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AnonymousBosch's avatar

Every punk clique has a Beto. Everyone knows from day one who it is. The guy who never has rent money but has a rich dad so he's got 20k in ink on him.

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red_li0nz's avatar

See, now this actually does piss me off a little. Both of my parents grew up on welfare, other government assistance, and "begging from relatives" in their words. My mom, who didn't have much of a childhood, was the oldest of 9 kids with a severely alcoholic father who didn't work the first 20 years of her life. But hey, lucky for me they worked hard, got educated, and I didn't grow up that way. You have no clue what you're talking about. Do you judge everyone this quickly? Or just people with marginally different political views?

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Also cheers on getting welfare and then voting in the guy who destroyed welfare. Keep on burning those ladders fucko.

And keep pretending like there's only a marginal difference between your centrist ass and people on the Actual Left. Because you can't be a conservative, reactionary status quo lib if you're 99.9% a lefty.

Here's some punk, lib.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nFvhhCulaw

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red_li0nz's avatar

The funny thing is when I hear this song I actually think of a Phil Ochs cover set I watched in an anarchist infoshop about 15 years ago. Did you just capitalize Actual Left? Is that trademarked?

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

You know, I'm gonna be honest I thought you were a shitty lib based on your open caping for Biden, your refusal to defend that caping, and your incessant sealion reply-guying, but it is inarguable that you keep claiming unverifiably to have -been in- lefty spaces, decades ago, so I guess that makes you King Antfa, and me the Real Racist.

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red_li0nz's avatar

This is really fun. I actually think I have the contact info for the person who did that cover set in my phone still, unless I'm misremembering someone's name, it was a while ago like you mentioned.

Anyway, this has been fun. Thanks for the vigorous mental exercise. I was actually serious though about analyzing your writing with code though. I like technology. Please get in touch if you can provide some more samples.

Oh, btw, I didn't vote for Biden. I think you should take a look at the glowing things Bernie's people have been saying about Biden lately though, in all fairness.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

I just remembered I've been to Monticello, does that make me Thomas Jefferson?

People who like Bernie don't like M4A cause he told them to. People like M4A and like Bernie cause he was for it too. This is gonna come as a shock to you, but there are people out there who have objective morals independent of whatever their chosen twitter team is telling them to believe this week.

Bernie is dead wrong about guns and Bernie is dead wrong about Biden.

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red_li0nz's avatar

DonтАЩt worry, I met many many people working in humanitarian aid who had crystal clear morality. I know they exist and I know they are better people than me. But thereтАЩs a reason none of those people become politicians. Because representative democracy has many nuances (everyone gets a say, even centrists, what a drag) and it involves interacting with others. Everyone observes the way people interact with each other a little differently. ItтАЩs subjectivity. Not everyone is cut out to live in the nuances of the world. ThatтАЩs why we elect who we think is solid and hope for the best.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

"Because representative democracy has many nuances (everyone gets a say, even centrists, what a drag) "

Oh jesus, this one is so dense with righteous self pity I didn't even notice you put yourself up on the cancel culture cross.

Sorry I disenfranchised your right to vote by saying fuck to Biden.

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red_li0nz's avatar

It's funny, in my head I was thinking "this person is probably going to take this part and say something about voter disenfranchisement." As if me typing something that generic about democracy was even remotely a comment about voter disenfranchisement. I feel like this is just for fun on both our sides here at this point, right?

Seriously, do you see what's happening? That's you subjectively interpreting a plain boring comment and making it into commentary on what you would like to talk about. We can talk about voter disenfranchisement, it's a horrible problem, but please don't just come to grand interpretations about what you *want* to be happening in my head. I mean a politician couldn't have used that technique better themselves. It's called diversion, tune in to any debate to see real life examples!

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

in my head I was thinking "this person is probably going to take this part and say something about voter disenfranchisement."

Then why didn't you rephrase it?

"everyone gets a say, even centrists, what a drag"

Yea it is. You can recognize a drag as a reality and work to change it, and failing that call it out as a drag at every opportunity.

Just because you chose to roll on your back and piss on your belly for literally nothing, just because lib cable news told you to, does not make you moral, and it does not make you a Politics Knower.

We already established you By Your Logic Judoed me into exposing myself as the Real Racist. I'm the bad guy here, and you, the dude refusing to even qualify your support for the guy who exists as a political entity by denying an entire generation, of every black person in his state, a chance at an education and a better life, are the real Leftist. I mean, Jesus Christ dude, you've been to an anarchist bookstore we get it you're basically Jesus you win already.

Asked and Answered dude, come on, move on already.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

Are there any more actually good people you have met once or attended a concert near that you'd like to namedrop, to grab that reflected shine?

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red_li0nz's avatar

Yeah, they're just my connections on LinkedIn.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

Punk AF bruv.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

This has been the absolute most punk conversation I've ever been a part of.

It's like I'm there at the recording of the 4-Skins track 'It's Not Compromising Your Morals And Selling Out The Vulnerable If You Do It While Perfomatively Wishing On a Star'

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red_li0nz's avatar

You're gonna have to go way more obscure on your references there. That's just lazy.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

Why don't you make the most obscure reference you know? To my knowledge you haven't said anything that actually shows your punk phase wasn't being a Swing Dancing Voodoo Daddy in 1997.

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AnonymousBosch's avatar

Whoa, check out the likes piling up on this guys posts! One and only one! The very second he posts! He's kicking my ass in Klout!

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