edge [he/him]

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Cake day: September 24th, 2022

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  • edge [he/him]tochapotraphouseCheck out this graffitied dumpster.
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    16 days ago

    As funny as it would be if someone actually did this, it feels kind of

    blacks-rule

    Who would write “fent”? Right-wingers fearmonger about fentanyl but no one on the left cares (because the fearmongering bullshit).

    And “Elon 4 President” is just a little confusing. Why would you write that as graffiti on a bazingamobile and also alongside “Fuk Trump”?

    Plus conveniently the driver’s side window and windshield are left clear.


  • "Middle class" is a term tailor-made to get workers thinking "well I'm not in the same boat as those people" and primed to punch down or pull the ladder up.

    That's basically what I said in my last sentence, but at the same time you can't discount from a leftist perspective that some working class are poor and barely getting by while some working class are rather comfortable, and that those two groups have somewhat different material interests despite both being part of the working class. Of course that fact is definitely used to pit those two sections of the working class against each other to the benefit of the owning class.



  • The middle class is part of the working class ("upper middle" is arguable, but many are still workers not owners afaik, just high paying jobs). Obviously not all of it, but depending on the definition it's the same amount or more people than the lower class.

    That of course doesn't change the fact that 1) they're basically saying they don't care about the lower class and 2) the contents of that plan are definitely some neoliberal bullshit that barely if at all helps most of the middle class. And of course the distinction between lower and middle class purposefully exists to stifle consideration of the reality that it's actually a working class vs an owning class.




  • edge [he/him]tochapotraphouseBIDEN BEND THE KNEE
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    18 days ago

    Legitimately between that supreme court ruling and the fact that Biden is already at the end of his life, there's no good reason for him not to. Except maybe Vance, but he could probably get them both to show up, they wouldn't be expecting it.










  • edge [he/him]toartGreen is Red
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    20 days ago

    Makes sense. Those would be messages for different audiences then.

    “Red is green” = if you care about the environment, communism is the way

    “Green is red” = if you’re a communist, environmentalism is praxis.

    “Red is green” seems like the more important message though, since it’s aimed at pulling environmentally minded people to the left.



  • He can't remove it anyway. That would need 2/3 of Congress.

    Maybe he could simply ignore the term limit and have the Supreme Court rule in his favor (maybe making up some bullshit related to non-consecutive terms despite the 22nd being clear enough that that shouldn't work), but yeah I doubt he'd even want it.