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Skwirl posted:Again, people running for congress with no chance in hell of winning. I looked her up she's running in John Lewis' district. apparently she is involved in prison reform https://www.theakf.org/ it's framed as coming from a chuddy religious perspective of personal empowerment and job placement, but still
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Skwirl posted:Again, people running for congress with no chance in hell of winning. I looked her up she's running in John Lewis' district. She's MLK's niece's goddaughter and as far as I can tell has no actual relation to the King family. I'm not sure why she uses the King family name but it doesn't seem to be in good faith.
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# ? Jun 23, 2020 21:11 |
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https://twitter.com/tereseaimee/status/1275381209523052544 Will no-one rid us of economic anxiety concern trolling from self-avowed leftists?
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# ? Jun 23, 2020 22:11 |
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Strasserites aren't leftists
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StillFullyTerrible posted:Strasserites aren't leftists I said "self-avowed" and her podcast is called "whatisleftpod" Edit: Here, have some nazi babies: https://twitter.com/anonymouscommie/status/1275544084413898752 Absurd Alhazred has a new favorite as of 00:17 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:https://twitter.com/tereseaimee/status/1275381209523052544 Divorced from context, this is a WorstPersonMadeAGoodPoint.txt
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 00:25 |
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MizPiz posted:Divorced from context, this is a WorstPersonMadeAGoodPoint.txt But the economic reason was literally "slavery makes our economy work and we'll collapse without blatantly violating basic human rights" though. E: Holy poo poo that redtext post combo though d3lness has a new favorite as of 00:48 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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The civil war was to protect a racist economic system supported entirely because it was racist.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 00:39 |
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"If you take this incredibly stupid and debunked theory made by literal Nazis to court poor southern whites out of context, it's actually pretty wise."
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d3lness posted:But the economic reason was literally "slavery makes our economy work and we'll collapse without blatantly violating basic human rights" though. And the north's response was "we can have a functioning economy and blatant violations of basic human rights without overt slavery". While it's true that the south wanted to keep slavery even though all the evidence showed that it made production significantly more inefficient, the north's concerns were with inefficiencies of slavery, not the inhumanity. The fact that the southern aristocracy was left largely intact after the war should clue you into how little the war was about fighting injustice.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 00:49 |
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MizPiz posted:And the north's response was "we can have a functioning economy and blatant violations of basic human rights without overt slavery". While it's true that the south wanted to keep slavery even though all the evidence showed that it made production significantly more inefficient, the north's concerns were with inefficiencies of slavery, not the inhumanity. The fact that the southern aristocracy was left largely intact after the war should clue you into how little the war was about fighting injustice. The North's opinions on slavery being inefficient are mostly immaterial since they aren't the ones who started the loving war.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 00:52 |
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MizPiz about three posts away from saying the Irish were slaves too
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EL BROMANCE posted:Just walking around with a t-shirt with a massive valknot on it. Definitely not for Nazis and just worn by people with Norwegian roots I’m sure.
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Skwirl posted:The North's opinions on slavery being inefficient are mostly immaterial since they aren't the ones who started the loving war. It's pretty material given the fact that when they won the war, they basically gave the south carte blanche on what a "slaveless economy" looks like. There even concerted efforts by former Union-supporters who fought against Reconstruction and supported Jim Crow laws. You can't pretend a war was fought for justice when the injustice still exists and the people responsible for the injustice still retain all their power.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 01:15 |
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MizPiz posted:And the north's response was "we can have a functioning economy and blatant violations of basic human rights without overt slavery". While it's true that the south wanted to keep slavery even though all the evidence showed that it made production significantly more inefficient, the north's concerns were with inefficiencies of slavery, not the inhumanity. The fact that the southern aristocracy was left largely intact after the war should clue you into how little the war was about fighting injustice. The United States as a whole saw Africans as lesser people, yes. This does not change the fact that the north’s seemingly majority opinion was that slavery was in fact wrong. And the back and forth of enacting/enforcing abolition was what incited secession, which is why the war started. It also became the sort of stated goal of the war. The entire thing is full of lovely people with lovely motives, but it was all absolutely rooted in the fight over whether the United States would continue to allow slavery.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 01:16 |
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I wish the north won the civil war
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Ugato posted:The United States as a whole saw Africans as lesser people, yes. This does not change the fact that the north’s seemingly majority opinion was that slavery was in fact wrong. And the back and forth of enacting/enforcing abolition was what incited secession, which is why the war started. It also became the sort of stated goal of the war. And the answer was resounding "kind of, yeah"
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 01:20 |
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MizPiz posted:It's pretty material given the fact that when they won the war, they basically gave the south carte blanche on what a "slaveless economy" looks like. There even concerted efforts by former Union-supporters who fought against Reconstruction and supported Jim Crow laws. You can't pretend a war was fought for justice when the injustice still exists and the people responsible for the injustice still retain all their power. I don't pretend the war was fought for justice, the war was fought to continue an injustice and the people who wanted to continue the injustice lost. T-man posted:I wish the north won the civil war The North won the war, they lost the peace.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 01:23 |
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Still amazed that you're seriously attempting to use marxist theory to justify Lost Cause bullshit
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 01:24 |
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MizPiz posted:And the north's response was "we can have a functioning economy and blatant violations of basic human rights without overt slavery". While it's true that the south wanted to keep slavery even though all the evidence showed that it made production significantly more inefficient, the north's concerns were with inefficiencies of slavery, not the inhumanity. The fact that the southern aristocracy was left largely intact after the war should clue you into how little the war was about fighting injustice. Inefficient? Not in any respect they actually cared about. Sure, lots of slaves died, but from the south's perspective that was totally acceptable. Growth-wise, they still had massive swathes of under-used land, and as I recall there was also starting to be a push to use slaves in more non-agricultural sectors. Efficiency was not a limit on economic growth in the slightest: if you were a wealthy land-owner who wanted to make more money, you didn't worry about how to optimally use what you already had. You just bought more land and more slaves. Don't kid yourself: slavery was massively profitable. The idea that slavery was on the path to getting pushed out for economic reasons was invented as part of the Lost Cause mythology, and has no basis in reality. Karia has a new favorite as of 01:46 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/ZakNguyen/status/1275496550681194498
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Hollandia posted:I mean you could focus on the valknot or you could just look at the pattern of swastikas around it. Unless I’m missing something. I often visit a hundred-year-old office building that has that exact same pattern molded as trim around the elevators in the lobby.
