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November 2, 2020 at 10:56 am in reply to: WV, how’s your political anthropology study going? #123726
wvParticipantBtw, Twitter blocked my account because i responded to a person who wrote “Lawns should be illegal.” I tweeted back “Kill your Lawn” and i added a link about lawns.
Twitter blocked my account for “encouraging suicide”.
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vAs the young kids used to say, OMG!!
I have a small lawn, and I feel guilty for mowing it. Bad for the environment. I looked seriously into getting goats to manage it. Not kidding. They have some services for that around here, and they’re supposed to do a great job. But it’s really, really expensive, and I can’t afford to go that route.
I did try to shrink it with sections of soil filling and self-sustaining greenery, but there’s still too much grass. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
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My twit suspension was only for 12 hours. I coulda appealed it but i didnt bother.As far as lawns, there’s a lot written about how to get rid of em. The slow, gradual approach, bit by bit, or the big single Kill.
The main thing is to plant NATIVE plants where-ever you get rid of the lawn. Native to your area. This is an example, from California.
wvParticipantI really like this vid by Hakim. Hakim is a Marxist-Commie and he’s speaking from that perspective. But his main question can be posed to Dem-Socialists, Progressives, Anti-corporate-caps, whatever. Its a good conversation-starter.
How big a tent should the ‘left’ be? When can various leftists work together and when do the differences simply divide us?wvParticipantI’m guessing everyone has seen the videos by now, of the Texas yahoos surrounding a lone Biden campaign bus on the highway, knocking cars out of the way, and slowing it down to 20 miles an hour. Trump lied about their intent at his rally, praised them, and now is denouncing the FBI for looking into it.
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Yeah, its mostly in the red-states. Surreal.
Looks like there’s gonna be violence if Biden wins, for sure.
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vwvParticipant'This is revolutionary’: new online bookshop unites indies to rival Amazon https://t.co/6c5yRqKEY1
— Katrina vandenHeuvel (@KatrinaNation) November 2, 2020
wvParticipantGoodLord, are you kidding me. WTF.
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“…They outgained the Dolphins 471 to 145, had 31 first downs to Miami’s eight, averaged 5.1 yards per play compared to only 3.0 for the Dolphins, and converted on seven of their 17 third-down attempts. The Dolphins, on the other hand, were 3-for-12 on third down…”wvParticipantBtw, Twitter blocked my account because i responded to a person who wrote “Lawns should be illegal.” I tweeted back “Kill your Lawn” and i added a link about lawns.
Twitter blocked my account for “encouraging suicide”.
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vwvParticipantNah. It will be because FoxNews and the Evangelicals and the Corporations and Team-Trump did a more effective job than Team-Dem. And because of a startling amount of Cheating.
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vwvParticipantUS geostrategist John Mearsheimer threatens Australia, saying we must "sacrifice prosperity for security" because we "do not want to underestimate how nasty [the US] can be".
Australian crowd: HAHAHAHAHA. pic.twitter.com/eCK0S9V88Z
— the oriental despot 🇾🇪☭🇵🇸♱🇸🇾 (@JayTharappel) October 8, 2020
wvParticipanthttps://t.co/Fcy2NP43wC pic.twitter.com/o9xOHT98CB
— Elad Nehorai (@PopChassid) November 1, 2020
wvParticipantVeteran journalist and author Robert Fisk dies aged 74 @NabilaRamdani @StanleyCohenLaw https://t.co/OQ7a0t6EJQ
— Keeping the faith (@moodyMuslim) November 1, 2020
wvParticipantLeftists say get rid of the cigarettes (capitalism), period. Why spend all this time and energy trying to figure out ways to mitigate for its effects when there’s absolutely no reason for its existence in the first place?
Go with something that doesn’t require filters (up front) — endless attempts at reform, offsets, protections, etc. etc.
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Well, i like cigarettes because they are good at lighting fuses.
🙂The reform vs revolution thing just continues to tear leftist-organizations and leftist friends apart. Its just a never-ending issue. Every Leftist-Bio i have ever read has a gazillion pages devoted to the battles.
Apparently a lot of the hard-core holy-theory says reforms always help capitalism stay afloat. But that just sounds way to dogmatic to me, as well as less than compassionate. Take an 8 hour day for example. Lets say a village works its people for 16 hours a day. No time or energy to read Marx. But put in a reform like 8 hour day, and now folks have TIME and ENERGY to read Marx. Or whatever.
I happen to think some reforms are more than just ‘reforms’. They are creating space for revolution etc.Also, the 8 hour day is just more compassionate for real, actual, living people. As opposed to theory-people.
I think M4A is one of those super-reforms. Its both compassionate AND i think it will lead people to closer to real change. Gives them LIFE, health, and maybe they dont have to work that shit job if they have it. Maybe they can do a general strike if they have it. Etc.
So, while I totally see how reforms maintain the system and allow capitalism to let off some steam-pressure. I also think some reforms are more than reforms.
wvParticipant"'Good-paying green jobs' are probably not jobs for Pittsburgh, or Cleveland, or Toledo, or Youngstown." – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in its first endorsement of a Republican since 1972 #Elections2020#Pittsburgh #GreenNewDealhttps://t.co/w4KkJpF4wb
— Dan Armstrong (@Fuertebrazos) November 1, 2020
wvParticipantSo, now the polls say 63% of Canadians believe in #DefundThePolice. Up from 51% at the end of summer.
Wondering whether political power will actually move on this, or keep ignoring it because the folks most at risk for police violence are so undervalued. https://t.co/Jc43AiPKzA
— Sandy Hudson (@sandela) October 28, 2020
wvParticipantGraeber on Bush pretending to be stupid, Obama pretending to have a vision, and extreme centrists.
