• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      Amazed they aren't just kitting out prisoners and shoving them into the blaze, COVID or not.

      • quartz242 [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        He is a fucking hero, I live pretty close to his act of bravery, pour one out for a comrade of the highest order.

    • Young_Lando [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      PEOPLE STILL REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS LOL.

      "People can change. Don't we want people to become more left?"

      Becoming more left by literally keep the poor in chains so they fight your fires for you. FUCK LIBS I LITERALLY HATE THEM

    • KamalaHarris [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Harris later reversed that position, saying her staff attorneys had made the argument without her knowledge.

      As Vice President, I promise to continue blaming anything I do that results in public backlash on the people I have direct power over. Really, my biggest strength as a candidate is a complete inability to enforce basic moral reasoning among my subordinates.

  • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    under communism there will be unpaid slaves fighting our fires - oh wait

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        They're volunteers, see? They can either sit in a concrete box for eight years or they can go out risking their lives in defense of the Fatherland. It's completely up to them.

        Honestly, I think it's very noble and these prison-laborers should be celebrated with, like, a twitter emoji or something.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      1993

      “What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.” —Stalin

      looks like an interesting book, gonna get a copy

  • Will2Live [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's hard to think of another headline which could capture so succinctly the disaster of american capitalism. There are so many fucking layers to this, from the continued legality of slavery, to the white supremacy of the prison industry, to the erosion of public services under neoliberalism, to the advance of climate change, to the disastrous effect of "law and order politics" which has led to us keeping human beings stuffed in densely packed prison while a highly infections respiratory disease chokes them to death.

    And WORST OF ALL, the supposed "resistance" party against the fascists is helmed by two people who have a DIRECT HAND in this taking place, Joe Biden whose 1994 crime bill extended penalties for nonviolent crimes, and Kamala Harris who made it possible to use prisoners as firefighters.