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lol who tf are these people without anxiety?

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Dedollarization is good for their economy. They’re actually increasing exports in some sectors of their economy despite the SWIFT lockout.

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America deports Russians that try to immigrate or claim asylum. Doh!

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Immigrants are not a weapon wtf

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The Russian speaking population weren’t just immigrants though, those were people born in Ukraine who spoke Russian as their native language. Kinda different.

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Are you claiming that a Russian speaking person born in Ukraine is actually a Russian immigrant if their grandparents are from Russia?

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Of course the US doesn’t interfere in it’s own elections. That’s gommunism!

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Prohibition causes problems when there aren’t substitutions, but there are less dangerous ways to consume nicotine and less deadly things to smoke.

how do i pick out a good avocado

Edit: 10/23 I took a lot of advice from here, I bought an avocado yesterday and I tried it today. It was perfect! The taste was incredible. I didn’t need to salt/season it to hide anything. I am in a different state right now but when I get home I’ll buy one at home using my knowledge I now have and hopefully it’ll be...

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If they’re rock solid you can keep them in a sealed container to ripen faster.

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Yup. I usually pick 1 ripe avacado to eat within a day and then a few (or a lot of) unripe ones to let ripen over the week.

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That’s just the exo-suit from “Aliens”

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“scandal”

It was a torture dungeon, not someone caught cheating on their wife or saying a slur on camera.

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If the press diluted the meaning, then they need to use a different word.

Brave Cave horror or terror, perhaps. Monstrosity. Abomination.

Scandal is such a weak word. Might as well call it the Brave Cave no-no.

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There’s a reason my car is old enough to drink 👍

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Base 12 is a good compromise between math and meat imo

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How is it weird? Unions will endorse him no matter what he does because he’s running against the red team, might as well fuck them over.

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Some people seem to think that Democrats need to actually do things to keep the unions loyal, like American politics is about trading favors and negotiating alliances. In reality all the Democrats need to do is point at the Republican boogeyman and the unions fall in line.

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A labor party would definitely have less money to work with, but more volunteers and their volunteers would more enthusiastic.

It would get ugly, though. America’s government doesn’t like labor parties.

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Isn’t it nice when the two parties can put aside their differences and reach bipartisan consensus? 😌

spoiler🤮

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They don’t care about morality or fiscal responsibility because they aren’t stupid.

Homelessness exists as a threat to keep you terrified of poverty.

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We aren’t organized enough to act before it’s too late 😞

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That still leaves more than half that don’t.

Yet there don’t seem to be organizations seriously preparing for the end of democracy.

I suspect it’s because anyone that was serious would be infiltrated by law enforcement.

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It’s not the 1800s anymore, everything happens a lot faster these days.

And going from “contested election” to “civil war” wouldn’t take long at all.

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It happened to me and it could happen to youuuuuu! 😱

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Hope this gives striking workers more leverage.

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Ford’s market is world-wide. Sure they can get their competition banned in some countries, but they’re still losing market share elsewhere.

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Pink Tide Pink Tide Pink Tide Pink Tide

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A shutdown could cause a rapid loss of food benefits for nearly 7 million low-income women and children on the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infacts and Children, or WIC, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

But don’t worry, the Pentagon is exempting Ukraine operations from the government shutdown.

Really shows the priorities of this country.

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I would prefer we feed the hungry.

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How about I ask America to not be a country that puts war before people? Why must you defend this shithole country for the evil it does?

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Is it funny to you when the poor starve while the war machine marches on uninhibited?

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Republicans belong in work camps my dude.

But why do you refuse to acknowledge that this is a structural problem with America’s government? This is the only country where the government is structured so it can “shut down” while not causing snap elections and all the politicians still get their paychecks. What the fuck?

Why the fuck is the government structured so it can continue to funnel money into a foreign war completely unrelated to the defense of the homeland, but it can’t do the same to the hungry at home? Why is the government structured in a way so one of the only two parties is literally anti-government?

You’re blinding yourself to fundamental problems with America’s government by only blaming Republicans. Republicans are just taking advantage of a badly structured polity.

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So yes, it is horrific that welfare payments will get halted by this, I completely agree. I don’t see where I ever “refused to acknowledge” the structural issues that caused this. They’re not a secret; everyone vaguely knowledgeable about politics knows them.

Your first response was to dismiss my criticism of America’s government by creating a false dilemma between funding war and feeding the poor. Then followed that up by dismissing my criticism by telling me to only blame McCarthy. Then followed that by mocking me and the very concept of government critique as pie-in-the-sky revolutionary idealism.

