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So they should get overtime pay.

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YouTube video by Jesse Welles

"War isn't murder, it's an old desert faith, it's a nation state sanctioned righteous hate"

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War Isn’t Murder

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"We're not talking about going after small business owners or even big business owners". This is most of what the economy is as the power structure that creates billionaires. It won't START TO BECOME an economy for working people without systematic changes to class power from employers to workers.

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"We're not talking about going after small business owners or even big business owners". This is like actually the over-whelming majority of the economy as a power structure. We're not talking an economy for working people without systemic changes to class power from employers to workers.

Half-wits is giving them too much credit.

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I mean, hell, even a constitutional republic would have some nominal brakes on unilateral war-making by the executive branch.

Framing the working class in a struggle against NOT owners of Capital, big or small, BUT against an elite cabal of “cheaters” who use wealth to influence government or wield power over workers (somehow unlike capitalists as a class)… is a warmed over structural antisemitic theory of capitalism.

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Having a contract is no guarantee of protection or dignity. It’s a piece of paper. Bosses walk all over them every single day, but also most contracts protect boss power. Union power by contrast is extra-legal and about control of the workplace at the point of production.

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To be fair, this structural antisemitism is baked into the culture, and needs to be a bigger conversation. The way that billionaires, awful as they are, replace class as a target of political analysis is the most common way this shows up even all over the left.

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Calling it a sacrifice launders the actions precipitating their death in undue nobility. They shouldn’t have died because the US engaged in an illegal war. It is a dishonor to them to obfuscate who is really responsible for their death.

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Yeah, the whole “we’re not against small or even big business owners, but a pesky elite who pull strings” shtick is a warmed over antisemitic theory of the capitalist power structure. He rejects “right wing populism” but then repackages it on the level of its ideas.

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I listened to it all. Counter-posing the working class against not the owners of Capital as a class, but an elite cabal of “cheaters”, is rehashing structural antisemitic theories of capitalism and repackaging the right wing populism he nominally rejects.

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Isn’t the working class majority POC?

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Yeah, as if owners of Capital however big or small are more like the working class than the actual working class. The focus on an elite cabal who use their wealth to ”cheat” rather than fulfill the norms and structural dynamics of Capitalism mis-reads the “working people” as a rehashed populism.

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Joe @wobblymole.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Is this riffing if the Trump animatronic joke?

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Just like how Israel sought to get rid of Hamas by bombing Gaza by “glassing“ the region. It’s disgusting.

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Joe @wobblymole.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Without a constitution, “we” the people don’t have formal power over state actors. A plebiscite could call for an ancient form of ostracism, where the populace completely refuses cooperation with them, including refusing to feed them. However civil war is more likely.

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Joe @wobblymole.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Saw her last night! 😍🎶

Joe @wobblymole.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The follow up one was great too.

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Joe @wobblymole.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

People say billionaires should be taxed out of existence, but an economy that runs on money will create billionaires or undo tax mechanisms that nominally bar their existence. This happened under the high-tax post-war boom. We need socialism & a use- not money-based economy to abolish money lords.

Joe @wobblymole.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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Cyclox @cycloxoxford.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Is riding an e bike cheating? No, it's just like doing 20 reps at a low weight instead of 10 at a heavy weight in the gym. You get the exercise anyway. AND you might be more likely to get on the bike in the first place. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2586115...

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E-bike scheme gives 67-year-old joy and a new lease of life

Frances King, 67, who lives with osteoporosis, was referred to Cherwell District Council’s Move Together programme to support her in becoming more…

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Joe @wobblymole.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

His ratings are so bad, they belong to a league of their own.

Joe @wobblymole.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

"Attacks" sounds assigns undue dignity to a bunch of butthurt bloviating.

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Joe @wobblymole.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It's not just or a matter of private ownership. They aren't the commons because they are not naturally produced and a gift of the living Earth. They might be restructured as a public good, but even that is not "the commons".

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 23/02/2026

Bluesky is not the commons. Twitter is not the commons. You can’t have a privately held commons. That’s not what words mean

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Joe @wobblymole.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

There is no meaningful connection between ICE operations and any of those people's lives. These videos do not demonstrate good works at all, but a willingness to weaponize the memory of victims in the service of a violent organization that harms and violates people.

As someone on a path to conversion who struggles with imposter syndrome because the biggest (but not only) reason for it is my children and partner are Jewish, this is validating to find in the wild. Thank you.

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Despite a fake culture war about denial, the corporations and many world leaders have understood the science of climate change. we know this because their scientists predicted climate crisis and they invest in it for /profit/. we assume that mitigation is the only response to climate science.

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Despite a fake culture war about denial, the corporations and many world leaders have understood the science of climate change. we know this because their scientists predicted climate crisis and they incest in it for /profit/. we assume that mitigation is the only response to climate science.

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We’re going to have to establish the government on the basis of workers power if it will do what we want. It wasn‘t made for “People” in the first place, and despite our attempts at inclusion, we leave the worst parts of We the People (the employing/owning classes) with anti-democratic power.

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This is noted on our radical Jewish (lunar) calendar, along with notable slave rebellions and the yortsayts of their leaders.

Joe @wobblymole.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

It's ironic these neoliberal rags call unions outmoded forms of organization, but not ye olde landlords.

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That's right, action. Not contracts, not legislation, not the master's tools. Union power is legally speaking "self-help", not a power bestowed by any outside body or a representation of external authority. If we don't cause problems for the employer, we cannot be said to be exercising union power.

I appreciate the desire for peace, but because peace is the goal we cannot bypass the reality of how peace will come about in a world racked by violence and domination.

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Hell, this is baked into two or more centuries of liberal ideology setting civil society and the economy apart from political society and the government.

It's kind of amazing it has to be made, considering the LONG standing relationship between anti-welfare politics and obnoxious racism.