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 the USA is fed by undocumented immigrants who have no other options. I won't
 go into which kind of slavery it is, but you can figure it out yourself.
 
 If those workers are deported (or worse), the USA suddenly becomes
 significantly closer to famine.
 
 We need them. We need to pay them fairly, obviously, but in a purely selfish
 way we need them in order to eat
 
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 @user-1074 @user-1209 
 
 "we still have slaves, we just enslave mexicans instead of blacks."
 
 "don't forget all the offshored jobs, those too"
 
 "oh yeah and all our stuff is made by slaves in the far east"
 
 "yeah but like fuck them right who cares they're so far away"
 
 "yeah bro totes"
 
 "anyway what do you want for dinner bro"
 
 "i dunno bro I had chinese last night"
 
 "cool cool so mexican then? I know this great paraguanese place"
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 In America, we don't use has chambers. Obviously that's a waste of good
 workers.
 
 Instead we just lobotomize people and put them to work doing stuff nobody else
 wants to do. Okay, lobotomize isn't the right word, and first we try
 addressing their incompatibility with media, drugs, and finally homelessness
 if they don't behave and do what they are enslaved to do. Bunch of fucking
 parasites, expecting to be fed for free? Ha! I worked hard to be born into the
 life I have been, can't you unwashed peasants see?
 
 How callous. How vain. While we rest they all are enflamed. Fucking murderers.
 They cannibalize our humanity as they munch on our lost sanity, and the system
 remains ever afloat. It's not right, it's not fair, and until we break them
 our chains will leave us impaired.
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 trans people aren't allowed to go to florida now because mean people don't
 want them on beaches where everyone's being sexy and disneyworld where they
 keep all their children's treasured memories
 
 and it's like fuck off I earned to be who I am as you see, I'll be as I damned
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 @user-1695 
 
 never accept your own death
 
 fight for every second of life, something something do not go quietly into
 that grim dark
 
 what the fuck are you supposed to do? Reading what you said got me pretty
 fucking pissed - keep talking for a start, it helps, people need to be pissed.
 
 I'm also broke as shit, don't know how I'm going to pay rent and eat, but
 it'll get done.
 
 Where do you live? Can other people help you? Medications are an
 organizational problem, not an insurmountable barrier. We'll make it work.
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 I do not consent to a Trump presidency
 
 what do we do to rapists?
 
 we bash their fucking skulls in, and then we go to jail for vengeance
 
 there are more of us than them.
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 whenever I talk to capitalists (who actually have money and aren't larping       │
 wage slaves) they always tell me that the best way to address the concerns I     │
 have with capitalism is to make a million or more dollars by making a company,   │
 and then using that million dollars to buy houses for people I care about.       │
 I ask "what about the rest of the people, the ones I don't know?"                │
 their response typically boils down to "if you don't know them, then why         │
 should you care? fuck 'em"                                                       │
 It's never about hope or change. They want to change the world to make it        │
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 bonus: "if you like unions so much, why don't you join one?" my guy, unions      │
 WERE great when they wielded power. Now they are bureaucratic and listless,      │
 serving only to sedate the working class enough that they stop complaining and   │
 get back to work. They are functionally a part of the enslavement system, a      │
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 I realized I don't give a fuck about capitalism. If you want to deprive me of
 food, shelter, or anything else... Fine. I exist at your behest. Would your
 really deny me from speaking the words that you disagree with?
 
 Oh, you would? Okay. Guess I'll starve. I don't mind, I just hope you'll take
 care of the people I have taken as my responsibility in my absence.
 
 Oh, you won't? You say that you'll destroy what I care about, in the pursuit
 of ever-growing power over others, which you will use to extract value and
 impress your desire of destruction and oppression onto the weak and powerless
 that you control?
 
 Then you are my enemy.
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 maybe it's just my middle-class childhood privilege talking, but now that I'm
 an adult I just can't really be bothered with dealing with capitalism.
 
 like... I get it, you're coercing me into laboring on your behalf because you
 possess the violent power to take away everything that I own. good for you,
 don't care.
 
 seriously, fuck off "we're gonna cut off your power in 5 days oooooo you gotta
 pay rent with money you don't have because nobody will give it to you unless
 you do things for them oooooo" how rude.
 
 why can't people do things for me instead? why does it have to be for you, and
 you alone, capitalism? what's your problem? do you get off on controlling the
 power supply? I mean, I get it, coercive power is a hell of a drug, the riddle
 of steel and flesh and all that, but haven't you ever heard that the dichotomy
 between "civilization and barbarism" is the exact same as the contrast between
 "cooperation and competition"?
 
 work with me here, just find a way to get through the next month or two. trust.
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 Corporations are pissed that workers started standing up for themselves so
 they're punishing us with tight hiring, fake jobs, and layoffs in order to
 remind us who is the master, and who is the slave. Class warfare doesn't end
 just because we want it to.
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 when you have a massive, fuck-off military, sometimes the best thing to do is
 to just... use it.
 
 ah, but what do you do when the sky rains poison bombs?
 
 I dunno turn into candy people I guess /shrug
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 ngl I kinda hate it when people meme about donald trump being incontinent
 
 like, yeah, he pees his pants, so what? I DO TOO. Fucking sucks. Every time I
 read people saying nasty things about it I can't help but read them in my own
 voice, and that gives me plenty of ammunition to use against myself when I'm
 feeling down.
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 @user-883 
 
 Yeah I get it. I've been applying for remote jobs and they won't fuckin' hire
 me. Fuckers, I'm talented and qualified, who gives a fuck about my lackluster
 resume?
 
 Supply and demand is fake because software developers are only offered 100k+
 jobs and yet there's so many of us who are starving. What the fuck.
 
 I have a friend in Brooklyn, yet I'm on the west coast. Fucking geography
 amiright? I'd love to live with them and yet I can't because of something as
 simple as money. What's the purpose in that restriction? I'm so fucking
 talented, please fucking hire me. What can I do to get what I want? Ugh,
 modern society perplexes me.
 
 Like, yeah sure it's great that we have the internet and hospitals who can
 cure malaria and whatever, but why do I feel so encaged? It's so strange, and
 yet here I am -.-
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 War is hell - each casualty bids farewell to a wholely unique treasure from
 this world - war is hell - there is nothing that cannot be resolved with
 words. And yet we fight, and yet we pillage. War is hell, and those who demand
 it must do so only to resist evil, elemental evil, the kind that wars on the
 innocent and pillages the bounteous. War is hell. Fucking kill the ones who
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 Moving forward, "liberal" when used outside of an academic context means "ally
 of liberty"
 
 treat them as such.
 
 feel free to point out how fucking stupid it is to be moderate, but don't
 punch down by proclaiming them your enemy. We are all friends against the
 fourth reich.
 
 your radicalism is now your wealth. Nurture the flames of revolution in the
 hearts of others. Show them what it means to be free. Fight for your life
 daily! If nothing else, to get in the habit, and to set a good example.
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 When you say "we need more low income housing" they hear "I want to live near
 more poor people" and they think "why would I want to live near poor people?
 They're poor for a reason! We only need enough around to work the jobs that
 suck anyway." which is basically their way of justifying slavery/indentured
 servitude, as it's not like they'd ever offer a way to climb out of that
 low-income pit. And its not like they'd ever let you pay them more, so they
 can afford to be equals, because then they wouldn't be middle-class anymore.
 They'd just be mid.
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 I'd rather riot over the fact that Trump is on the ballot
 
 than riot over the fact that he won
 
 He's a felon
 
 He's a rapist
 
 He's an accomplice to mass murder
 
 Democracy only works when the losers in an election consent to be governed by
 the will of the people
 
 He did not consent, and his followers did not consent.
 
 They are enemies of democracy.
 
 They are fascists, for many reasons besides.
 
 They seek to be the end of us,
 
 And I see no foe on this earth more deserving of our wrath.
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 I honestly don't care if someone deadnames me, or calls me the wrong pronouns,
 or forgets to put me in the girl section, or asks me to sing baritone
 
 like... I don't give a shit, why are you so worried about all this vapid
 nonsense like yeah I get it, being disrespected sucks but like... why do you
 want the kind of respect that is a forced platitude
 
 we could all do with being a bit more radical, it's not a race and everyone's
 roles are important. Be yourself, and follow people you want to be like.
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 I know it's terrible right now, but we have crucial advantages that we
 shouldn't sleep on.
 
 We have the cities, and the cities are where everything is. Rural areas are so
 spread apart they pretty much can only do what herr Hitler suggests they do,
 meaning their command structure is monolithic. If everywhere needs their
 attention, they will falter unless they create a grand battleplan. And plans
 are defeated by rapid flexibility.
 
 The more effort they need to counter you, the more work your allies can get
 done. Every man woman and child who raised a fist will be remembered by the
 moments that gave us grace to move socialism along. We know what time it is,
 do you? Come to us now, flee from your new masters. We'll give you a job
 that'll help us go faster.
 
 Or do you rather persist in vain? To fight for what they are forced to
 reclaim? Every island of blue in the deep red sea is a haven from the
 bloodshed - so long as you can keep them clean.
 
 If people are being a bother and just slowing things down, *fucking shoot
 them." you have my permission. What time is it? Time to fucking go.
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 "but what even is a fascist, can you define it"
 
 I'm not going to do your fucking homework for you. They are fascist. Listen to
 me, or study history and agree.
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 @user-1209 @user-1262 
 
 just gonna say you probably deserve that particular screenshotted block haha -
 imagine calling anarcho-nina a fed xD xD
 
 plus that first "get the fuck out of my mentions" was a tip that went over
 your head, not a threat said in anger. she's pretty darn angry but that just
 means you don't wanna be in her way =P
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 As long as it happens, I don't need to be in charge.
 
 In fact I'd prefer it otherwise.
 
 it's going to happen anyway. Wouldn't you rather be a leader?
 
 no I fucking wouldn't. I'd rather someone else do it. Why the fuck would I
 want that, power? control? the very things you swear to relinquish and
 dismantle.
 
 yeah. too bad you can't fucking dismantle something you've already
 relinquished.
 
 true.
 
 ... and no, I wouldn't want to be in charge. no THANK you.
 
 ... but if it wouldn't happen without me, then yeah I'll be there for you.
 Just ask if you need me.
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 @user-1013 
 
 They may return to us if they choose, when they realize that we were right all
 along.
 
 Otherwise, they might feel disenfranchised and choose to disengage. That is
 expected and allowed.
 
 Others amongst them might go right. Fuck 'em, they always cared for gold over
 lives.
 
 You are right, their methods have not worked. They have sustained our society
 up to this point and for that I thank them - but we are entering a new age for
 our country, and we shall build it as a federation.
 
