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pour one out for two recently-banned power users
Removed by modi dont have much nice to say about u/liberalsocialist so i wont say much, but their presence here was entertaining and ill miss having their posts that were rich with comments
our loss of u/ides_of_merch however is a true tragedy. i was always so excited to see their BMF-esque posts, they were perfect. they got banned for sectarianism but i think it was a misunderstanding :(
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There was a good portion of time where I legitimately believed they were a ChatGPT bot. However, my current hunch is that they were a Destiny redditor, probably not ever a wrecker, but too young and too online to actually know anything, because there were multiple instances where somebody would point out that many of the the topics they posed were on the Destiny subreddit a couple days prior to being posted here. There is also a strong possibility that they were a Hasan redditor, as they carried a great obsession with posting about how cool and important Hasan is.
Definitely not a current/former CitationNeeded listener, Chapo listener, 4channer, nor a former resident of r/cth.
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It's definitely a good question and a reason that, imo we should be allowed to have those off-topic conversations and meta-comments in those threads. Why not actually use those 'drama' threads to discuss that kind of stuff, where the algorithm pushes 'everyone' to see it? But I digress into possibly bannable material. To get back to the question you posed, pretty much what is, generally, agreed on by the PPC (PowerPosterConsensus) is that Parenti has uncontroversially the best takes on the nature of neoliberalism, communism, imperialism, fascism, and the nature of propaganda. I'd even go so far to say as even most of the anarchists on here agree with the majority of what he says. If there is one thing we agree on its that social democracy is basically the left-wing of fascism. As such, I'd basically say spam Parenti at them until they either leave or read it and ask questions about it.
oh yeah they were a harry potter fan lol. i just looked through some of their post history and :agony-shivering: "was MLK a liberal?" was a legit post title
but still id say 50/50 that theyre a wrecker or a liberal with good intentions in the process of unlearning wester propaganda
I think this is a legitimate question based on the narrative we receive in public education, the recuperation of King into the national pantheon, and the kind of hopeful rhetoric King uses in a lot of his speeches about the US living up to its failed promises. He was a legendary speaker who knew exactly how to frame circumstances in a way which implicated the very core of the nation's liberal ideology. Effectively saying, 'by your own logic, we deserve nothing less than prompt and comprehensive liberation.' It is pretty cringe to call him a Liberal, because doing so obscenely reduces his stature. But I also don't think it is fruitful to play tug of war with his corpse on social media trying to claim him. It is about as productive as the people who run around saying Jesus was a socialist.
The man was an organizer above all. He organized with radicals as well as liberals. What he notably didn't do was throw more radical figures like Malcom X and Kuame Ture to the wolves in order to appease the liberals, even if he personally held a less radical position (hopeful of reconciliation). Liberals love to hold him up as champion of non-violence, but King never blamed the oppressed for taking up violent resistance either. He spoke about it with lament, but as an inevitable result of the ongoing circumstances. It is a fundamentally different position from liberals today who will turn you over to the cops at an anti-cop protest for busting a window. Worlds apart.
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What was the book? I have a feeling we read it in elementary school if it what I think it is.
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