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"There is no such thing as French culture." – @EmmanuelMacron
Left: The Oppression
Right: The Resistance
Progress vi (1539):

1. To move forward; proceed
2. To develop to a higher, better, or more advanced stage
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Who remembers the 1999 Seattle WTO protests, better known as the anti-globalization "Battle of Seattle"?

I asked /pol/ how the American Left had gone from opposing globalism to largely embracing it in less than two decades, and received many replies.

Here are just a few.
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"The NPC meme is a response to something real.

"We are all NPCs (to one degree or another) because we are all in bondage."

The first step to freedom is to realize that one is in shackles.

This is why the NPC meme is so subversive, and must be contained.
jacobitemag.com/2018/10/02/emp…
In "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy" (1859), Karl Marx wrote:

"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness."

Marx, the original NEET, also dreamed the NPC meme into being.
The theory of historical materialism, which posits that economic base determines superstructure, led millions to believe that revolution would liberate them from capitalist oppression, and transform them from NPCs into PCs.

They were wrong, of course. The meme was just a dream.
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This is a thread on how to approach infighting and criticism within the #Resistance.
The reality is that we know that the resistance has been and will be infiltrated by literal paid Russian trolls. Whether they have succeeded in running any current high visibility accounts remains an open question.
The reality is also that everyone in the resistance brings their own personalities and faults to the ballgame. Some people have personalities so toxic to our efforts that I won't relate to them. If they aren't paid trolls, they might as well be.
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HOW TO LEAVE THE GOP?

It's tough. You know you're ready to leave when you vote party only or write-in so you don't betray your heart voting for somebody you don't like. It took me 3 election cycles and a lunatic to recognize that my heart wasn't in it. The GOP left me.
You've probably also been brainwashed and it's difficult to come to grips with that, and then even harder to admit it publicly. If you belive the whole "fake news" thing, you're definitely brainwashed. I was a Fox News only guy. It looks and sounds convincing.
But the morning/evening shows aren't even licensed as news. The "opinion" team has a separate boss from the actual news. CNN and MSNBC sometimes have bias, but their facts are always sourced and clearly presented. When they make a mistake, they report it. Give it a try.
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Thread: The accounts which Facebook exposed today as being inauthentic focused on divisive issues and polarising topics in the US.

@DFRLab had a look at them before the takedown.

medium.com/dfrlab/trolltr…
Here's the most eyecatching: "Resisters." Posed as feminist, progressive and anti-Trump, and said it was "amplifying the voices from targeted communities."

Clunky use of language there...
That wasn't the only weird wording. How about "Since the beginning of the times," and "finally the society realised that"?

Inability to use "the" is a common feature of Russian-speakers, but also other language groups. Insufficient for solid ID.
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I’m seeing a lot of reports about the CA primary results as inevitable, or just a result of a lot of $$ spent.

They’re missing the bigger story.

The story of how the grassroots pulled together to drive ASTRONOMICAL Dem turnout in these at-risk Swing Districts.

THREAD (1/12)
Everyone talks about how divided Dems are. But we created a coalition of local @IndivisibleTeam groups, @RegistrBlue, @Civic_Sundays, @RealCodeBlue etc to work with our chapters like @Ca25Left, @SwingLeftSGV, @SwingLeftSoCo, @SwingLeftSF, @SouthBaySL and @SwingLeftCoCoCo. (2/12)
And we all worked together with @CA_Dem, the local Dem Party and the @dccc who provided infrastructure so we could run a candidate neutral GOTV campaign."

Yes, you heard me right. The #Resistance worked with the Democratic Party. And nobody’s lunch money got stolen. (3/12)
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1/ I’m the only person in the race who isn’t a sitting elected official or political appointee. So I have a different kind of experience. Years as a federal prosecutor, investigating crime and trying cases. I think that experience will help me evaluate which cases to bring.
2/ If you had to hire a lawyer, would you hire someone who had been a politician for decades? I’m a good lawyer with real legal experience. I could do more with the position as a result.
3/ I also come at this with a different perspective. Like many of you, I’m a #Resistance activist and @IndivisibleChi member. I don’t represent insiders. My goal is to fight for working people against the agenda of Trump and Governor Rauner.
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Thoughts on the “required” #Resistance reading, from someone fully immersed in how republicans think, a thread:
The article in question. It gets some things right, and some things very wrong. I detail them for you.
washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/p…
This bit is an aside to the author’s main point, but it’s important:
“his base — the only people Trump appears to think he needs to answer to —“
Republicans of this kind are notorious for isolating themselves to like-minded people.
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