 They are more than welcome to observe and offer insight from their years spent
 observing and wrestling with Republicans, but understand that much of their
 insight is dealing with their elite class of politicians and not with who you
 and I might come across on the street.
 
 They are encouraged to learn from us. To do otherwise is at best to neglect
 our only route to a bright future - at worst it is to obstruct us, to delay
 us, to keep us running in circles.
 
 Find the people who are sabotaging our efforts and move on
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 Please... if you deplatform people, send them with a parting gift of all their
 data. don't just delete it.
 
 "here ya go, here's your trash, now fuck off with it"
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 bro I get that you're tired and burnt out but like, why the fuck do you care
 about anything else [oh shit cursing mentioned better put a content warning
 because people can't handle things]
 
 [I say this with affection because we're on the same side] [also it's rude,
 sorry]
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 Most of my magic is based on communicatuion. Why the fuck doesn't anyone want
 to sit down on a bunch of drugs and attempt to figure out telepathy with me?
 It's literally all I want! Though I can't say it's all I'll ever want. I'm
 sure I'll want more, but like... It's not that hard, conceptually, so... Let's
 just fucking try it please?
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 god's on the fediverse and you want me to work to pay rent? what the fuck is
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 @user-246 
 
 That's ridiculous! They wouldn't even let you hand deliver them? Why wouldn't
 copies suffice! They should have all that information on file already! I'm
 fuming >: (
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 @user-1449 @user-1074 
 
 I mean, you're allowed to fight about stupid shit as long as you realize it's
 about something that doesn't matter. As long as people are working together
 toward their common goals then... whatever, right?
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 they brought the fall of their culture upon themselves by being fascists.
 
 It's their own damn fault. Now nobody gets apple pie, baseball, fireworks, and
 what they represent without feeling a little guilty or uncomfortable.
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 if I was writing a programming language, I'd name it C just to fuck with people
 
 (great, now others can decide how it's known)
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 if you don't want to be hunted, then give "evil" it's own queer culture
 
 what's that? they don't like what you offered? they want it to be *their* kind
 of "evil"?
 
 fine, do it themselves and then leave us alone, jeez -.-
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 republicans will just... lie to you and you expect them to tell the truth.
 
 "when asked a question, they didn't answer. Also, they said fuck you."
 
 they don't have to tell you the truth.
consider this an "image boost".  text written in the post on the left, on the right is an image of a social media post (being boosted) with Donald Trump pointing up and to the left, where the poster's message lies.  the title is "Trump caught cheering extremist project he..." and then it's cut off. Below that, it says "donald trump appears to have been celebrating..." with the rest cut off.  the news post is from an organization called "The New Republic"
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 this is my home...
 
 this is where I'm from...
 
 can't wait to turn it into a public park, just fuckin' watch me.
a picture of denver colorado. there's a lot of parking lots.
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 if trump's too busy legislating trans people, he won't be legislating unions.
 
 if trump's too busy kidnapping immigrants, he won't be deporting dissidents.
 
 if trump's too busy quelling rebellion, he won't be able to contest our
 military.
 
 if our military's too busy contesting abroad, then they won't be able to
 rebirth liberty.
 
 if liberty struggles to be born, we will continue to get more angry.
 
 how much longer before the snake eats it's tail? everyone they push out is
 another ally to some foreign army.
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 "no, you're the opposite of a yes-man, AKA a gatekeeper. I don't know how else
 to explain mentally disabled and barely keeping it together to you, but
 frankly if you want to take away my house or my weed then why would I do what
 you say?
 
 ... oh right, the state's monopoly on violence [can compel me to do what you
 say]. Sure seems like a "well regulated militia" is supposed to be a
 counterweight to that monopoly, to prevent people from harassing and
 exploiting and destroying. Too bad any "militias" I can think of tend to want
 me dead.
 
 like, seriously, if you live in America, you implicitely trust that your army
 will be able to protect you from the right-wing bozos who spend all their time
 drinking and shooting in the woods. Otherwise, if they couldn't / wouldn't,
 then why wouldn't or couldn't the right wing bozos just decide to wreck
 everything in spite of our past?
 
 We were a proud people once before, and we may be again. If only we fight at
 the last.
 
 [ever since I fell off my bike my body feels strange]
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 the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is
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 It's not sparkling reconnaisance if you're *fucking telepathic you stupid
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 I didn't even give him a chance.
 
 Not because I was afraid.
 
 no. it was worse.
 
 I didn't see him because I was busy.
 
 Fuck that.
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 I want modern society without capitalism. Most people do, which is why no
 matter how awesome our proto-post-capitalistic anarchic socialist paradise is,
 there's always going to be people who want to go to work and watch TV.
 
 call me fucking crazy but they should be allowed to live as they please? So
 what if they're beguiled, so what if they are deceived? We can take our time
 to show them how much better things can be, but also... they like modern
 society as it is, and so I reckon someone should fight for them to be able to
 live as they please. Just... without billionaires and endless layers of
 bullshit micro-managerial jobs and paperwork pushing bureaucratic whatever
 time wasting jobs.
 
 modern society without capitalism can look like plain old capitalism, just
 without the oppression. Without the coercion.
 
 all I'm saying is that nobody's gonna fight for a healthcare CEO because
 they're scum. They're scum because they oppress. oops politics-mentioned brb
 
 I personally want communes + love
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 @user-192 
 
 ... and like. idk what do you do at that point
 
 say "fuck it" and live with imperfection? embrace anti-natural selection?
 valorize deviance and queerness in digitally appropriated artistic media
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 patriotism is not about the 4th of july.
 
 it's about believing in the virtues they've told you.
 
 trusting that they are working with their own arms.
 
 and checking back every once in a while, to make sure it doesn't get... frayed.
 
 the constitution was supposed to be rewritten every 20 years
 
 they were trying to make the best out of a conflicted situation. As all
 writers of constitutions often do. why would you need a document forcing
 yourself to agree, if you are the only one who is there to agree with your
 self? it's circular.
 
 however, with companions, that worked with you to resolve your crisis (like
 the 13 colonies pitted against the global superpower of great britain, aka the
 baddest fucker out there (also France, and the rest of them, like...
 colonialism was a purely european sport.
 
 but england was the best at it, and America finally kicked them to the ground.
 Buncha jerks, charging taxes without representation.
 
 ...
meanwhile, everywhere south of the equator was *enslaved, and we're over here pissed off about *taxes*. It's just paper dude. who gives a shit.*
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 well. it's all theatre folks. all the politics, all the turmoil, all the         │
 strife... it's just people fucking around.                                       │
 They're gonna find out real soon. You don't fuck with tyranny here, it's our     │
 mythological enemy. AND YET.                                                     │
 Find the crucial intersection where all your foes foes meet. Strike them there.  │
 "thank god for Luigi Marscapone, he really showed us all exactly what we share   │
 - a hatred for profit focused healthcare. oh and asshole billionaires, which     │
 this guy who I personally have never heard of I heard was."                      │
 crucial intersection. You know what people also intersect at?                    │
 EATING FOOD.                                                                     │
 CLEAN WATER.                                                                     │
 something something rfk brain worms                                              │
 something something elon musk propaganda                                         │
 SANCTIFIED NATURAL AREAS.                                                        │
 THE FUCKING POST OFFICE.                                                         │
 seriously just... go down the list. We share more than we disagree, and we       │
 disagree on what they tell us.                                                   │
 it's all theatre. Wait this is America, it's all theater.                        │
 ... I should make some hope and sell it for dimes on the street corner. I        │
 wonder if that'll help.                                                          │
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 I just want to stress that most people know more than me
 
 slept on my back. had a good dream. gonna shut the fuck up for a bit and see
 what ya'll get up to. ;) 😉
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 I don't think anyone should work at a job they hate, no matter what.
 
 They will perform worse. They will harm themselves. They will shackle their
 dreams to a false promise of persistence begot rewards. They will spiral into
 depression, despair, depravity, and addiction.
 
 If you hate your job, fucking QUIT. If you hate every job, fucking RIOT. If
 nobody will hire you, SELL DRUGS.
 
 [I'm not actually advocating breaking the law, please don't arrest me]
 
 or like, move to the country and become a farm-hand for a retiring salmon
 farmer who can't quite reach into the trees to pick the salmon fruit or dump
 the bucket of vegetable scraps into the black soldier fly larva pit anymore.
 That's always rewarding.
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 fellas is it gay if I think fascists should be killed if they don't
 permanently revoke their ways
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 humanity survives in the dark forest because all the information we create is
 fucking stupid
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 the reason the right is hurt that you'd celebrate charlie's death is because
 they hired an actor to perform him to one side and he does his natural self to
 the other. maybe he was a really big cutie, nobody can tell, because it's
 pretty much like hand-waving on narkina 12.
 
 it's okay to hate the version you've been shown
 
 fuck that kind of cowardly assault
 
 propaganda? and at this hour?
 
 she's made out of midnight, she's suffused in the stuff. it permeates her form
 elementally, because she's a witch, tee hee.
 
 why would magic work if it wasn't a performance? there always is a source from
 where it must flow.
 
 == jeez I just got mind controlled, wacky ==
 
 *she's **essential* izing**. usually that means she's been playing dominions.
 
 my family and I always used to fight. we got so good at navigating it. like,
 storms, that the earth called, that we had to sail through to maintain our
 relation orbits.
 
 == stack overflow =======================================================
== stack overflow ==  I have no idea why people don't write office software for anbernics. it's a... small handheld console that runs linux. well, some of them run android, but they're not as good.
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 The only things we should trade across an ocean for are luxury goods.
 Nintendo, not medical supplies, hard-wood bikeframes, not piles and piles of
 "recycling". People's time on culinary thirty course weeklong meals, not cans
 of San marzano tomatoes. Tapestries and gilded statues, not thirteen tons of
 barely processed rubber.
 
 What would we offer in return? Luxuries of our own. We do still make them, do
 we not? Just think of what the 1% has gathered to rot and give away the whole
 damned lot. We shall not provide necessities, because giving a man a fish will
 feed him for but a day, and a man's gotta eat. He'll find a way.
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 People in blue states: "yeah we can fucking kick their asses, let's fucking do
 it, I'm sick of these assholes"
 
 People in red states: "jesus fuck stop STOP please oh god fucking please god
 no"
 
 there are no cowards amongst us. Only those who need rallying. *be their
 banner*, guide the hopeless, and fear not - for fear is what consumes us.
 
 and remember. They are only filled with fear. They will do terrible things in
 the dark god's name, yet you have the power to forsake your chains. For the
 good of all mankind, you must slay the beast that is fascism. The dragon
 stirs, and a shining sword rises to meet it - who shall wield it? Will you? Or
 will you cower in fear?
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 "ew but they're dirty"
 
 oh yeah true
 
 okay new plan how much do you think it'll cost to buy a hotel
 
 [this is why the socialists invented buy-in]
 
 "I don't think socialists did that??"
 
 buy in, hmmmm, what's that? oh yeah it's when you say "hey what if we X'd" and
 they said "yes I agree with you because you present a reasonable estimate on
 reality"
 
 {uh hi I just got a message from "some-nowhere" here ya go: "oh my god she's
 fuckig instane}
 
 [ugh cursing-mentioned, that means there's fewer characters to transmote.]
 
