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@justaflatbat

5 years

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles, you piece of shit!

Bourgeois Philosophy

@bourgeoisophy

5 years

Add “you piece of shit” to any famous philosophy line i’ll go first: “the world is all that is the case, you piece of shit”

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@justaflatbat

4 years

Capitalism is perfect because every time it produces a bad outcome that's socialism.

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4 years

Australia gets a taste of Socialism.

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4 years

Watching "abolish the police" become "defund the police", and then that being redefined to "reduce the police budget by 5-10%" has been pretty wild.

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5 years

Yall remember a few months ago when the Bolivian Government had a short delay in reporting election results and these people called it rigged and used it as an excuse to launch a fascist coup?

CNBC Now

@CNBCnow

5 years

@NBCNews Developing: Iowa State Democratic Party spokesperson tells @NBCNews that it is putting caucus data through quality control procedures out of an abundance of caution and currently has no timetable for when any results would be released.

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China: hey there is a virus in this province and we're going to quarantine it, so if yall could not break quarantine that would be great. The US: *immediately breaks quarantine* China: .... The US: *has virus* China: .... The US: this is China's fault.

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Banger

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4 years

Spot the difference

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2 years

@uytimes @WHO This is a video of children having fun dressing up as astronauts. Hope this helps.

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5 years

Look I'm not going to go see a movie called "1917" if it isn't about the October Revolution. That's just how it is.

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"Cops in socialist states are also bad." "So what is it you want to do?" "Overthrow the capitalist class in favor of the workers." "How do you plan to defend the gains you've made after that, without police or soldiers?" "We'll just use special bodies of armed men instead."

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4 years

Literacy is a plot by Big Communism to sell more Communism.

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@justaflatbat

7 days

The Soviet Union beat Hitler, and the threat of a socialist workers' rebellion was responsible for forcing the US administration to resort to Social Security and labor regulations. Those were not 'gifts' handed down by some benevolent and wise US statesman.

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🔒 rt

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5 years

This is happening more and more frequently all across the Western world an what does the media focus on? Milkshakes thrown at big name fascists. Fucking milkshakes.

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3 years

YALL

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3 years

You're not going to convince me this isn't an op of some kind

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3 years

Can you imagine being a communist in the late 80s and early 90s? It must have felt like the world was ending

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4 years

"China is recolonizing Hong Kong" is funny because it implies that if the British came back that would be decolonization

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4 years

"Tankies are homophobic" Like, who are you even talking to? We're all gay as fuck here

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3 years

You know what. If you had a "nazi phase" and you legit came to realize how fucked that is and grew, cool. Good. Thats good. But you aren't owed acceptance. You aren't owed sympathy from communities you wanted to exterminate. And if you spend your days online bandying your nazi/

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@justaflatbat

5 years

The liberals saying over and over "nobody will miss Soleimani" at the exact same time this is happening are really saying that the great masses of Iranians don't really know what's best for them. Its infantilizing. Its racist.

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@justaflatbat

4 years

Imagine being on the left, watching two vicious, mass murdering white supremacists battle eachother for control of the government, seeing left wing militias and fascists shooting at eachother in the streets, and deciding now is the time printing these buttons.

Center for a Stateless Society

@c4ssdotorg

4 years

All You Tankies Bound To Lose

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3 years

@MeanPanduh @mmerrit5 Yes? I mean like, for a while now?

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4 years

Muting this because I hate notifications.

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5 years

As a western leftist, especially a white one, your first job is to recognize that most everything you've been taught reinforces the imperial status quo. Stop, sit down, critically analyze the things that you believe, and dig up your chauvinism and liberalism by the roots.

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3 years

Hey remember when the CIA declassified documents that showed that it knew full well that Stalin wasn't an all powerful totalitarian dictator and that the western conception of the stalin period was fundamentally wrong?

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4 years

This is so funny to me

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4 years

Go fuck yourselves your opportunist pigs.

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Evo Morales was the Americas’ greatest president.

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5 years

It is extremely critical that those of us on the communist left be ready to explain clearly, concisely, and correctly why Bernie is being foiled as it happens. No time for "told ya so's", no time for smug ambivalence. If this election is stolen from him a lot, lot of people are

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3 years

West Germany was just Nazi Germany with NATO backing

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4 years

Cuba adjusting how it structures its economy only indicates that it has abandoned socialism if you think that class warfare ceases after some singular revolutionary moment. In reality, the Cuban revolution has been ongoing since 1959, it hasn't stopped, just entered into /

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4 years

The Communist People's Party is fascist. This is the first I've ever heard of them, but keep your eye out for their presence elsewhere.

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2 years

Prince Andrew Romonov, a primary claimant to the title of head of the Romonov family and grand-nephew of Nicholas II, died last year at the age of 98 having dedicated much of his retirement to exploring the relatively untapped artistic medium of the Shrinky Dink

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3 years

This is a fascist symbol.

