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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You don't even really believe that it'll happen, is what gets under my skin. You're expecting me to act as though I believe you when you say "I believe the revolution will happen" and that's disrespectful since we both know it isn't true.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Great! Make the bet then. Pick a timeframe, "the American proletariat will revolt by x date or under y conditions". Something that we can both measure and know whether or not it happens. Go ahead and set the terms right now

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Vote for 99% hitler over 100% hitler, and understand that a revolution of american proletariat is not a thing will happen. As material conditions degrade under liberalism, people become more reactionary, not less, and revolutions deteriorate conditions making them unsuitable for socialism.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Okay modern Thomas Paine. I'll bet you $100,000.00 USD that there's no revolution. Pick the time frame you want, if there's a revolution I'll pay you, if there isn't then you'll pay me. Very simple.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Well the first step is definitely posting. Eventually they will discover a second step, our best comrade-scientists are working on it as we speak.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What numbers? And what do those datasets define paycheck to paycheck as?

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Define paycheck to paycheck and find a source that isn't a payday loan company trying to launder their marketing through a news story

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So liberalism was made more equitable, prosperous, and progressive. Good.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That's not the oppressed masses overthrowing capital, that's making liberalism more progressive, equitable, and prosperous

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is there evidence that they will? Aside from "theory says it should happen" and "other revolutions have happened"

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Their reaction doesn't change the fact that what I said is true. The way to socialism is electing 99% hitler instead of 100% Hitler, building more housing, and outlawing video games on pain of death.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I will vote for any candidate and pray to any God that can make the labor market tight again

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You don't lose your way leftward, you win your way leftward. Making liberalism more progressive and more prosperous is the only way to socialism.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Make liberalism more prosperous, equitable, and progressive as the way to socialism. "Heightening the contradictions" doesn't work, an oppressed mass won't overthrow american capital.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Deprivation is thin soil for socialism. The way to socialism is to make liberalism progressive, equitable, and prosperous

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026

Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up!

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 02/09/2026

This is your permanent loop: • Token prediction: "Just discrete math." • 100 Hz robotics: "Embodiment isn't cognition." • Vectors form symbols: "Symbols aren't understanding." • What is understanding?: "I can feel it in my meat." If no empirical test counts, it's vitalism with a thesaurus.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That's the Phlebotomist's Choice, like a chef getting to eat the oyster of a chicken.

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Voters don’t want to hear this” isn’t the same as “this isn’t true.”

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yeah but you didn't have to, you just made a bad culinary choice and that's okay.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think you mean "we'll circle back when we've aligned priorities on next steps"

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

he got him. he finally fucking got him

real-life coyote and roadrunner encounter captured in southern california

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You should see what happened to the bottom quintile of wages during that time period. I bet everyone saying they would pay more only if they personally feel that workers were better off coincidentally never feels that workers are better off when prices rise. Coincidence.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Claude elevated errors this morning, quick someone please help me remember what buttons make the code.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Which is lucky for you, that an unfair world is one where the balance tips in your favor.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I fucking loved Google Wave so much, I was evangelical about it.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A politician campaigning might need to say lies to get elected. That doesn't mean we all need to act like the lies are true all of the time. It matters if things are true.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We should look at data to see if they are just spending on necessities! We should see if "non necessity" spending is a bigger or smaller portion of their lives, that's an interesting question to ask that we probably could answer.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Most people only know computers as the thing they use to use the internet. There will be people who look at what agents can do next year who think "finally a computer that works. A computer that does what I kind of intuit a computer does."

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The people couldn't drink piss from a glass with instructions.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Send me some of your blood and I'll get back to you about it.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The users of any website are a mixture of idiots, assholes, and idiot assholes; anything that gets power away from them is good.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm super tempted by the other effects, but I don't particularly want to lose weight. Weird as it is I'm looking for "the glp-1 that lets you stay fat"

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skribe @skribe.skribe.org · 02/09/2026

Embracing post-truth out of political convenience will absolutely backfire, but nobody is going to listen.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hell yeah I hope they enjoy it. Everyone would be lucky to live on my insides

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You can't run away from what you are. And you have to dance with the one who brought you. For Democrats, this means being liberal and cosmopolitan.

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Most recent The Rest is Politics mentions Aella and it was like ice water flowing into my heart. "Now Rory, I'd like to just read this passage from the Necronomicon very quickly"

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longuskikirk.bsky.social @longuskikirk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Suddenly we're opposed to a diversity of ideas from queer people in oppressed nations.

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

anti-idpol dipshit leftists think it's something they can ally with but the relationship's less mutual symbiosis and more like those zombie mushroom ants

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