apparitionist [none/use name]

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Cake day: September 11th, 2021

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  • post a link, lib https://www.reuters.com/world/us/speech-biden-shift-build-back-better-bill-4-point-economic-rescue-plan-2022-02-28/

    Out is talk of remaking society with a Build Back Better social-spending agenda.

    In is talk of restraining deficits and putting an end to inflation, two of the concerns that Democrat Joe Manchin, the swing vote in the U.S. Senate, thought the administration had failed to emphasize enough.

    "the swing vote" is like pro wrestling kayfabe, he's a heel or face as needed.

    He will also announce plans to increase safety inspections at nursing homes to reduce their cost and bad patient outcomes, especially those owned by private equity firms.

    https://www.lohud.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/02/18/andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-timeline/4492406001/

    He also wants the federal government to hire more people based on their skills instead of educational qualifications alone.

    "meritocracy is good, the problem is crony meritocrats"


  • In the bible, people sell their souls to the devil as wrecker class traitors (Judas) or are offered the bourgeois privilege of becoming real estate landlords (Jesus)

    also Dixieland of the Proletariat podcast had an ep: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/dixieland-of-the-proletariat-972501/episodes/ep-66-hail-satan-wqueer-satani-129021680










  • harder to argue for anti-imperialism

    No amount of nuance or intelligent arguing is gonna convince anyone now,

    we don’t have to deal with people telling us how wrong we were

    Don't waste your time getting into online debates with Liz Warren voting PMC, organize the working class instead

    only an aesthetic meme version of the idea of socialism

    Organize the working class (repeats 100x)






  • apparitionist [none/use name]toeffort*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    Ayn Rand’s infallible executive protagonists are all described as good-looking, and the antagonist workers and regulators are ugly and poorly dressed

    All reactionary politics are sublimated sexual pathology

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marion_Parker#Ayn_Rand's_The_Little_Street

    https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/08/mark-ames-paul-ryans-guru-ayn-rand-worshipped-a-serial-killer-who-kidnapped-and-dismembered-little-girls.html