Ciggy Bringer of Smoke

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2024-07-05 22:12:52

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Ben, if you ever want me to see photos of you on the primary campaign trail as I know you will be there, you have got to be able to differentiate opinion from statements of fact and rap with me in a way that will actually get me to vote.
Because when you are on the campaign trial, you're not talk like this for very long.
Just advice from someone that has been there and used the campaign tack when volunteering for the campaign in official capacity.

2024-07-05 21:52:04

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That cohort isn't all that, they're just an obstinate bloc that doesn't know how to ask for help it think it doesn't need, in a coalition environment, today, July 5th 2024.
And you're like 'actually theyre right about this even if they put a wet paper sack over their head and need all of you doubters to help everyone in the world right now'
You can keep trying to drive this back towards thee actionable, but I will keep telling you why its not good tack.
There's a lotta days till november, you got the time to talk about the why more than the what.

2024-07-05 21:35:37

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And to my first response about asymmetry, The Democratic Party acting as waystation for the status quo, while trying to be the vehicle of resistance and better is not going to do any of it as a unit.
Centrists et al have spent my entire life (40 years) basically daring others to help them in the way that Tom Sawyer procured help with whitewashing the fence.

2024-07-05 21:30:10

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People don't show up to vote precisely because of what centrist assholes are doing? And this group actually is way beyond the focus of those you are daring to try.

2024-07-05 21:21:15

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I'm giving you the skinny on why nobody on the supposed outside believes you and your rhetoric on this.
I mean, how close are you to Bowman's district? Maybe go talk to folks that pushed him through once about how theyre feeling today on the credibility of this whole thing.

2024-07-05 21:14:49

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This all amounts to a dare to take over a party by a smaller demos in voting share.
I dare Centrists to actually not light their hair on fire given full run of the table and make better choices on their own, because they out of hand reject that anyone else knows what the fuck they're talking about, by virtue of not already thinking like they do.

2024-07-05 20:56:36

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I think you're both wrong about this in different ways starting with assumed symmetry between Parties from the top leaders to the bottom base in what they're about and how they move.

2024-07-04 16:12:10

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I learned about truancy? I enjoyed that until they came looking for me and then everyone but me had a cow about it. But couldnt have learned about that without the hard forcing venue...
I actually learned cheekiness outside of it, Heheheh

2024-07-03 21:38:46

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And to put a personal point on it - I didn't connect with anyone from protesting at that time for more than a few hours...until...
August, outside of the scene itself and by word of mouth from a sharp buddy who want to find fuel for my fire, I linked up with a Direct Aid group for nearby camp support (through the wildfires of all things) that was figuring it out from scratch, and the rest is, as they say, history.

2024-07-03 21:26:29

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Indeed we will, and my experience from CHOP/CHAZ is that there wasn't a predicate enough understanding of how this all can go before showing up as the thing to do.
Basically, the cohesion that brought us together in June had started coming apart by the end of July and a kind of coda on that was in September with a huge turnout to a bad beat on a march and that being pretty much that.
I will never stop thinking about how much some folks coulda used a breather in their own back yard rather than summoning themselves to my neighborhood where whatever is supposed to resemble organizing in the way we hope for was hit or miss and started generating more misses as more folks didn't hang. Or get chewed by the attempts to organize and find their folks.
Some of us even at the time and as it came to a close were somewhat adamant that there had to be some elemental decentralized and distributed action because the moment had kinda passed and nothing was really working with all eyes on us at all times because it was the place to be.
In my mind, I keep turning over 'something for anyone wherever they are and without others' to maybe be a way to pre-seed situational and operational awareness and cognizance when the fires of ire woosh in once again?

2024-07-03 20:54:24

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2020 woulda been a fruitful proving ground for any number of atomized plays in support of larger, segregated by geography/social scene/social anxiety and paranoia itself
Now is this the antithesis of the thrust of organizing? Only if it's the terminus and not the opening to validate effort and find others.

2024-07-03 20:51:13

If there was ever the need for a practical atomized partisan zine to making plays including linking up with larger or playing in turn with larger, it's now, given conditions.
What can one partisan do in resistance that wouldn't be more forceful with a dozen?
That needs to be found for those that are not going to chart it themselves for the first time, a neophyte.

2024-07-02 04:20:31

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even if we individually and in small cohort have our ideas, this is not a mono modal engagement and never will be, so that diversity of tactics banter isnt just banter, its a paradigm.

2024-07-02 04:16:48

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Even concurrently with some engaging that way, a far larger mass that exists can resist in active peace, and sure theyll take blows and get pushed around but theres an open field on it free to try in that way, today.
I will never for the life of me get 'theres wrong headed fightniks out there already, what am I supposed to do?' Like, holy moly, you are the gravitational pole for the peaceniks to get your resist on, go get it folks!

2024-07-02 02:55:43

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Even if Biden didnt get away with it, the consequentialist framework calls it good and whatever weak kneed Liberal Narrative exists can rot.

