scottybsf.bsky.social
Socialist pagan queer dude. Pro-Palestine. Anti-tech bro.
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For these people the more important question should be whether or not we'd return to the Russian revolution without either of those.
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That is literally word salad that means nothing outside of academia.
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Did not read this before my earlier post.
So, as someone who is also privileged with a JD, etc, etc, your thesis is that your history degree somehow trumps self-identification from the people who are actually part of a given community? Have you seen the 1992 film Candyman?
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So, I think there's a point at which the internet and even this app make things confusing. I'm from an Irish and American folk religion/pagan background. Pagan erasure sucks. But it's important for *all of us* to protect whatever group is targeted at some point in time. And we probably agree.
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Also got a little confused about your equivalencies there. You went one way in the first comment and did a hard curve later on. So, yes - we wanna talk about American slavery, German nazis, British imperialism, it's all bad
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But I don't think you can argue that the present day material effects are the same as slavery.
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Hey. I'm also pagan but i don't think that's on him. It's a larger question that needs to be addressed, but at the moment Palestine and racism in the United States should be at the forefront.
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Some of us have known the Democratic Party has been terrible for decades, and we've been building alternatives. Join the Green Party or your local socialist organization. Democrats are dust.
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Everything is fucked, but it did at least result in this very amusing editorial on a corporate-owned, generally "moderate" local news site today: www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
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Fuck you Starmer. Labor will never love you.
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This is incredibly disturbing. Echoes of the Red Scares in the 1910s and 1950s.
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Whelp. Everyone radicalizes differently I guess. For me my best friend dying in the war in Iraq that the majority of Democrats supported was pretty significant.
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They went too far. They did...t-shirt reveals! 😲
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I just don't buy things from Amazon or Target, like, in general. I am kinda reliant on Kroger, but at least most of their stores are unionized.
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Hey, we don't know what those garden gnomes get up to when we aren't looking! 😅
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Wow - so I used to think Starmer was copying the tactics of centre-right Democrats in the US, but now it looks like he's taking his ideas directly from the Trump administration.
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Yea, this is pretty terrible.
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I remember not liking what I perceived as her "post-modernism" in college, but since then I've grown to respect her and her work a lot more. She called out gender determinism before people were even taking it to the extremes they are now.
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Labour are acting like the Democrats in the US, and we all saw how well that worked out for them...
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Man, this sucks. I was an obsessive Eurovision fan from 2007-2023, and Moldova was often my favorite country. The song about a train route from a few years ago was also great. I can't watch Eurovision now though with Israel's continued participation.
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It's a bit worrying that Trump could take a page from the UK on criminalizing protest...
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Neither Trump nor the Democrats offered anything to working people in the election, which is part of why so many more of them stayed home. But it can become obvious to working people fairly quickly that attacks on minority groups aren't improving their lives.
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Well, as a Green in the United States, I'd hope that you call for a ceasefire *and* an end to arms shipments to Israel as well.
Again, I'm from the country that's doing the vast majority of them. But that's why it's important for us (as with the Jill Stein campaign) to be explicit).
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Glad to hear it! It'd be nice if the courts make California ditch the "top two" ie "Dems/Repubs" only election rules before the general election as well. I want to be able to vote Green on the November ballot!
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I would imagine the situation is similar here in San Francisco, where we just elected a billionaire heir mayor who seemingly just wants to redo the 1980s "War on Drugs" policing strategies...
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Ironically I'm seeing this post right now because I'm ditching Facebook...