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Karia posted:Inefficient? Not in any respect they actually cared about. Sure, lots of slaves died, but from the south's perspective that was totally acceptable. Growth-wise, they still had massive swathes of under-used land, and as I recall there was also starting to be a push to use slaves in more non-agricultural sectors. Efficiency was not a limit on economic growth in the slightest: if you were a wealthy land-owner who wanted to make more money, you didn't worry about how to optimally use what you already had. You just bought more land and more slaves. The value of slavery to the Southern economy would be in the billions in modern dollars. Estimates suggest over half the value of the Southern economy was tied up in slave labor. It was literally what the Southern economy was balanced on; people who owned over 500 slaves had an economic power equivalent to a modern billionaire, and someone with even a mild plantation was in the top one percent of earners in those states. Secession was largely driven not by simple white supremacy, but by capitalists who happened to be really into enslaving black people and freaked out at the prospect of not being the wealthiest men in America if they lost their enslaved labor force. It's not very different from the modern 1% who immediately begin funding quasi-fascist politicians and lobbying to keep their oppressive labor practices from being abolished as soon as they get told that they might have to settle for only $5 million in profit a year.
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Powered Descent posted:I often visit a hundred-year-old office building that has that exact same pattern molded as trim around the elevators in the lobby. I am an ELEVATOR ENGINEER and I eat MAC AND CHEESE and if you don’t also work for OTIS then you wouldn’t understand!!
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Powered Descent posted:I often visit a hundred-year-old office building that has that exact same pattern molded as trim around the elevators in the lobby. Architecture of the 1920s may be a bad thing to look to if you want to avoid poo poo that later became associated with nazis.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I am an ELEVATOR ENGINEER and I eat MAC AND CHEESE and if you don’t also work for OTIS then you wouldn’t understand!! Schindlers Lifts supremacy. Otis is the name of the pug from a kids movie not a capable machine.
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Powered Descent posted:I often visit a hundred-year-old office building that has that exact same pattern molded as trim around the elevators in the lobby.
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MizPiz posted:And the north's response was "we can have a functioning economy and blatant violations of basic human rights without overt slavery". While it's true that the south wanted to keep slavery even though all the evidence showed that it made production significantly more inefficient, the north's concerns were with inefficiencies of slavery, not the inhumanity. The fact that the southern aristocracy was left largely intact after the war should clue you into how little the war was about fighting injustice. source your quotes Skwirl posted:The North's opinions on slavery being inefficient are mostly immaterial since they aren't the ones who started the loving war. economic efficiency is such a staggeringly online dumbfuck way to interpret the causes of the civil war that i'm surprised bitcoin hasn't been mentioned yet regardless, racists have used the "wage slavery is the same as chattel slavery" argument for decades so i'm not surprised to see it popping up among twitter theorists who generally produce more words than they consume Mr. Fall Down Terror has a new favorite as of 02:55 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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Hollandia posted:Bit of a difference from a 2020 t-shirt, but yeah that must be a bit I was gonna be like "that's just a geometric border!" Then I zoomed in, and, uh, yeah those are swastikas.
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luxury handset posted:source your quotes p sure mizpiz used to post on kiwifarms so StillFullyTerrible has a new favorite as of 04:13 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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If this is what I think it was it was full of awful people telling stories about how their families don't want to spend time with them anymore and people making fun of them. Too bad she deleted it. https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1275431018581934085 Somebody asked a couple pages ago about her, and she a grifter who ran in the primary for Pelosi's seat. She did not do anything close to well, but that just makes the grift stronger.
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Bugsy posted:If this is what I think it was it was full of awful people telling stories about how their families don't want to spend time with them anymore and people making fun of them. Too bad she deleted it. Wow, the other Republican running for that seat got 4 times as many votes.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 06:03 |
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I thought it was a joke at first! But then the guy deleted it and made a different dumb post in its place afterwards so this is the only one I have on hand to show it. https://twitter.com/MrMidnai/status/1275175547203706887
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 06:28 |
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I refuse to believe that's not a joke.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 06:54 |
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The first playable female character in videogames was left paddle in pong.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 07:05 |
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It's also sorta bullshit because Samus Aran 1) probably isn't the first female protagonist either, and 2) no one knew she was a woman in the first game unless they beat it and I call bullshit that anyone actually beat it before another game with a female protagonist came out.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 07:08 |
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Samus was the first trans woman in videogames.
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Skwirl posted:It's also sorta bullshit because Samus Aran 1) probably isn't the first female protagonist either, and 2) no one knew she was a woman in the first game unless they beat it and I call bullshit that anyone actually beat it before another game with a female protagonist came out. Athena and Psycho Soldier were the same year as Metroid at least but who knows which was first
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 07:12 |
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I mean, Ms. Pac-Man beat all three of them. Also Mach Rider, weirdly enough.
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Cleretic posted:I mean, Ms. Pac-Man beat all three of them. How the gently caress did I forget Ms Pacman, the better Pacman game.
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