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Not my real name or birth year. My great-great grandmother’s and my mother’s. Wanted to avoid students searching me/reporting me. Profile picture is my sweet boy.
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Why is Lana del Rey on here
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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There’s a quote about the radicalization of the German people. Essentially, they had always harboured those beliefs, but fear that the Jewish population would overrun the Aryan population (far less Jewish men died in WWI) forced them to “go all the way.” This happened here.
"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying 'Jewish swine,' collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in-your nation, your people-is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even now it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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And yes, there is suppression of pro-Ukraine content.
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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I mean, there 100% is suppression of pro-Israeli content on TikTok. The NYT Again, that doesn’t mean that it’s warranted, but it is a pretty clear example that TikTok is suppressing info that the Chinese government has an interest in suppressing.
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Bleak survey
November 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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“Favoured.” Dude, if you’re not American, no wonder you treat this as optics rather than impacts. Because you won’t EXPERIENCE the impacts of a Trump presidency like we do.
November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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100%. I have no issue with his policies. But his entire strategy for addressing racism is genuinely “make the white man happy.” That is, racism only stems from dissatisfaction, so, if mostly white people are racist, the way to end racism is to satisfy them.
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Again, this ignores that the KPD’s support of Stalin destroyed the electorally successful United Front approach.
Yet the Communist Party was in the meantime almost completely Stalinised, and all oppositional groups had been forced to leave. So when the grassroots began to show their discontent, all the main functions in the party were occupied by people who were loyal to the Comintern. In the end they stuck to the official line of the KPD. They declared the thesis of Social Fascism through to the end. Once the Nazis had come to power in January 1933, the party weighed up whether to work together with the SPD. But it was too late, both of the parties were banned and thousands of their members were locked up in the first concentration camps set up by the Nazi regime. Conclusion The KPD had developed the method of the United Front during a non-revolutionary period, as a way of gaining mass political influence. Hereby they changed themselves from a narrow focus. On the one hand they sought to move away from their sectarian stance towards other workers' parties, especially the SPD. On the other they did not want to lose their own position within a struggle for reforms, and lose sight of the need for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. The United Front strategy was a recipe for success for the KPD while they pursued it. When they made use of this form of politics, between 1921 and 1923 7:574 al ج 100 revsoc21.uk - Private especially the SPD. On the other they did not want to lose their own position within a struggle for reforms, and lose sight of the need for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. The United Front strategy was a recipe for success for the KPD while they pursued it. When they made use of this form of politics, between 1921 and 1923 and again in 1926, their influence in the workers' movement grew. The number of their members grew, as did the votes they polled in the local and national elections, and the numbers of their supporters in the trade unions increased. The consequences of the KPD turning away from the policy of the United Front were greater isolation. This was, for example, observable in the years 1924 and 1925, as the radical left wing of the party took over the leadership. In the final years of the Weimar Republic, when the majority of the population were being radicalised as a result of the economic crisis, the party experienced a certain degree of popularity, despite moving away from the United Front. Yet within the workers' movement they were isolated by their conduct. The Moscow-derived theory of Social Fascism hindered the development of a united struggle of the workers' parties against the ever stronger growth of the Nazis. So the KPD threw away the opportunity to work with the SPD to resist the Nazis' domination of terror. The German left in the following decade paid a high price.
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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We’re already partially there…
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Reminded of this tweet
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Bernie disciples very much are class reductionists who believe that, if we uplift the white working class, they will stop being racist and sexist. Therefore, it is imperative for people who aren’t white or male to satisfy the whims of white men, in order for our rights to be respected.
October 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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And yet, it’s mostly white people who fall victim to this misinformation, despite non-white people suffering more. Surveys over in the US have shown that fear of cultural displacement was a bigger predictor of Trump support than economic anxiety.
