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JHan

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3. A beautiful piece even tho he used a blunt hammer. Many won't like it but he's on point...
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 09:03 PM
Jan 2017

And:

"I realize that the Far Left doesn’t entirely consist of Bernie Zealots, but the remainder of that wing for the most part are just as awful. For every Angela Davis that has put real work into bringing justice and equity for all people they’re at least 100 others afflicted with oral diarrhea who love to repeatedly shout words like “neoliberalism” and “revolution” so much that they lose whatever weight or meaning they have (I’d be shocked if a quarter of the people who use the word “neoliberal” knows what the word even means or how to use it in its proper context). These grandiose motherfuckers LOVE to do nothing but shit on Democrats who aren’t 100% perfect progressives when they’re in office — which is pretty much everybody — and love to go on and on about how “both sides are the same” and how “we’re fucked either way”. And when a right-wing extremist that would inflict pain and suffering to the most marginalized populations inevitably comes to power, suddenly they want to either complain about how fucked we are, revel in the prospect of the “revolution” that will finally be at hand, or try to wash their hands of their complicity and say “don’t blame me, I voted for (fringe minor party candidate)” and use it to advocate the “necessity” of a third party."


Pseudo Revolutionaries talk a good game about "revolution" and have no clue about governance. They are the thorn in the side of people who actually do the hard work of reform. I've no time for them.

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