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alcibiades

@ alcibiades @sh.itjust.works

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  • ICE is out of control and beyond repair - This agency needs to be stripped down to the studs. Dems should start preparing now.

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  • Yeah I get what you’re saying. I think that on the one hand the Democratic Party is awful. On the other hand, the democrats are by far the largest political party that has the capacity to fight the current administration. Zohran is running as a democrat, but he is starkly different than status quo democrats. I think a democratic party filled with socialist thinkers is going to be more successful (and palatable to the average citizen) than a relatively obscure socialist 3rd party. I also think that a socialist 3rd party would be ideal, but given the current timeframe it’s not going to work until it’s a critical mass w/in democrats.

  • ICE is out of control and beyond repair - This agency needs to be stripped down to the studs. Dems should start preparing now.

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  • I don’t think you understand what hope is. The Hedges quote reads like an oxymoron “there is no such thing as hope and determination / here are a bunch of solutions that rely on hope and determination.”

    Like you obviously want things to change, and you just listed how to change things, yet you aren’t hopeful in them? Like do you think all the solutions you’re talking about will never work? Hope isn’t an abstract concept. To hope doesn’t mean you think “man I wish things were better, but I guess they’ll never change.” Hope is the driving force behind change. If you weren’t hopeful, you wouldn’t be calling for arms against fascism.

  • ICE is out of control and beyond repair - This agency needs to be stripped down to the studs. Dems should start preparing now.

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  • Cmon bro don’t start with some “it’s too late” doomer bs. We should’ve been preparing in 2016, we should’ve prepared when Bush got elected, we should’ve prepared when prisons began to expand, when they passed the Civil Rights Act and it wasn’t nearly enough, when women couldn’t vote, etc, etc.

    Obviously we can’t go back and change that, but we can take back what was stolen. We have the power now to affect the present as a reflection of the future. Like god damn the thing you should never let them take away is hope.

  • Man offered prayers the SAME MINUTE Trump did. Just odd, y'know?

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  • Cmon bro you’re better than falling for conspiracies like that. “Ahh yes, every republican was in on a secret plan to kill Charlie Kirk- and get this- when Kirk died, Netanyahu sent a Tweet containing a secret meaning explaining that Israel was behind it. It’s such and obvious and perfect plan”

  • Bet he didn't see that coming, at 3,400FPS

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  • Idk at least for the second term of this administration, Trump being the figurehead is an integral part. Cult of personality is necessary in a fascist/dictatorial rise to power. I honestly don’t think Vance would be able to implement the same policy. However, now with the precedent being set he could

  • The most tasty brothers in the old testament

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  • Yeah I really want to see like a queer theologians perspective on this idea though. The Bible talks a lot about man and woman and how they have to be together, but I wonder how you apply this to modern day. My gut response is that when the Bible was being written, the idea of gender and long-term non hetero relationships weren’t a thing. But I know there had to have been some people nonconforming to gender even if they weren’t explicitly thinking along those lines and some sort of non-hetero relationships that went beyond married men having boy lovers.

  • The most tasty brothers in the old testament

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  • A mistranslation isn’t an intervention from God, they exist because humans (and the Bible) aren’t infallible. The Bible is a document made by hundreds of authors over hundreds of years leading to countless interpretations- this is why theologians exist, this is why there are different sects of Jews and Christians, etc.

    The story of Adam and Eve is another example of the patriarchy as represented in the Bible. But the two of them are also described as being of “one body”- one cannot exist without the other- which implies some equality. It’s a contradictory statement and the Bible is full of them.

    Many theologians would also argue that contradictions like this aren’t a mistake. God is a being beyond human comprehension, and his message can’t be written down one to one. An overarching theme of the Bible is that the only way to come close to God and find his message is through other people. You have to go out there and love your neighbor.

  • Hypothetically, if governments wordwide just suddenly became authoritarian and deleted all records of history, how much history can you recall from memory to re-teach to the next generation?

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  • It’s not necessarily a real historical event, but an incredibly important story about liberation of the oppressed that influenced countless real historical movements.

    Herodotus’ histories is mostly fictional but you wouldn’t want to forget it. Same with the Iliad/Odyssey, Epic of Gilgamesh, etc

  • What is this generations Nirvana, Limp Bizkit, Tupac, or Rage against the machine?

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  • In terms of explicitly stating issues, almost every genre of rap counts. Even some bs like Michigan trap can be interpreted as dudes talking about how shitty their lives are because of the social structures they live in.

    In the same vain, every time an artist makes something completely new it’s a political statement. For example, right now there’s a lot of trans artists making extremely over the top pop music that would only be possible with modern music making techniques. And although the lyrical quality is often stuff like repeatedly saying “cunt” I can’t help but interpret it as a form of protest.

    Because of the internet there isn’t one voice of protest music. Everyone is getting a different feed and exposure to different artists. But so much of it is a form of protest, you just have to look between the lines.

  • ich🍅iel

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  • real.

  • Byeeeeeee

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  • Apologies for ignorance, but what changed about them? Is it that they’ve been evolving over millions of years, which is why they can survive in today’s world (even though they look the same).

  • Whoever didn't renew their cellphone license won't ever see this

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  • Settling a dispute

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  • View from Flats Industrial Railroad Bridge, Cleveland, OH

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  • Don’t get me started on the Amtrak schedule…

    But the bridge Amtrak goes over is about 1 mile north of this one and much harder to climb up because it isn’t abandoned lol

  • toot

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  • How would you know what career/life/goal you want to pursue if you don’t try it first at school? Is the purpose of school to teach you how to be an automaton working a dead end job? Cause that’s what it sounds like you want

    Also describing music purely as a “hobby” is asinine

  • Have you noticed more "content creators" using ai as a source

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  • Well yeah obviously ai is a huge thing. What I mean is specifically, in a yt video for example, the creator makes a concerted effort to show how they used ai to find an answer.

  • FEMA didn't answer thousands of calls from flood survivors, documents show

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  • This been the status quo since Katrina (in terms of disaster response). Truly awful

  • What big budget movie had absolutely no buisness getting made?

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  • It honestly was fine for a kids movie. The story was so generic that it was impossible to mess up and would work with any character/setting.

    I was disappointed with how boring it was. They should’ve leaned way more into the emoji aspect.

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  • lowk I am. Don’t knock it til you try it lol