Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"

On 5/01/2025 10:54 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 04 Jan 2025 14:04:39 -0800, john larkin wrote:
 

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 14:33:10 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 1/4/2025 12:20 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 11:30:07 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 1/4/2025 11:09 AM, john larkin wrote:
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Fox News et al. generates a whole variety of fatuous nonsense and
they see what gets clicks and eyeballs and what doesn't, throw shit
at the wall and see what sticks.
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Then they feed the most highly-rated nonsense to Trump/Musk/Vance
et al who bring it up in their next speech or X post and the hoi
polloi are like "Wow, they know what's on our minds. they really
understand us!"

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You sneer at the people who keep you alive. Maybe they shouldn't
bother.

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PS: I can do my own tech support, plumbing, and car repair, and the
overwhelming majority of Americans aren't farmers. And robots and
migrant labor don't vote.

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Do you generate your own electricity, pump your own water, kill your
own chickens, do your own surgery and nursing, chop your own wood to
heat your house?
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Keep bees for wax and honey? We did that.
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Are we operating under the premise that there are only conservatives in
the service industry sector, and the trades?
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I don't have much further to add to this (somewhat confusing) scenario
if that's the case because I reject the premise as being silly. There
are no leftists in medicine or nursing, now?
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I didn't start studying electronics seriously until my late 20s, and
didn't make any money at it for years after that. I've had lots of jobs
over the years, washing dishes, delivering papers, stocking shelves,
tech support, sales, senior care-giving..
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Not sure what grudge you think I have against the "working class", I
_am_ the working class!

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But are you a hoi polloi ?

 No Leftists are among the 'hoi polloi' - they're a class apart: better
than everyone else and therefore entitled to rule the world. Apparently.

Cursitor Doom tries to pretend that he is an English gentleman, quite a few of whom do think that they are entitled to rule the world.
He clearly doesn't hang around with real leftists who are enthusiastic about educating their colleagues and co-workers.
It was a leftist who said "If took the most ardent revolutionary and vested him with absolute power within a year he will be worse than the Tsar himself".
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/801264-if-you-took-the-most-ardent-revolutionary-vested-him-in
Mikhail Bakunin was being rude about Karl Marx around 1876, and it took nearly fifty years for the prophecy to come true, but real leftist do know the quote - and the fact that I do doesn't make me any kind of real leftist, no matter how well that would fit Cursitor Doom's delusions.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney