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Austin, Texas
Joined November 2013
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For those unfamiliar: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clermo…
🔴 À Clermont-Ferrand, une foule à perte de vue défile pour exiger que Macron réponde aux revendications ou démissionne Partout en France, des manifestations de masse ont déjà commencé pour exiger qu'Emmanuel Macron réponde aux revendications du mouvement : blocage des prix, abrogation de Parcoursup, hausse des salaires, inscription au budget des 10 milliards d'euros nécessaires pour répondre aux revendications des lycéens et des étudiants. Lycéens, étudiants, salariés, fonctionnaires : tous les secteurs de la société sont mobilisés autour des revendications et pour dénoncer le pourrissement, la répression et le chaos générés par Macron et le gouvernement. À Paris, la manifestation partira à 14h, porte de Bagnolet.
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A small step in the right direction. The right DIRECTION is towards the abolition of slaughter altogether! No sentient, sapient animal needs to be murdered to meet human health requirements. We are not wolves or lions. We have perfectly adequate alternatives from plants.
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They are NEEDED already, as beautiful free beings, running free, NOT as slaves, not in rice paddies, not in circuses, not pulling carriages for tourists, & not as "meat". Rice paddies are exactly the kind of places they can be freed from slavery by machines.
馬の力で耕し田んぼを作っています。彼らを「農耕馬」として必要とする人が今より少しでも増えたら良い(多くは食肉需要)。人が必要とすることで居場所を増やすこともできる。
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Yes, it does. But it involves far more than the White-washing of history. It's the systematic inculcation of discipline by teachers today so kids will later accept discipline imposed by capitalist bosses.
Mental Slavery Begins At School.
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Yeah, but they can only be read online. We need to be able to download them as pdf's or ebooks!
Les éditions divergentes ont mis 4 livres en accès libre. Lisez, cest gratuit. ⬇️ calameo.com/accounts/8330487…
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"The West" is a mythical cultural entity; it never was, still isn't & never will be, despite the best efforts of racists.
The West is one unbroken conversation about what is true, what is good, and how a people ought to live. The Golden Thread Curriculum gives teachers and homeschooling parents what they need to help carry that conversation forward.

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It's called the transhumance & it's usually shepherds & their dogs bringing sheep or goats down before winter sets in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transh…
My dears. Here I send you a video from this morning that really surprised me. The police stopped us and told us that 200 horses were passing by. It was magnificent to see them. The horses come down from the high mountain where they have spent the whole summer. 
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I was working at the OEO shortly after the Watts uprising in the 1960s w/economists who WERE discussing how much relief, e.g., food stamps, could be given that would stave off further uprisings but without undermining the "incentive" of poverty to work.
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No one in West Papua deserves to be exploited by Indonesians & the multinational corporations they allow to ravage the land & displace people.
Gak ada satu orang pun di Papua yang layak hidup di bawah bayang-bayang ancaman bersenjata #PapuaNKRI #Papualndonesia #PapuaDamai
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Especially when the religion is misogynic White Christian Nationalism, which would reduced women to broodmares & handmaidens. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliba…
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As I used to tell my students, "Never let exchange value stand between you and use value." zerowork.org/RamirezSelfRedu…
“Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, & it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police & the other specialized detachments of the state’s monopoly...”
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"Billionaires" describes high income. The real problem is capitalism that generates wealth & poverty & forces us to work producing crap rather than what we need. Forget billionaires, fight capitalists, no matter how much they earn or how much wealth they pile up.
