smile and laugh at things. Sometimes they give people little gifts or say hi just to say hi. Sometimes they help an old lady.
They're people. They just don't know what they're doing to the rest of us.
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If you wanna know, though, come out here and I'll show you. They go to school events, church events, and so on. They have little charity groups and things. They have their own way of taking care of each other.
Do they do that with social justice in mind? Not so well. But they do what they know how.
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This ain't a measuring contest, my friend. I can offer plenty of criticisms of their way of doing civic interaction.
But I can't control those and chances are that no one on here can. All we can control is ourselves. And we could stand to do better. For our own sakes if nothing else. That's all.
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Damian, I get frustrated with them, too. And yes, personal responsibility is a real thing.
But your difficulty in understanding rural life is just as deep as these rednecks out here who think "inner city black folks" have every opportunity to advance themselves.
It's hard to understand one another
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Yes, they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps, shouldn't they?
How would they do that in a small town in rural Alabama where the nearest college is an hour away and they only have satellite internet? Is that really "every opportunity" that you had?
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I'm not a garbage anything for asking people to remember the humanity in others, and frankly I think that's our disagreement.
I don't think that there really are very many "garbage people" at all. Right wingers have probably ruined my life more than yours. But I don't think they're garbage.
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From what I know about studies about mixed culture, that actually all smooths back out again when there is no clear obvious majority culture. It's a U shape.
Really well-mixed societies are stable, and really homogeneous societies are stable. In between, you get a little nastiness sometimes.
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This is exactly what I'm saying. Ignorance is almost always a better explanation than malice.
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Might be state by state, but in the state I am from they do not
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I am a Wikler fan as well but Martin is still a vastly better choice than the last couple people the DNC chose.
David Hogg also got vice chair, just for info.
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He's pretty close to the right pick. If you'll forgive an analogy:
They hired an orthodontist to do dentistry.
The last guy they hired was a toothpaste lobbyist.
It's a vast improvement.
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David Hogg is probably the youngest vice chair ever. He's a Parkland shooting survivor if that helps you estimate age.
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Yes, last guy was a Podesta lobbyist.
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He was DNC vice chair and MN state chair before this. Look at MN before and after him.
There are lots of interviews with him.
For my tastes, Ken is a bit like being gifted a new car, but not in my favorite color. I will shut up about the color.
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He wasn't my favorite choice but he was my top 3 and he is more progressive than the past 2 chairs. He was vice chair and MN state chair before this. Look at MN before and after him.
I preferred Wikler, WI chair, because he unfucked a red state rather than improving a blue one. But Ken's ok too.
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Jen, you have every right to feel this way, but talking like that isn't going to teach any of them any lessons except that you hate them. They won't get *why*.
Is that fair? Hell no. But it's where we are.
I will encourage mutual aid yet again, even if only with other progressives.
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Don't focus your aid on people who don't reciprocate. That's sensible. I get it.
But the reason that people don't reciprocate is because someone did not reciprocate with THEM. Usually when they were children.
You want to stop them? Destroy the forces creating them.
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Right. You're here to help yourself.
Leftism and progressivism runs on the idea, the *reality*, that often we achieve that by helping others.
Mutual aid has been a leftist tradition since before our great-great-grandparents were born.
Hate has been a right wing tradition since before the wheel
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My mistake. That's much more fair. People do need to hit the FO stage sometimes
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I guess my take is this.
Shitting on underprivileged, undereducated rural people for their support for a demagogue is roughly as unhelpful as shitting on any other underprivileged group.
The real enemy is not Joe the Farmer but the people who wield his ignorance against you.
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Betta, I am not counter-revolutionary.
Trump fans come from the most oppressive, depressing, run-down, underdeveloped parts of the country. Liberal capitalism genuinely failed them. Rather than hating them, we should make efforts to share socialism with them as an alt. to...well. you know.
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Betta, I'm not trying to patronize people. I'm sharing my views in as direct and honest a fashion as I can over text. This is how I talk to people.
I'm sorry that I irritated you with my way of writing. I do this because I think it gets results, but it doesn't with everyone. Thanks for the feedback
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There are tens of millions of people who voted for him.
You only need a few million of them to change their decision-making strategies, and not even by blaming Trump. Blame billionaires. Attacking Trump head on is running into a wall when there is a door called economic populism.
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they're in favor of **other people** doing that because they have not been exposed to teachings that overcome this myopia.
Your beliefs do not solely belong to you, but also to your community. We think in groups as much as individuals. Our group has more formal education.
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Libgen has it in the meantime if you don't mind ebooks