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  • November 5, 2020 at 5:03 pm in reply to: Election Day(s) #123899
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    If, god-willing, Biden wins, this Krystal thot, is what we will be subjected to for years, and years.
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    November 5, 2020 at 4:45 pm in reply to: Election Day(s) #123897
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    I can not take another day of this.

    I feel like the Rams are playing the Vikings in the NFC Championship and we are in the 27th fucking Overtime period.

    I…want….him…GONE…from my life…SOOOOO much.

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    November 5, 2020 at 4:41 pm in reply to: My personal theory on Trump supporters (i.e. 1/2 American voters) #123896
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    I think Corporate-Capitalism just destroys people’s minds and/or hearts and/or character. Mainly because the entire system is built on lies and propaganda. It could not survive withOut massive quantities of lies/propaganda.

    Capitalism leads to Inequality, which means an entire Underclass is stressed, ignorant, unhealthy, depressed, angry, mis-informed, and easy prey for the worst-kind of capitalist-propaganda. Fox-News/NY-Post style propaganda.

    Capitalism leads to a wealthy-class which is privileged, greedy, indifferent, in-denial, blames-the-poor, and easy prey to propaganda aimed at the wealthy. NYTimes/NPR style lies/propaganda.

    Capitalism leads to a 1 Percent, super-elite who are, essentially, for all intents and purposes, smiling sociopaths who are destroying the entire biosphere, while at the same time, giving money to charities, acting as media-darlings, and ‘wise’ policy advisors.

    This system has spun out of control, and its going to get very ugly. Maybe not in my lifetime, but its going to get very very ugly.

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    November 5, 2020 at 9:57 am in reply to: Election Day(s) #123877
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    I’m too nervous to watch any of this. I need something like NFL-Replay, so i could watch it all if Trump loses. I hope this is fucking over at some point today so i can breathe.

    November 3, 2020 at 5:46 pm in reply to: Election Day(s) #123796
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    November 3, 2020 at 3:30 pm in reply to: If Trump wins #123789
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    Billy_T wrote:

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    But, to truly represent the Republican party, you’d also have to set your hair on fire, and your family probably won’t like the results too much, if I can state things rather baldly.

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    Dont pay any attention to him BT. I hear he’s one of those Seahawk-AnTeeFa naked-socialist-terrorists.

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    November 3, 2020 at 2:07 pm in reply to: political tweets #123785
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    Sometimes The New York leftie, New School is interesting.
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    November 3, 2020 at 1:56 pm in reply to: political tweets #123784
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    Read the Comments. 🙂
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    November 2, 2020 at 9:04 pm in reply to: Stephen Cohen #123762
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    Really interesting around the 15 min mark. This lady lived in Russia with Cohen. She knows her stuff. The US poured money into Yeltsins Campaign. Russian Capitalist-Oligarchs poured money into Yeltsin’s campaign. Yeltsin gets ‘elected’.
    Yeltsin then sells off the country to the Oligarchs who got him elected.
    Yeltsin brings in Putin. …Later Putin gives Yeltsin Immunity. Etc.

    Connect the dots and the US is responsible for Putin being there. The US got Yeltsin Elected. Yeltsin Brings in Putin.

    November 2, 2020 at 3:45 pm in reply to: Stephen Cohen #123749
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    If you give this about ten minutes, its quite interesting. Cohen wrote a book about russian revolutionary Bukharin, which was suppressed in the USSR, but Gorbachev read an underground copy and it influenced him. Gorbachev later became friends with Cohen…

    November 2, 2020 at 3:18 pm in reply to: press and others on the Miami game #123746
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    November 2, 2020 at 2:55 pm in reply to: If Trump wins #123745
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    So how are you guys keeping up with the election tomorrow? Fox News? Just gonna bounce around the internet? BBC?

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    November 2, 2020 at 2:04 pm in reply to: Voting #123743
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    November 2, 2020 at 1:53 pm in reply to: libs and socialists talking to each other #123742
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    Hakim, god-bless-him. Gettin all excited about the situation in the US.
    He compares the situation to 1905 in Russian, not 1917.
    But i want to tell him…its never gonna be 1917 again, either. A modern corporotocracy is not the same as a 1917-Russia-system.
    Still, its fun to listen to Hakim, the Iraqi.

    November 2, 2020 at 1:27 pm in reply to: libs and socialists talking to each other #123740
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    Ken Wilber the new-agey-guru has a term regarding various kinds of religion/spirituality: “transcend but include”. I have always like his approach with that concept and I kinda think it can be applied to politics sometimes.
    For example if you are a hard-left-marxist-leninist-maoist-whatever-ist, you can have those revolutionary Aspirational goals — and still work with progressive-capitalists to get M4A. You kinda ‘transcend but include’ progressive-work. At least in the short term.

    Its basically the same as what you are saying with “its not either/or”

    The alternative is for commies to just…what? Sit around and argue theory? To wait for the collapse of Capitalism? Which never seems to come. People have been saying its going to collapse ever since i can remember. Far-left-commies need to work with reformers when its something like M4A or Raising the Min Wage. Otherwise they are just irrelevant, in my view.

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    November 2, 2020 at 10:56 am in reply to: WV, how’s your political anthropology study going? #123726
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    Billy_T wrote:
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    Btw, 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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    As 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.

    November 2, 2020 at 10:43 am in reply to: libs and socialists talking to each other #123733
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    I 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?

    November 2, 2020 at 9:56 am in reply to: If Trump wins #123727
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    Billy_T wrote:

    I’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.

    Trump defends Texas drivers who surrounded Biden bus, while the president’s supporters block traffic in New York and New Jersey.

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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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    November 2, 2020 at 9:42 am in reply to: political tweets #123724
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    November 2, 2020 at 9:27 am in reply to: reactions to the Miami game #123722
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    GoodLord, 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…”

    November 2, 2020 at 9:02 am in reply to: WV, how’s your political anthropology study going? #123716
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    Btw, 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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    November 2, 2020 at 8:59 am in reply to: If Trump wins #123715
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    Nah. 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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    November 1, 2020 at 11:32 pm in reply to: political tweets #123709
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    November 1, 2020 at 9:21 pm in reply to: political tweets #123702
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    November 1, 2020 at 6:10 pm in reply to: political tweets #123696
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    November 1, 2020 at 12:36 pm in reply to: libs and socialists talking to each other #123678
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    Billy_T wrote:

    Leftists 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.
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    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.

    November 1, 2020 at 12:26 pm in reply to: political tweets #123677
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    November 1, 2020 at 12:17 am in reply to: political tweets #123660
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    October 31, 2020 at 11:58 pm in reply to: libs and socialists talking to each other #123658
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    Graeber on Bush pretending to be stupid, Obama pretending to have a vision, and extreme centrists.
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    October 31, 2020 at 10:46 pm in reply to: political tweets #123653
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    i think this little site is funny.
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