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I don't think that's appropriate that they make porn comics with characters from The Simpsons. That is something we should try to stop as a society.

"Maybe people will start posting on Bluesky now", take 47

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"Change in household income from Republican budget bill."

I really, truly do not understand why more leftists don't tell him to fuck off, given that every time the left commits any kind of action, this piece of shit is going to speculate that it was a false flag.

Another popular twitter account that needs an *extremely* degraded social environment to feed off. I really would welcome the site breaking, so people like this have a harder time exploiting public pathology for clout and substack subscriptions.

Rare case where they are correct in calling someone an antisemite. It may have been an accident, the Zionist may have lobbed it reflexively, but they just so happen to have hit an actual antisemite.

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They will become more irrational as they realize they have to clamp down without the public in their corner.

Just to say, their behavior in acting as if they have public endorsement on the one hand, and the actual public mood on the other, will move in different directions. It won't be like a boat rising with a tide.

They will come across as unreasonable to much of the public, as they stress that they have rationality on their side and are standing against socially impermissible behavior.

The state and the establishment may push to paint the left as terrorists, they may pass new laws, but they will not have a mandate to do so based on public attitude, and they will behave increasingly irrationally as they chart that course.

Time to request my archive for the 12th time since Elon took over. So many false alarms!

I mean notifications and DMs aren't working on twitter now, so maybe this will be the time everybody moves to BlueSky for good, who knows

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The only thing that upholds rule of one group over others internal to a social movement is forced deprivation. We have to *necessarily* affirm in our reproduction that forced deprivation is off-limits to overcome capital.

There can be delegated responsibility, but they can not have unaccountable authority. This is necessary, not just for the sake of good vibes and niceness, but to overthrow capital's rule on our social reproduction.

This is where, as a Marxist, I can have disagreements with anarchists, about where hierarchy might not actually be a problem in select situations. But there can not be an elevated group that has more power than others within the revolutionary class.

Which means there can be no chain of command that designates some members of the group as more important. In a situation where there is a mass consciousness, delegation can happen. A structure with internal hierarchy could still be situated in an overruling social consciousness.

We must all, regardless of conscious want or unconscious desire, reaffirm that human life is worthless on its own. Communism in its reproduction with a revolutionary movement must do the opposite.

This is basically the heart of what I'm getting at when I talk about ideological reproduction in capitalism vs the necessary ideological parameterizes of social reproduction in communism. The former forces us into behavior where we affirm its logic.

It forces us to get rid of attachments that center any aspect of humanity that seeks cooperation and center all aspects of humanity that cut against that and reaffirm the individual as detached from a context and self-sustaining.

Or we can defy this economic regime's logic and say worth can't be quantified at all to render us ineligible for basic needs. But what capitalism is constantly centering is that human life, on its own, is worth less than what it costs to reproduce.

To overcome this, we can raise each other up to being worth the baseline that capitalism won't provide, thus establishing, for the first time, a basic humanity that must be respected and preserved.

The capitalist class itself only perseveres through kind of class solidarity. But the reproduction of our society is reified into patterns that pit humans against one another for the sake of economic generation.

This of course is not a truth of human nature, nor does it even become a guarantee in capitalism at all points. Like when a natural disaster hits and forces us all out of capital's tight reproduction, suddenly we know how to help one another and build a common social defense.

Regardless of what we make into our livelihoods, our labor will be ruled by competition, and we will be forced to relate to others in what are effectively non-relations. We oppose one another in a social field and must put mutual interests aside.

Capitalism tells us all our worth as a starting point and that worth is negative. We are not, on our own, worth the cost of reproduction. That is a central logic of capitalism. Our humanity is worth less than nothing and we must overcome it to put ourselves in the black.

That system *has* to come to end. We know it won't end on its own, and that we have to deliver a fatal blow to it. The more of us rise to that challenge, the less danger we have to go through alone. We can only minimize the violence with numbers.

Even if equal retribution shouldn't always be our law, this is a case where pressure has been building for years. This is not just one act of detached, contextless violence being met with equal violence. This is a man up against a machine that has subjugated people for centuries.