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Rich Puchalsky ⚑@richpuchalsky.bsky.social |
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freelance librarian anarchist
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Shiv Ramdas
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This is actually a great breakdown because it actually gives you a group by group single frame shot of levels of collaboration with the far right across different ideologies
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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Wonder whether that was the literal brain worm vector
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Elle
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so great that Europe's doing this again with the diseases
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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There's no real material analysis going on, or your realization that the state always has to do this (including ML states) would make you become an anarchist. You're just taking this realization and turning it into a sort of belief in individual pre-crime.
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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Sure, yes, I agree. But the whole reason for this thread is that a lot of people are still concerned with it. Given that they are, I think it's still important to say that committing genocide is worse
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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I haven't seen it. I was a big player of AD&D but I doubt if I'm ever going to really buy another D&D product. Not out of revulsion towards D&D, but just no time / trend towards smaller speciality tabletop RPGs.
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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I will never give up THAC0 even if I have to vote in a fascist regime to so do. ( /s if that was not extremely obvious)
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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I'm an anarchist, I don't think people should vote for anyone. It's still important that if someone is concerned with the whole electoral thing, they should treat actual crimes as worse than potential crimes.
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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There is almost no one who isn't an anarchist who doesn't do the condescending thing to anarchists. My "favorite" was Erik Loomis who wrote a bunch of Labor History notes one of which was extremely condescending to Emma Goldman. I objected and he said he meant it to be condescending.
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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I don't agree. Yes, any Democrat will probably commit genocide, but it's important that Biden actually committed it. Killing people is a lot different from potentially killing people in the future. He should still be kicked out for his prior acts.
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Pickle Tiedrich
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Remembering things a presidential candidate said and did is a highly advanced form of kompromat disinformaskiya first developed in the Soviet Union
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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Getting ready for the next Presidential term? Learn what Biden's 100,000 new cops are getting trained in to use against you:
unicornriot.ninja/2016/trumps-...
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Dan Greene
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The chat logs are insane! Like "we both have mein kampf by our bedside and anti-racism is a psyop to district people from faeries" insane. And you gotta figure they aren't outliers in their class.
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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No Consitution, no crisis
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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extremely consistent Democratic position though
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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Thinking about this one in view of the recent "Biden agrees to protect kids from being trans" decision. Can anyone really trust Biden to remain supportive?
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Jacob Bacharach
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"Someone should speak to his supervisor." -an elected representative
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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sure, Biden will be pro-labor until one day when he'll adopt a position to the right of the right-most GOP labor policy, challenge them to vote on it, say that they're hypocrites when they don't, and then implement it by executive order
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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one of their favorite things to do is read MLK Jr's Letter From Birmingham Jail and think "it's too bad he had to deal with horrible people like that"
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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people will do a whole lot of age discourse in order to not grasp that Democratic class interest is the exact same as GOP class interest
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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I would have said "Canada minus Quebec" but you know better than I do
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Colin Spacetwinks
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listen here, jack - as president, breaking the law is strictly for bombing foreigners, couping other governments, and unlimited domestic surveillance
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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Every country in the world except the US accepts that liberalism is not leftism. It's a weird, provincial thing that US liberals expect leftists to go along and just support liberalism while they have open contempt for us and sabotage all of our political projects.
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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The first thing to realize from this moment is that there is no Popular Front against fascism in the US. Liberals and leftists are not on the same side: one purpose of US "culture war" is to convince us that we are but you can not combine capitalism and anti-capitalism
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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Why were right-wingers able to do their long organizational effort? Because they have an unfailing amount of money backing them. Why are left-wingers not able to do the same thing? Because they not only don't have money backing them: they are also actively opposed by liberals e.g. 100,000 more cops
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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"Liberals and “the left” have many serious differences that we discuss a lot, but here I want to loop all of us into a big group" Oh JFC stop. "Capitalists and anti-capitalists are in one big group" no we are not. Fascism rises because of neoliberalism.
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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I shouldn't really have joking about not paying writers: becoming a billionaire (no matter what you started as) is well known to drive people around the bend
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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The Supreme Court seems to have intended this to be a one-off decision to block trials for Trump, in the same way that Bush v Gore had written into it that it was a one-off decision to get Bush elected. They baited themselves into "principle" though and that is bad for the future
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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Writers should never get paid well, this is what happens
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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must be about football, I don't think that anyone could insist that we will remember past supreme court injustices when we've generally already forgotten all the previous ones
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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No previous ruling class threatened global ecosystems and global damage to the Earth's carrying capacity that would last for millennia. Our current ruling class is the worst ever to exist.
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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Imagine what Presidents could do if there wasn't the possibility of criminal charges. They could say "we tortured some folks" and then not do anything about it. Or they could go over an assassination list every week and choose a list of people, including US citizens, to be assassinated.
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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Their opinions are literally law. That's all that law is.
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Puff the Magic Hater
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Folks fantasizing about Biden using expanded powers to harm political bad guys need to process that if he flexes those powers, he will do so in order to harm activists and people living in the margins. Reimagining these people as having completely different MOs than they've always had won't save us.
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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America will saved if we can vote Democratic forever with no turnover -- people criticize the US two-party system but they usually don't think that there have to be fewer parties for the system to work
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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yep, blocked. Oh no what a shame
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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I capitalized it: I meant as short for (US) Democratic Party
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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I'm an anarchist: of course I think it's up to us. We don't need a President who will do nothing for us (except hire more cops for the next fascist to use against us.)
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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I'm going to start a countdown until I see the first post in the wild of a liberal saying "You people who want Biden to just do something about this -- you don't understand the limitations on Presidential power in our system."
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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Just think: if we kept voting, we could elect a whole string of Democratic Presidents all of whom would tell us that they can't do anything and that it was up to us to elect another Democratic President who would also not be able to do anything.
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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He did the most Democratic thing ever, which was to agree with a meaningless dissent and then tell us that as President he didn't have the power or legitimacy to do anything about it and that it was up to us.
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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I was right. He said that he's always going to trust his own judgement and he wouldn't do anything wrong
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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But Biden agreed with a stirring dissent! Now if only we could find someone with the power and elected public legitimacy to turn that dissent into reality. Where is that person, I guess it's all of us really
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Rich Puchalsky ⚑
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Oh no the swolecialist guy is going to block me as a wrecker because Biden just made a stump speech as we all knew he would