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wvParticipantMexie is an under-rated young-leftist, imho. I think she’d get more attention if she posted more, and posted shorter vids:
wvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantOmar won her primary
https://twitter.com/i/events/1293444813874847744August 12, 2020 at 9:02 am in reply to: defunding the police … & other legislative responses to the protests #119170wvParticipantwvParticipant
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wvParticipantYeah, i kinda thought it would be her. She’s a piece of corporate-shit just like Biden.
Shrug.
Cori Bush. Now THERE is a decent human being. Such a great story. And ‘that’ is the teeny-tiny hope. We can hope there will be more and more Cori Bushes. A fool’s hope.
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vwvParticipantInteresting stuff.
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Jeezus fucking christ, zooey. I just ate.
Lord.
This is way worse than calling an Admin a bozo. Something needs to be done about zooey.
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vwvParticipantCanberra Times. Good work.
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wvParticipantBluejays attacking wasp-nests
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wvParticipantI get that, ZN. You are probably right about “not going there,” basically.
Apologies if I misread you . . . but in this case, ironically, the discussant is one of those “liberal Dems.” Not a righty by any means. Despises them, when it comes to politics in general.
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BT, comrad…its ALWAYS the liberal-Dems, LoL.
I got nuthin. I mean, i have been a ‘leftist’ for, say, a quarter of a century or so, and i have just pretty much, for-the-most-part, given up talking politics with anyone other than two groups: 1) Young, impressionable humans, who are still forming their ideas, and 2) Comrades.
I mainly just stick to gardening, sports, movies, whatever, with non-comrades.
…heck, i dont even like american-people, anymore. I like bats, moss, and tapirs.
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“I’m tired of this back-slappin’ “isn’t humanity neat” bullshit. We’re a virus with shoes.”
― Bill Hicks“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
― Samuel JohnsonwvParticipantfriend of mine sent me this. looks like a collection of young leftists who tweet.
Fwiw:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoComradesUnder1k?src=hashtag_clickwvParticipantThe rightwing view:
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wvParticipantwvParticipantIn Portland, some Black activists frustrated with white protesters
….an internal Department of Homeland Security memo indicated the federal agents didn’t understand the nature of the protests, particularly those attacking the courthouse.
“We lack insight into the motives for the most recent attacks,” the memo said.
“There are two different protests. This is beautiful,” said Ngee Gow, 22,…
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….“It’s about Black lives. Period,” Gow said. “If you really want to respect Black lives, and if you really want to respect Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, then you’d be listening to the movement instead of antagonizing police.”===========================
So many cross-currents and layers.
America’s Political-IQ is so damn low. Not an accident.
For BIG change to happen,
first there would have to actually BE a left in America.
That would take Magic.
And second the Magical-Left would have to actually VOTE.Until then we will see ‘uprisings’ like BLM and Occupy,
and the system will wait them out, watch them dissipate, and eat themselves,
as it rolls along toward biosphere-doom.Ok, have a nice day.
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vwvParticipantBaby Bat videos. I’ve discovered baby bat videos.
wvParticipantSomething new for the worriers to worry about – the gun issue. Will this hurt Biden?
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August 6, 2020 at 8:49 pm in reply to: the virus & the education industry (ie. what should schools do) #118962wvParticipantwvParticipantYeah, like zn said, keep us updated.
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vwvParticipantRep. Rashida Tlaib Wins Democratic Primary Challenge In Michigan
The “Squad” member defeated Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones for the second time.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, an outspoken Michigan progressive, defeated Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones in the Democratic primary for Michigan’s 13th Congressional District on Tuesday. Her primary win in one of the most Democratic House districts in the country all but officially confirms that Tlaib will be returning to Washington.
“I’m confident in the movement that we started,” Tlaib told supporters on a video livestream as results came in Tuesday night. “Our country is ready ― is ready for someone like me and others that are saying, enough, enough with corporate greed, enough with the assault on our families.”
Tlaib’s victory dashes the hopes of some moderate Democrats, who were eager to humble the activist left by unseating a member of the progressive “Squad” of freshman House women.
The first-term congresswoman, a Palestinian American, also overcame some constituents’ skepticism that she could adequately represent a majority-Black seat held for decades by the late civil rights leader John Conyers.
“She’s smart, she’s a fighter and most importantly, she’s the incumbent,” said Dr. Jimmy Womack, a Detroit pastor, physician and former state representative.
Womack, who does not live in Tlaib’s district and counts both Tlaib and Jones as friends, noted that local Democratic Party institutions, including the 13th Congressional District Democratic Party, rallied to Tlaib’s side.
“Clearly they feel she’s served the community in a capacity that would allow them to endorse her reelection,” he said.
wvParticipantI guess what I’m getting is that we just cannot have any more distraction, even when it’s healthy. From now on, it seems we’re gonna have all this until we truly and fully deal with it… and it’ll suck the entire time.
I just hope we get it right this time.
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Have you noticed any regional differences, Mack? North vs South?
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vwvParticipantProgressive wins primary:
“I’m still in shock”
wvParticipantI have strong feelings on this.
I really thought that what Raffaela DeLaurentiis tried to produce with David Lynch was fucking AMAZING.
The problem is that both her and Lynch with Frank Herbert’s blessing sought to “remake the Space Opera”. So they made a 5 hour and 30 minute epic.
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I had never heard that. Wow.
I’ve always thought the biggest problem with that movie was it was too short, undeveloped. The movie was like the last episode of Game of Thrones. Rushed through everything.
That would have been great, had it been five hours.
I never did get used to the music in the film though.
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vwvParticipantAwesome, Mack. I love it.
But I am a sucker for alternative-lifestyle-stuff. I’ve thought a lot about the ‘tiny house’ thing, myself.
One of the advantages of living-mobile is, when the zombies come, you
can move around. Ya know. I’ll be stuck on the roof of my tiny-house, but you can zoom along, spattering things.w
vwvParticipant“…Further complicating the matter, on Wednesday, Don’t Shoot Portland accused Wall of Moms of “anti-blackness” for “leaving vulnerable Black women downtown after marching, failing to support those on the ground that put trust in them” and not informing Black leadership about officially registering as a nonprofit with the state. They said the organization “was not started for BLM, but to get the feds out of PDX” and that “combined with a lack of care for and disregard of Black women, we were used to further an agenda unrelated to BLM.” As a result, a separate group called Moms United for Black Lives has splintered off from the organization. Family members of Wall of Moms founder Bev Barnum said she would not comment on the allegation….”
——————Yup. Put ten leftists in an organization, and within three weeks you will end up with 11 factions.
Leftists.
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vwvParticipantThis goes on and on, but its hard not to smile.
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wvParticipantIn looking over this ‘greatest sci fi’ list at NPR, it dont look like there’s many notable NEW Sci-Fi stories. At least not with the NPR crowd.
NPR:https://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books
I thought Carl Sagan’s Contact was a decent movie, btw. It’s no.50 on the list.
A very very under-rated book, imho, btw, fwiw, fyi, is — The Last Unicorn. There’s so many beautiful poetic sentences in that fantasy book. No.55 on the list.
I wouldnt mind seeing Le Guin’s Dispossessed made into a big film. No.78.
Also, Perdido Street Station might make a good film. No.98I didnt even know C.S. Lewis wrote a Sci Fi book. No.100.
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