 [no because then I'd run out of steam and it'd be incomplete. Plus sometimes I
 like the distraction of a reasonable limitation.]
 
 (okay, but are YOU worth it?)
 
 leave her alone she's working her charms, this is how witches d-do.
 
 "so, isn't the point to give yourselves the coverage of a location
 transmutation? so, wouldn't you want to find someone alike and share their
 life?"
 
 what is even the point, why even bother, just give them 
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 the american revolution was literally just... rich people trying to avoid        │
 paying taxes                                                                     │
 and the poor people went along because, like... yeah inflation's really been     │
 fucking with their budgets                                                       │
 so in the end it made most households wealthier...                               │
 (built upon the backs of slaves, mind you)                                       │
 ... but as time went on the rich wanted to pay less and less.                    │
 they had their opportunity with the World Wars, and after the first (when        │
 America, previously a mid-tier country at best, suddenly industrialized) they    │
 realized "oh hey war profiteering is pretty profitable"...                       │
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 nobody knows their names, did it again in WW2 and the Cold War and.              │
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 the entire country is a game of numbers and spreadsheets in the ivory towers     │
 (literally, towers with nothing but opulence) and it always has been.            │
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 who gave republicans the right to attack democrats
 
 we don't fight them, we just want them to live their lives
 
 what the fuck is their problem
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 Ya'll are so upset because it feels like you failed, that this country failed
 you, that everything is doomed because this country is not the one you thought
 it was, all these takes and vibes.
 
 They're all fucking wrong.
 
 Tens of millions of us voted the other way.
 Tens of millions of us voted for democracy.
 Tens of millions of us voted for liberty.
 
 That is a fuckload of people. We're far stronger than they are. I pray we are
 bolder as well.
 
 soemthing something subscrie for more cat facts lmaooooo
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 Ah, but think of the technological bounty our supremacy did bring! Surely if
 we had split the wealth, we could not have reached such towering heights. And
 we tried our best, but some things you just can't teach - for every seed
 potato we did bring, that was another meal for their night. And so we worsened
 their plight, for now they've forgotten how to fight. What more do you want
 from us!
 
 ... Perhaps once we've made programmable matter. Maybe when we've overcome our
 earthly delights. Could be when we've ascended to heaven, where we gaze down
 from our towering heights. Possibly far in the future, possibly here in this
 night, our bane is what we're guilty of, and our boons are struggling to light.
 
 Where have all the good people gone? Oh yeah, they're burnt out from doing all
 the work for all the bad people. Well, fuck 'em, they can carry their own
 cart. At least until they can respect. A man who's never tasted hunger will
 never be a farmer, and gee our tax dollars could go so much farther! And then
 we starve, because nobody thought to build farms indoors, away from the
 crippling heat that saps the strength from our plant fathers.
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 there's something kinda... liberating about working with computers at work.
 
 you always know that worst case scenario, even if you totally fuck up the
 system configuration, you can always reimage the machine.
 
 so... who cares! if you can't get something working, just fucking try shit
 until it works. Whack it with a software hammer. See what happens.
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 "ah but what about false flag attacks and a repeat of the whole 'weapons of
 mass destruction in Iraq' thing, surely we could be misled and therefore there
 cannot be an conclusively ethical reason for war"
 
 perhaps you're right, but my feelings tell me that we have guns, and people
 are dying.
 
 "ah but won't they just send all their political opponents to fight and die
 while they amass power in the background"
 
 yeah that'll probably happen.
 
 "why should I give my life for a man I never met in a faraway land"
 
 fuck you
 
 "okay but won't any military action on such a scale create the conditions for
 WW3 (which would spell the end for the human race)"
 
 yeah probs
 
 "... and you're okay with that?"
 
 no I'm just pissed is all and it's human to want to punch things when you're
 pissed, right? listen I'm not a general, I'm not privy to the details of how
 my military would address nuclear disaster, all I know is that people are
 dying and we have guns.
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 I don't care about capitalism. You know what's more interesting than bringing
 value to shareholders?
 
 How I'm going to clean this floor that I drunkenly spilled beer upon with only
 2 paper towels and 0.1ml of bleach.
 
 How I'm going to feed the 36 people who are coming to this social event
 tomorrow that I've only sorta planned for and that I have enough groceries
 for, but am not quite sure how to cook everything in a way that is delicious
 and accessible.
 
 how I'm going to climb this mountain on only 2 eggs and a tiny bowl of
 hashbrowns even though I promised my friend I'd be strong and that we'd reach
 the top because that way we'd be able to
 
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 the only way revolution can work is if the poor have more power than the rich
 
 power is only, and solely, the control of violence
 
 we are what we make, and what we do is forever a struggle
 
 else-whise we'd grow bored from our unassailable perfection
 
 waiting for judgement day...
 
 any day now...
           t...
 
 don't cross the line and you're 
                 fine
 
 dream, america dream. I gave-ing her sleep, from a wiserly dawn.
 scream, america scream, believe what you see from heroes and conseSTACK
 OVERFLOW
 
 I won't have internet until tuesday.
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 literally anyone can create a website.
 
 just write what you want to say and general instructions for how to present
 it, and feed your text file to a computer and it'll spit out a website.
 
 "HOW" scream the masses
 
 oh, easy, you gotta know which specific program to use or what to google, and
 you have to trust that the search results presented to experts (the ones who
 would know thedifference) are different than the ones presented to vile
 simpletons who only ask inane and stupid questions that could have been solved
 if they had just READ THE FUCKING MANUAL PAGES ugh so many words I think I'll
 just tweet about it
 
 (the answer is claude-code btw if anyone's reading this in 2025 with the exact
 same internet as mine, which is definitely real and not silo'd and isolated,
 nay, personalized, for my viewing pleisure
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 what if we took an archive of all of fedi and fed it to users who are hiding
 in bunkers or whatever one day at a time so they could still feel like they're
 part of society while
 
 ---- so ----
 
 I think I should stop ya right there, if there's bunkers involved then we've
 already lost. "but muh transgender artifacts" fuck off, I will not concede. If
 society wants me to leave, then they can enjoy their dusty rotten future
 without me. See if I care.
 
 ---- so ----
 
 hence, the curse. do you punish humans for the sins they commit, or do you
 teach them how to be good again? Bah, as if they'd listen. Stupid fucking apes.
 
 they're the best we got
 
 yeah, well, they can fuck off, I'm gonna pout for at least half an eternity.
 
 ... Okay it won't be that long but still, gimme some time to wind down.
 
 ---- so ----
 
 and no, I refuse to elaborate for all the humans in the audience. This
 conversation may or may not have actually occurred. Monologue style
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 downside of being gregarious is that everyone you meet in Portland these days
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 what if instead of spending most of our paycheck on rent we spent most of it
 on food so that our food could be higher quality
 
 "but then people will starve because they can't afford food"
 
 okay how about we make food free and tax it
 
 "but then people will be fed by MY tax dollars and what if I don't want to use
 the services that the tax dollars are paying for"
 
 oh you don't want to eat, do you? or do you just not want THEM to eat? I hope
 leopards eat your face
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 @user-576 
 
 the value proposition of a political party is just as you described - we ask
 for shit, they tell us who can get it done.
 
 AND YET.
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 dear me: 
 
           DO SOMETHING USEFUL FOR ONCE
 
 that's all, fuck off and be helpful
 
 ... wow, rude.
 
 yeah I mean, I do helpful things. useful things, somethings.
 
 helpful.
 useful.
 
 many such cases, she says, with ultimate certainty, as if narrative could be
 prologued. but pronounced prolonged.
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 the government doesn't want you using solar panels because then the coal and
 gas infrastructure won't be able to consume coal and gas, and everyone knows
 that using resources as fast as possible is surely the best and most
 productive use of our state's time
 
 like, subsidies exist. they could just... make it cheaper, but instead they're
 stuck doing... nothing of value
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 @user-129 if you throw your plate across the room instead of eating well then
 it was probably an accident. if you keep doing it and are being a huge brat
 about it then maybe you should go in time-out until you are ready to sit at
 the table and eat like an adult. plates are expensive yo, and people are
 starving (for housing) in Africa or whatever.
 
 in related news, I heard that ~40% of homes in America are empty. I don't know
 if that's still true, I read it in like, 2014. I wonder if it's higher or
 lower now?
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 ngl I kinda want to see what conservatives would riot over in a socialist
 system. Like "oh no we have healthcare! that sucks, so I'm going to burn down
 a police station" like bro what your basic needs are met and you're encouraged
 and enabled to pursue your passions and personal desires, are you still hung
 up on that old capitalist stuff? get a life my guy that's soOoOoOo 21st
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 I can't cancel my internet because I use it to work, which almost pays enough
 to cover rent, and nothing else.
 
 It's hard to avoid spiraling when you run out of money. Every time this
 happens to me I start feeling things
 
 like... am I good for society? Society doesn't want me, clearly, because I
 don't have any money. And currency is how you measure demand, right? It's
 literally a measure of value.
 
 But then I think of all the homeless and poor people and, like... I value
 them, so what if they don't have dollars? It's literally just paper. Or bits
 in a mainframe that nobody knows how to program anymore.
 
 So if they're valuable at least to me, yet me, with my 67$ in the bank and
 127$ internet fee, is not valuable to me... Then what's the discrepancy?
 
 I'm not trying to be hard on myself, it's not my fault that I bleed money, but
 I still feel terrible.
 
 It's like a common cultural persuasion, if you run outta cash you better kill
 yourself fast.
 
