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  • October 31, 2020 at 10:22 pm in reply to: Biden, Trump, the left, elections… #123651
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    waterfield wrote:

    Mack”

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    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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    October 31, 2020 at 7:54 pm in reply to: political tweets #123649
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    October 31, 2020 at 6:48 pm in reply to: political tweets #123648
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    October 31, 2020 at 5:48 pm in reply to: Voting #123646
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    October 31, 2020 at 5:47 pm in reply to: tweets … 10/30 & 10/31 #123645
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    Eternal Ramnation wrote:
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    Ok, why would Alaska hate the niners?

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    Because they’re Seahawk fans.

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    Man. This country is so…divided.

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    October 31, 2020 at 5:37 pm in reply to: WV, how’s your political anthropology study going? #123644
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    This is the thread, BT. It starts with a poll, but the thread is long.
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    October 31, 2020 at 1:02 pm in reply to: WV, how’s your political anthropology study going? #123630
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    An 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_Posadist

    October 31, 2020 at 12:50 pm in reply to: WV, how’s your political anthropology study going? #123629
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    Hey, 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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    October 31, 2020 at 12:33 pm in reply to: political tweets #123628
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    October 30, 2020 at 11:12 pm in reply to: tweets … 10/30 & 10/31 #123619
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    Ok, why would Alaska hate the niners?

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    October 30, 2020 at 9:03 pm in reply to: political tweets #123616
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    October 30, 2020 at 11:03 am in reply to: political tweets #123594
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    October 30, 2020 at 8:58 am in reply to: political tweets #123591
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    October 30, 2020 at 12:52 am in reply to: Miami game: thots? #123587
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    “..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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    October 30, 2020 at 12:31 am in reply to: political tweets #123586
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    October 29, 2020 at 11:42 pm in reply to: Voting #123583
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    i agree with contra

    October 29, 2020 at 10:47 pm in reply to: political tweets #123582
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    October 29, 2020 at 10:01 pm in reply to: political tweets #123581
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    October 28, 2020 at 5:03 pm in reply to: our reactions to the Bears game #123543
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    Zooey wrote:
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    It annoys me that the rams personnel experts cant come up with a better Kicker.
    It startles me. This kid does not look like an NFL kicker. Is he Snead’s son-in-law or somethin?

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    David Ray
    Mike Lansford
    Tom Dempsey
    Greg Zeurlein
    Jeff Wilkins
    Tony Zendejas
    Heck…Sam Ficken for that matter.

    I don’t understand how this happened.

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    I dont either. What do i know, but the guy just looks awful out there. Looks like he has no confidence and why would he? And all the opposing kickers just looked better. They boom the ball and get it higher than slo-a-tron.

    Is he really the 32nd best kicker in America? Surely they can find a better lousy-kicker than this.

    I say all this KNOWING that the football gods will help him kick a 57 yard game-winner next week. I’m helping.

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    October 28, 2020 at 2:29 pm in reply to: Protest researcher #123529
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    link:https://www.thecut.com/amp/2020/10/progressive-protest-movement-under-trump.html

    “….n June 2020, police took more than 10,000 mostly peaceful protesters into custody across the United States. While the arrests were symptomatic of so much that the protesters were objecting to, they also changed the way many people understood their civic responsibility and their relationship to the state: Tens of thousands of Americans had their first direct encounters with police. So many other thousands protested publicly for the first time (polling suggests that nearly one in five Americans attended a protest between 2016 and 2018 and that 20 percent of them had never done so before); money poured into bail funds. Parents brought their children to marches. People wore masks and videotaped their fellow protesters being hit and dragged away by cops; they worked on campaigns for the first time, registered voters, volunteered to be poll watchers; they read books about structural inequality and tried to learn what intersectionality meant and had their view of history challenged by the New York Times’ “1619 Project” — a rethinking of the American narrative so potent that members of the Republican Party, including Donald Trump and Senator Tom Cotton, have moved to ban it. And as the country changed, so did public opinion: Polls showed majority approval for the protests — about 67 percent of Americans voiced some support for the BLM movement — a change in weeks that was greater than it had been in the previous two years, indicating that even Americans not in the streets were hearing the cries of those who were. Those levels of approval have shrunk (now about 55 percent of Americans say they approve) but not disappeared three months after the height of the protests and after months of backlash law-and-order messaging.