Economics: Fears of Cultural Displacement Pushed the White Working Class to Trump | PRRI/The Atlantic Report Daniel Cox, Rachel Lienesch, Robert P. Jones, Ph.D., 05.09.2017 Topics: Economy, Politics & Elections Tags: 2016 Presidential Election, Executive Summary v ! 2. Fears about cultural displacement. White working-class voters who say they often feel like a stranger in their own land and who believe the U.S. needs protecting against foreign influence were 3.5 times more likely to favor Trump than those who did not share these concerns. 3. Support for deporting immigrants living in the country illegally. White working-class voters who favored deporting immigrants living in the country illegally were 3.3 times more likely to express a preference for Trump than those who did not. 4. Economic fatalism. White working-class voters who said that college education is a gamble were almost twice as likely to express a preference for Trump as those who said it was an important investment in the future. 5. Economic hardship. Notably, while only marginally significant at conventional levels (P<0.1), being in fair or poor financial shape actually predicted support for Hillary Clinton among white working-class Americans, rather than support for Donald Trump. Those who reported being in fair or poor financial shape were 1.7 times more likely to support Clinton, compared to those who were in better
October 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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You realize that they lie, right? People aren’t going to say “I’m voting this way because I dislike people who aren’t white?” Fear of cultural displacement was a bigger predictor of Trump support than economic anxiety. People with economic anxiety were nearly twice as likely to vote Clinton.
October 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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I’m, idk man, that fears of cultural displacement was the biggest predictor of Trump support, after party affiliation? That support for Republicans has not changed based on economic anxiety, but has steadily increased longterm?
Beyond Economics: Fears of Cultural Displacement Pushed the White Working Class to Trump | PRRI/The Atlantic Report Daniel Cox, Rachel Lienesch, Robert P. Jones, Ph.D., 05.09.2017 Topics: Economy, Politics & Elections Tags: 2016 Presidential Election, Immigration, Trade, White Working-class Americans Executive Summary v ! 2. Fears about cultural displacement. White working-class voters who say they often feel like a stranger in their own land and who believe the U.S. needs protecting against foreign influence were 3.5 times more likely to favor Trump than those who did not share these concerns. 3. Support for deporting immigrants living in the country illegally. White working-class voters who favored deporting immigrants living in the country illegally were 3.3 times more likely to express a preference for Trump than those who did not. 4. Economic fatalism. White working-class voters who said that college education is a gamble were almost twice as likely to express a preference for Trump as those who said it was an important investment in the future. 5. Economic hardship. Notably, while only marginally significant at conventional levels (P<0.1), being in fair or poor financial shape actually predicted support for Hillary Clinton among white working-class Americans, rather than support for Donald Trump. Those who reported being in fair or poor financial shape were 1.7 times more likely to support Clinton, compared to those who were in better financial shape. It is notable that many attitudes and It's Not the Economy, Stupid: The Ideological Foundations of White Working Class Republicanism AUTHOR Alan I. Abramowitz PUBLISHED ON: April 3, 2025 PUBLISHED IN: only has the relative economic well-being of white working class Americans not declined over time, but within this group, relative economic wellbeing is unrelated to trends in partisan affiliation. Figure 3 displays trends in the percentage of Republican identifiers and leaners among white working class voters by relative income category. The data show that since the Carter presidential era, the percentage of Republican identifiers and leaners has increased substantially among all three income categories. In fact, the data show that those in the bottom third of the income distribution have trended Republican at a slightly slower rate than those in the middle and upper thirds of the distribution. Moreover, among white working class Americans, Republican affiliation has generally been highest among those who are the most financially secure and lowest among those who are the least financially
October 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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You act like acknowledging identity is mutually exclusive with “forgetting workers.” I’ve always said that the accusation of Democratic abandonment was always one of cultural abandonment, and research backs me up.
Beyond Economics: Fears of Cultural Displacement Pushed the White Working Class to Trump | PRRI/The Atlantic Report Daniel Cox, Rachel Lienesch, Robert P. Jones, Ph.D., 05.09.2017 Topics: Economy, Politics & Elections Tags: 2016 Presidential Election, Immigration, Trade, White Working-class Americans Executive Summary v ! 2. Fears about cultural displacement. White working-class voters who say they often feel like a stranger in their own land and who believe the U.S. needs protecting against foreign influence were 3.5 times more likely to favor Trump than those who did not share these concerns. 3. Support for deporting immigrants living in the country illegally. White working-class voters who favored deporting immigrants living in the country illegally were 3.3 times more likely to express a preference for Trump than those who did not. 4. Economic fatalism. White working-class voters who said that college education is a gamble were almost twice as likely to express a preference for Trump as those who said it was an important investment in the future. 5. Economic hardship. Notably, while only marginally significant at conventional levels (P<0.1), being in fair or poor financial shape actually predicted support for Hillary Clinton among white working-class Americans, rather than support for Donald Trump. Those who reported being in fair or poor financial shape were 1.7 times more likely to support Clinton, compared to those who were in better financial shape.
October 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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If you see this, share a pic from your device with no explanation.