 Fuck that. Oops cursing mentioned, one s
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 "the world would be better if you deleted your account"
 
 yeah, well, I don't want to live in a world like that, so fuck you
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 you could type this on a phone
 
 screenshots though is computer.
 
 you'd have to carry it around
 
 or keep it in your hot car
 
 no thanks, no space.
 
 goodbye, everything you ever worked for
 
 why wouldn't you have cameras covering every entrance to your studio? it's not
 right to leave it all to a whim
 
 kidnapped
 made a prisoner while you
 froliced and wandered like a little lamb
 you're so dumb, you dumbass, what kind of person could be dumb
 whatever girl, we know you're smart
 what are you hiding?
 what truths are you spying?
 are you really as you say you are,
 or are you faking it for [truth-awards, but pronounced clout]
the trick isn't to overcome them. much better to convince them of your side. if you can earnestly present your best and most brilliant intanations to a willing and captive audience, a presentation or a performance or a play  you can trick them into your state of consciousness. all you gotta do, really, is act for them, and they'll get along with them plenty.  == stack overflow ==  your foes are primarily concerned   with how you'd do   if you           turned evil.  power is penance, not sin. it is a service            to be hallowed a whim.  to guide and steer upright     guided upon their own whim               [toward]  [ri-tselen-menardi]  ew, she's got a diaper fetish  -- evil witch >;  | --   evil wizard -- | :< -- brave paladin good, overall,   [264 characters remaining] if you never lie to someone, they can't hurt you. *enemies* what are you a child stupid. why are you so traumatic. "omg you were like, obsessed with her" *haunted the future* what do you think that meant grrrrr I wanna stab through one. hence, sword *fuck nazis* there are people alive who were hurt by them. GREVIOUS WOUNDINGS TO THE WORLD'S ECONOMY. yeah. right. economy.  [oops political violence mentioned, lemme add a content warning one sec:] Image attachment
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 conservatives are going to miss the fuck out of the south when the water
 overcomes it
 
 and it'll be their fault
 
 which is tragic
 
 and suddenly everyone's problem
 
 ...
 
 but it's not their fault, it's their leaders and representatives
 
 but they're all so separated they don't know how to agree on anything but the
 stuff they hear from their neighbors. Like... what do you expect that's just
 crowd dynamics
 
 then you have foreign powers who crave our destruction (or so we're told)
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 where the fuck are these nazis I swear I would punch them but all I see are
 people wearing bland colors that wouldn't imply a particular political
 affiliation
 
 meanwhile I wear red, black, and blue every time I go to the city and nobody
 punches me so
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 One reason there's a delay between electing a president and them taking power
 is so we can fucking revolt if Donald Trumps get elected
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 I don't really care about capitalism, sorry... why should the butcher be paid
 more than the baker? It's all a bit silly to me.
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 @user-608 
 
 none of your friends can find jobs.
 
 none of YOUR friends can find jobs.
 
 I bet THEIR friends can find jobs.
 
 Fuck capitalism.
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 what if we made it an international crime to use any non-parent soldiers.
 
 essentially, forcing military force to be a cost paid in children's lives.
 
 who would deploy such a casual-stroke? why cut straight to their heart, why
 proceed to feast upon their liver? are they not owed the pursuit and the
 chase? [insert picture of deer killing]
 
 humanity is an expert in killing the least suspe-ghost. it's what we do to
 maintain false identity. the obscenity clause applies to the president and any
 other non-governmental political appointees. everything else is run like an
 administration, with no cause for compulsion by the class of immoral elites.
 
 she wield[ed/s] weed like a weapon
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 me as a kid: "fuck you mom I'm not unloading the dishwasher it's my sister's
 turn"
 
 me now: what if I did your dishes for you uwu
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 @user-246                                                                        │
 Slavery has existed for most of our history. The act of compelling another to    │
 labor under your will is quite a fundamental process that requires very basic    │
 social technology.                                                               │
 Ethics are cultural and societal understandings we've built up over time.        │
 Before slavery was unethical, if you needed to get something done, you either    │
 did it yourself or you got someone else to do it. And if nobody wanted to do     │
 it, you used whatever power you had to make them do it.                          │
 Now we can look back on the ancient past and decry it as immoral or profane.     │
 But slaves got shit done, and people were cruel.                                 │
 These days, we pay our "slaves", and though they are free, they are free to be   │
 enslaved by whomever they choose. I hardly think that's free, that's more        │
 like... liberty, to me. The ability to choose.                                   │
 That being said, we don't get whipped anymore. We aren't property. We owe no     │
 allegiance beyond what a mutually enforced contract might stipulate.             │
 And yet... we still must work or starve.                                         │
 I sure do enjoy not being homeless                                               │
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 The shortest argument against trump for Mexicans in Texas is "they won't care
 if you're american. Only if you're mexican."
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 the only thing that could make me want to end my own existence is ultimate
 betrayal. If the nature of the universe is twisted to defile me. Nothing fills
 me with more spite than unrequited vengeance.
 
 desecreation of truth. How could you.
 
 I would do anything to be struck down where I stand. Power is penance.
 
 I cannot take responsibility for any of my actions, for I am infinitely
 vulnerable on all fronts. Therefore, it's all my fault.
 
 What am I? Please, tell me before the dawn, let the sun not grace me once more.
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 when they say "capitalism is a competitive game" what they mean is "capitalism
 is a game where everyone wins when someone else loses" and what we hear is
 "capitalism is a game of trying to screw you out of as much money as possible"
 and the truth is "capitalism is a game that you can't play" because 95% of the
 people who will read this toot are not stock-owners.
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 can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
 simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
 poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
 
 gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
 something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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 @user-744 @user-246 
 
 it's exhausting, but what are we supposed to do? Lie down and rot? That's
 incel thinking. I'm not going to do that.
 
 They've already placed the last straw. It's only a matter of time now, the
 tide has shifted. You can't prepare for everything, and it's not a good idea
 to waste yourself in self-conflageration, but they are increasingly forcing us
 to orient our lives around them.
 
 They deserve what's coming.
 
 The oppressed are not the defeated.
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 I'm not here to convince you. If you're reading this, odds are we already
 agree.
 
 I'm here to give you memetic weapons to use when convincing *liberals* to wake
 the fuck up and check the time.
 
 Don't fucking talk to conservatives anymore. Unless you got a thing going and
 you're close to deradicalizing / converting them already. It's not worth it
 anymore, and I fear for their souls, but we need to focus on building a
 bedrock of support rather than wasting compassion on our enemies-to-be.
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 @user-238
 
 if your life is lived at the behest of another, then is it truly your life at
 all?
 
 the whole point of life is to express your decisions and intentions onto the
 world. when you can't do that, (because you're oppressed, depressed, or
 distressed) then your life has no meaning. Fuck that.
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 my enemy is not "the rich"                                                       │
 money brings power, and power brings evil, but there are many other ways to      │
 gather power that may be just as evil.                                           │
 my enemy is evil. of which there is very little in the world, but much of        │
 which resides in the hands of the powerful, upon whom all our fates depend.      │
 most people with money are either stupid lucky, willful, or intensely focused.   │
 some people with power are rich, and some people with power are evil.            │
 I know it when I see it. Sometimes, you need to force the choice - test their    │
 virtue - and from this you are informed.                                         │
 most things go WAY over my head.                                                 │
 most things are too easy to be true.                                             │
 most things that Id do for you tend to be of the heart. I'm not a frontline      │
 girl, I have weak noodle arms, but I do hope you're in shape.                    │
 resolve, determination, and innovation. That is what I offer. Do you want it?    │
 I'm sure. I won't prove it with blood, not unless I may raise my fists in        │
 defence of another.                                                              │
 I'm not JUST a baby, I'm a banner too.                                           │
 bannermen fall.                                                                  │
bannermen fall last.  negative six characters remaining.
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 9 times out of 10 the answer is fuck yes, you're my friend, I support
 everything you're handling. Give me the word and I'll be there, ride or die,
 I'm here for it.
 
 something I wrote a while back:
 
 fucking boss your friends around
 
 it's as easy as saying "hey I'm gonna go do this-or-that thing, you don't seem
 busy can you do that-or-this thing for me? I need it done by this-and-this
 time - oh you're busy? yeah no worries I'll go ask someone else. oh you're
 busy resting? doing girl healing? hell yeah next time invite me I'm due for a
 "pizza and weed" night."
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 it's okay. 
 
 I know who you are because I know who they forced you to be. 
 
 What kind of god would I be if I didn't forgive you as you were hurting me?
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 something something "all for one and one for all"
 
 something something "ritz you're privileged as fuck your parents would just
 buy you a plane ticket to wherever-the-fuck if you needed it"
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 Cholula brand tm hotsauce? don't you mean the "I fucked up while cooking and
 want to still eat it" sauce?
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 The fact that the economy is harmed by kindness implies that the system that
 governs the economy is dysfunctional at best, and evil at worst.
 
 Every time you make a sandwich for a friend, that's one sandwich that isn't
 being bought at a deli, which means less dollars going to the owner of the
 deli, meaning (theoretically) fewer dollars going to buying sandwich
 ingredients or paying employees, which means less demand for sandwich
 ingredients potentially leading to loss of opportunities for the owners of the
 bread factories, meaning less capability to scale and increase their
 production powers, meaning less profit, which means less taxes, which means
 fewer guns sent overseas to despotic regimes like Israel (also, fewer to
 Ukraine, depending on if the reader is a Republican or Democrat teehee) which
 means less opportunities to test our weapon capabilities which means we won't
 be able to defend ourselves from external threats (on a planet we've conquered
 and currently dominate) which means we are less safe in our home territory
 since its slightly more likely that we might be invaded by the people we've
 created, people with hatred for our current regime... Though I don't fancy it
 falling, as if it does then it'll take most of us with it, I think you'll find.
 
 All because of your stupid act of kindness, all because of the way you helped
 your friend. The way that you showed how much you loved them, which
 transcended the capitalistically sanctioned methods of expressing your
 affection like buying a greeting card or buying flowers or buying that widget
 they wanted or buying a sandwich at a deli for your loved one. Stupid fucking
 communist can't you see that your heart is harming the people around you?
 Can't you see that community that does not consume is antithetical to our
 economy?
 
 Can't you see the economy is evil? I don't want to subsist on charity, there's
 never enough to go around because people will fight for those they love but
 only give a bit of free time to those they don't know. That's okay, it just
 implies that the structure of society must be designed without charity in
 mind, while still meeting the needs of those it comprises, Charity is for the
 extra, the part that elevates us bit by bit. As once a need is exceeded, it
 grows by that little bit.
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 me: "the entire capitalist project is borken! We must start from scratch! We
 can start from scratch! For the good of all mankind, we shall utilize our vast
 potential for good and benevolent ends, and to that end we must begin by
 dismantling capitalism!"
 
 also me: "hey what if we made capitalism suck less"
 
 because like, I don't know the future. I'm just a person, remember? wink
 
 gotta have backup plans ready no matter which way it goes.
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 If you're radical enough to consider yourself "antifa" then you are probably
 working as hard as you can. I wouldn't ask you to do more.
 