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4 years

Yesterday's events do not "prove the revolutionary potential of the white working class". Petty bourgois white supremacists clumsily trying to overthrow the government is sort of the exact opposite of what we're going for, actually.

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4 years

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3 years

What's that

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3 years

"Down with CPSU". Soviet punks during the August 1991 coup in Moscow

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3 years

Mike Gravel was an anticommunist who was affiliated with the libertarian party as recently as 2010. In the military he worked for counterintelligence combating communist movements in the US and Europe, before sitting as a senator for the most violent empire on Earth for 10 years

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5 years

If Iowa was Bolivia, Jacobin Magazine would have already published a piece denouncing the socialist candidate and repeating every State Department talking point they've ever heard about the situation.

Jacobin

@jacobin

5 years

If Iowa Was Bolivia, the US Would Have Already Intervened.

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2 years

Real life anarchists are 1000% cooler than twitter anarchists are, in my experience

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4 years

Noam Chomsky is concerned the virus might make the US act authoritarian

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@truthout

4 years

Noam Chomsky: We Can’t Let COVID-19 Drive Us Into Authoritarianism

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3 years

Periodic reminder that the Soviet Union was not just Big Russia

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3 years

You cannot be a marxist and also be patriotic to the US settler state

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4 years

Dictatorship is when you win elections. The more elections you win, the more its a dictatorship

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4 years

Histórico das eleições na Venezuela. 🇻🇪 1998 - Hugo Chávez 🇻🇪 2000 - Hugo Chávez 🇻🇪 2006 - Hugo Chávez 🇻🇪 2012 - Hugo Chávez 🇻🇪 2013 - Nicolás Maduro 🇻🇪 2018 - Nicolás Maduro 🇻🇪 2020 - Nicolás Maduro E há quem diga que a Venezuela não é uma ditadura.

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5 years

I keep seeing social democrats saying they'll check Bernie and hold him accountable when he does imperialist things, but I've never seen anybody explain how exactly they'll do that.

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3 years

This is how they're going to calculate the next stimulus

briantrash.bsky.social (they/them) 💀

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3 years

$5800 I uh 😐.

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4 years

This is racist as fuck actually

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Me when Florida and Texas ask for donations for Hurricane damage

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3 years

The DSA actually got this one right so far and half of its membership is in the comments having a meltdown about it

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3 years

DSA stands with the Cuban people and their Revolution in this moment of unrest. End the blockade.

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4 years

Trump is gunna die and the Victims of Communism folks are going to get to add a whole ass president to their list lol

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The United States has not "de-industrialized" or "shipped all out manufacturing to China in exchange for cheap goods". Manufacturing as a percentage of GDP has remained near the same levels as it was in the 1940s. What HAS changed, is that US manufacturing has shifted towards/

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4 years

He likes all of his own tweets The power...

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2 years

Why do yall keep putting Sameera on my tl as if she isn't just a fascist

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3 years

I would rather eat a pinecone than watch this video.

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5 years

Holy fucking fuck

Ibn Walid

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5 years

Former Iraqi PM Abdul Mahdi told the Iraqi parliament that #Trump threatened to have US marines snipers fire at protesters if he refuses to cancel the agreement w/ China. He also said that Trump threatened to have him & the defense minister killed. #Iraq

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4 years

What do you even do with people like this

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The fucked up part is that after this is over, the narrative will be that the virus caused an economic crisis in an otherwise thriving economy. Theyll ignore that there have been warning signs for months, that the world economy has slowed, that some countries were already in

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They fucking assassinated him. The pigs fucking killed him.

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4 years

Abraham Lincoln to the south:

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4 years

I can't overemphasize how important it is for communists to be ready and welcoming for the influx of angry Sanders supporters that will move left after his campaign/platform is crushed. There are so many of them, and if one thing can be said about his

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4 years

Daily reminder that all or nearly all of the bad things Trump has done for the last four years are things that the Obama/Biden Administration also did for the eight preceeding ones

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5 years

This is either fascists, cops, or an example of how NOT to do parody. And tbh I don't even care to find out which.

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@justaflatbat

4 years

The fact that Assata is STILL being hounded by the FBI, and that their pursuit is actually accelerating, proves that the methods and broad strategies used by the BPP are still considered an existential threat by the US Government

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3 years

The liberals calling out Israeli war crimes aren't attacking israel's existence itself, they're calling for a return to the "normalcy" of blockades and occupation, as opposed to this accelerated ethnic cleansing program

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5 years

I've been able to trace literally every single Uighur organization I've seen cited in MSM back to the NED. It isn't hard, that information is publically available, unlike the links back to the CIA which certainly exist.

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4 years

Bourgeois democracy will never, ever allow itself to be undermined by a workers' movement that insists on limiting itself to bourgeois elections. Now is the time to begin exploring alternatives, if you haven't already.

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4 years

A lot of yall seem really excited about the idea that capitalism is collapsing. Keep in mind that the end of capitalism doesnt necessarily mean we get socialism. That only happens if we've done the work built social infrastructure and a durable, effective Party, which we havent.

