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@laborseller
steele
1 year
I chant to myself about some of life’s little miseries and they print it in magazines. thanks @proteanmag :)
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Say today’s date out loud 4/24/20
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Kroger asking workers to return some of the extra pay they received
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“self-immolation isn’t the most strategic move” it’s ok to take a five minute break from analyzing the world so you can actually witness it.
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@laborseller
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2 years
for some people the problem can only be “guns” or “mental illness” because the only thing it can’t be is “accelerating militant fascism.”
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@laborseller
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6 months
they picked the funniest day to do this
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BNO News
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BREAKING: Colombia cuts diplomatic relations with Israel
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@laborseller
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Europeans don’t interact
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retweet and reply “nice” we’re you born in a barn??
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@laborseller
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4 years
good job everyone lol
@kroger
Kroger
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@JoshuaLisec Thank for your reaching out. We’ve instructed our payroll department to directly inform the small number of associates affected by the recent overpayments of Emergency Leave of Absence pay that we will not seek repayment.
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@laborseller
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2 years
Harrisonburg High School students walked out today in response to parents who are suing the school district to force teachers to out trans kids to their parents.
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@laborseller
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4 years
bully brands more often
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@laborseller
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4 years
Screenshots of the article while the website is down
@sarahljaffe
Sarah Jaffe
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@laborseller @DissentMag screenshots in the meantime available here:
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@laborseller
steele
6 years
Because they can decide on a whim whether you get to keep eating food and living in a house.
@Slate
Slate
6 years
Why so many people panic when their boss wants to talk to them.
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steele
1 year
liberals want you to believe that the genocide of palestinians is a foregone conclusion and your duty is to choose its imperial administrator.
@timjacobwise
Tim Wise
1 year
1/ Some folks are all “fuck Biden he supports genocide,” as if whichever Republican beats him (bc it won’t be Cornel West who does) will be an ally to Palestinians. Some of y’all are so narcissistic you place feeling good about your vote over the impact of your actions…
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@laborseller
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in a hitler vs mussolini election you should shoot them both with guns
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5 years
friends, a queer Black couple who were brutalized by police over a noise complaint in 2018 have become recently homeless and need about $600 to cover a deposit on a place they found. They are sleeping in their car tonight. Their cashapp is $Qunitus19 if you are able to help.
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lol
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@laborseller
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2 years
kids died begging for police to help—because our culture relentlessly pushes the narrative that police exist to keep us safe from “criminals”—and 19 cops stood outside and let them die, while the community was violently prevented from attempting to rescue the kids.
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@laborseller
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6 years
Queer Eye but you nominate your liberal friends and 5 gay communists radicalize them.
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@laborseller
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4 years
good job everyone lol
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There is a youth led march coming up in a small rural town near where I live and full on armed militias are threatening TEENAGERS.
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@laborseller
steele
5 years
To Eat The Fruit, Climb The Tree
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The proletariat don’t fetishize “violence” we dream about self-defense.
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@laborseller
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@cactusgato happy double weed birthday!
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I need the big accounts I’m mutuals with to get the word out about double weed day
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@laborseller
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poets genuine question what in the fuck are you trying to do exactly? all answers appreciated :)
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@laborseller
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@shlormp2 personally i gotta take my head out of my own ass occasionally and i’m recommending others try the same.
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2 years
jesus christ
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steele
2 years
as a matter of fact, don’t even talk to your friends. all human interaction should be mediated by contracts and cash!
@cathrynlavery
Cathryn
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As an adult, don’t ask your friends to help you move. Hire movers, save a friendship.
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@laborseller
steele
4 years
The teens who planned this rally have decided to proceed in spite of threats by individual and organized white supremacists. If you can show up, show up.
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2 years
you can stop all gun sales today and you’ve still got a problem. this particular fascist bought his gun recently. many of them have been stockpiling weapons/ammunition for literal decades, mounting weapons on dune buggies, etc and will brag about it to anybody who will listen
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@laborseller
steele
5 years
When should they be forced out of their homes Joe
@JoeBiden
Joe Biden
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We have to place a temporary ban on evictions nationwide. No one should be forced out of their home in the middle of a pandemic.
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steele
1 year
pls bro can i please arm a foreign military without oversight? i swear i won’t do anything bad but just don’t look at my arms deals for a while
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Truthout
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In a highly unusual move, the White House has requested for it to be able to conduct arms deals with Israel in complete secrecy, without oversight from Congress or the public.