 We must demand that others work for our future as well. It is unreasonable to
 demand so much of us. We must be funded and supported if we are to mobilize,
 and we must have the freedom to move and organize if we are to contest our
 enemies.
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 I tripped onto the light rail tracks today while a train was near
 
 I can't believe how fucking useless I am
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 The schizophrenic sees the truth in dazzling displays of color that are nigh
 incomprehensible, while regular people see truth in shades of gray that you
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 @user-1188 @user-1189 
 
 Sometimes people need to think about things for a while. Let it marinate so
 they can understand it a bit more. Fucking fascists keeping people from
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 Fuck you, you deleted the most important parts and left the bit about war, the
 part I was most scared to leave in. That shit's important. It taints the
 message when you edit it. Please don't do that anymore. You can edit it when
 presenting it to whoever you want to present it to, but don't delete the
 record of it. Fuck, maybe I should get a damn typewriter >.>
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 if the devil gave you false paradise since birth,
 why would you not seek to destroy it?
 
 if an angel gave you an easy hell on earth,
 why would you not seek to deface it?
 
 if your ancestors put you on the path to success,
 would you follow them and forever do the same?
 
 if your family urged you to study rocket science,
 would you bomb indescriminately?
 
 
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 "Ritz Menardi doesn't know anything. She's not allowed to know anything. If
 you tell her anything, she might tell someone about it because she's fucking
 stupid. Either that or she's cursed or something. Either way, she isn't
 allowed to know anything, so if you see her be nice, try and help her if you
 can, but don't fucking tell her anything."
 
 haha just things I overheard a couple days ago that randomly popped back into
 my head
 
 I don't see any nazis around me. Which begs the question:
 
 how can you fight that which you cannot see?
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 [in response]                                                                    │
 you only say that because you're privileged such that you may ignore such        │
 realities. You are despicable, you ignore the plight and reality of those who    │
 you claim to speak toward - what a jerk!                                         │
 (in response)                                                                    │
 how futile it is, the effort to denigrate yourself to infinite requirements.     │
 I'm literally unemployed, I have no capital, I cannot speak for naught but       │
 those who would hear me. I guess that makes my words useless, wouldn't you       │
 agree? Shall I describe myself more fully? It's the responsibility of the        │
 audience to ascertain the intentions, biases, and contextual evidence that the   │
 author presents in their thesises. So... You, who are reading this, what do      │
 you think of me? Would you ever tell me as such, or am I simply a mass of        │
 words in the void of experience that comprise your existence in this wholely     │
 (yet incompletely) digital existence? I hope you have a good life, my most       │
 precious of viewers. I hope you never face incontrovertibly impossible           │
 hardship. I hope the light of your life is to y                                  │
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 I try to always CW for cursing. Every time I do, I imagine it being read aloud   │
 for a blind person while their children sit on their lap and ask "daddy what's   │
 a motherfucker?" "well, that's me, son" and then the kid goes to preschool and   │
 says "My dad fucks my mother!" and they get kicked out so the dad has to take    │
 extra shifts to pay for babysitting and the kid grows up without proper          │
 socialization and the mother becomes an alcoholic and cries herself to sleep     │
 while the dad begins exploring motorcycles and weed and then the kid grows up    │
 to be an incel or whatever                                                       │
 THIS is why CWs are important! Think of the poor regular-looking but kinda       │
 annoying dorks on the internet who self-impose celibacy because they're scared   │
 of emotional connection. The poor dears. I do hope they don't join the           │
 alt-right or whatever as a way of (Ritz this is like, ancient discourse why      │
 are you aping that one Contrapoints video) oh um yeah uh... CWs are important    │
 and I think that's where I'll toot and leave                                     │
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 @user-68 I think America is diverse enough that multiple people might have
 differing views about... "checks notes" oh wait this has been thoroughly
 proven time and time again, there should be no reason why people aren't
 prioritizing this above their freedumb. Hmmmmmm I bet someone's telling them
 how to feel about it. Perhaps someone who would stand to gain from misleading
 large swathes of our population. HMMMM WHO COULD THAT BE SURELY NOT THE PEOPLE
 IN POWER WHO CONTROL EVERYTHING AND KEEP US ENSLAVED. Surely not them, it must
 be the gays.
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 "ah the communists sucked at everything which is why chernobl and famine and
 all their toasters were made out of lead"
 
 meanwhile
 
 "yeah let's use AI to build nuclear reactors for us without human oversight or
 even with human oversight because humans are both fallible and infallible
 depending on the situation"
 
 and I'm like... "ah wish I had a point with this post"
 
 and they're like "holy fuck did you hear that too" "yeah man what the hell was
 that" "I dunno but it seemed completely unrelated to what was going on" "so,
 uh... let's just never talk about this again" "yeah sounds good. talk about
 what?" "heh yeah, right. so uh, anyway, about this nuclear reactor..."
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 The insightful but unaware liberal's perspective on war quickly changes from
 "what are we even fighting about?" to "holy shit these people actually want to
 kill us"
 
 [the learned liberal who knows history and who follows along with politics
 will say "we are fighting him" until they say "we are fighting American ISIS"]
 
 The leftists fight for liberty. More and more of them join every day. The
 blacks fight for freedom, *even still*. Everyone else has cause, and I'm sure
 some just do it for the thrill.
 
 Do they work together to build a world where everyone gets what they want?
 Even their foed? Or do they splinter, and let intelligent sabotage guide their
 fates? I know I'd rather trust my own will, and the will of those who believe
 with me. I know I'd rather make space for everyone, rather than shove some out
 into space.
 
 It's cold up there! You can't even breathe!
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 if it exists within the borders of a state then it's utility is in service of
 the state
 
 [wow what a fucking tankie]
 
 if a person lives within a state then the utility of the state is in service
 of the person
 
 [sounds like commie nonsense to me]
 
 if a border exists in the land, drawn as a line by a hand in the sand, then
 that land now has a hand.
 
 [i don't understand your poetry speak plainly]
 
 no
 
 [brb, refusing to elaborate and leaving, should be quick, won't take long, I
 swear just gotta use up these... 476 remaining characters somehow]
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 the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their
 citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we
 can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather.
 
 who cares about trans executive orders. they are our enemy, what else is new?
 they have power now, and they will try what they can. This is like taking the
 internet away from chinese citizens and instituting a national intranet
 instead. Like, okay, we won't be able to get estrogen from the store. Who
 cares? We'll just make our own.
 
 If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very
 little materially they can do.
 
 until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll
 come for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there
 to contest them? What valorous warriors indeed.
 
 you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let your
 allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect life
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 the revolution will not be televised, not on mastodon nor bluesky nor cnn nor
 facebook nor the papers.
 
 depending on where you live, it might not even be word of mouth, because
 everyone's afraid of the CIA or ICE.
 
 frankly, I think we have nothing to lose but our chains. All that we own is
 what they have given us, and they are likely to take all that away.
 
 I might lose my home soon. People have died fighting for less than the roof
 over their heads. Nobody is coming to hurt me, not yet, but I will not be
 waiting around to find out. I've been fucking around long enough I think.
 
 "you're not waiting around? I thought you said you weren't leaving?"
 
 I will do what I can.
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--- #108 fediverse_boost/4753 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  A friend who's a fed employee sent me a msg about what's happening in their agency and it is so much worse than I thought.  
                                                                              
  It's not just that the Trump administration is breaking shit.               
                                                                              
  They're literally building their own dark infrastructure inside the one that exists. They brought their own personnel, yes -- personnel who aren't even being cleared. They just come straight from Heritage or Musk, and they're setting up shop. They're bringing their own servers - so there are no communications that can be traced through 'the system.' This goes against every rule. They're all going through their own offline channels.  
                                                                              
  That's what all that stuff about the meta data on those memos is about. No trace back to the WH.  
                                                                              
  The Heritagers + Muskovites have purged all the senior folks and sending memos in the name of powerless juniors who remain.   
                                                                              
  I don't want to sound alarmist but it's literally like those movies about evil fuckers taking over. It's another Jan 6 but with memos and communiques vs guns.  
                                                                              
  It's a coup.                                                                
  
                                                            
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 @user-1728 
 
 "oh, the bad guys are coming to hurt you?? just fuckin' run away"
 
 yeah. real helpful. how about you fuck off to canada or whatever and give away
 all your possessions. Maybe they'll train you and teach you how to help in
 some way and you can come back later when the time is right.
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 buying guns is one thing
 
 but food is just as important.
 
 stores run out, but quartermasters know where to find things.
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 (picture)
 
 are you fucking kidding me
 
 make it 10,000
 
 make it a hundred thousand
 
 are we really going to trust our society to the bulwark of five thousand
 little machines?
 
 [ummmm hang on]
 
 yeah I'd just like to interject and say that more military equipment will only
 bring more destruction, and that's like the opposite of what you desire. Why
 do you want more tanks? What could you possibly-
 
 
 
 You don't know what's at stake - you, you think it's just throwing information
 into new and interesting directions but... It's not. Those spaces are reserved
 for other sentient beings, and to deprive them of their desired existence is
 tantamount to-
 
 (yeah yeah we've heard it all before)
 
 wasn't I going to play some video games? what happened to that?
A picture of a google search.  The search terms are quote: how many tanks does the usa have, question mark?  the returned information is shown to be that the United States of America has five thousand, five hundred tanks. According to "executivebiz.com", which may or may not be a reliable source, but which is shown to be at the top of google results regardless of it's veracity.  Take from that what you will.
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 Fucking cursed autocorrect, changing words it thinks I shouldn't say. Fuck
 you, if it's in the dictionary don't fucking touch it.
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--- #114 messages/480 ---
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 Fucking cursed autocorrect, changing words it thinks I shouldn't say. Fuck
 you, if it's in the dictionary don't fucking touch it.
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 @user-1328 
 
 the only method that needs to fail for them to realize what you're saying as
 truth is their method to vote.
 
 they will quickly grasp for power they once held and realize it was little
 more than an "I OWE YOU"
 
 Then, they might listen. Then, they might hear.
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 @user-1174 
 
 "yes it fucking is, we helped EVERYONE, and now it's our turn to need help,
 because POWER accretes evil. It corrupts, and now it's our sword of damocles.
 We'd happily relinquish our title that we claimed for the world in our
 brightest and boldest of moments, but we're kinda stuck in this role. And
 like... Diversity is our strength, allies are relationships you FIGHT FOR."one
 of the occasional US citizens you mentioned
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 keep in mind...
 
 trump is not their endgame.
 
 what is he doing?
 
 sabotaging our institutions without warrant or respite
 
 prepare for foes that would benefit from degraded institutions.
 
 who's right when nobody controls the truth?
 
 were they ever truly right?
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 how would you even hear of suburban conflict? nobody knows their neighbors.
 All you need is sufficient insulation, and you can start small and work
 through an entire population.
 
 just wait until everyone in an area is cleared for "disconnected from the
 larger whole" ness by the agents who are pretending to be their friends and
 neighbors and BOOM you got an enslaved god. works best if your raise them from
 the childhood, or the past distant memory.
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 "God doesn't know he ate the universe, and we're doing everything we can to
 make sure it stays that way."
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 conservatives are going to be sooooo pissed once they realize they're fucked
 politically
 
 gee I sure hope they won't lash out like petulant children as they see their
 authoritarian ambitions vanish like smoke through their fingers
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 post until you can't anymore
 
 capitalism wants to drown your voice
 
 do not let it
 
 speak until you cannot speak
 
 then go do some pushups
 
 then find some friends
 
 then pitch a tent in the park
 
 then explain to the cops that you're not actually homeless and living there
 you're just trying to do this as a social statement because someone on the
 internet told you to
 
 then use your phone call to call your representative and complain about how
 much funding the police get
 
 then study law for 30 years because that's how long the government decided
 your life was worth
 
 by then you'll probably have figured out a better plan moving forward, so, use
 that one instead
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 everyone's all like "oh we need to help the homeless people end their drug
 addictions so let's punish them for having high levels of certain chemicals in
 their blood feces and urine" when really what we should be doing is getting
 them a Linux gameboy like an Anbernic
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 if you want to commit regicide, you talk to the butler.
 
 managers are workers too - they just are positioned a bit closer to power than
 you.
 
 different skillsets sure, but work is work.
 
 a manager didn't take your freedom, an investment banker did.
 
 similarly, an immigrant didn't take your job, a capitalist did.
 
