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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post ‘…and I did Not Speak Out, but Then They Came for… the AP’ by wendydavis.
A similar but slightly different and incisive take–
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2013/05/for-all-deluded-andor-stupid-people.html
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post ‘…and I did Not Speak Out, but Then They Came for… the AP’ by wendydavis.
Only an embarrassment of riches!
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post ‘…and I did Not Speak Out, but Then They Came for… the AP’ by wendydavis.
Sorry, my bad. One should never introduce an acronym without first spelling it out in full– Democratic Underground, a website. Sheer laziness on my part.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post ‘…and I did Not Speak Out, but Then They Came for… the AP’ by wendydavis.
Oh my god, check out this piece of DU (could just as easily be DailyKos) Obamabot boilerplate in the comments–
I Can Feel For The President…. He seems like a very sincere individual that knows what needs to be done and is in the position to do those things – but no matter what he [...]
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post The Denigration of Stephen Hawking Reveals the Intense Dishonesty of Current Zionism by EdwardTeller.
They needn’t “surrender their country”, merely share it equally with the people who have inhabited it for centuries. I agree with the commenter above, the two state solution is just apartheid codified with borders. It should be considered a dead cause. Israel and Palestine should merge into a single secular democratic state where all citizens [...]
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post The Denigration of Stephen Hawking Reveals the Intense Dishonesty of Current Zionism by EdwardTeller.
Indeed. For pro-zionists, the terms “anti-semite” has become little more than a vacuous code word to use meaning “STFU, anyone that disagrees with me is garbage” when losing an argument. And pro-zionists lose almost any argument they engage in when they venture outside their little echo chambers so the slur is called on to do [...]
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post The Denigration of Stephen Hawking Reveals the Intense Dishonesty of Current Zionism by EdwardTeller.
Never heard the term. Where does one go to authoritatively find out what words are OK to use? And calling fellow members here dehumanizing names like “asshole” and “piece of crap” belies a damaged soul.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post America’s Fast Food Workers Might Just Be Real Hope and Change by Ohio Barbarian.
D’oh, I made the classic affect/effect error I see.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post America’s Fast Food Workers Might Just Be Real Hope and Change by Ohio Barbarian.
The beauty of a healthy unionized sector–well besides creating productive, tax paying workers who can raise and take care of children and live in some small dignity who will then stimulate the macroeconomy in a ways unimaginable by trickle down or supply side charlatans whoring for billionaires– is that the sector (even the non-unionized fraction) [...]
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Assata Shakur Put on the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted Terrorist’ List for Political Purposes by wendydavis.
That brave woman is badass in a way that no person hiding behind the largest state violence apparatus in the history of the world will ever be able to conceive of or understand.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post America’s Fast Food Workers Might Just Be Real Hope and Change by Ohio Barbarian.
Unions and less formal labor actions take root where wages conditions make the threat of termination less than a terrifying prospect. You kick down hard enough and long enough and those at the bottom have little left to lose and everything to gain. Why the fuck shouldn’t fast food workers make $20 an hour? So [...]
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Kurt Sperry commented on the blog post How San Francisco Pride Is Perpetuating a Scandal by Not Reinstating Bradley Manning as Grand Marshal
Why should we be surprised when it turns out that gays are as heterogeneous and apt to be regressive, unenlightened, morally compromised and authoritarian as straight people?
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Larry Summers: The Intellectual as Courtier by masaccio.
What would make perhaps the Best FDL Diary Ever would be a simple list of all the home addresses of these scum and when they are likely to be there. “I know where you live” is a powerful argument.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the blog post For Obama, Deficit Reduction Is the Goal; for the GOP, It Is Just a Tool
And I should add for clarification: By the poor, I mean everyone in the bottom 99.9%.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the blog post For Obama, Deficit Reduction Is the Goal; for the GOP, It Is Just a Tool
Bingo. Obama only services the rich. The poor can fuck off for all he cares.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post What Steps is anyone willing to take ? – Another reality check by cmaukonen.
Strikes are the obvious nucleation point. Withholding labor, if it is done in a widespread way, hits the oligarchs where they live. Short of widespread armed insurrection–which I’m sorry disaster porn lovers doesn’t appear likely–surely the thing the snake hissing comic book supervillains in their obscene palaces fear the most is a general strike that [...]
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post The First of May… mayday, mayday by David Seaton.
The cost difference as a proportion of MSRP between the worst sweatshop produced garments and those made by unionized first world labor making a liveable wage is actually, scandalously infinitessimal. Labor under these exploitative conditions is so cheap it wouldn’t lower the prices appreciably if it were free. There’s no longer a race to the [...]
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Did the Government Compromise its Case by Refusing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Requests for a Lawyer? by E. F. Beall.
In reply to the question asked in the title, yes. Of course they compromised the case. It should be thrown out based on that alone. But, and of course there’s a but– it’s by proudly ignoring the Constitution and Bill of Rights on super high profile cases that the necessary precedents are set to dismantle [...]
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Kurt Sperry commented on the blog post Former San Francisco Pride Grand Marshal Who Nominated Bradley Manning Details Board’s Capitulation
The gays wanted to be mainstream; they are now officially mainstream. The problem with being mainstream is you have to put aside all principle and unflaggingly support the status quo to succeed within it. Quid pro quo, baby.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Sunday Food: Sweets From Good Sources by Ruth Calvo.
Being alive.
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