@swordstress_ @lunar_dysphoria I generally don't fuck w this guy politically but "he looks funny" is the lowest form of critique imaginable
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@lunar_dysphoria 2 hours of makeup just to look like salvador dali i'm crying
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NYC DSA should spend some of that co chair money on media training because goddamn
Fox News@FoxNews
The Democratic Socialists of America just unveiled a new, radical push to eliminate the Senate, and its co-Chair Gustavo Gordillo is now calling it an "undemocratic institution." "It gives more representation to people in smaller states," Gordillo said, as @ Martha MacCallum pushed back, noting that the House of Representatives is population-based to ensure equal representation. The DSA's platform is also calling for: — eliminating checks and balances — granting amnesty to all immigrants — abolishing the War Department — passage of a Green New Deal — establish a wealth tax — replacing the presidency and Supreme Court with a new executive and judiciary subordinate to and chosen by Congress — a 32-hour work week with no reduction in pay or benefits
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@lunar_dysphoria he did fine, somewhat awkward but the content was good and the anchor even walked into his set up. one does in fact have to hand it to him on that
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dragonflies can fly at speeds up to 30mph
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dragonflies can move their wings independently
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Gravid adult females crawl out while you sleep to lay eggs on the perianal folds. Alongside secretions, this can cause itching. Though they're most common among children, they're exceptionally contagious and boast a high reinfection rate, putting everyone in the house at risk.
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An estimated 10% of the US population is infected with pinworms at any given time. Their eggs, which can live for weeks on the surface of clothing, sheets or toys, are ingested either via the mouth or by inhalation. They hatch and mature in the small intestine.
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Imagine being 14 years old and on bluesky
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: U.K. reveals Bluesky will be included in the under-16 social media ban, affecting dozens of teens.
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@escargotpro_ don't worry, I just find you annoying (complimentary)
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@BigMeanInternet @SleepsterRyan do you not think that the political character of the organization, the fights over platform and strategy, have influenced the latest gen of DSA elected–Mamdani, Valdez, Avila-Chevalier? Not to mention that other tendencies have less prominent elected as well, esp at muni level
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@SleepsterRyan But how does that help the social-democratic strategy? How does turning members into real Marxists help elect AOC?
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For my communist comrades in the DSA: What's the argument for a big-tent org, as opposed to a DemSoc formation pursuing those strategies to the hilt? Why don't we want them to just do their thing?
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@BigMeanInternet could is doing a lot of work there! the internal synthesis of differing political theories of change could also do a lot to improve the success of the project. the challenge is that no one really knows what *the* path to success looks like
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it could/likely would improve the terrain if struggle a lot. Not sure how it's helped by making them answer for the stuff I think is true. But clearly a lot of thoughtful comrades have come to other conclusions so I'm curious how you're all thinking about it.
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there's a version of this essay - not in our universe, but in a more nuanced, rich one - that leverages the same observations towards a genuinely valid thesis about the underlying building blocks shared by genre and non-genre fiction.
But in our timeline, that baby is lost in clickbait tumblr bathwater
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the problem with the “Sally Rooney is romantasy” substack thing is not its anachronicity but its WRITING. WHYYY is so much prose like this now??? (don’t answer this). smug, smol bean, reddit-style with zero close readings or attention to formal specificity. Really bleak!
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@buffetbreaker if god isn't up for it perhaps society will rise to the occasion
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who’s gonna punish them tho? definitely not you
Will 🦥 Menaker@willmenaker
At this point "Abolish ICE" is setting the bar way too low, "Punish ICE" establishes a much better baseline going forward
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@Sulliedsubjects this was my last straw, going on an unfollow rampage
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Why do so many of y’all follow this guy when he clearly doesn’t know ball
ettingermentum@ettingermentum
Whatever impact an AOC campaign has on DSA will happen independently of how the org deals with her. This is because she is an international celebrity and they are an organization only broadly associated with a concept of leftism that she defines.
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Crazy that this was sent from NYCDSA’s treasurer to all NPC members after the vote yesterday. Openly threatening a split with a detailed breakdown of how it would go, a breakdown that I have to assume wasn’t made immediately after the vote. Seems like this is their actual plan.
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@desdichana @mindyisser It cant be washed off you need to cook the produce to kill it
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@h_qc99 @mindyisser it doesn't eliminate risk but can reduce it if you are eating things fresh
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@ettingermentum one more BS rage bait convincing me that twitter is just not worth it
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Proof of this: last year at the national convention national DSA took a pretty significant shift to the left, to the point that they didn’t even endorse Zohran. None of that stopped the org from being associated with his win and getting new members because of him.
ettingermentum@ettingermentum
Whatever impact an AOC campaign has on DSA will happen independently of how the org deals with her. This is because she is an international celebrity and they are an organization only broadly associated with a concept of leftism that she defines.
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