Posts by kingtor@urbanists.social
(DIR) Post #AhGmD8WNWYUzASR1fc by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-04-26T04:58:40Z
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@Radical_EgoCom My biggest protest regret is running away from the tear gas the LAPD was shooting into the crowd. I was disgusted and ashamed to watch the news footage that really did look like the cops were breaking up a potential riot when from my perspective at the time, they were trying to start a riot they could shut down. Some fought back, some ran away, but what that footage needed was a line of protesters covered in tear-gel staring down the real perpetrators. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xCcgvjMyY-Y&si=6OcLN61StbIyy7_o
(DIR) Post #AhO2ckHFoSpTAraZma by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-04-29T17:05:31Z
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@Radical_EgoCom yeah, I am not a bot... said every bot ever.
(DIR) Post #AhO2jO6WeN3CQtjpGC by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-04-29T17:06:36Z
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@Radical_EgoCom @outwitplaylist that fell neatly into the blahblahblah portion of everything so I skimmed right over it
(DIR) Post #AiQ0iez5n4PBtuajIm by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-05-30T13:45:44Z
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@Radical_EgoCom isn't "bourgeois" the "middle" class? I think of people in middle management being bourgeois. Basically all the people on "Ark B" when the Golgafrinchens flee their doomed planet for a "less doomed one." [Perhaps obscure and misspelled #TheHitchhikersGuide reference.] I'd say capitalism breeds more of an oligarchy, but I'm splitting hairs.
(DIR) Post #AiQfnESHwsS5BtXwWG by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-05-30T21:24:07Z
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@Radical_EgoCom interesting. I guess I'm even more old school than I thought. Are the "investor class" (as the WSJ calls oligarchs) included in the modern definition of "bourgeois?"
(DIR) Post #AiQj5PqQdqWBabCT9k by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-05-30T21:59:24Z
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@Radical_EgoCom thanks. I appreciate that explainer for the old grumpy guy in the corner. :D
(DIR) Post #AiXSoxcuEr9fu1zEae by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-06-03T04:03:36Z
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@Radical_EgoCom is there a communist country that's actually making it work? Sincere question. Democratic Socialism has a lot of working examples.
(DIR) Post #AiY5o54Uy90guqSq1I by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-06-03T03:57:43Z
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@reallenin and in the meantime we should just accept that a treasonous, demented, wannabe dictator who is also guilty of sexual assault and mass murder is an OK step in the path? I mean, I get the idea that bad leadership makes revolution more attractive, but maybe not bad leaders who are also trying to pull off a fascist revolution.
(DIR) Post #AiYcKZmZWG9JxocN7Y by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-06-03T17:24:52Z
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@Radical_EgoCom I agree, and employee-owned companies seems the only place to find anything like true socialism and communist governance
(DIR) Post #AikFC1U1C1S8DlPYau by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-06-09T08:01:55Z
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@APoD there should be something that leads to Venus, because every time someone asks me about that really bright thing they saw, it was Venus.
(DIR) Post #AikH0FRneG03xnt29I by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-06-09T08:22:21Z
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@Radical_EgoCom step 0: find out if there already is one or more communist parties active in your area
(DIR) Post #Aj2H3ZJpPdb1CFstVY by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-06-18T00:47:50Z
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@Radical_EgoCom yes, but to one of your previous posts, Lenin didn't run a dictatorship of the proletariat, he was a dictator himself. I say this now because I used to think Stalin's corruption of the Soviet Union ruined it, but I now see it was ruined from day one. And Marx wasn't all that either. Communism has potential to be better than the Free Market, but a perfect Communist system is about as likely as a perfectly Free Market.
(DIR) Post #Aj2PBBRuqGot7HoF5k by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-06-18T02:18:51Z
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@Radical_EgoCom as with any revolution, there were strange bedfellows in both Russian Revolutions, and Lenin et al (and let's not forget Stalin was in that et al) had to set up an iron fist dictatorship. No matter how well-meaning they were (and that is debatable), the dictatorship of the proletariat never stood a chance as long as Lenin and other intellectual elites were speaking for the proletariat. 🔋
(DIR) Post #Aj2Qu9kg6ERipzas5Y by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-06-18T02:20:42Z
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@Radical_EgoCom Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and even the limits on the premiere's power left the Politburo with absolute power over the central government and any limit to their power over the soviets was easy to quash. /🧵
(DIR) Post #Aj5WvGxvjYD6jl1EAK by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-06-19T14:29:45Z
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@Radical_EgoCom my evidence comes from Russian history classes I took in high school and college, and conversations I had with those teachers/professors among other people educated in Russian history. Obviously, it's impossible for anyone to know intent of Lenin, Stalin or anyone else at the time, but the proof is in the pudding. I guess the question is at what point was the pudding recipe set.
(DIR) Post #Aj5XHWJDMtc6h6aCIK by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-06-19T14:33:32Z
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@Radical_EgoCom @jeremy_list maybe not ideological shifts per se, but certainly indicative of idealogy
(DIR) Post #Aj5ZyarOWRUrAcEkca by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-06-19T15:03:57Z
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@Radical_EgoCom @EredYasibu "necessary adaptations" that led to, in my opinion, the inevitable result of a dictatorship of the Premiere with the increasingly coerced support of the Politburo, and which quite probably led to what came after with the de facto dictatorship of Putin. In terms of economics, Russia went from feudalism with very small pockets of capitalism to feudalism branded as socialism to hyper-capitalism.
(DIR) Post #AjnOGwJsoVcHTV50hk by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-07-10T18:19:26Z
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@Radical_EgoCom maybe it's because of when I grew up (back in the last century as my kid likes to say), but offline methods seems best to me.
(DIR) Post #AmEZu16eO7GKbkvG1A by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-09-21T16:51:49Z
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@historyofpunkrock I believe Joe Strummer, asked if the photograph was staged, said absolutely not and complained about how deafeningly loud it was before pausing and noting that it did sound really cool, though.
(DIR) Post #AnDLCcVFOTOJWJfDH6 by kingtor@urbanists.social
2024-10-21T00:24:28Z
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@futurebird @JonChevreau @mergy pretty sure cooking is one of the jobs a felon can still get