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3 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Bush dropped more bombs than Clinton.
Obama dropped more bombs than Bush.
Trump dropped more bombs than Obama.
This trend has much less to do with who's president than with the nature of global metastatic imperialism.
And it ain't changing with Biden.
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It says so much about the nature of echo chambers that so many commenters from both parties were unaware of this well established trend. Everyone thinks the other side bombs more.

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4 Nov
The only correct answer to the question of what went wrong for the Democrats is that the way the party raises money is incompatible with getting votes: they court wealthy donors who in exchange demand policies which hurt ordinary Americans. Ignore all answers besides this one.
It's not because of inadequate outreach to this or that demographic. It's not because of racism. It's not because of being too "woke". It's not because of the Electoral College or gerrymandering. It's because Democratic donors advance interests which hurt the Democratic base.
People simply are not going to support a party which does not advance their interests. If the Democratic Party were obtaining material benefits for people, they would dominate the US government. But that would mean taking things away from the donor class, so it's been a no-go.
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4 Nov
25 Lessons Democrats Will Take From Their Horrible 2020 Performance

"1. RUSSIA!!!!
2. RUSSIA!!!!
3. Should have run a more right wing candidate.
4. RUSSIA!!!!
5. Should have given more money to the Lincoln Project.
6. This is still Susan Sarandon's fault"
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7. Get Pelosi to say "Wakanda forever!" at the next State of the Union address.

8. Bernie Sanders: secretly Russian?? Demand investigation by Special Counsel.

9. Demand more internet censorship. Threaten antitrust cases if necessary.

10. RUSSIA!!!!
11. Was there a Green Party candidate this year? Find out. If yes, they're Russian.

12. Get the Krassenstein brothers their own MSNBC show.

13. Breast hats.

14. Kente cloth surrender flag.

15. Re-appoint Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to DNC chair.

16. IRAN!!!! (plot twist!)
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3 Nov
The US Empire Is A Smiley Faced Serial Killer

"Waiting for the results of the US presidential election is like waiting to find out if you're going to get hit by the mugger with the bat or the mugger with the crow bar."
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Dave Calhoun, CEO of top war profiteer company Boeing, said back in July that he'll be quite happy regardless of what happens on November third.
And of course he didn't take such a position. Why would he? Arms manufacturers have been pouring money into the campaigns of both candidates, and they both know that no matter who wins the presidential election they're going to reap highly profitable mountains of corpses.
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2 Nov
FYI any violence arising from the US election or its aftermath will only benefit the powerful and be used to justify authoritarian agendas which serve the powerful.
There are plenty of arguments to be made for situations in which intelligent application of force by the citizenry could have good results. Killing each other over which oligarch crony will be the president is not one of those situations about which such arguments can be made.
Please don't.
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1 Nov
The Alive Ones

The opposite of life is not death.

The opposite of life is habit.

One who moves from cradle to grave
in the flip book illusion we call time
without deeply attending to this cavalcade of miracles
is one who never lived.
Lifeless are they who live by habit,
who walk by habit,
who sit by habit,
who see by habit,
who think by habit,
who feel by habit.
Lifeless are they who drift through on dead patterns
instead of giving the omnipresent Holiness its due reverence.
The alive ones meet each moment
like a dog greets its master at the door after work.
They do not think: they wonder.
They do not watch: they marvel.
They do not walk: they adventure.
They do not sit: they engage.
They do not wait: they worship.
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31 Oct
I can't believe there's still a debate about whether leftists should go on huge conservative platforms or just wait eternally for a call from the liberal platforms who hate them. Yes, getting leftist values into the mainstream by any means is better than being ignored. Duh.
Letting leftist ideas and values remain marginalized under the notion that you're "legitimizing" people who already have audiences of millions is the absolute dumbest thing you can do. Get the ideas out there if for no other reason than to force the bastards to push back on them.
The left will never have a meaningful movement as long as it's relegated to the unseen fringes, and there are people whose entire job is figuring out how to keep them there. Don't give them your marginalization for free; at least make them come out in the open and fight for it.
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