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Aidez-moi, s’il vous plaît ! À tous les artistes de gauche du monde entier, à toutes les personnes de gauche partout dans le monde : j’ai besoin de votre aide ! Ce samedi 31 octobre, nous organisons une grande manifestation de rue contre le racisme à la sortie sud-est de la gare de Shinjuku, à Tokyo, au Japon. Je voudrais y exposer vos œuvres d’art antiracistes et antifascistes ! Aujourd’hui, le Japon est dangereusement en train de revenir vers ce qu’il était avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale : un État fasciste. La situation est extrêmement inquiétante. Je suis un artiste japonais de gauche et, chaque jour, je descends dans la rue pour lutter contre le racisme et le fascisme à travers l’art et l’expression artistique. Je pense que l’une des principales raisons pour lesquelles le fascisme gagne du terrain au Japon est que ce pays reste profondément fermé sur lui-même, aussi bien physiquement que sur le plan de l’information. Le Japon a besoin d’entendre des voix venues de l’extérieur. Il a besoin de découvrir des expressions artistiques venues du monde entier. Le Japon doit être vu et jugé tel qu’il est réellement, à travers le regard de celles et ceux qui vivent au-delà de ses frontières. C’est pourquoi je voudrais exposer vos œuvres d’art dans les rues du Japon ! Vous pouvez critiquer, ridiculiser et même insulter autant que vous voulez le racisme japonais et les trolls d’extrême droite japonais que l’on appelle les « netouyo ». Je n’ai qu’une seule condition : S’il vous plaît, évitez simplement les œuvres qui utilisent les bombes atomiques pour se moquer du Japon ou tourner cette tragédie en dérision. À part cela, toutes les formes d’expression artistique sont les bienvenues ! Je souhaite accepter et exposer dans la rue autant d’œuvres que possible. Merci d’utiliser les hashtags suivants : #NETOUYOAHO #NETOUYOART Pour celles et ceux qui ne connaissent pas ce terme, « netouyo » désigne les trolls réactionnaires d’extrême droite sur Internet au Japon, une bande de raclures qui répandent la haine en ligne. Mettons les netouyo à terre ! Artistes du monde entier, faites entendre vos voix dans les rues de Tokyo ! Solidarité par-delà les frontières ! #NETOUYOAHO #NETOUYOART
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The refusal to work, either entirely or partially (slowdowns, absenteeism, playing on the job), ruptures not only production & profits but capitalist control over our lives. Try it, esp. w/friends. You'll find creativity in refusal a very satisfying assertion of autonomy.
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Better: refuse the very capitalist view that our bodies are our "capital". Capitalists force us to sell our ability & willingness to work (or at least the illusion) but we are more than that sale & can often use our bodies in many different ways to fight being force to sell.
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Maybe, maybe not; it's hard to know what people are thinking silently. Even if they do, it doesn't justify their amassing of immense wealth in the presence of widespread poverty. It never has: la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver… - la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver… - la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver…
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Given its previous history, I'm sure the military-industrial-complex Ike spoke of would have found an enemy somewhere, anywhere, to justify its contracts, profits & growth.
If it wasn't for the Soviet example and threat, the United States would be a total shithole. Until Eisenhower, it didn't even have decent roads
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"Market-driven" = capitalism, but that's Polanyi or market-worshippers. Markets are only the FORM through which capitalism imposes endless work, subordinating everyone's life to commodity production. It gave the world colonialism & the millions murdered or left to starve.
Replying to @hmcleaver
Your dismissal of market arguments as Cold War rhetoric is itself the outdated claim— Look at the actual material record: Market-driven capital accumulation has lifted far more people out of poverty than redistribution of a fixed pie. (ask any A.I., or look it up yourself). Inequality exists. And helping the poor is a good thing. BUT... the effective route runs through growth, incentives, and voluntary exchange rather than political reallocation of wealth. Look at history. Ask any A.I. @grok, how would Milton Friedman respond to the claim that most wealth is used for "speculation," not actual investment? (Grok's answer should be in the replies to this comment)
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Sad, out-of-date Cold War rhetoric & myths. The complaint about billionaires these days - a "liberal" complaint - is that they speculate & hoard rather than invest. They are nothing but the high end of capitalist income/wealth hierarchies used to pit people against each other.
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Socialist slavery won't eliminate work. Correct: redistribution is a political issue. Instead of merit or usefulness, the state makes economic decisions based on political whim. That is the problem. You fucking moron. 🙂
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Every "economic system" has been capitalist. Every society requires a lot of different activities. Capitalism reduces them to the work of commodity production & subordinates everyone's life to endless labor, starting in school & ending w/death or real retirement.
"or whether you will try to force others to work to sustain your life" is what CRAPitalism and CRAPitalists do, you get that, right?
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