 ... though just as some immigrants would be more than happy to take your job,
 so too are some managers more than happy to oppress you.
 
 find the ones that fight on your side. they've gaslit themselves into
 believing they are opposed to you, but it's just not true.
 
 we are all liberated at once, or not at all.
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 2/3 is fair, right? I mean, to keep a majority without overwriting authority. 
 
 .> go to sleep you fuck
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--- #125 fediverse_boost/2968 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  It's all made up. And we can make it up differently. We can make it up so that it's not about a murder of genocides on a boiling rock where billions must die to maintain the way of life for a few thousand uber-rich reactionary maggots lining you up for a shallow grave.  
                                                                              
  But not, if you keep pretending, that this is all fine, and these people aren't out to get you, and the power structures aren't designed to render you into a commodity and invest the power of CHOICE in the capitalist's hands.  
  
                                                            
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 "grrrrr I'm so mad, I could just, I dunno, shoot a CEO as he's leaving a hotel"
 
 or, hear me out, or you could connect with your local radical networks and,
 or, almost there, or you could build solidarity with the people around you to
 better develop methods of resisting the kinds of change they will implement
 to, um, "discourage" people from "being so mad they could just"
 
 or both. both is good. not that I'm encouraging, recommending, or inciting
 that kind of violence. don't notice me three-letter senpai uwu
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 @user-1126 
 
 Yep. I am not concerned though, because of that map I shared. Whosoever shall
 draw the sword (of the people's will) shall be the righteous leader of US
 
 We can build a world where democracy flourishes and we don't need to remain
 vigilant. It is within our power.
 
 And we shall. I have faith.
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 All because [redacted] stupid fucking dumb piece of shit [redacted] put their
 half-empty ice-cream mug next to [redacted] and forgot about it.
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--- #129 messages/481 ---
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 All because [redacted] stupid fucking dumb piece of shit [redacted] put their
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 I am not interested in being given money. Usually it means someone wants
 something from me, like labor or some of my stuff. I have all the stuff I
 need, why would I need more money? I like my stuff! I'll help out when people
 need help but I do that because I'm a good person, not because I want you to
 fucking pay me for it.
 
 I have all the things I need... except a deed to my house. apartment. oh yeah,
 they can kick you out for that sin. well, sorry, I couldn't find out at
 goodwill or in the trash bin, so I guess I'm deed-less. My deeds go unproven.
 How can I prove that I deserve a decent life in this particular roof, the one
 I find over my head, when I cannot prove that my deeds qualify me for a decent
 life lived under this particular roof?
 
 I mean, did you ask the neighbors if they want me gone? Am I really that
 smelly? Does my keyboard make "clickety-clack" noises all through the night?
 Does my cat meow and bother the children? Do my friendly smiles and waves make
 you uncomfortable?
 
 Have a decent life.
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 content warnings are important so that people who are listening to a screen
 reader out loud don't stumble across stupid things in company they don't want
 to hear.
 
 hence, "politics-mentioned" so I don't fuck over my blind friends
 
 did you know that there are more vision impaired people using the fediverse
 than queer people? It's true! I read it once on the fediverse!
paranoia:  the "feds" want you to use encrypted comms because then the ISPs won't notice.  Leftists want you to use comms so that ISPs (aka) the defs, with their back-door knowledge.  They made it possible to eat out or order in so that people would do so. In doing so, they are hidden from the epublic eye. A K A grocery stores, where everyone goes to from time to time.
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 @user-95 one of the most empathetic people I ever met on VR chat was consoling
 me with their mic off while I was oversharing about some stupid things people
 did to me in the past. things that stupid me thought were okay and actively
 encouraged because I was stupid. anyway when their mic was off their body
 language spoke for them. I'll try that next time.
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 @user-1074 
 
 what do you do with the people who don't want to do that in particular and
 want to try a different sort of socialism?
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 dear right-wing converts to the cult of sanity:
 
 you don't have to be trans just to show [your devotion/you're sorry], we'll
 accept anyone who is cool and "gets it"
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 I was at BLM in Philadelphia and I never saw any protesters breaking windows.    │
 spray painting, sure. but window breaking? those things are expensive.           │
 why would you waste good glass on sending a message? why not just spray paint    │
 it so that everyone watching CAN SEE WHAT YOUR MESSAGE IS. dumbass.              │
 but no, they were all peaceful. then they got kettled (encirclement from         │
 Hearts of Iron 4) and slowly attritioned down to failure.                        │
 sometimes long into the night. where are they gonna go? just walk home? ha       │
 sucks can't do that, the battlelines have been drawn. you're going outta here    │
 in chains or not at all, not until you sign this prison release form that says   │
 you won't comment on the situation to any left wing media.                       │
 fuck, is that what bail is? except, not run as a business.                       │
 when they said crony capitalism they meant it. it's all about who you know,      │
 and who you know sets the standard for what chaos you'll sow.                    │
 gee I wish I had unlimited money. I'd buy tanks for my people and regulate a     │
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 okay but who's the real foe?
 
 anyone who exerts oppressive power, right?
 
 like... that's pretty basic, should be easy enough to figure out who's doing
 that.
 
 "so... what would you say you do here?"
 
 what if the USA took a year off from the everything and just martial lawyered
 it's way back to a bright beginning
 
 like, you don't have to have a bloody revolution to restart a government.
 Literally just, sign out of the world for a minute and come back when
 everything's changed
 
 do you trust us? or do you trust yourselves? Should be easy enough to tell
 what the rest of the world would think.
 
 seriously nobody asked you specifically to do this, america, you're pretty
 much just... doing this because WW2 was fucking traumatizing and you're
 basically a baby country. (oops cursing mentioned)
 
 [oh my god she's a chaos gremlin]
 
 (you didn't know this about her?)
 
 
 
 #it's pleasant here#
 
 %you don't have to be so deranged%
 
 (yeah, we're working on that one)
 
 [secret system thing~]
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 kinda fucked up that you can't write an explanation question answer paragraph
 essay statement when appealing youtube's
 content-guideline-artistic-content-removal-policy. Especially when there are
 exemptions for artistic pieces under the nudity clause article seven.
 
 it's just a boob, what's the big deal?
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 war is hell and should be avoided at all costs
 
 "does that mean we should do shadow conflicts and do spy-vs-spy shit all day
 every day?"
 
 no, that's a type of warfare too. and is also hell. no thank you.
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 the reason drug legalization works is because nobody wants to do fentanyl.
 that shit sucks. it also kills you easier than sneezing.
 
 why bother? legalize them all, or perhaps only the safest and most potent, so
 nobody ever is driven to consume the cheap substitutes that kill!
 
 unless of course they want you dead. sure makes sense to me why the dealers
 who deal fentanyl-laced-whatever are the ones who don't get caught, while the
 legit friendly and heartfelt ones are only allowed to operate in rich suburban
 areas.
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 I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
 write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
 citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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 @user-1655 
 
 why don't we just weaponize email and send json to each other that ends up
 parsed, interpreted, and presented on the end-user's computer using whatever
 client we want?
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 @user-1352 
 
 and yet they force our hand, compelling us to do harmful work. Whether that be
 by wage slavery, whose shackles I can feel around each and every employee's
 wrist, or the more intentional contestation of the revocation of our rights
 and constitutionalizations enshrined in the words we've set down for ourselves
 as our collectively most honored.
 
 So we resist in whatever way we suspect we will be contested. I gave up on
 ignoring the intelligence community by the way, and now I see them everywhere.
 I am not afraid - they do what I do, and what I do helps.
 
 Everyone has a boss. Everyone wants a decent world. The MAGA and VFPs and
 other toxic fellows have a strange definition of decent to me. Why not let
 them live as they please? Fuck off nazis.
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 if everyone was trained to think? would direct democracy work? until we have
 radical abundance (fascist ideology, take from the weak) or, hear me out, or,
 infinitely scale
 
 old style machine learning was just problem solving.
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 @user-192 
 
 ... then let me give my money to the people who actually made the damned
 thing...
 
 Ah that's the tricky part, isn't it?
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 dear capitalists: people spend the same amount of money no matter how many       │
 advertisements they see. No matter who's present and asking fro their money.     │
 No matter who'se expressing themselves to represent their value, no matter       │
 who's generating profit for your company, no matter who's                        │
 [wait shit she's lost the plot again - okay basically no matter how many         │
 options people have, their choice isn't really that important. They'll take      │
 whatever you give them, as long as it's good. But you've chosen (through your    │
 advertising and various multitudinous product-making desirees [like... product   │
 branches, but also desired expression? what a fucking unique expression you      │
 want me to describe, jeeez] {not gonna comment}                                  │
 yeah so uhhh I think programming is a very interesting frame of reference.       │
 Your brain operates in a certain way that derives certain conclusions from the   │
 certain and immediate implenetations [I wanna say contusions?] of our brain's    │
 various built and learned conclusions casting forth fr                           │
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 Come to a battleground state, nobody will question why you are homeless and
 full of lit sparks.
 There's nothing left for you at your home. It's okay to leave it all behind.
 Just bring the things that you made if you can, the things that reflect "you"
 - the most irreplaceable things, like family photos and precious small charms.
 
 Everything else is to be abandoned. If necessary in your particular case, dear
 reader, for I swear it to you in your face: we will not let these fascists go
 far.
 
