• sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    5 hours ago

    Genocide is happening either way. Only option for american peasant is to go into opposition to the two party regime.

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      5 hours ago

      Voting 3rd party in this election isn’t the grand protest against the 2 party system you think it is.

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      5 hours ago

      Organize. Build a coalition. Those are great things to do to oppose the regime.

      Voting third party or not voting aren’t opposing the regime. They’re telling the regime “I don’t care whether you’re a little bit evil or very evil.” Harm reduction comes by voting for the lesser evil in the ballot box. Opposing the regime comes in actually building a coalition for less evil, not advocating for actions that’ll make the more evil option more likely.

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        20 minutes ago

        Genocide and harm reduction do not belong in the same sentence.

        Genocide is binary.

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      3 hours ago

      Someone who’d go as far as calling them the “American Peasant” probably doesn’t know enough about their interests to be talking at them about what their interests as a class are.

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        26 minutes ago

        We know what we are: wage slaves. Other than being technically ahistorical, “peasant” is close enough to what we are: the oppressed class. I don’t see a problem.

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          21 minutes ago

          How do I just know you wrote this on a $3,000 rainbow-LED gaming rig you bought with your parent’s engineer wages?

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            15 minutes ago

            You are no Sherlock 😂 I’ve been working as a software developer since the early ’90s and am more than old enough to join AARP.

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        Someone who’d go as far as calling them the “American Peasant” probably doesn’t know enough about their interests to be talking at them about what their interests as a class are.

        What an amazingly privileged response.

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          23 minutes ago

          Calling out the inherent privilege carried by those who’d feel comfortable letting the republicans win to “teach the establishment a lesson” is not, in fact, a privileged response.