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Here is something to know: the richest and most powerful people in the world are, right now, as you read this, actively planning to profit off the massive economic collapse this pandemic is going to cause.
They will buy up the real estate and assets of the small businesses that fail. They will buy up the homes of the old people who die. They will to exploit the desperation of people thrown out of work to get cheap labor. They will profiteer off of need at every possible juncture.
Democrats won't stop them because they're a party of the rich and for the rich, just like the GOP. They're doing everything possible to stop the one candidate who will change things. It's impossible to pretend any longer that capitalism works. Join DSA.

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Leonard Pierce
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So.

For five years now, Bernie Sanders' opponents have described him as not just excessively focused on white voters -- not just racially insensitive -- not just, well, RACIST -- but as UNIQUELY racist amongst Democratic candidates.

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Instead, he was delivered a victory in the beating heart of white America by a coalition of working-class men and women of color, many of them immigrants to this country who were being given the first chance of their entire lives to take part in the democratic process.

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It is this specific victory -- of satellite caucuses formed by his volunteer's deliberate outreach to communities of color in America's 4th-whitest state -- that the Democratic leadership is challenging, and that the Buttigeig campaign is trying to take away.

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Leonard Pierce
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Today at @DSAcon2019, there was vigorous debate over Resolution #9 to establish a national antifascist working group. Dissent and debate is always good, but this is an issue of great importance to me, so I tried to do something I rarely do: publicly argue against the resolution.
I ended up not speaking, as I'm a white cis male and we were keeping progressive stack. I was more than happy to yield my time to other comrades' voices. But my history around antifascist action means a lot to me, so I wanted to post for anyone who cares what I would have said.
"I have engaged in antifascist action in a wide variety of forms for the past 30+ years. I have spent time in jail behind this activity. I have been beaten, stabbed, attacked, and harassed by both fascist street thugs and their enablers in law enforcement."
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So tired of Bernie Sanders acting like the working class just means white people
So tired of Bernie Sanders pretending like there are no people of color in working-class occupations
So tired of Bernie Sanders only fighting for white working-class industries like health care, education, fast food, agriculture, ride-sharing, food processing, retail, factory work, nursing, and service fields, where there are no people of color at all
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Dr. Shawna Pandya
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Watching #Pandemic on @CNN right now - produced in 2017 about #SARS #MERS #H1N1 #HIV & other infectious diseases...and our failure to learn from previous pandemics is concerning. #unseenenemy
Some very interesting points about the #ethics of forcible #vaccination (done in order to eradicate smallpox), the role of rumors undermining authorities, especially in the age of social media & the immediate leap to close borders after the + diagnosis of 1st #ebola case in #US.
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Lacey Muszynski
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Here's a little thread about restaurants and covid-19.

People are panicking a bit right now, lots of events are being canceled, the economy is tanking, people are hunkering down and self quarantining.
Restaurants operate an average profit margin of around 4%. That's thin. They are already experiencing a downturn in customers, because you know, people aren't going out (and some with good reason).
There are some restaurants (none in Wisconsin yet, afaik) that have already temporarily closed both as a health precaution and because they wouldn't make enough money to stay open. This puts everyone, especially their employees, in a crap spot. But there's really no choice.
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OK, hear me out...a thread. (its long, but stick with it)

I think we are currently in a timeline where our species has already made first contact with an intelligent Extra Terrestrial race. And not a nice one like ALF. This contact began hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago.
At first, it was just rare observations from afar, creating stories of great fireballs in the sky and booming calls of the gods above. But as time went on the "visitations" grew more frequent and eventually escalated to actual interactions.
Initially these interactions were awkward and mostly unsuccessful at establishing any kind of meaningful dialogue. But then, the ET lost a ship in the desert and, for the first time history, the interaction was initiated by humans.
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Daniel Sinclair
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Now Japan too 👀 https://t.co/9yeEsUGHDx
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Larry Sanger
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#Epstein facts that the media seems criminally incurious about:

Hundreds if not 1000s of people, not just a small handful, are implicated in court documents.

There is what is often called a “Satanic temple” on Little St. James island, and two doors into the hillside below it.
There was a specific process, with specific players, where Epstein was punished leniently, and nobody seems curious about how it happened.

Ghislaine Maxwell and other players were apparently never so much as arrested. No one seems to care.

Disoriented yet? Why so incurious?
House and Senate committees were formed to investigate, but have apparently done little. The media have not reported this curious fact.

The public is still talking a lot about the Epstein ring, and the media reporting is muted. Where is the wall-to-wall coverage?
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William ∞ DocFX
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Let’s make a #thread about what @zeevs posted and proposed a few hours ago in the #PHP #internals.
There was a little confusion about what was proposed, despite his words being quite clear. This is going to be VERY long, for I have no idea how to sum up things. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@zeevs First, let’s rewind the timelines a little, and have a look at history. I hate the past and history, but as pure facts, it sometimes is needed.
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