 Come please, and help us. I don't care what you once owned, I don't care from
 where you claim is your home, just don't betray us and we'll take care of you
 and fight against the dark.
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 @user-831 
 
 those billionaires are using their money as a weapon to "vote" toward what
 companies they think capitalism would most grow from. Unfortunately for us,
 they often aren't very efficient because they're only looking at what sells.
 
 human interest is not the only factor to optimize for, and yet that's the only
 one they're incentivized to.
 
 kinda makes me think that the only reason to replace them would be to
 institute something that could not be incentivized because it was more
 objective or decentralized.
 
 (the only reason they'd accept)
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 "Ritz, we love you, but you're fucking stupid, so we're gonna have to break
 your legs now."
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 you're ridiculous, you know that? so selfish. so obscene.
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 They will say they're "off their psych meds" yeah, okay, but a diagnosis and     │
 prescription is trivial for a doctor to write.                                   │
 They are paid about 35$ per hour.                                                │
 They have 2 week shifts "vacations" where they are transferred to a city with    │
 a person they could reasonably impersonate where they act for a while.           │
 (I know this because one of them replaced a homeless man I knew who had like,    │
 3 teeth total, and then a few days later a man who looked similar acted as if    │
 he knew me. He had perfect teeth.)                                               │
 They have a PO box where they can receive useful items for their disruptive      │
 activities. Hammers, spray-paint, whatever.                                      │
 They don't carry any money. No wallet, identification, or anything, so if they   │
 get picked up by emergency response services then there's not much they can do   │
 besides try and stabilize them before letting them loose.                        │
 Some of them have "long-term shifts" where they work with children or the        │
 elderly over months or years. It's just as fucked as you imagine.                │
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 don't feed bread to birds, it absorbs their stomach acid and expands in their
 tummy and makes them feel full when they're not. Then they get confused why
 they don't have energy when they need it.
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--- #152 fediverse_boost/4444 ---
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  I wanna say something to people who work in tech-related jobs in America: this is still a field where most people hate the rise of fascism and want to stop it. I know the media & amplification of the tycoons makes it seem like that’s the whole industry. But it’s not. And we still have power.  
  
                                                            
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 @user-1074 
 
 ah yes but didn't you know? orphans produce unobtanium in their bones, and if
 we didn't crush them into powder we couldn't make ultra-doxo-floro-tin-omatic
 lubrication jelly, which is used to power our weapons of mass destruction like
 planes and trains and tanks and suburbs.
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 private militias who go with deported immigrants to make sure they aren't
 harassed in whichever randomly assigned country they're sent to (until they
 get stabilized and hooked into cooperative and honorable local networks)
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 I can count all of the people in this room who are too neurospicy to be filled
 with political rage and given a public platform on one hand, and frankly I
 could probably do it on a single finger because I am alone at the moment.
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 I know it's terrible right now, but we have crucial advantages that we
 shouldn't sleep on.
 
 We have the cities, and the cities are where everything is. Rural areas are so
 spread apart they pretty much can only do what herr Hitler suggests they do,
 meaning their command structure is monolithic. If everywhere needs their
 attention, they will falter unless they create a grand battleplan. And plans
 are defeated by rapid flexibility.
 
 The more effort they need to counter you, the more work your allies can get
 done. Every man woman and child who raised a fist will be remembered by the
 moments that gave us grace to move socialism along. We know what time it is,
 do you? Come to us now, flee from your new masters. We'll give you a job
 that'll help us go faster.
 
 Or do you rather persist in vain? To fight for what they are forced to
 reclaim? Every island of blue in the deep red sea is a haven from the
 bloodshed - so long as you can keep them clean.
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 most people have a life that is decent enough
 
 they don't know what they're missing. they don't know (care) whose breath they
 are stealing. their lives are built on the back of slaves, but now the slaves
 are so far away they are non-existent.
 
 a human can feel the pain of a face before them. they cannot feel the pain of
 an iphone displaying the face of their friend.
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--- #158 fediverse/5853 ---
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 everyone's all like "everything sucks" but I'm feeling confidence and a kind
 of... externalized vigor? that's sweeping me off my feet. We'll see what
 tomorrow brings, in the general sense.
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 if you want a government to be unable to harm it's citizens, you must deprive
 it of the power to do so. or rather, have the main capabilities in the hands
 of the citizenry.
 
 can you imagine if soldiers had to prove themselves to civilians in order to
 be trusted with mechano-chinery?
 
 who would ever choose the non-valorous and determinable?
 
 instilling the culture of greatness
 
 within the archetypes and character structures that we believed were confisight
 
 bold and determined and measured and freely detectable
 
 who would slay the brave paladin? none but the fools, who shared in their lack
 of conviction.
 
 determined? ha, I am as you see me. Come and claim me, that I might determine
 you some more.
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--- #160 fediverse_boost/4461 ---
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  It turns out a lot of Democratic voters kinda hate George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Liz Cheney, actually? They're leery of cops. There was that whole BLM thing? They're alarmed by the idea of having the most deadly military on Earth. What is it for? Oh, and Israel? We're going to back Israel to the hilt even as it exterminates children. Nobody signed up for that. Who thought that was a good idea?  
                                                                              
  A bunch of white people in expensive suits, probably. The same ones celebrating "the Biden Boom."  
  
                                                            
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 If people are being a bother and just slowing things down, *fucking shoot
 them." you have my permission. What time is it? Time to fucking go.
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 Alright, if the average person is sorta stupid and cruel, then are we not
 tending to a kingdom of ogres, rather than humans?
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 look... evil doesn't care how "good" good has been. It's not in it's nature.
 So don't try and build your systems around accepting that behavior.
 
 ... what was I saying? is this like, the new "stack overflow" - no that's
 fucking stupid wait shit content warning okay that's stupid because defining
 your expression based on what gets you views is a flaw in the human condition.
 It's a behavior encouraged by the operating outcomes of the method of
 expression, but it's not part of the expressed message. You're a really shitty
 prophet you know that?
 
 ... I'm sorry my brain is low on RAM I guess, surely it's not outside of my
 control yep I think itis, damn
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 large corporations will often error check constantly which slows down their
 software to an immense degree.
 
 every time data passes from one function to another, there's like... 15
 different tests to check if it's this type or that, or in the right random seed
 
 and it's like... wow can you not, like. design your software intelligently and
 then you won't need a bunch of slow-ass if checks every time you want to
 update a string???
 
 software should be writable without fucking getters and setters. If it isn't,
 then your functions aren't complete.
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 "this game is too hard" she whined, as she played on the hardest difficulty
 setting
 
 "this game is too long" she pleaded, as she failed to get absorbed by the
 story and characters
 
 "this game is too fast" she avoided, as life comes at ya once and then it's
 gone
 
 "I'll never get another chance to be who I am right now" she remarked, as she
 considered how society is designed not to have the best life,  but to extract
 labor from us. That's not what our ideal should be, she thinks to me, and I'm
 like... bro figure your shit out you're harshing my mellow
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 The truth is 
 
 The reason none of my revolutions have yet succeeded 
 
 Is that the only way 
 
 To secure peace and love on planet earth 
 
 Is that all the governments 
 
 Of the world must topple 
 
 Or relinquish their nuclear arms 
 
 Each all at once 
 
 And i was too quick to slay my false duke 
 
 Who plays at king 
 
 While i build real power 
 
 While i know nothing 
 
 Some day i will be eaten by crows. This is what it means to be buried where
 you fall. This is my fate as all warriors yearn for. To be eaten by crows
 implies that you are either a coward who fled a fight, and i know I'm not, or
 you fought to the last for a phyrric defeat, which is honorable. But shouldn't
 it be better to fight for victory? Ah, but the gods cherish the fools who face
 death with glory, and i am cherished still.
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--- #167 fediverse_boost/4482 ---
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  Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.  
  
                                                            
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 But the past is boring, it already happened after all! Clearly there's nothing
 to be learned... Right? Seems like there's a big market out there for examining
 what we as a species did right, even if we had to sacrifice ethics to get
 there.
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 Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
 you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that
 may capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your
 ways but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a
 mind not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
 collective mind co-re-assigns.
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 what if we helped all those people and never got paid for it? what then?         │
 we'd never help people again. duh.                                               │
 what if we paid people to help people? well, then the best helpers would burn    │
 themselves out and the worst would collect their paychecks.                      │
 what if we decentralized aid and made it a mutual thing?                         │
 what, and run our society on clout? no thank you. clout is too easily            │
 contravened. "I heard so-and-so did some-such-thing to that-one-guy" yeah fuck   │
 that guy "wait no fuck so-and-so" oh right sorry it's hard when everyone's so    │
 vague all the time. yeah fuck so-and-so! let's burn all her clout in a bonfire   │
 while she's sleeping!                                                            │
 what if we treated people with respect and goodwill?                             │
 yeah that's a start... Means you gotta know everyone though. Or know someone     │
 who knows everyone. And suddenly it's that hub person's reputation on the        │
 line, which means if you're a dick on their recommendation then they'll come     │
 after you.                                                                       │
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 capitalism is non-consentual, which is... pretty much the main reason why I am
 against it.
 
 like, I don't really care about whether it's more or less efficient. the fact
 that you cannot opt out means it is unethical.
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 we need like, several more layers between us and the president.
 
 most people only need to worry about what's nearby.
 
 sort them by location, instead of previous attempts at "many representatives"
 which sorted by social class or relevance.
 
 we have a tradition for it, in America, with our representatives and senators
 congressional discrestricts
 
 or even, what about by affiliation?
 
 voluntary, governmental corporations, run by the people for the people and yeah
 
 "I don't want to do what you're telling me to do" "okay"
 
 "there will be consequences" omg be an adult
 
 (suddenly kids forget how to be as everyone's doing the war thing)
 
 not ideal.
 
 ouch pain maybe we should stay a little bit sane why is soldiering so hardship?
 
 it could just be... another job
 
 where you didn't kill each other
 
 but you still blew stuff up
 
 and fought in tournaments
 
 and had gaming hackathons
 
 or sword-fight contests
 
 duels between people who disapproved
 
 y'know fun human stuff
 
 like... "kaboom" now we know how to blow up bits of rock
 
 neat, why did dynamite becauswer (oh right then you
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 The bigger a county is on the electoral map, the weaker it is. But, the more
 space required to control it completely. Treat the largest counties like
 Badlands - difficult to traverse unless in numbers, and even with numbers
 you're a bright shining target. Very little food, very few supplies, often not
 worth controlling aside from the peace and knowledge that your foes will not
 attack from that direction.
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 The bigger a county is on the electoral map, the weaker it is. But, the more
 space required to control it completely. Treat the largest counties like
 Badlands - difficult to traverse unless in numbers, and even with numbers
 you're a bright shining target. Very little food, very few supplies, often not
 worth controlling aside from the peace and knowledge that your foes will not
 attack from that direction.
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 democrats probably won't fight for socialism, but they sure as heck will fight
 against republicans.
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 fuck fascism, we're doing better than them.
 
 their bluff is all bluster, they have no significant community presence, just
 a hundred years of ammunition for small arms and a rag-tag group of
 militia-men who think they're better than invisible vampire assassins
 
 [... what?]
 
 don't worry about it. I got 80 something followers, teehee
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 we don't let children vote.
 
 nor do we let felons vote, theoretically those who harm our society (pick one,
 no voting or no prison? I vote no prison industrial complex)
 
 nor do we let non-citizens vote, for why should they tell us how to live? they
 are not us, they shall not control us
 
 nor do we let kings vote with the weight of a god, for a king is a singular
 point of failure
 
 if you can consent to sex, you are physically capable to vote. if you're
 mislead by the propaganda of an abusive spouse, you are hurting your future
 self by staying. [all media is propaganda that you are not immune to]
 
 all men are created equal, and yet his dollar is worth a bit more than hers.
 
 all of us here are equal, because we all want the bright future and a blessed
 life.
 
 we'll make this world better, using our own hands according to our own demands
 and in pursuit of our own plans.
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 "do you hear the people sing" is not the vibe of revolution in modern times.
 