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@laborseller
steele
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she’s rich! she’s hot! these are the Two Values by which poetry is judged
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@laborseller
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it is so strange to me that news media go out of their way to use these tortured phrasings. what are they even accomplishing that makes it worth the effort? does the pentagon send you a briefcase of cash if you dehumanize palestinians?
@karl_fh
Karl Hansen
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Israelis have “children”, while Palestinians have “people aged 18 and younger”.
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@laborseller
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The cool thing about this is how it makes explicit the connection between vacuous feel-good poetry and capitalist power structures.
@poetastrologers
Astro Poets
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We've partnered with @airbnb to pair the perfect travel destination with your sign. Take a look at the space and city we've chosen for you. ✨
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@laborseller
steele
5 years
What if instead they didn’t get killed
@ewarren
Elizabeth Warren
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Here’s a promise: I will go to the Rose Garden every year to read the names of transgender people of color who have been killed. #DemDebate
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@laborseller
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4 years
We came to yesterday’s rally armed at the request of Black organizers because of the enormous white militia presence and some white people were PISSED we followed the Black leadership of the Black Lives Matter rally. If you aren’t there to support Black radicals, leave.
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steele
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Every rich person thinks this.
@thehill
The Hill
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Nicki Minaj on Trump: "There are some points he has made"
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@laborseller
steele
4 years
Goddamn, these kids just faced down a very organized group of white supremacists without fear. And communists together with other community members kept them safe.
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@laborseller
steele
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any writer who is rooting against the Internet Archive is rooting for the state to artificially limit access to art and information, a power the state will happily wield not to ensure artists and authors are fairly compensated, but in service of capital.
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5 years
“One of my closest friends ends up being Strom Thurmond”
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Of course you live rent free in my head I’m not a fucking landlord
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for them, the machinery of death must grind on forever. all they can do is elect a guy who pretends to feel sad about it. an awful mixture of cowardice and lack of imagination.
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@laborseller
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2 years
a group of middle schoolers biked past me and one asked “do you like Bill Nye” and I said “everyone likes Bill Nye” and the rest of them raised their fists up to heaven and cried out “BILL NYE!”
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@laborseller
steele
4 years
Sometimes “I don’t want to take up space as a white person” means “I don’t want to do the work that needs doing because then I’m accountable for mistakes.”
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an old one of mine from @ProlitMag
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Cops asked to march with us today and we said NO!
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@laborseller
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The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of trying to figure out if dead revolutionaries have any personal moral failings I can use to discount their entire body of work
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i don’t think you can be a tortured poet if you have 1 billion dollars
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me: come brush your teeth 4yo: no you hurt my feelings me: ok let’s take care of your feelings first 4yo: no, we can’t. every time you and mama hurt my feelings it stays there forever.
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@laborseller
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If “resistance” calls to mind Nancy Pelosi and not Assata Shakur, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh, please please please re-evaluate your worldview. It’s been warped by empire.
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If you can be totally carefree about getting arrested, there are way more effective things you can be doing with your vast resources.
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A victim of racist police violence just beat felony charges and I am on cloud nine.
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“if you criticize the current president you’ll get a worse president” wow that sucks let’s get rid of that system.
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4 years
Abolishing the police without abolishing private property is called privatizing the police.
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@brianoflondon @gideonle good time to split hairs about building styles when 3,600 children have been slaughtered.
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just found out about the saiga antelope.
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I need y’all to understand, the criteria for “visibly queer” is markedly different in a rural va 7-eleven with three 6-foot confederates open carrying pistols.
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poem
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excited to gain followers for double weed day who I will lose tomorrow for a poem about divining the future from a landlord’s entrails
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@laborseller
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Yes the viral rich couple are bad at handling guns. The white supremacist militias mobilizing throughout the rural south are not.
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it is a testament to the power of organized labor that they can pressure the president of the united states to make this decision in defiance of rich and powerful bosses.
@POTUS
President Biden
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Tuesday, I’ll go to Michigan to join the picket line and stand in solidarity with the men and women of UAW as they fight for a fair share of the value they helped create. It’s time for a win-win agreement that keeps American auto manufacturing thriving with well-paid UAW jobs.
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6 ways the Trump style has evolved over their last 9 presidencies #DystopianBuzzfeed
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@Gritty20202 @ComradeOoze don't forget he promised to cure cancer lol
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all the “don’t alienate the normies shit” is so patronizing lol. regular people are fully capable of engaging in ideological discourse about the violence of the capitalist order they live under and pathways toward a better future. no kid gloves necessary.
