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dslakter.bsky.social
David S
@dslakter.bsky.social
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Community college philosophy professor. Former Oklahoman; current New Yorker. Kidney collector. There's more to life than books, you know (but not much more). https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-slakter
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 38m
I am willing to accept that people believe dumb things, but I am not willing to accept that this means I must say they are geniuses.

I recognize politicians running for office can't insult voters, but I'm not a politician.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 43m
They don't know Republicans are in charge; they know Trump is president.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 1h
There is no number of deaths too great if they bring about The Revolution.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 1h
Posts blaming it all on Democrats incoming.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 1h
Don't they know SNAP benefits just keep the proletariat invested in empire?
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 2h
Just voted for Mamdani in Harlem.
A photo of the poster wearing a hat and an early voting sticker.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 3h
You see this in the very dumb Jesus shitting on the American flag episode. It was really a point about limits on *their* desire to portray Mohammed, and Christian conservatives are only an indirect target. It's clearly not where their passion is.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 4h
Later Marx was more open to the potential for communism based on something like Russian peasant collectives, but I don't think he published a systematic revision of his earlier views requiring the enlargement of the proletariat in industrial societies.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 4h
This is an odd comment to append to a discussion of capitalism, an economic system based on the the exploitation of property.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 5h
Monarchism would be a historical reversion, which is no bueno for Hegelians.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 5h
If capitalists are not dedicated to the pursuit of profit, then Marx's prediction of an increasingly large proletariat that can rebel against capitalism cannot come to fruition. Later Marx is less committed to this, but few self-identified Marxists even read early Marx.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 13h
Okay, but this is just Scientology.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 14h
We own some of these, while many others would never be used in our home.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 14h
There is a case to be made for a candidate willing to compromise and play ball with the regime, but Cuomo cannot credibly make it.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 14h
We were going to end up in the tumbler sooner or later. I'd rather have a mayor on the side of the most vulnerable while it's happening.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 14h
Somebody made an AI "show" about him, in which that scene appears. It's nonsensical but beloved by deranged Stancil-haters of both left and right persuasions.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 14h
I'm worried that the federal occupation of NYC begins soon afterward and he never gets a chance to do much of anything.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 14h
We're also doing "He's a Nazi," I guess.
Post questioning someone's anti-fascist bonafides because they support Nazi boy Newsom.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 14h
I saw one today blaming AIPAC for Americans being Islamaphobic, like Americans can't be hateful little shits all on their own.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 14h
Some people have a real problem acknowledging that bad people can have a sympathetic backstory.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 15h
Presumably the top secret magic opinion is expected to come from SCOTUS.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 16h
We've also lived through Adams, and it's hard to imagine Mamdani being as bad as him.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 1d
It's because the Spanish mix it with Fanta to make cheap sangria.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 1d
Any Indian you meet who was merely literate would be an outlier, if these numbers meant anything.
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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 1d
It only took one summer working on an oil rig to drive home the value of a college degree.
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