Total Collapse Of Democracy So Horrifying America Decides It Hasn’t Happened Yet https://t.co/FJUxHqv77X pic.twitter.com/V2ZeFVv85h

— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 12, 2020

canadaram wrote:

wv wrote:

canadaram wrote:

Henderson seems to be living up to his potential now. Love him. I’ve said it before, but I can’t handle Sloman. I just don’t the mental fortitude to deal with his kicks.

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He needs a nick-name. Maybe that would help him.

I got nuthin. Slo-a-tron?

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Sammy-Three-Points?

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I like the question mark at the end of it.

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In Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” the worst thing about turning into a giant bug is that Gregor Samsa loses his job and his means of supporting family. In other words, the problem is not turning into a bug, it’s capitalism. In a social democracy, Gregor Samsa could live happily. pic.twitter.com/fj2wQx2N4x

— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) October 11, 2020

canadaram wrote:

Henderson seems to be living up to his potential now. Love him. I’ve said it before, but I can’t handle Sloman. I just don’t the mental fortitude to deal with his kicks.

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He needs a nick-name. Maybe that would help him.

I got nuthin. Slo-a-tron?

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Watchin the replay. You know Henderson is funny. I was not high on him, because i thought he was a fumbler and I thought he was kinda fragile. But the kid almost looks like a power-runner. A power-runner with speed. Interesting.

He cant do what prime-Gurley did, but that kid can slash on the inside.

I’m starting to enjoy watching him.

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Saw the highlights. Geez. Very impressive.

Looked like a fun day for Aaron Donald. What was he up against, a rookie? A statue of an OLineman?

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Well, we agree on Trump, we agree on the Repugnants.

As for the leftists who are doing the things you are talking about, I’d need to see the specific tweets or posts to know what you are talking about.

When i go on twitter I see all kinds of leftists. I’m kinda trying to break them down into five or six over-simplified-categories right now. Just so i have some broad notion of ‘the internet left’. I see a shitload of young leftists who want ‘Revolution NOW!!.’ They dont think any electoral process will work. They dont defend trump. Or biden. The just see a shitstorm-country and they want a revolution now. And they tend to attack anyone who disagrees with them.

They are well-meaning, young, idiots. So, thats one category of internet-leftists.

It sounds like you are describing the Lee Camps and Jimmy Dores of the left. The ones that focus a lot on the Dems. Yes? We need a name for them. I dont mind them as much as you.

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Black man led by police while bound with rope sues city for $1M https://t.co/45TR5mdHpY

— Rodney Latstetter 🌹 #LaborParty (@proviewsusa) October 11, 2020

Mackeyser wrote:

Yeah, no doubt.

Home theater and audio pretty much is my vice……

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I got two main vices.

I buy too many books.

And i hate people.

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Biden is a commie. A tool of Comrad Castro.

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MELTDOWN. MELTDOWN. https://t.co/ghdpfwWTdu

— James Foster #GrassrootsVoice (@JamesEFoster) October 10, 2020

Billy_T wrote:

That said, as per the thread I started earlier, I’m feeling a bit “homeless” these days, politically. I think the smartest way out of that feeling is to concentrate a hell of a lot more on non-political stuff . . . more on the Arts, Music, Philosophy, life. More on what Fromm talks about as the move from “having” to “being.”

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Its tough for hardcore leftists to find the healthy balance.
Politics calls to us.
Like Sauron’s Ring.

My Presh-us.

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“…This, I find appalling, especially when these same people sing the praises of Assange, a man partially responsible for placing the neo-fascist gorilla in office in the first place….”
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Well, I agree, and disagree. And agree, and disagree. I go round and round on this in my own head. I will never quite resolve it.

On the one hand, that view seems similar to the “blame Jill Stein” or “blame Ralph Nader” notions. I mean, i can see how people would think that, but i also know that what Assange published and what Nader says, and what Stein says — is all TRUE. Do i blame people for telling the truth?

Now the actual (and forseeable) results were — they gave us Republican Monsters.
So, I get that ‘there’s that.’

I’ve often asked Assange-lovers about that fact that surely he could have exposed facts about Trump too. But who knows. Assange says he had nothing on Trump. No-one gave him documents on Trump.

But then it doesnt take a genius to know, Assange knew Hillary was against him. So maybe he tilted toward Trump hoping for the best. I dunno.

And of course, just because Assange didnt go after trump, doesnt justify the Western Governments unconscionable attack on him. Its the Snowden treatment and its unconscionable. Its what they do though. Call it the deep state or corporotacracy or whatever. Its what they do.

At any rate, while I am not one of those who thinks Assange is a saint (and there are a TON of those on the left), I am still probly thinking of him as a flawed-but-positive-force in the world. Wikileaks has fought the good fight imho. Not perfect, but I support them.

I saw a lot of lefties attacking AOC on Twitter. Because she was wrong about Venezuela or this, or that. And I’ve seen a lot of lefties attacking Bernie. He’s “too far to the right.” Etc and so forth.

Assange, Nader, Bernie, Jill, AOC…. as i have scrolled thru twitter the last week, I have found myself wanting to strangle Many-a-young-leftist. I want to say, “I know these people are flawed — but lets focus on how to create MORE leftists. We need MORE leftists. We need non-leftists to turn into Leftists. We need to turn them. Like vampires. Now how…do…we…do…THAT ?

I dont think we do it, by focusing on whats wrong with this or that person of the left.

I’m just riffing here. Just wondering if there can ever be a unified approach on the ‘left’.

Just a chart floating around:
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Nice article.
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police:https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/abolition-or-bust-liberal-police-reform-as-an-engine-of-carceral-violence/
Abolition or Bust: Liberal Police Reform as an Engine of Carceral Violence

“…………Because “knowledge” of Black criminality was understood as a scientific and neutral fact, rather than a narrow and racialized political construction, liberals understood heightened policing in Black urban neighborhoods not as a form of racism and ongoing white supremacist terror, but as a legitimate and necessary response to urban crime. In the process, they conveniently invisibilized ongoing structural racism and police terrorism against Black communities. Through such a framework, they could declare their proud support for civil rights while also believing it necessary to expand the policing and penal control of Black urban neighborhoods. When Black people rose up against racist police brutality and oppression in a series of urban rebellions throughout the 1960s, liberal policymakers hardened this “consensus” around the so-called criminal behavior of “rioters” and intensified rather than confronted the harmful role of law enforcement in these neighborhoods. As Elizabeth Hinton writes in From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, “racism embedded within federal policy and the social science research that rationalized it encouraged officials to embrace patrol, surveillance, and confinement as a means of exerting social control in neighborhoods of segregated poverty.” These twin features of liberal law and order – the belief in the criminal legal system’s objectivity and fairness on the one hand, and a racist belief in a “statistical and sociological ‘truth’ of black criminality” – have ensured liberal police reforms have not only failed to make police less violent against Black people. As historians have shown, these reforms have actually worsened police violence and paved the way for our contemporary crisis of mass imprisonment.

Johnson’s War on Crime is a case and point….see link…”