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Why you want to talk politics with all these naked women around is beyond me, but knock yourself out.
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started 2 yrs ago
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The true tragedy of life comes from those who manipulate, swindle, and use other
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

“The true tragedy of life comes from those who manipulate, swindle, and use other's empathy and compassion as an opportunity to benefit themselves.“

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started 2 yrs ago
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Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, sh
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

“Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups.

They have raised wages, shortened hours and provided supplemental benefits.

Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop…

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started 2 yrs ago
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You people must always be willing to truly consider evidence that contradicts yo
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

You people of tuscl must always be willing to truly consider evidence that contradicts your beliefs, and admit the possibility that you may be wrong.

Intelligence is not believing everything you…

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started 2 yrs ago
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An argument for reparations
posted by
gammanu95

I have posited, for the longest time, that demands for slavery reparations are just demeaning money grabs by political or social hacks. However, I have seen a video which actually makes the closest rational…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Inflation is much worse this time
posted by
mark94

The last time we had inflation at these levels was the late 1970s. But, for the government ( meaning all of us ), it is much worse now.

Back then, Paul Volker hiked the lending…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel impor
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.

They say they don't mean to do harm, but the harm that they do…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Ishmael has developed a weapon of mass destruction!
posted by
san_jose_guy

It could destroy TUSCL's topical organization and it could make TUSCL into a war zone.

He has found a way of locking down other people's threads.

tuscl.net

And he seems to have weaponized it.

tuscl.net

SJG

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started 2 yrs ago
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Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, continued
posted by
san_jose_guy

Original Thread Now Disabled by Ishmael:
tuscl.net

Call.Me.Ishmael has broken through one of the most basic safety and respect rules, he has found some way of locking down other people's threads, disabling them.

Probably this involves some use…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Russian troop numbers in Ukraine far lower than western media imply
posted by
Dave_Anderson

Despite the screaming lies in "western" meedeeuh, Russia has used very few of its actual troops in the Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Unbeknownst to most idiots in the "west" Russia has relatively few…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Goodbye Illinois
posted by
Muddy

January 1st.
twitter.com
ky3.com

Well that's just fucking stupid. I would enjoy everything the state has to offer while you still can. Emptying out your jails entirely may not be the best idea, just a wild guess.

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started 2 yrs ago
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Russians win battle of Pisky
posted by
Dave_Anderson

While the "western" meedeeuh and online anti-Russian shills rant about a couple of days advances around Izium by a massive Ukrainuan "counterattack," almost absent from any "western" and even some pro-Russian online media is a…

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started 2 yrs ago
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I don't know what word in the English language (Ican't find one) that applies to
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

“I don't know what word in the English language (I can't find one) that applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Defund schmefund
posted by
ilbbaicnl

After saving pot smokers from themselves, by putting them in jail, they're now going to save sex workers, aka 100% trafficked people, from us: youtu.be . Of course they deserve even more taxpayer

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started 2 yrs ago
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More raids
posted by
mark94

Steve Bannon reports that yesterday the FBI raided the homes of 35 Trump supporters, including Rudy Giuliani.

Civil War.

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started 2 yrs ago
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We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matte
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

"We are all in this world together, and the only
test of our character that matters is how we
look after the least fortunate among us.

How we look after each other, not how…

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started 2 yrs ago
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“War is rich old men protecting their wealth and property by sending workin/midd
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

“War is rich old men protecting their wealth and property by sending workin/middle class and working/lower class men off to die.”

~ George Denis Patrick Carlin
~ Born May 12, 1937 New York…

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started 2 yrs ago
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HAPPY LABOR DAY

socialistworker.org

May Day undoubtedly belongs to us: It symbolizes internationalism and solidarity. But Labor Day also has roots in our radical tradition. The militant struggles of the 1880s produced both holidays, and Labor Day's proponents also…

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started 2 yrs ago
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Marines at Biden Campaign Speech
posted by
Studme53

Biden’s implicit message:
“Donald Trump and his supporters are a “threat to democracy”. I am therefore justified in using the Armed Forces (see the Marines backing me? ), Justice Department, FBI, IRS and every other government…

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started 2 yrs ago
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The last remaining member of an uncontacted indigenous group in Brazil has died
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

The genocide of one more indigenous group in America is complete.

Europeans hungry for land and wealth have eliminated once more an entire indigenous population.

It has been 530 years of genocide in…

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started 2 yrs ago
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When can we start talking about the fact that exorbitant profits are merely unpa
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all.

When can we start talking about the fact that exorbitant profits are merely unpaid fair wages?

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started 2 yrs ago
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Inflation is Starting to “Drop Like a Rock”, leading to deflation.
posted by
Mate27

apple.news

This guy has been right more than anyone else I know on Wall Street. The fact that this is the biggest I told you so to those mongers fearing the sky is falling is besides…

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started 2 yrs ago
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“The business classes are very class-conscious—they’re constantly fighting a bit
posted by
CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all l.

“The business classes are very class-conscious—they’re constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition.

Occasionally this is recognized.


We don’t use the term “working class” here [in…