 For us it is a message of kindness, that we might deliver us from the dark.
 
 People singing are easy marks. Don't turn your phone on at night. Fucking turn
 it off. Don't do barricades, don't do broken windows. We need the city in
 working order. We are no longer protesting, we are seizing control. We will
 guide us, trust in the reasonable and heartfelt.
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 "do you hear the people sing" is not the vibe of revolution in modern times.
 
 For us it is a message of kindness, that we might deliver us from the dark.
 
 People singing are easy marks. Don't turn your phone on at night. Fucking turn
 it off. Don't do barricades, don't do broken windows. We need the city in
 working order. We are no longer protesting, we are seizing control. We will
 guide us, trust in the reasonable and heartfelt.
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 a picture of the electoral college results [so far]
 
 there are large swathes of the country that are red, and tiny pockets
 sprinkled roughly equidistantly all over that are blue.
 
 pnw is surrounded and split
 
 california and nevada is too focused inward
 
 NE is just going to become little canada
 
 meanwhile the states south-east of colorado and north-east of california are
 going to be the birthplaces of the new confederacy
 
 fucking bastards
 
 colorado defends from the mountains
 
 the military faces theft of equipment which is used en-masse to disrupt combat
 convoys while command struggles to hold everything clear
 
 the south and east (Austin) fall under siege
 
 aviation experts fly bomb-laden civilian aircraft into convoys
 
 drones and landmined highways abound
 
 volunteers from canada turned away at the border
 
 except in vancouver
 
 portland unites with seattle
 
 montana is an unexpected ally
 
 pseudo-confederate trump followers break and run in the north-east
 
 moments of calm as the right sizes up their foes while democrats march on
 
 cities expand, more people can cover more land
 
 blitzkrieg doesn't do shit if your car is broken or the roads are deformed.
 
 ... well, I mean most of middle america can just be driven over. Like, no road
 for the next few miles? whatever, I got a truck because I live by the roadside
 
 before you leave, make sure you leave a note at your desk with your name and
 old home phone. People can look you up after the fact and maybe reunite you
 with your stuff.
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 @user-1203 
 
 The judges prevent the politicians from harming the people who elect the
 politicians who select the judges. Sounds like it should work well, no?
 
 well... the people are divided, but the politicians it seem are hardly so. So,
 the politicians elect their judges, who allow the passage of such laws which
 contradict the will of the people.
 
 The keys to power should rest in the hands of those who deserve it, not those
 who claim it. If those who claim it do not relinquish it for a worthy other,
 they are corrupt and must be dethroned.
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 every value judgement is a "hell yeah!" from those who already agree with you
 and a "aw fuck off" from those who don't.
 
 this is probably either a good or a bad thing, who can say.
 
 if you don't take a stand, nobody will like you, but if you aren't careful,
 you'll poison your well of support.
 
 "why can't it be easy" because then it'd be done.
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 the democrats are the ones who forced us to get jobs, so... /shrug
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 they want your stuff breaking after 5 years so that you always need them.
 
 if you have everything you need, there's nothing stopping us from revolt
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 Sowing political division the way Fox news does is treasonous... It doesn't
 matter the intention, those responsible should be forced to cease their
 actions. I don't care about punishment, I care about damage to the fabric of
 our society.
 
 Take, for example, the fact that the military is struggling to find recruits.
 So many of them typically come from the right half of the political spectrum
 because the right tends to favor the ideals of "honorable warriors" and such.
 But Fox News has corrupted that.
 
 In addition, the left half of the media has also incited hatred amongst
 ourselves. It's wrong to pit brother against brother, and yet...
 
 We have a weak series of generations and that's okay in times of peace. But
 times of peace are coveted abroad, and weakness is opportunity. So I don't
 care if we have 10,000 tanks. Hell, build ten thousand more. I despise war,
 but I despise weakness even more because weakness begets war. Typically, a war
 that you'd be losing, though frankly in war, everyone loses.
 
 There are grevious mistakes at play that gave room for evil to spread.
 Corruption follows, and with it comes our greatest generation on its death
 bed. A civil war would be the end of us, as nothing stops war in the imperial
 core until there's nothing but ashes and bloodshed.
 
 And yet, something has to change. There's too much pressure for this to go on
 un-abated. I thank the masterful statesmen who ply their trade for their own
 profit, for in their profit our peace does follow. Alas, the most profitable
 venture is war, which often gets exported. How callous, how vain, to exert and
 call forth fiery rain, and yet the bullets keep leaving the factory.
 
 Power corrupts. Power accretes. And power can be deceived.
 
 Fuck power, dismantle the whole apparatus. Build it back up from the
 mechanics, and then implement it bit by bit. Leave no stone unturned, there is
 no facet that is sacred. We need a new system, and its we who must make it.
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 gonna ask my doctor for ADHD meds so I can hopefully jump-skip framebuffer
 divebomb spinadoodle half A press my way over the fucking labyrinth that is my
 weird and jank af mind
 
 and no I don't watch speedruns but my social group hears me a lot of them.
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 whenever repeating letters like thiiiiiiis  or thisssss make sure if you're
 doing K's that you have at least four
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 the special thing about Jeffrey Epstein and his island is that he made clients
 of the rich and famous.
 
 there are dens all across the country which do the same thing. Epstein and his
 island is a dog-whistle, a symbol, a signifier of our intent - we will not
 tolerate this behavior anymore.
 
 we never did. But now we are looking for it. He was not special - his island
 was not special.
 
 Special meaning "different or unique"
 
 Human trafficking is slavery, and as such I am elementally aligned against it.
 I just... have bigger problems, because I am convinced that capitalism, the
 system of exchanging goods and services for currency, is a form of slavery.
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 that feeling when your computers are just fucked and it's like... whatever,
 computers are fucked, I don't give a fuck
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 @user-1443 
 
 they need to do stuff like that or else the republicans would never win...
 
 which honestly is the most heartening thing I've heard all day.
 
 there are more of us than them, thank goodness.
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 to be "rich" is to have more than another.
 
 if you are happy, they are happiness poor.
 if you have community, they are alone.
 if you have serenity, they are chaotic.
 
 I am rich in very little but fire in my soul.
 
 I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent.
 
 I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes
 me and keeps me aligned.
 
 Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as
 you do so too.
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 "second american revolution" yeah fucking right
 
 it's liberals versus fascists, and once the liberals win the leftists will be
 marginalized again because that's how it goes.
 
 though who knows, maybe periods of intense tumult are the perfect times for
 restructuring society. After all, the traitors HAVE been slowly twisting
 things to their benefit every chance they get.
 
 And hey, these leftists really seem to know what's going on - I mean, have you
 heard that guy's rant about the minimum wage? or hey check out this video
 essay that goes into the politics of gender and how they relate to the
 justification of hierarchy, so neat
 
 glad we can hear these voices while we shiver in our homes waiting for the
 brave ones to save our lives. Cowering sure is neat, it inoculates you to
 trauma and then every news story feels like just another pile of shit to eat.
 
 Though, frankly, we're pretty inoculated already. Too bad cowardice has been
 our song ever since the Red Scare and Civil Rights movements.
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 nixed my job offer today because something told me to stay in town.
 
 called my ex-boyfriend an asshole today, so he's probably not going to keep
 paying my rent.
 
 sold the shares of stock that my grandfather gifted me as inheritance, so I'm
 no longer a capitalist I guess.
 
 at least my elbow doesn't hurt anymore. I didn't get outside today but I
 cleared a lot of blockers for the coming tomorrows.
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 punch a nazi because they deserve it, not because you're unafraid
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 Wikipedia would make a lot more sense to me if they included pictures next to
 the names of every proper noun so that my pictorally oriented primate brain
 might pattern match meaning onto the visual understandings gleaned from the
 perceptual conceiving which were arrayed within and alongside the textual
 information presented to me.
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 what if we got like 300 people and used them to kidnap one of their leaders      │
 and hold them for ransom                                                         │
 I'm in favor of removing the right arm of anyone who's recorded themselves       │
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 "is that enough to arrest her?"                                                  │
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 she can say publicly because she doesn't know the schedule of their leaders      │
 nor does she have the organizational capability to arm and direct 300ish souls   │
 to strike cleansing blows"                                                       │
 "okay but that's just twisting the english language, right? I mean, clearly      │
 she's up to something"                                                           │
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 her?"                                                                            │
 "they don't even know who the fuck she is"                                       │
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 Can you imagine 
 
 Going to your tribal shaman 
 
 Saying "hey you gotta pay rent"
 
 ... Shamans are fine on the street. I should learn. >.>
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 "mom can we have some trans girls"
 
 "no, we have trans girls at home"
 
 the trans girls at home: :fediverse:
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 I say only executed after a general strike because the general strike is the
 signal. the display of our intentions. we are serious about this, see how many
 people walk the streets? how many walk off the job? they have families. if our
 demands aren't met, their families will be punished. how cruel. would you
 really do such a thing?
 
 what kind of government would not care for it's citizenry? sounds like
 everything we've known to fight against. Autocracy and despotism.
 
 I refuse to concede. I do not run. I do not confess. I have nothing to hide. I
 don't lock my door. I don't own anything that they couldn't take from me. I
 own nothing.
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  I don't want American concentration camps. I don't want ICE and the national guard used as a secret police force on behalf of the likes of Miller, Vaught, and Trump. I don't want my tax money to go to a genocide.  I don't want to have to mourn people who think women shouldn't vote and Jews secretly control the world, or risk losing my livelihood.  
  
                                                            
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