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@justaflatbat

4 years

Jacobin really writes articles like "30 years ago today, the people of Poland threw off the shackles of the communist dictatorship! 🥳🥳🥳 And then fascists took over. So that was strange...not sure why that happened if we're being honest."

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4 years

This is fascist rhetoric. The problem isn't "the human race" its capitalism. Our task is to destroy that system and build a new one where images like this are the rule rather than the exception.

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4 years

I hope all these fucking kulaks dont think we're going to forget this

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American involvement in World War 2

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5 years

This Skeletor looking mother fucker is actually even worse than I thought he was

Ollie Vargas

@OllieVargas79

5 years

Apparently James Carville is telling US Democrats to not go 'too far left'. No surprise, he played a huge role in helping one of Bolivia's worst right-wing presidents, who massacred the people of El Alto when they protested against his privatization of gas. Thread👇

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@nfayyazi Im not sure I understand your objection, that account is correct.

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3 years

WhY wOuLd UkRaInE aTtAcK nOw, WiTh RuSsIaN tRoOpS aT tHe BoRdEr Because they are under serious pressure from the most reactionary elements of their ruling coalition to retake the Donbass, and they know they have stronger backing from NATO than ever before

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going to be rightfully angry, and they're going to be looking for alternatives. If we legitimately care about building a real proletarian party in this country we need to be ready to support them.

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2 years

This whole thing is ridiculous but the whole section between 1940 and 1945 is just fucking wild

птн_пнх

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2 years

@ATLUTD2017 @flipperino_ @NickSankara @apricotstudy @Ukraine The ussr invaded someone almost on a yearly basis

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Muting this because I hate notifications.

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Barack Obama was not a failure of a president, his job was to maintain and perpetuate the murderous, racist bourgois system he inhareted and he did it effectively and efficiently. Claiming he "failed" by imiserating millions is to apply a liberal analysis and misapprehend the/

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barack obama was a failure of a president

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Since I had to delete my original QT

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@jk_rowling

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Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered. #Paris2024

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Look what I picked up at an antique store last week!

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4 years

Hear me out here - What if settler colonialism, but anarchist?

Ace

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More and more I identify with Anarcho-Frontierism

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3 years

Unions are not automatically progressive. Unions are a tool, one which can be used by the working class under the correct circumstances to great effect, and one which under other circumstances can have an objectively reactionary role.

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@justaflatbat

2 years

This is actually an outrageous thing to post

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Imagine this happening in the US...

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past about like it was just an embarrassing period of confusion for you, if youre not so deeply horrified that you fucked up that way that you keep it to yourself, then you've never really grappled with the problem in the first place.

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5 years

People keep justifying the missile strikes by staying Iran took a proportional action against the US, and I really have to disagree. Proportional response would be to assassinate Mike Pence or Mark Esper. A dozen missiles into a couple bases? Iran has shown amazing restraint tbh

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3 years

Periodic reminder that we're two years out from the Bell Riots and this shit is looking more prophetic by the day

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3 years

Actually, this is what subways look like in China.

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5 years

Oh look, the "chattel slavery was more humane than wage labor" guy turned out to be a fascist. Who woulda thought

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@justaflatbat

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ACP is a vehicle for the most vile grifters you've ever seen to expand their reach and their platforms, and to make more money than they already do. It's a cash grab masked as a National Socialist party masked as a Communist Party.

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Oh my god

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@justaflatbat

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A "Communist" party that comes out the gate with cease and desist letters, and who's wealthy leadership threatens to sue working class communists for Saying Mean Things About Them Online within days of the founding, honest to God isn't worth anybody's time.

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Any vet who has anything at all to say about the situation in Afghanistan except "death to america" is not worth the oxygen theyre sucking down. That goes double for "leftist" vets

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4 years

"We should abolish public education" is not a socialist position. I dont care what your favorite youtuber told you.

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4 years

different phases in response to the ebb and flow of the struggle against domestic and international capital. If you conceive of the revolution as a discrete event, a moment in time that represents a rupture with historically constituted conditions, then you don't understand/

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@justaflatbat

4 years

If China was faking their numbers and covering up the deaths of what would have to be millions of people it would be probably the largest forgery ever done, requiring over a billion people to keep quiet about it. You can't get 1/6 of the world's population to participate in a lie

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4 years

I have not listened to the audio to this and I'm not going to. I dont like the vibe. Those glasses, that turtleneck...nothing good can come of this.

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@justaflatbat

2 years

A new communist who hasn't quite figured out their shit yet saying something Wrong and a twitch streamer with 100k followers saying something Wrong because they get paid to say Wrong things, that's two very different things to me

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@justaflatbat

4 years

Fuck yall. Think of all the money and time and labor people put into Bernie's campaign. Think of all the good those resources could have done if they'd been deployed in the streets, building mutual aid and community defense and a real revolutionary party.

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