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https://twitter.com/TheMcKenziest/status/1388041927476477958
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# ? May 1, 2021 13:14 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 14:47 |
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https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1388471637243318273?s=20
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# ? May 1, 2021 13:39 |
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this is also stdh
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# ? May 1, 2021 20:51 |
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tokin opposition posted:I'm a prison abolitionist except for rich people I mean, she hid in a cabin for months to evade authorities and shopped only via mail order and she has the resources to leave the country and disappear first chance she gets and her past behavior suggests she'd do it. If ever someone was a too much of a flight risk to let them out on bond, this is that person.
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# ? May 1, 2021 21:10 |
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indigi posted:this is also stdh yeah
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# ? May 1, 2021 23:51 |
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christmas boots posted:I mean, she hid in a cabin for months to evade authorities and shopped only via mail order and she has the resources to leave the country and disappear first chance she gets and her past behavior suggests she'd do it. If ever someone was a too much of a flight risk to let them out on bond, this is that person. her partner in crime also had a fake passport so there's a decent chance she has one too
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# ? May 2, 2021 00:38 |
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https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1388629682002726918
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# ? May 2, 2021 00:42 |
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Spergin Morlock posted:her partner in crime also had a fake passport so there's a decent chance she has one too It’s kind of amazing that she hasn’t been sent on the same trip he took, but maybe she doesn’t know anything.
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# ? May 2, 2021 01:44 |
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:It’s kind of amazing that she hasn’t been sent on the same trip he took, but maybe she doesn’t know anything. she was the pilot of his private plane and is reported to have helped groom the young women. she knows stuff
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# ? May 2, 2021 01:48 |
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indigi posted:this is also stdh Oh absolutely, but I'll never get tired of idiots doing the "[example of capitalism], wow such socialism" and not realising how loving stupid they look. It's up there with the "workers donate their own sick leave and holiday pay to coworker hit by bus who might lose their house because of medical debt, isn't this just the American spirit at its best!"
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# ? May 2, 2021 05:09 |
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quote:But communism, in its essence, requires force. That's explicitly written by Marx. Even socialism can devolve into eventual communism and is identified as an in between phase by Marx as well.
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# ? May 2, 2021 07:19 |
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people in general have such a comically contradictory idea of what force and violence is i remember bringing up the idea that maybe a rich person withholding resources from the desperate poor and being defended by police officers is a form of violence back in college and got a lot of weird looks, and this was even before i knew about things like grocery stores dumping poison onto food in dumpsters to keep the hungry from taking it
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# ? May 2, 2021 07:50 |
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It’s as if people are educated to only consider violence against the status quo as violence and accept as normal, necessary and not violence the violence required to maintain it. Weird.
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# ? May 2, 2021 08:16 |
Tiler Kiwi posted:people in general have such a comically contradictory idea of what force and violence is Reading grapes of wrath turned me into a maoist tbh. Let's go peasants let's get those oranges before they're soaked in kerosene
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# ? May 2, 2021 08:52 |
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Tiler Kiwi posted:people in general have such a comically contradictory idea of what force and violence is The idea that colleges were hotbeds of leftist thought is a fantasy concocted wholesale by conservatives and believed only by people who had never been. At least in my experience
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# ? May 2, 2021 09:43 |
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:It’s kind of amazing that she hasn’t been sent on the same trip he took, but maybe she doesn’t know anything. In an ironic twist, the people who had Epstein killed are so deeply entrenched in patriarchal power structures that they don't have any lady hitmen and thus have no way of actually getting to her while in custody. Aww shucks.
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# ? May 2, 2021 10:07 |
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christmas boots posted:In an ironic twist, the people who had Epstein killed are so deeply entrenched in patriarchal power structures that they don't have any lady hitmen and thus have no way of actually getting to her while in custody. Agent 47 is going to have to get creative.
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# ? May 2, 2021 10:12 |
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Orange Devil posted:It’s as if people are educated to only consider violence against the status quo as violence and accept as normal, necessary and not violence the violence required to maintain it. Weird. It also ties into how the notion of violence itself has shifted to be more an implicitly immoral thing that requires justification or obfuscation; of course, said methods of obsfuscation and the ability to do things like assert property rights 'nonviolently' (by treating ownership as 'natural' despite ownership requiring the ability to deny others the utilization of said owned thing (if you don't agree with that concept then I have an NFT of a bridge to sell you)) benefits the status quo, as these 'nonviolent' methods (that implicitly require the backing of a monopoly of force) require greater resources (and ability to disseminate norms en masse) than more explicitly violent acts do, thus ensuring the already powerful can also monopolize the moral high ground. To the point where it's considered not at all violent if i were to assert control of the intellectual property of insulin and horde it all in an underground bunker while all the diabetics die, and in fact Im going to have people falling over themselves to justify such an act for me since the act of taking anything from me would require violating the NAP (and thus justifying all those cops killing the hell out of you while I get to claim pacifist perfection). Tiler Kiwi has issued a correction as of 14:25 on May 2, 2021 |
# ? May 2, 2021 10:19 |
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Tiler Kiwi posted:It also ties into how the notion of violence itself has shifted to be more an implicitly immoral thing that requires justification or obfuscation; of course, said methods of obsfuscation and the ability to do things like assert property rights 'nonviolently' (by treating ownership as 'natural' despite ownership requiring the ability to deny others the utilization of said owned thing quote:Well I hope this is not an arguement that devovles into "everything mr. Rich does is exploitative and violent cause he is rich" and "everything mr. Poor does is justifiable cause he is just surviving. " The problem with that kind of reasoning is that it removes nuance.