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wvParticipanti think this little site is funny.
————One way to alleviate the impact of austerity is lighting a scented candle #YOLO
— neoliberal life advice (@lifeadvicebot) October 30, 2020
wvParticipantMack”
4) #2 needs to be repeated. There has been no fight about Trump’s court appointments. There was no fight to get Obama’s court appointments through.
OK Mack: tell me this. Just what would you have done when the ONLY weapon available in a Republican controlled Senate is a filibuster-something we no longer have. Ironically, it was the Democrats under the Obama administration that voted to oust the filibuster rule for judicial nominees leaving as an exception the U.S Supreme Court. That one exception was erased when the Republicans took control under Trump. Nevertheless, the Kavanaugh hearing was a good fight notwithstanding the outcome was certain-unless a few Republican senators would see the light.
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Yeah, the Dems have been taking a beating from the Far-Left on this but I dont know what they could have done. There’s plenty of reasons to slam the Dems but this dont seem like one of them.
It may turn out that the Senate was more important than trump. The Thugs won the Senate and that was that.
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vwvParticipantLiberals support this situation. Communists, anarchists, and most socialists don't. pic.twitter.com/traSKchgtI
— Anti-Fatalist #UnitedLeft 🔻🏴🚩 (@rbe_expert) October 31, 2020
wvParticipantMore Americans say they are better off now than they were 4 years ago than the number who said it in 2004 and 2012, both years in which the incumbent president was reelected. pic.twitter.com/QHeFDnCq4P
— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) October 31, 2020
wvParticipant— Rafael Khachaturian (@rafkhach) October 31, 2020
wvParticipantOk, why would Alaska hate the niners?
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vBecause they’re Seahawk fans.
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Man. This country is so…divided.
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vwvParticipantThis is the thread, BT. It starts with a poll, but the thread is long.
———-What's Leftist Twitter's thoughts on Jimmy Dore? Do you like him and his work?
— Dystopian Rob 🧐 (@Dystopian_Rob) October 30, 2020
wvParticipantAn example of something i had to look up in order to understand a tweet i saw:
Fourth International Posadist
The Fourth International Posadist is a Trotskyist international. It was founded in 1962 by J. Posadas, who had been the leader of the Latin America Bureau of the Fourth International in the 1950s, and of the Fourth International’s section in Argentina. Between their split from the International Secretariat of the Fourth International in 1962 and Posadas’ death in 1981, Posadists developed a strain of communism that included several fringe ideas, which brought them into conflict with more mainstream left-wing groups.
Posadism is probably best remembered today for its enthusiasm towards using the force of nuclear war as a way of destroying capitalism[1] and its attempt to introduce elements of Ufology into Marxist thought.[2] Arguing that only communism can allow the development of interplanetary travel, they concluded that visiting aliens from other planets must live in highly advanced communist societies and are bound to help Earth-based communists with bringing about the world revolution.[3][4]
Contents:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International_PosadistOctober 31, 2020 at 12:50 pm in reply to: WV, how’s your political anthropology study going? #123629wvParticipantHey, Comrade-BT.
Well, I’ve flitted around twitter like a bat out of hell, and I’ve ‘followed’ (click a follow button) every Stalinist, Maoist, Leninist, Marxist, Anarchist, Berner, Progressive, Soc-Dem, Dem-Soc, ML, MLM, AnCom, eco-socialist, zapatista, Green Party, People’s Party, Anti-capitalist, and general pain-in-the-ass-leftist I could find.
So, in about two or three weeks, I’m now following 4,235 leftists. Only 701 followed me back, btw 🙂
So, now what? Why bother? What is to learn? Is there any use for leftist-twitter? I dunno.
I am still mulling all of this over. There are lot of young people on there who want a ‘revolution’. There are a lot of leftist esoteric-theory-wonks who argue about how many stalinists can fit on the tip of a bayonet, and whether paragraph three of Marx’s letter to leviticus in 1492 alludes to UFO’s or just spaghetti.
Its a maelstrom of tiny-thots, whirling and swirling and sucking people in.
There’s definitely an unhealthy addictive quality.
There’s also potential for….something. But i dunno what, yet.If you had registered i was gonna post a Jimmy Dore thread, so you could read it. There was a long thread asking leftists what they thot of Dore. You would have liked it, i think. Half the leftists echoed your complaints. The other half a-dored him. (I have been channeling your dore-thots, since you apparently have persuaded me he has ignored trump and the reps)
I recommend trying it. Interested in Camus? Type Camus in the search box. Interested in Spinoza? Type spinoza in the search box. Rams? Films? Tapirs? Its all there, swirling around.
Not even close to any conclusions yet. Still barely have my head above water.
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vwvParticipant— Jason Voorpilled🎃 (@atreyupilled) October 30, 2020
wvParticipantOk, why would Alaska hate the niners?
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vwvParticipant— spoopy lauren comrade 🌹☭👻 (@search4truth_) October 30, 2020
wvParticipantPragerU vs. Left Twitter is one of the most hilarious developments of 2020. https://t.co/W1lQX3Xqh5
— When did Noam Chomsky get so BASED!?🥂 (@highprogressive) October 27, 2020
wvParticipantIntoxicating time warp. Every detail better than the last. pic.twitter.com/NXSNwktSsg
— Rob Delaney (@robdelaney) October 30, 2020
wvParticipant“..with Tagovailoa now under center, the Rams will have to change their defensive game plan at least slightly. Fitzpatrick is an aggressive-style quarterback who’s not afraid to take shots downfield and throw into tight coverage, but Tagovailoa doesn’t necessarily have those same attributes. He’s a precision passer who likes the get the ball out quickly…”
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— The Radical Onion (@TheRadicalOnion) October 29, 2020
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