Post AiJsIqj7XqfuCyXiVM by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #AiJnqMHQkf35r3kYRE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-27T13:51:12Z
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Here lies Irony, she was not well for many years, but after a valiant fight she is dead. This would be ironic for any of the speakers at this event... but none more so than this man. That people were hauled off by security for heckling him? Well irony would have had something to say about that but as I explained she is dead. RIP.
(DIR) Post #AiJo24K1LUUtdKXsGm by drakenblackknight@mastodon.online
2024-05-27T13:54:05Z
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@futurebird Libertarians generally want to be left alone. It's no surprise to me that they booed the guy who wants to be a dictator "on day one."
(DIR) Post #AiJo7Oq0UmACi634wS by hazelnot@sunbeam.city
2024-05-27T13:55:14Z
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@futurebird "an"caps using the circle-A and the "become ungovernable" slogan is the funniest shit ever considering their perfect society is a corporatocracy even worse than the one we currently live in 💀
(DIR) Post #AiJoam2jIXLZ4t0S5g by audunmb@todon.nl
2024-05-27T13:58:57Z
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@futurebird Irony is not only dead, she's the victim of a massacre.
(DIR) Post #AiJqMA5NpDDPD4PKnw by ainmosni@berlin.social
2024-05-27T14:06:59Z
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@hazelnot @futurebird They do have a history of hijacking great terms.The US left sucks for letting the right define the language so often...
(DIR) Post #AiJqMBIXJnKYy9ZLwe by itty53@beige.party
2024-05-27T14:17:53Z
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@ainmosni @hazelnot @futurebird They don't define words, they play with words despite their definitions. It's a subtle but important difference. That difference goes to the heart of why their brand of politics is just authoritarianism. The ultimate desire of the authoritarian is to dictate objectivity as desired, moment to moment. You could use the definitions they use against them and they'll just redefine it again and scold you for using an old definition.
(DIR) Post #AiJqMCLlPHVSES5Rc8 by ainmosni@berlin.social
2024-05-27T14:19:28Z
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@itty53 @hazelnot @futurebird Fair point, but I don't fully agree, they defined anti-abortionist to be "pro-life" and the left just... accepted it.
(DIR) Post #AiJqMDTxCJeTk8vV1E by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-27T14:20:21Z
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@ainmosni @itty53 @hazelnot The "left" did not. That was media. Who are not anything like "left" not matter what the right says.
(DIR) Post #AiJqWHnhzoDw26y5RY by ainmosni@berlin.social
2024-05-27T14:22:31Z
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@futurebird @itty53 @hazelnot Good point, and that there's no mainstream left party in the states made it that there was nobody to really shout it down.
(DIR) Post #AiJqZnFtVMhuSMpA0G by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-27T14:22:37Z
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@ainmosni @itty53 @hazelnot If anything "the left" is hyper-sensitive to language. But, the left owns no cable networks, and no papers worth mentioning. Without a media machine funded by vast dark money it's not really a contest. This isn't about discipline, or educating each other. It's about raw power. The one thing we do have on our side is the left wing bias of many matters of fact, and our capacity for compassion and being accepting and supportive of others. So let's play that up.
(DIR) Post #AiJqoMynToAjJ7mGrQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-27T14:24:13Z
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@ainmosni @itty53 @hazelnot Sorry for being a little snappy ... I don't think you are off-base and know what you mean... I'm just tired of getting what feels like criticism "if only the left would..." type statements that don't recognize the functional imbalance in resources. Do you know what I mean. This is David and Goliath. But David CAN still win.
(DIR) Post #AiJqwoK9hJ0wQonDGK by ainmosni@berlin.social
2024-05-27T14:24:48Z
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@futurebird @itty53 @hazelnot the left also doesn't own a political party, it would be amazing if there was an actual left choice in the states instead of extreme right, and centre right.
(DIR) Post #AiJr6ctz1Gw5u0EPWC by FeralRobots@mastodon.social
2024-05-27T14:26:47Z
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@hazelnot @futurebird I thought that was a 'shop but holy shit they actually used 'become ungovernable' with the circle-A? the irony is wild.
(DIR) Post #AiJr6dvRDLh54nv5QO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-27T14:29:12Z
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@FeralRobots @hazelnot Irony saw this had a grand mal seizure and died in my arms. Do you think we could argue it was a murder? That is what it felt like. Irony murder.
(DIR) Post #AiJrYqX7vqTMHszrqy by ainmosni@berlin.social
2024-05-27T14:31:58Z
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@futurebird @itty53 @hazelnot Oh, I'm cheering on the left there, but I'm also cynical enough to believe that some drastic change needs to happen if the US ever wants their overton window to shift left. I'm hoping for y'all it will happen as having the US become less right would be great everywhere, considering the influence the US has.
(DIR) Post #AiJri4hsbYwiqsQX1k by obviousdwest@hachyderm.io
2024-05-27T14:35:17Z
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@futurebird Wait! What?! Libertarian Convention employed *security? I thought those guys whole existential definition was no laws, no government, do what you want. That would be like an NRA convention that had metal detectors.
(DIR) Post #AiJrk0Jvsr5npM96MS by johnmark@freeradical.zone
2024-05-27T14:35:26Z
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@futurebird @ainmosni @itty53 @hazelnot This part - this right here.Also: when I read "raw power" I heard it in the voice of Iggy Pop lol
(DIR) Post #AiJsIoGKhuSWZ73hM8 by Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world
2024-05-27T14:36:38Z
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@ainmosni @futurebird @itty53 @hazelnot The only way drastic change happens is by voting. There will be no revolution, at least not one that ends for the better.
(DIR) Post #AiJsIpUY8XQQNUiZ9c by ainmosni@berlin.social
2024-05-27T14:40:05Z
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@Extra_Special_Carbon @futurebird @itty53 @hazelnot I will never tell anyone not to vote, and I will always vote myself, but do you really think that voting will change how things are now? Why would either the Dems or the Reps want to change a system that locks out most of the competition?Maybe I'm wrong, but most systems are designed to perpetuate themselves.
(DIR) Post #AiJsIqj7XqfuCyXiVM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-27T14:42:50Z
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@ainmosni @Extra_Special_Carbon @itty53 @hazelnot Voting alone won't be sufficient. And if we ever had politicians bold enough heed the will of the people on popular issues at all levels we'd find new obstacles would arise. But voting can make a huge difference in the conditions we try to make these changes under. And the culture around popular control of government is a good start for the wider idea that people ought to generally have some say in the way things they participate in are run.
(DIR) Post #AiKANPGEt7OxeCM9XE by scrottie@anarchism.space
2024-05-27T18:05:27Z
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@futurebird ffs...
(DIR) Post #AiKS3lov6M6WztMekS by Wen@mastodon.scot
2024-05-27T21:23:32Z
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@futurebird @ainmosni @itty53 @hazelnot facts don’t have bias. They are just facts.