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@arenrlebrun
Sep 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
This might not be a popular opinion but I actually stand with these types of liberals. Obviously a Biden/Harris vote is milquetoast, but within the context of this woman’s life and community this is probably a fairly radical action for her. People should be nicer about this.
When I criticize liberalism on here I’m not talking about working class liberals from conservative Midwest towns who are doing what they think they should. I’m criticizing the ideology of wealthy people who cosplay as humanitarian while fighting to maintain the status quo.
Preemptively defending myself from my friends on this one lol
There’s a dangerous thing this website can do - something I’m guilty of - where you conflate the stupid lies and brutality of neoliberal pundits and politicians with the liberalism of regular working class people who simply oppose the GOP. The latter can be reasoned with.

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Nov 17, 2022
When discussing work/life balance in Spain, a country where people enjoy actual leisure time every day because capitalists have yet to decimate all public life for investor profit, the universal reaction to the average American schedule is some mix of revulsion, pity and horror.
And when I say “universal,” I mean it literally. Each discussion I’ve had with a Spaniard for the past 10 days has yielded the same reaction. They have no idea why a country would force its people to work themselves to death for nothing, or why the people would accept it.
People here tend to work in the morning from 9ish to about 1 or 2 PM, at which point everyone takes a 2-3 hour lunch break with friends/family etc. They return to work for a few hours after. Every single person’s healthcare is 100% free, and avg rent costs about $200-500.
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Oct 10, 2022
Capitalists have waged a decades-long assault on housing regulation in this country. Companies like BlackRock can buy whole neighborhoods and set the rates. The human misery downstream this avarice exists all around us, every day. Defanging regulators even more will intensify it.
There is no magical, “market-friendly” deregulation laying in wait for neoliberals to discover in their labrynth of charts and euphemisms that will somehow convince monopoly capitalists to prioritize human well-being over quarterly profit growth. It is fantastical thinking.
If city and state governments want to help, they should try what we already know works. Build public housing, tax rich people’s wealth so municipalities don’t have to make up the difference in property taxes, institute rent control, and outlaw real estate speculation.
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Sep 15, 2022
As long as capitalists own/subsidize our news, we’ll never get the objective story on labor struggles, or much of anything.

Outlets could fairly attribute the threat to *owners* for running their workforces ragged despite billions in profit. But somehow we only get the one line. ImageImageImageImage
Once again, the most insidious type of propaganda isn’t News Max or other parodies of fascistic thought; it’s the “objective” and “clearheaded” reportage whose selective framing of reality appeals exactly to the sort of person who’s convinced himself he’s immune to propaganda.
A strike doesn’t “threaten” to undo some sort of tranquil Eden we’ve all been enjoying together. It would arrive as a predictable reaction to the threatening environment capitalists have created consciously and maintain for personal profit.
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Aug 2, 2022
Pundits are failing at a basic level to comprehend China's growing appeal to US workers (similar to their naïveté about the nerve Bernie struck six years ago). The notion that a government could in fact *solve* problems is a wellspring of hope as the capitalist myth deteriorates.
It's a pointless exercise in morality to denigrate struggling Americans who admire China's accomplishments from afar. Pundits, politicians et. al should be asking themselves why our capitalist-owned style of government is causing more people to look elsewhere for answers.
To do so would of course require a shred of intellectual courage along with an empathetic stance toward one's fellow man, so I don't expect to read this perspective out of our vaulted journalistic institutions any time soon.
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Dec 21, 2021
At this point into COVID it appears the US federal government exists (primarily) for two reasons: a State function, to finance multinational banks and corporations with public dollars, and a Political function, to manufacture divides that disorganize the working class.
These people had two years to argue if we should fix our bridges, remove asbestos from schools, etc., and ultimately they decided not to. Meanwhile they gave the Fed a clean $1.5 trillion to hand out to banks at the start of COVID with zero meaningful debate.
There are plenty of positive things the government pays for: the post office, social welfare, public health research, to name a few. But these priorities fall to the wayside compared to its duties to build a world of maximum profit for the class who can afford to buy legislators.
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Aug 16, 2021
The #AfghanistanWar began 40 yrs ago when the US decided it could not tolerate the leftist, Soviet-allied Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. To bait a USSR invasion, the CIA began Operation Cyclone, which financed the Afghan “mujahideen,” a group of radical jihadist militants.
Many pundits believe the Soviets invaded Afghanistan first. In reality, Operation Cyclone predated the invasion by six months. The general goal, confirmed years later by Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, was to bait the USSR into its own Vietnam quagmire. Image
Operation Cyclone was top secret and wildly expensive, one of the CIA’s longest and costliest operations to date. It began in 1979 and cost $675,000. Funding soon ballooned to $20-30 million per year through the 80s during the Soviet occupation, rising to $690 million in 1987.
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