October 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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I said this when LA got invaded. Either they never listened to us, or listened to us, and didn’t believe the same communities that have historically had this happen to them. Now they’re all surprised pikachu, bc their privileged asses couldn’t fathom that we could know more than them.
October 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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A lot of bigotry is whom you give grace and whom you turn a blind eye to. People who claim to care about Palestinians should also be protesting Lebanon’s apartheid state, where they’re banned from citizenship, owning property, working most jobs, public education and health. But you get 🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧 in bios.
Palestinians in Lebanon: 'It's like living in a prison' Trump's controversial Jerusalem decision has compounded the misery of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Hassan Salem, 12, works at a mechanic's shop seven days a week, 10 hours a day, to of whom hope to one day return home to Palestine. 三 Struggling to survive Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are treated as second-class residents, restricted from working in most fields, banned from owning property, forced to live in run-down camps and barred from formal education. Mohamad Jabbar makes $10 a day at his butcher shop, just a tenth of what he could earn if Lebanese authorities allowed him to operate outside the military-guarded camp in Beddawi. "It's like living in a prison," Jabbar said. "The government controls where I live and where I work." Palestinians cannot own businesses in Lebanon and are banned from most decent-paying professions, including medicine and law. An estimated two-thirds live in poverty. The government will not give citizenship rights to Palestinian refugees, for fear it could make them stay forever. "This is a cruel and false hypothesis," Bassam Khawaja, a Beirut-based spokesperson for Human Rights Watch, told Al Jazeera. "Nothing prevents Lebanon from respecting Pale
September 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Hence why progressives like Liz Warren or Lauren Underwood or Sherrod Brown don’t get nearly the attention that Bernie Sanders gets. Because his view of progressivism is one that dismisses “identity politics,” and the mere premise of a need to address racial issues beyond economic policies.
September 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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The people who felt obligated to care about antisemitism were always going to be apathetic towards anti-semitism, it was just considered poor taste not to be. Look how eagerly people called Israel genocidal before the war, with no comment on how Lebanon treats Palestinians
| Human Rights Palestinians in Lebanon: 'It's like living in a prison' Trump's controversial Jerusalem decision has compounded the misery of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Hassan Salem, 12, works at a mechanic's shop seven days a week, 10 hours a day, Struggling to survive Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are treated as second-class residents, restricted from working in most fields, banned from owning property, forced to live in run-down camps and barred from formal education. Mohamad Jabbar makes $10 a day at his butcher shop, just a tenth of what he could earn if Lebanese authorities allowed him to operate outside the military-guarded camp in Beddawi. Palestinians cannot own businesses in Lebanon and are banned from most decent-paying professions, including medicine and law. An estimated two-thirds live in poverty. The government will not give citizenship rights to Palestinian refugees, for fear it could make them stay forever. "This is a cruel and false hypothesis," Bassam Khawaja, a Beirut-based spokesperson for Human Rights Watch, told Al Jazeera. "Nothing prevents Lebanon from respecting Pale =3 tinians' basic human rights while
September 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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I know, but, I think people really underestimated how far Republicans were willing to compromise their beliefs. I think of this line: “the system could not have intended this in the beginning, but, in order to sustain itself, it was compelled to go all the way.
"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying 'Jewish swine,' collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in-your nation, your people-is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone's transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.
September 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Ukraine was literally a colony of the Russian Empire and the U.S.S.R. for centuries and Stalin deliberately starved the Ukrainian people as a means to crush the fight in Ukrainian for independence. Millions died. How do you have a “hyper fixation on world history” and not know this?
How Joseph Stalin Starved Milions in the Ukrainian Famine Cruel efforts under Stalin to impose collectivism and tamp down Ukrainian nationalism left an estimated 3.9 million dead. Holodomor, a combination of the Ukrainian words for "starvation" and "to inflict death" —by one estimate claimed the lives of 3.9 million people, about 13 percent of the population. And, unlike other famines in history caused by blight or drought, this was caused when a dictator wanted both to replace Ukraine's small farms with state-run collectives and punish independence-minded Ukrainians who posed a threat to his totalitarian authority. "The Ukrainian famine was a clear case of a man-made famine," explains Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University and author of the 2018 book, Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine. He describes it as "a hybrid...of a famine caused by calamitous social-economic policies and one aimed at a particular population for repression or punishment."
September 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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If you’re wondering if I’m an LLM, nope!
September 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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September 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM