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Abandonment Isles 🌐
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Glasgow bureaucrat, photograher and hiker/cyclist. Participant in contemporary LGBT and anti-racism activism. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇹🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
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It's sociology 101. There were these videos I used to show in class where people would literally ignore actors paid to pass out in a crowd who looked "shabbily dressed". People IMMEDIATELY responded when a paid actor in suit passed out.
This again speaks back to the brilliance behind the Civil Rights Marchers marching in their Sunday best.

Because study after study has shown that society demands people in suits be treated better than people dressed poorly.

So when they see cruelty enacted upon them, they instantly get outraged.
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Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.
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Simplest cross x advice in the world - never answer the question they asked, answer what you wish they asked.
The other left-of-center American politician who shares Mamdani's incredible message focus is Bernie Sanders, who similarly scores off the charts on "authenticity." Political *reporters* hated Sanders and his tendency to derail questions to repeat talking points about billionaires but voters love it
The answer, by and large is racism.
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Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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biden-era policies were extremely geared toward the working class, whose wages went up at much higher rates than the top half of earners and saw a job boom, as well as IRA investment in traditional manufacturing regions. they rewarded him by switching heavily to Trump.
Bernie Sanders: “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”
I dont like our chances against ASI's, guys.

It's an enormous blackpill that these are our elites, these are crabs that scramble to the top of the bucket.
The centre being the only faction in French politics willing to go after the suicidal largesse of pensioners, is greater disservice to the left and right than anything else.

Like they get rid of Macron, what next?
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Don't pick up a grenade or projectile. Not worth it. If it turns out to be a malfunctioning flashbang grenade instead of a tear gas grenade, you may lose fingers or your whole hand. If it's a tear gas grenade it may be too hot even for most "high temp" welding gloves.
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Also, if you take a blow to your head from a projectile, even if you are wearing a helmet, your demo day is over. You need to get checked out.

Almost every alleged lethality from tear gas was, in actuality, blunt force trauma from a projectile
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A little frustrating that bsky moderation prevents us from seeing violence like this
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one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.
Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.
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I’ve said this before but it bears repeating, anytime you argue speech can’t be prejudiced because of who it targets you’re really just creating a justification for that prejudice. Ignoring that is how you wind up being an idiot podcaster regurgitating nazi memes because they nominally target Israel
Voting against Israel counts for much more than comparing your hyper-militerisation to their own.

It's also not particularly flattering when you consider that Zelensky glazes every possible source of support possible.
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It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
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