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# ? May 2, 2021 10:42 |
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens posted:There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
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# ? May 2, 2021 10:43 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:The idea that colleges were hotbeds of leftist thought is a fantasy concocted wholesale by conservatives and believed only by people who had never been. At least in my experience There's specific strains of American conservative thought that are much harder (though not impossible) to maintain with the experience of a good dose of higher education. Mostly creationism and other forms of hardcore christian fundamentalism. Theres also evidence that college degrees correllate with lowered levels of white racial grievance. The fantasy exists because the conservatives can't tell the difference between a centrist who isn't personally a religious zealot bigot (though they uphold a racist status quo) and an actual leftist.
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# ? May 2, 2021 12:43 |
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Platystemon posted:Mark Twain two reigns of terror quote Marx to Engels, September 4, 1870 posted:... The defence of Paris, if nothing extraordinary happens in the course of it, will be an entertaining episode. These perpetual little panics of the French – which all arise from fear of the moment when they will really have to learn the truth – give one a much better idea of the Reign of Terror. We think of this as the reign of people who inspire terror; on the contrary, it is the reign of people who are themselves terrified. Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves. I am convinced that the blame for the Reign of Terror in 1793 lies almost exclusively with the over-nervous bourgeois, demeaning himself as a patriot, the small petty bourgeois beside themselves with fright and the mob of riff-raff who know how to profit from the terror. These are just the classes in the present minor terror too.
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# ? May 2, 2021 13:19 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77ym0cWVmA
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# ? May 2, 2021 13:25 |
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Buying land legally: not force. lol Lets ignore the fact that the whole point of buying land legally is to be able to enlist the states monopoly on violence to enforce your claim against every other person in the world. You can argue this is justifiable violence because private property rights are good (they are not) and because the laws are fair and just (they are not) and the means to buy land are fairly distributed amongst the population (ahahaha) but lMAO at claiming there is no violence here.
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# ? May 2, 2021 13:27 |
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Orange Devil posted:Buying land legally: not force. lol quote:And yet, are you are okay with an armed uprising by the proletariat to unseat the bourgeoisie? Ironically, that requires more devolving violence. What benefit will that cause? That's a hard sell. Capitalism, which pays workers jack-poo poo for back breaking work, provide more benefit than the Maoists and their movement towards their vision.
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# ? May 2, 2021 13:31 |
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Beautiful :cheffskiss: Progress in laws and rights, specifically workers rights. Just happen on their own through the magnificence of capitalism do they? Or was literally every right we have (lets ignore for now that rights are a legal fiction ignored by the ruling class whenever convenient for them and thus actually we got no rights) won by people willing to violently struggle against the capitalist order? Bathroom breaks, paid sick leave, not getting fired for getting pregnant, the 8 hour work day, the 5 day workweek, fire safety standards, disability benefits, pensions, every single goddamn thing you have you have because people were willing and did fight, bleed and die for them. And the second the capitalist class perceives we are no longer willing or able to fight that fight they start rolling all that poo poo back. Its all loving violence, as long as our default assumption is that people should starve unless they can sell their muscle and brains to someone it cant possibly be anything other than violence that underpins every single goddamn transaction.
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# ? May 2, 2021 13:43 |
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What do you mean the laws aren't just and fair, a rich man isn't allowed to sleep under a bridge just like a poor one
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# ? May 2, 2021 14:28 |
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Colonel Cancer posted:What do you mean the laws aren't just and fair, a rich man isn't allowed to sleep under a bridge just like a poor one The laws are just and fair, both rich and poor are allowed to underpay employees in the name of profit and both rich and poor are forbidden from stealing bread to feed themselves.
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# ? May 2, 2021 14:46 |
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https://twitter.com/leftyvegan/status/1388692889933385728
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# ? May 2, 2021 23:21 |
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https://twitter.com/tlbtlbtlb/status/1388926766920605698?s=19
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# ? May 3, 2021 13:59 |
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Would be a good @getfiscal post.
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# ? May 3, 2021 14:03 |
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My Trotskyist groupuscule wants to bring a maoist friend of one of them into our play party on Saturday. I wasn't consulted and now I'm feeling left out. AITA?
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# ? May 3, 2021 14:13 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Agent 47 is going to have to get creative. (this is not to be taken as anything other than a silly reference to Hitman) https://twitter.com/JOHNofWAR/status/1388297593680171009
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# ? May 3, 2021 19:20 |
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that guy rules
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# ? May 3, 2021 19:25 |
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https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1389291206681710602
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# ? May 3, 2021 19:57 |
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a Loving Dog posted:that guy rules would
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# ? May 4, 2021 04:24 |
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# ? May 4, 2021 04:25 |
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I have a hot take. Scalpers, griefers, boring trolls, hackers, cryptominers, multiplayer video game cheaters, boring people, super-spreaders, anti-vaxxers, wet blankets and anyone else who disrupts entertainment are actually freedom fighters who should be hailed as heroes because and I quote quote:In "Brave New World" non-stop distractions of the most fascinating nature are deliberately used as instruments of policy, for the purpose of preventing people from paying too much attention to the realities of the social and political situation. The other world of religion is different from the other world of entertainment; but they resemble one another in being most decidedly "not of this world." Both are distractions and, if lived in too continuously, both can become, in Marx's phrase "the opium of the people" and so a threat to freedom. quote:In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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# ? May 4, 2021 16:50 |
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ted hitler hunter posted:I have a hot take. that doesn't seem like a super hot take, that reads like a take from someone that just picked up their first McLuhan or Postman writing.
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# ? May 4, 2021 17:11 |
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i think thats a misread on the opium of the people line but more importantly hands off my goddamn opium
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# ? May 4, 2021 17:16 |