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“Half your arguments are over 50 years ago”
Homie the same people who made those decisions are not only still alive, but they are still the decision makers. There are elected officials currently in the US government that were in office when the US sterilized 1/3 of Puerto Rican women
Fuck cars
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Lmao I commented that
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There are still impacts to be had that aren’t meaningless, especially on migrating birds and the like which wouldn’t be as impacted by something like a suburb simply existing.
Also just because this one might be suburban (there’s really no indication it is) it is a fact that outdoor cats can decimate ecosystems
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OUTDOOR CATS DESTROY LOCAL ECOSYSTEMS
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One of my favorite quotes on civilization is from Anthropologist Margaret Mead when she was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. This is an excerpt from Ira Byock’s The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life:
Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal. A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts. We are at our best when we serve others.
A civilization does not exist to build riches, expand its domain, advance technologically, or enforce its will upon other civilizations. All of these are cultures within civilization, but not civilization itself. Civilization, at its core, is a method to care for others and ensure a better quality of life.
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I never pay medical bills.
What are you going to do?????? Untreat me? You already gave me the medicine stupid lol
This is not a country, this is a money laundering scheme for big businesses pretending that charging someone to save their life isn’t ill gotten gains Btw the info of the hospital that did this is as follows: Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Phone: 503-415-5600 Address: 2801 N. Gantenbein Ave. Portland, OR 97227 Would be a shame if they had to hear people were upset by this [Link to tweet](https://twitter.com/fawnserene/status/1396852565946486785?s=21)
I present to you :lactose-selfie: and :lactose-intolerance: [Blank png of the selfie](https://ibb.co/KyqN8nr) [Blank png of lactose intolerance](https://ibb.co/dkWPBnG)
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Always good to point out the source of terrible talking points like this
[If you want to dunk on some extremely dumb folks who think tankie means evil enter this Reddit post at your own risk](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassPoliticsTwitter/comments/n0p5vk/dont_carry_water_for_fascists/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
[There has been an armed resistance by Filipino communists against the government for decades, and you should definitely read more about this very under appreciated/not well known communist struggle happening in the Philippines](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_in_the_Philippines) Also Proles of the Roundtable did a fantastic episode about it- [Link here](https://prolespod.libsyn.com/ep-40-philippines-then-and-now)
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Didn’t even think about that
Two layers of electrified, barbed wire, with armed guards to keep a colony secure. Colonialism has never actually ended
[Article on it here](https://www.bobsredmill.com/employee-owned)
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😏 could be you baby
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And every year the DSA changes its rules regarding organization and membership, with the changes coming from the people who make up DSA. The beauty of it being a flawed horizontal organization is that it is a flawed horizontal organization. A few loud and convincing voices are all it takes for major change in almost no time
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Bingo. You are there to combat liberalism. They have built the organization in such a way that everyone has an equal voice. Make yours the loudest and most sure and you’ll undoubtedly win people over
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You could be the hardlinest MLM in the world
Marx, Lenin, and Mao would all laugh at you ignoring a simple opportunity to engage with your community and build relationships as comrades through mutual aid like this
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Leftcoms in mirror are closer than they appear
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Very based that calling out a lib revealed them to be exactly that, resulting in their purge
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If Mao could ally with fascists for a goal that would only be realized 20 years down the line, we can ally with AOC to attempt to build on what little left momentum there is here in the US
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As am I. Are you currently engaged in an organization that practices democratic centralism?
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Unironically ironically shitposting my way towards empowering the American left
Join and make it less lib. It’s that easy. The only way you’d make it more lib is if you think you’re more lib than DSA 😳 👀 To those of you requesting I move my posts proselytizing people about joining an organization over to /strugglesession I have but one thing to say: **Join an organization** To those who repeat the line “I believe in democratic centralism so I won’t join” I say: so do I. If that’s such a sticking point for you to not join DSA, which organization practicing democratic centralism are you currently a part of? Do you think Lenin or Mao woke up one day with a perfectly structured organization laying at their feet comprised of only those who held similar beliefs to them? Of course they didn’t. They crafted and cultivated these organizations and revolutionary mindsets for decades before seeing the fruits of their labor. If you aren’t organizing you are not only not a revolutionary, you are a counterrevolutionary. Are you waiting for a perfect movement to be waiting at the foot of your bed one morning instead of putting in the labor to craft one you see as suitably revolutionary? Not to even scold you, but factually your absence from organization based on personal ideology favors only the capitalist and harms only your comrades.
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This is also why chrome makes your computer run slow as fuck
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“WE ARE TIRED OF GIVING MONEY TO THOSE WHO DONT WORK!”
abolishes landlords with bipartisan backing
[Link to the glorious AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e9ad4n/i_am_rushan_abbas_uyghur_activist_and_survivor_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) Apparently many of you don’t know about this and I figured you would all love to see it and read the (many) hilarious comments calling her out on this. The AMA went downhill immediately as people found out who she was and what she did. Much hilarity ensued and I won’t give away too much here as to not spoil the fun for you. Whatever attempt at propaganda this was, it was obviously thought out (poorly) ahead of time. Now that we are a year removed from the event, we can see several of the accounts asking questions which received answers were brand new and had never posted anywhere before this post and went on to never post ever again. There is something very off putting and inorganic about the way some of these planted questions are asked and you will probably spot them before you check the accounts. It is definitely fucking hilarious that the CIA doesn’t know how the internet works though. Edit: for some more fun, [read her bio on her ISI Consultants page.](https://web.archive.org/web/20181207031224/https://www.isi-consultants.com/rushan-abbas/) Some of the hits include: *“consultant at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, supporting Operation Enduring Freedom during 2002- 2003”*, *“has also worked as a linguist and translator for President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush.”* **and many more!**
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I’m very excited about Chile
Really makes you wonder about private media :thinkin-lenin: guess we will never know
⬆️🆙🐻to will red Alabama into existence
This is the kind of shit that turned me into a tankie :mao-shining: [Link to this actual fucking psycho](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/l4n7wj/amc_raises_917_million_to_weather_dark/gkq66me/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) :mao-aggro-shining:
Address to send food and coffee: 772 Edgewater Rd Bronx, NY 10474 (Thanks guys and yes this address is public too so no worries) These strikers (1400 strong) were not even compensated an extra $1 per hour while being responsible for 60% of NYC’s fresh produce and providing produce for 30 million+ people in the NYC area. They’ve worked long and dangerous hours during the pandemic with no compensation and they are standing up! [Link to the tweet](https://twitter.com/teamstersjc16/status/1352085574417592320?s=21) You should all be aware that instead of public I accidentally wrote pubic at first. Call the volcel police on me please
Down bear if you are a reactionary
God America is cringe
Kinda crazy that the ideal way they’d like to experience eternity can actually be fought for here on earth right now :thonk:
After 2 months of studying, 20/26 students in the class anonymously chose communism over capitalism on the last week before Christmas break. Teacher thought she was subtly upset (apparently wasn’t subtle) and had the class redo the poll after their final exam on the subject to see if they “learned anything since then” 22/26 students chose communism in the second poll. I know it isn’t much but dammit it made me feel good For context this is in NYC
In communist China you live like a second class citizen for having different political views than the ruling party! Luckily I like in the land of the free (some restrictions apply)