2024-07-01 19:46:58

"What if we lose our cool and things get out of hand fighting back, and we become who we say we oppose"
SHUT THE FUCK UP PERSON WHO IS LITERALLY GOING TO HIDE THE REST OF THEIR LIVES EXCEPT TO VACOUSLY TALK ABOUT MORALITY AND ETHICS THAT NEVER ONCE WILL BE TESTED BY THEMSELVES FIRST HAND

2024-06-29 00:43:49

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Theres no flattering way to put this but every single day is basically the drag down fight in They Live where Liberals, in their only form of resistance they know, will not put on the fucking glasses to see.
And when they do finally, its soooo buffoonishly jarring because 10 minutes of not being a confident know it all to lord over everyone else who wont get with the program was a bigger pain than arguing about it.

2024-06-28 15:46:16

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Rational or not, it really is profoundly nonsensical that the party that steeps itself in Serious Administration and Management of The State, selected a perfectly Democratic Party Politician to be next in line, and faced with moments that would call on her to take over the driving wheel, the party finds itself incapable of doing such.
For reasons mentioned here and beyond.

2024-06-28 07:03:28

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I swear that the despondency has to be pent up doubt that couldnt be expressed for whatever fucking reason, and we get to suffer the neuroticism of people that confine their engagement with politics and partisanship to debates have doubts validated grandly.

2024-06-26 20:00:54

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Many of us are the complete refutation of such thought, and lo! the accumulation of wealth in any form but in generous fighting spirit has gone miserably.

2024-06-26 19:11:00

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Yo, I got your order of 'predicate calamity to spur my participation in formulation of new ways' hot n ready. where should I place it?

2024-06-26 18:47:08

Someone asking aloud online why clearance rates have gone down as forensics have improved and trying not to Kool-Aid Man through their wall with 'Sounds like a lot of innocent people got ramrodded through the courts with bullshit charges to pin a murder and kayfabe clearance, ooooooh noooooooo'

2024-06-26 01:13:30

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how bad must one be to get dunked on by Sam? SAM!

2024-06-24 21:40:51

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LMAO, Democrats just think I'm some asshole crank when I talk about their about operational bereftness, but noooo, see, anyone who understands the English of 'Political Party' to any other anglosphere Liberal Democracy doesn't get how Democrats actually are one.

2024-06-24 21:26:45

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OMG, that shadow is soooooooo good.
Also, that aformentioned gibberish song...
Prisencolinensinainciusol...
what a mouthful! 100% at home in The Sims though, absolutely perfect Simlish!

2024-06-24 21:01:22

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There's an italo song for that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAJIkQMuu4I

2024-06-24 20:47:46

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I'm super curious now! I haven't had any specific food reactions, although 2 beers is automatic night night for me now, but that might be age plus not drinking much anymore.
The weirdest one right in the aftermath was losing a significant patch of facial hair in a tight spot to become as smooth as an egg, for like 3 months. I shaved every other day during that time cause it was THAT pronounced. Luckily it grew back so I can shave once a week and look decent.

2024-06-21 20:04:47

Nation State is having a crisis it can't explain the cause of, goes to see a doctor about it. Doctor asks them some qualifying questions and then comes up with a treatment plan - to whoop this crisis, the Nation State must become a Liberal Democracy. The Nation State breaks down in tears "Doctor, I am already the best example of Liberal Democracy to ever exist!"

2024-06-19 00:56:01

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Lmao, so Icelanders would treat me better as unilateral member of far flung audience than actual foreigner there...
You poindexters sure have a curious logic about yourselves.

2024-06-13 20:02:18

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😂 You can specify the composition but not content of it.

2024-06-13 19:58:46

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lmao, wife is gonna love this one, she's always bringing home cool rocks with no place to put them.

2024-06-13 19:43:21

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I mean, most of us that have tried to get out there and shake a leg have varyingly bad experiences where it clearly wasn't 'it' despite the sign and self promotion they were 'it' and more.
But even so, that hasn't stopped the trying one way or another, and for Liberal speakers to a Liberal audience who want there to be some kind of cordoned of neutral venue where politics does not interject...
They absolutely need to be pushed off the fence (and caught by us, can not just push them or shake the fence and expect them to fall over here) and to actualize their role and potential doing the crummy bummy self organizing we're already engaged in.
Consistently, partisan methodology is played on the table by the partisan ideology, and Liberal apolitics is trying to play the game with less than half a hand.

2024-06-10 01:37:45

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jfc, what is this even?!

2024-06-09 16:50:09

There are 500 teslas packed like sardines in a Missouri parking lot
Just sitting there
Waiting
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2024-05-24 21:40:17

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Between the Google Glue and Michael Schumacher, it's kinda clear those models have eaten nothing but shitpost and fancanon.

2024-05-17 23:54:22

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Stick this in me twice. Making demands at all seems like some kind of 'we are serious' predicate but all it does is accelerate the end game, by henpecking the demands, dawdling around them, and letting the eager to cash out to then cash out.
My theory is, you make a fuss until something is offered and then you reject it, automatically and reflexive-like, so the other side gets that it isn't about power figuring the exact placability sweetspot to screw around with but something else actually.