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...i'm not an American, nor am I 35. Will suggested for 'a 35 year old american things have gotten considerably better', I responded with 'for the demographic you suggested, things are materially worse in very important ways'

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Every person who tries to prove 'it's the phones' end up being members of a very particular group of people.

A graph depicting the share of net worth held by the top 1% of households.

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...i'm sorry, i'm not following what you mean? Things are not universally getting better. Some things are in fact getting measurably worse. I don't think it's the end of the world that american's lives are becoming shorter and meaner, but it seems kinda silly to say they aren't?

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An American who has lived 35 years has seen both the maternal mortality rate of their generation increase, and the average life expectancy of their generation decrease. I know that's 'cherry picking' stats, but those do seem like two fairly important ones.

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"I was consistent in saying you should ignore progressive voices and vote for the edgelord redditor with nazi tatoos! Clearly you should listen to me now when I tell you to hold your nose and vote for transphobes."

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I assure you, I have tried being normal about them. Its an ongoing struggle.

Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

...because women? Like, have you seen them?

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Stencil out here really feeling 'rich people are just smarter than poor people. No one with a high net worth could possibly be an idiot.'

Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Amongst all the other funny bits of not understanding South Africa, there is also, y'know, the fact that a far right afrikaner party is in coalition with the government. Like, surely the left wouldn't say this guys opposition to zimbabwa migrants is racist, right? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%C3...

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Corné Mulder - Wikipedia

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Local synagogue that fly the Israeli flag, or fundraiser for the state of Israel, are responsible for the actions of that state.

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Should healthcare be universal or means tested? In Canada that's a center v. right wing debate. In the US that's a far left vs. left debate.

Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I hate to ruin the secret to Badiali pizza, but it's 'You can order online ahead of time. There is no line for preorders. Sunday morning still had spaces for 6:30pm on a sunny sunday afternoon of a long weekend. Theres still slots available for 9:30. Line culture in Toronto is insane.

Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

If your arguments against generative AI in music sound identical to what musicians were saying a century ago, you should reflect on how effective their argument was. They weren't wrong, jobs and profits went away. But it wasn't the 'robots' who did it, it was the capitalists.

An advertisement from the early 20th century depicting a robot jamming a bunch of instruments into a sausage maker, resulting in a horrible noise as musical notes are extruded into a tin of 'canned music for theatres'.

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The vinyl record put thousands of orchestra musicians out of work. They rose against it, calling it a soulless facsimile, not real art. In the end, capitalists replaced the music industry with 'the record industry', where the bulk of profits went not to artists, but capitalists who monetized music

Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Pragmatic tech enthusiast: Don't believe the lies capitalists tell you about luddites. Luddites didn't hate technology, they hated capitalists using automation to consolidate power and steal the fruits of the workers labour. They crossdressed and did crimes about it.

Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Or this tired chestnut, as if jews not noticing a nazi symbol is somehow escpatory. Nazis dont generally show up to barmitzvahs ripping cryptofacist imagery. Its punk shows, furry conventions, ttrpg sessions, etc, where you will generally find people who are on the lookout for this sort of thing.

Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

...i hate the premise that 'guy with nazi tattoo, but not antisemitic ' wouldn't be a problem. Like, there's a whole bunch of other reasons to dislike people with nazi tattoos.

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The vast majority of people with email jobs are unaware of that field... and its one of the 5 possible fields they can fill in, in an email, when their job is reasonably described as an email job.

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Or forced fem fetishists?

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 11/02/2026

The risk isn’t the technology. The risk is in people who should know better getting whipped up in the hype and helping normalize tech’s narratives so we don’t pay attention to (and rein in) what they’re actually doing in the present.

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

We said it would happen too. None of this is a surprise to anyone. And maybe give up on the schatenfreude. Leopards are eating our faces now, but they're coming for you next. You voted for this as much as we did.

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

You didn't win tho? You feel good humbling people who said 'hey, if your candidate supports genocide, I'm sitting this one out'? Is that because you didn't really care about winning in the first place?

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Toronto is dedicated to affordable housing (for cars). The policies council implements to ensure parking remains affordable would make even the most strident housing advocates blush.

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

In general, student loans are non-dischargable. You are effectively selling yourself into bondage, not taking out a traditional loan.

Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Thats not why the guard is there and you know it. Why lie?

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

'Mark Carney isn't sanctioning Venezuela because he wants to support American Imperialism on nakedly pragmatic grounds, he's doing it so he doesnt get outflanked on the issue by western conservatives'. That's really your take? You think Wild Rose yahoos care if we're sanctioning Venezuela?

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(I mean it would be cool if he provided naval escorts to break Israel's decade long naval embargo. But I'm not expecting revolutionary actions. Just something that doesnt keep us in the top 10 most toadying US allies.

The content of his speech being insufficiently revolutionary is not my critique. Its the actions of his government being in lockstep with US imperialism. Recognize Palestine, lift sanctions on Venezuela. These aren't earthshaking political actions.

You know Canada is still sanctioning Venezuela and arming Israel, right? We still don't recognize Palestine, unlike a majority of the world, the un, heck a majority of the g20. We are, under Carney very much US's imperial lackey with no plan on changing.

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Sooooo... we're not going to stop acting in lockstep with the US on its imperial projects, right? We'll still sanction the regimes the yanks want to topple, and arm their regional proxies. Carney saying 'yeah, we're doing this for pragmatic not ideological reasons', is that brave to you?

Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Their safety comes from their skin color, not from following the rules.

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Yes, I'm sure the federal agency that kidnapped thousands of your neighbors will never detain you. They are only after immigrants. They would never escalate, surely!

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Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Several thousand Minnesotans are being held without due process. YMMV

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"That way they can't charge you, and you get out." Pretty optimistic.

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It is likely they will use violence to support ICE.

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The guard are there as a threat, if the people of MN actively resist ICE, Walz 'protect people's right to passively resist ICE' (By putting down any active resistance). Walz's plan is to let ICE abducted thousands of people (until they get bored) and the guard are there to enforce that.

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Its NEOM, but its single family housing instead of a desert.

Will Stancil bragging that non violent resistance is working, as the state continues to abducted hundreds of his neighbors.

Power mac @powermac.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The easiest explanation of how zoning works is: "The process through which the government maximizes available on street parking, while everyone participating in the process makes thinly veiled attempts to say it's about anything else."

Hamas doesn't call for his destruction, he and I agree on that.

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I'll try to phrase it better in the future, I concede that it was indelicately put.

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My point wasn't meant to be a threat. It was 'hey, I'm a member of your community, it sucks you hold me in contempt for my political views'. I regret that he viewed it as anything else.

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Errr, slightly below.* It gets confusing tracking all the people zionists hate.

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Well, that's nice I guess. I'm in your city from time to time. Glad you hold me only slightly above the baseline contempt Jewish supremacists hold most people in.

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Zohran has a first amendment right to reject the politicized definition of terrorism. Moreover, Hamas does still contest the monopoly of violence in about half of Gaza. If you want to run a hospital in besieged Gaza, you need approval from both Hamas and the IDF.

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Just so were clear, as a hamas supporter, I bear you no antipathy? Antisemitism is a scurge that is perpetuated by neo-nazis and zionists alike.

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An antizionist who supports Hamas. Yes.

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