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what if you make a law where they have to
@SpeakerPelosi
Nancy Pelosi
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Large employers and corporations must step up to the plate and offer paid sick leave and paid family & medical leave to their workers. Both now as we fight the #coronavirus and in the years to come. #COVID ー19
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If Bernie Sanders were anything even RESEMBLING a socialist he would use his enormous social capital to call for immediate and disruptive anti war actions
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@laborseller
steele
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Starting a poetry magazine for RICH people only. Poems only RICH people understand that the POOR just wouldn’t get. It’s $500/month to prevent POORS from subscribing. This is a luxury litmag. Very exclusive. Dm me to sign up.
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@laborseller
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You: if you don’t want to be poor, work harder Me: starts working hard to overthrow capitalism You: wait—
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i told my 6 year old to “think about thinking” and he collapsed in hysterical laughter
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“recent gender orthodoxies” is one of the more absurd phrases in this opinion piece. trans people are everywhere vilified and hated. nowhere do they have the power to enforce any new “orthodoxy” fuck the new york times
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Life hack: rich parents.
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@jPhoniks no way around it I’m afraid
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Just a DA explicitly threatening to expose unconvicted detainees to COVID-19
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I was told this party would be fancy but there are STRAIGHT people here in JEANS
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steele
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people who still say “you won the internet 😂” and “underrated reply👆🏻🤣” are the happiest people on earth. no one who was experienced pain is ”stealing the meme above”
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@laborseller
steele
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what if trump wins and american “democracy” continues lumbering along as ever rather than dying? what if trump is actually part and parcel of the american project? what if american democracy was always the same farce?
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to be clear their circumstances are the result of a “justice” system that is white supremacist, bourgeois, and downright fucking evil. they still deal every day with the fallout of a neighbor calling the cops instead of speaking to them directly.
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steele
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if I started a thing that involved creating specifically children’s stories/poetry/art with communist values would you submit stuff?
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If you dance with cops at a protest never speak to me.
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make a fist
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i know a bunch of people who put themselves between armed fascists and innocent kids in 2020 ready to take bullets, and none of them had bullet proof vests or police training or any of that shit.
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@laborseller
steele
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In Richmond, GRTC workers are being threatened with immediate termination if they refuse to return to work after today’s sickout. Call 804-358-4782 or email CEO Julie Timm at julie.timm @ridegrtc .com and tell them to stop the threats give drivers adequate protection and pay!
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Stalin with bangs
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need a way to toggle between two different timelines, one that filters out stressful posts, and one that injects them directly into my brain.
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@laborseller
steele
5 years
Please do not send your friends ominous half-threats...
@YanaBirt
yana
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I just want to say, a lot of y’all dump information on your friends at the wrong time without their consent. If you know it’s something that could hurt them, ask permission before you decide to be messy. Please.
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imagine logging on in a country with a quarter of the world’s prisoners to complain that anti-police protestors are overreacting. they didn’t even have to give this person a badge.
@mosheroperandi
Keith
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Wait "Cop City" is about a police training ground? I thought Atlanta was proposing some draconian new crime bill! Half the complaints are just garden variety NIMBYism. That is a weird hill to (in one case literally) die on. RICO is bullshit, but man, anarchist priorities...
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Dude what the fuck the president is inciting a fascist insurrection in my state
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It’s strange to me that there was so much talk of a rent strike for April and, after 1/3 of Americans didn’t pay their rent in April, there is very little talk (at least on my tl) of a rent strike for May.
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steele
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My headspace is made up entirely of information that hurts me
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@laborseller
steele
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I’m going to give myself a soft deadline of next Friday to have this chapbook ready to start printing. Every penny I get from it will go to local BIPOC who want to buy themselves guns.
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@laborseller
steele
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i understand what is meant here but “real” christianity is christianity as it exists and is practiced, which has various forms. you are referring to an idealized christianity that exists only in your imagination, perhaps better described as “imaginary christianity.”
@JoshuaPHilll
Read Abolish Rent
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real Christianity would look a lot like communism
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steele
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“But Tara Reade has a checkered past!” damn did she befriend and eulogize a famous segregationist, author a disastrous crime bill and champion mass incarceration, make numerous women uncomfortable with documented creepy touching, is she complicit in war crimes across the globe?
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