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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…”
===========wvParticipant"Looting" "Liberating" pic.twitter.com/FL1Vj3bw2g
— The Radical Onion (@TheRadicalOnion) October 29, 2020
wvParticipanti agree with contra
wvParticipant“The only reason people are getting interested in and ready to scrutinize what I write is because everyone is afraid of being accused of having published something harmful to Biden,” Greenwald told his editors. “That’s the reality.” https://t.co/9i43bgwKds
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) October 30, 2020
wvParticipantYou know how your parents used to call every console a "Nintendo"?
That's how conservatives use the word "socialist" to describe everything to the left of hunting the homeless for sport.
— Voodoo Pork (@Voodoo_Pork) February 28, 2020
wvParticipantIt 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?w
vDavid 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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vwvParticipantlink: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….”
wvParticipantInteresting 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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vwvParticipantIt 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?w
vwvParticipantKshama Sawant. A name to remember, maybe. DEMS initiated the recall.
===================Following a King County Superior Court ruling last month, a right-wing recall petition is now in motion to remove Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant from her position on the #Seattle City Council #election https://t.co/0WFV9IeRUK
— Socialist Equality Party 2020 (@SEP_US_2020) October 27, 2020
wvParticipantEnjoy https://t.co/M6w4sizziZ
— Ⓐll your favorite Starfleet officers are communist (@Psybernetic) October 27, 2020
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