    We have been encouraged to see the Trump years as a period of right-wing radicalization. But it’s hard to discount those who began in the moderate or merely apathetic center who have now considered, and in some cases strongly support, policies including the Green New Deal and Medicare for All; they have read, in mainstream publications, arguments for abolishing the police and prisons. So many Americans who had never before engaged actively — learning about, participating — in civic and political life and movements to expand liberty and justice have now done so….”

    October 28, 2020 at 2:23 pm in reply to: our reactions to the Bears game #123525
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    Interesting game. Kinda sloppy in ways, but solid in other ways.
    That Bear Defense has caused so many problems for McVay, I think we have to look at this as progress. Strategic and Execution progress. (Unless the Bear D has regressed)

    The offense whip-sawed the Bear Defense, and muscled them around at times.
    Thats not what happened in the last two bear games.

    And thats without Higby.

    Goff just looked out of it for much of the night. It was one of those weird Off-Goff games. But they didnt need him. Or Higby. And thats what was interesting.
    The OLine held up just enough. The RB’s were battering away. The motion and whip-sawing plays were so crisp and effective.

    Game ball to HekK-a-Tron. Let him kick field goals.

    NFC West, man. They are gonna slaughter one another.

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    October 27, 2020 at 10:08 pm in reply to: our reactions to the Bears game #123495
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    It annoys me that the rams personnel experts cant come up with a better Kicker.
    It startles me. This kid does not look like an NFL kicker. Is he Snead’s son-in-law or somethin?

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    October 27, 2020 at 8:39 pm in reply to: political tweets #123482
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    Kshama Sawant. A name to remember, maybe. DEMS initiated the recall.
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    October 27, 2020 at 1:55 am in reply to: political tweets #123439
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    October 27, 2020 at 1:04 am in reply to: our reactions to the Bears game #123437
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    Saw the hi lites. THAT was a quality win. Chicago has made them look bad recently.
    I was concerned this would be really ugly.

    I will be watching the OLine when i watch the replay.

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    October 26, 2020 at 10:55 pm in reply to: Things I don’t understand #123426
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    waterfield wrote:
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    The dum rightwingers actually believe the lie. They actually believe Biden/Hillary/Obama are evil-socialists.

    … But to actually believe he is a communist or socialist -I mean if they only get their news on Fox-no one at Fox even says that.

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    My experience, here in wv is that — yes, indeed they do believe that the Dems are socialists. And they want to take our guns. And they want to take away our school-prayers. And they want to abort gods children. And they want to reward the lazy freeloading poor people by giving them tax-dollars. And they favor black people and mexicans over ‘white’ people. Shall i go on?

    They dont really know what ‘socialism’ is in an economic/historical sense. They just know its very bad and encompasses those things i just laid out.

    Educated liberals have their own blindspots. Imperialism for example. They dont seem to mind drone-murdering people all over the planet. They dont seem to mind policies that crush the poor. Etc.

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    October 26, 2020 at 7:10 pm in reply to: Things I don’t understand #123422
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    The Rightwingers thought Obama was a socialist. They thought Hillary was a socialist.
    The smart rightwingers KNOW thats just a scary-lie and they know its a Strategy. The dum rightwingers actually believe the lie. They actually believe Biden/Hillary/Obama are evil-socialists.

    Progressives actually know Bidens record. They know what he has done. And its not progressive. Progressives know the actual facts. He’s a DNC guy. A same-ole-same-ole Corporate-Dem. Same as Clinton, Same as Obama. (Kamala is the ‘New Improved Version of Dems’. Same deal, new package)

    So, yeah there’s a huge divide between progressives and rightwingers. As there should be.

    Biden will win. Biden will be Obama/Clinton.
    The American-poor will continue to be crushed by the Corporotocracy.
    Foreign-born poor will continue to be bombed-to-death by Biden and the Dem-Rep-Imperialists.

    Biden is better than Trump.

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    October 26, 2020 at 6:10 pm in reply to: political tweets #123420
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    Wow, Zooey i was just gonna post that ten seconds ago. Awesome thread. I cant believe that guy is a NYTimes writer.

    October 26, 2020 at 1:12 pm in reply to: political tweets #123409
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    October 25, 2020 at 9:41 pm in reply to: political tweets #123397
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