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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
yeah, but it's worth mentioning that the the french revolution was against the old feudal order, and against feudalism, capitalists are revolutionary. under capitalism, workers are revolutionary. and that's admittedly an oversimplification, but it means that mangione is a class traitor (compliment)
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
that's amazing since his family is literally richer than the guy he smoked and he's an ivy league grad and yet no one cares lmao
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
i'm sorry, i do not have anything i can give currently, but when i do i will donate. i will also share your donation page
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
mr president trump sir please only deport 75% of your intended amount of people
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
i changed my mind, trump is the accelerationist candidate
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
i wish i was a little bit taller, i wish i had a crawler, i wish i was a girl who looked good and was baller. wish i had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a six four impala.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
i'm really starting to relate to the "nothing ever happens" people
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
there's a joke about "anal probes" and airport security in there somewhere...
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
and i understand that it feels a bit strange to refer to the act of taking a human life as "impotent" but if your enemy is a multi-billion dollar system, killing people is just stepping on ants.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
like class issues are very real and very much at play but i think there's a huge divide between posting about some hot criminal on the news and actually confronting power. like that's both the reason why no one has done that sooner and why, when they did, it was the most impotent expression.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
genuinely think this can't be understated and it's also why i think the luigi mangione story isn't going to culminate in anything because most of the hype is people getting worked up over the drama.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
like "i just wanted cheaper groceries" is a meek excuse to us, but it's also absolutely an eject button. if someone says that, they're probably also thinking fuck it i'm out
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
this is probably not likely, but i think it's possible that, due to the nature of the cult, the "normal" people who voted for him will be able to more easily distance themselves from him. like, and this could be media bubble effect but, we already see "i didn't vote for this!" articles
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
nothin they can do to use that we haven't already done to ourselves
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
i'm sorry to say i don't have anything i can donate at the moment, but when i do, i will
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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
It takes a while to read through the whole thread, but I found it incredibly helpful and informative TLDR: If you're getting follows from accounts from Gaza with a GoFundMe, there's a high likelihood they're real accounts with real people in desperate situations, and not scams
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
they don't want you to know that the failure of governmental institutions comes from capitalism.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
we're all trying to find the guy who did this!
cnn headline: "unitedhealth group CEO: america's health system is poorly designed"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
bluesky really said "we have 25 million users now so we don't have to give a shit about minority groups"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
that's crazy. do you know what caused society to become inured?
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
barely even a speed bump lmao
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
anyway, a quick google search says that the average american spend roughly 6 hours online a day. so i'm not really sure what we're defining as "very online" here.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
people saying the support for mangione is an online phenomenon. sure, i'll buy that. but they say you only need 3% of the population revolutionary change to succeed. how much of america do you think is online?
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Palestinians don’t need your sympathy or your pity or your symbolic gestures. We need you to cut ties with our killers and colonizers. We need you to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel. Yes that includes academic institutions, whose commitment to genocide and apartheid is well documented.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
like, remember, the question is "why can't these other soulless dipshits benefit from the same approach of base cruelty that trump employs" and the answer is because they have zero charisma. affability is a pretty essential piece of what makes someone charismatic.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
i mean, yes? like when talking with trudeau or biden, both of whom he's insulted? i think it's important to recognize that cruelty and affability are not mutually exclusive and, in fact, are both necessary traits of an abusive individual.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
okay but like actually
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
or look at how trump talked about biden both while campaigning and to his face during the debate, and compare that to their meeting in the oval office after the election. basically trump is just affable, and saying the others aren't affable is an extreme understatement..
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
i think you can kind of understand it in terms that trump *is a personality* while the other people are not. like, trump is not merely aggressive or hostile. he'll meet with trudeau and shake his hand and smile in pictures with him and then call him a governor for the 51st state hours later.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
the What's Hot feed is a wasteland
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
NYT: oh but actually it's problematic that you think he's hot 😟
critic's notebook

objectifying the accused

what happens when violent crimes are overshadowed by appearances?
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
they always knew it
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
thinking peaceful resistance useless is a fatal mistake. you will need a diverse range of tactics in order to succeed; not every problem can be fixed with a gun.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
guys, i understand the impulse, i really do, but editing the time magazine cover to feature biden and harris is so cringe. you just gotta realize like i did in 2014 that time magazine is your enemy and work towards dismantling it forever and imprisoning its executive staff. you know, normal stuff.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
congratulations to all the girlies who fall in love with criminals. finally there is someone to love who won't make you a social pariah.
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