Over and over you deflect from America’s structural problems.

Knock it off.

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Critical support for comrade otter in her fight against Man! Rip in power ✊ 😔

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The sanctions regime of the past several decades is collapsing. There are too many markets outside of the empire’s control to effectively enforce all sanctions and vassals within the empire are too uppity to force them to comply anymore.

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I was already looking for the exit for a long time, when the API changes came I saw my chance to escape.

Florida school district orders librarians to purge all books with LGBTQ characters (popular.info)

Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries. The guidance by Charlotte County Superintendent Mark Vianello and the school board's attorney, Michael McKinley, was obtained by...

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That’s half the goal.

The other half is to make areas so hostile that the people who can’t flee just keep their heads down and stay closeted so no one hurts them.

And to increase suicides

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Launching an illegal strike is far different from launching a legally protected strike. They’d have to accept the possibility that everyone loses their jobs and some people might even get taken to court. Things just aren’t that bad yet.

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I didn’t say anything about your personal politics - I have far too little to go off to make that kind of claim.

You accused them of listening to Hannity, so uh

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I’m sorry guaranteeing healthcare for tens of millions of Americans with the 2 years they had government control wasn’t enough for you.

… is it enough for you?

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He did. Stop listening to hannity.

This necessarily implies anyone who disagrees listens to Hannity.

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The HCA is a private for profit insurance company.

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No, I’m mad that you smeared everyone who disagrees with you. It was a “joke” but one where we are supposed to be the punchline.

And then you started whining about civility.

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I don’t think both parties are the same. I think they’re both bad and we’re fucked no matter who wins, but I can admit America will collapse slower under Democrats. I guess that’s preferable.

I’m still voting for Cornell West. Nyaa nyaa~

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In solidarity, I will only be playing indie roguelikes made by one-person teams.

(that’s all I played before, but now I’m doing it for a good cause!)

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No! No!

You mean to tell me my cheap crayon candy is forbidden??? 😞

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Yeah surely they could be made from corn starch. Ugh

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Whoooookay, that’s a lot of questions! So:

If you abolish private property, then who has that property?

Everyone has it, referred to as “the commons”

Let’s imagine that it’s seized, by whom? How?

The State, which will still be necessary during this transitional period. It will use the power invested in it by the democratic process (because havenots vastly outnumber the haves) to take and redistribute the wealth. This will likely not be a peaceful process, but the creation of private property was not peaceful either!

And why wouldn’t that be thievery in the eyes of those who don’t want it? Because if I want it to happen, then it would be relinquishing, but if I don’t it would be coercive, because I cannot pay anything to that person, otherwise it would become a “haver” against all of those “havenotters” that gave their property for nothing but good will.

Property is theft.

The very existence of private land is based solely on violent theft from the commons. All land was stolen by armies and gifted to nobles and aristocrats and settlers and companies. The history of land acquisition is bloody all across the world.

Profit, too, is theft. Profit is the surplus value created by labor and unequal exchange through unfair trade and State-backed violence i.e. the market. Then those profits are used to buy politicians to steal even more, leading to endless wealth accumulation and evergrowing inequality.

And then there’s the redistribution fact, of how to do that? Equitable? By some principle? Depending on who you are and are not, you get X o Y amount of “property”?

Democratic decision making works here; we all own it together and we decide how it is used/distributed.

And then it’s the issue of how do you measure that “property”? Because two cups of sugar can be of similar value, but not two houses. It’s not the same to live in downtown Manhattan than in the middle of Saskatchewan.

Is it so unthinkable that we could democratically determine the value of a house based on location, quality, size, popularity, etc.? Why must this be done by a market? And before you say that the market is democratic, remember that democracy is “1 person, 1 vote” but the market gives the haves more votes than the havenots.

Finally, who does that? We? And who is “we”? Who organises “we”? How is “we” not anarchist? And if it’s anarchist, how do we ensure it’s just?

These are strategic questions. I don’t think anarchism can achieve this because the State is necessary for the havenots to seize wealth and property and power from the haves. I worry that the State will need to be dealt with and won’t just ‘whither away’ on its own, as posited by Marxists. Some kind of synthesis between the two? I don’t know!

Ultimately, this is all just theory crafting divorced from real world struggle. Nothing you or I say on the internet really matters. We have to go out into the real world and test ideas against material reality, where things are ugly and messy

The world is already ugly and messy, though, so I think it’s worth it.

We have nothing to lose but our chains.

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