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The reality of things. Reality has passed fiction in the wtf realm.

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Theyre corrupt, America just wont accept because then american citizens would have the responsibility and obligation to go out and shoot these fuckers. They're a hostile DOMESTIC threat, our constitution tells us what to do now. We just don't have the ambition to save ourselves.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday the Republicans would have “no other option” than to use the so-called nuclear option to confirm Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch if the Democrats block him.

“If they filibuster this man, we’ll have no other option but to change the rules because if we don’t that means President Trump can never make a selection to the Supreme Court and I will not allow that to happen,” Graham said during an appearance on Fox News.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday that the Democrats will block Neil Gorsuch from receiving the 60 votes he needs for confirmation, all but assuring a showdown with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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This is why automation is such a big subject in business. remove those people from the equation, then you can kill them all and not care. This is the END of the era where workers are the center and have power. if we dont right this before automation becomes fully installed we will be replaced and murdered through capitalist starvation. End.

Vivek Chibber explains how the working class is the axis through which any mass movement for social justice has to be based as part of the ABCs of Socialism series.

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Trump can do whatever he likes as long as no one shoots him... nudge nudge.... hint... point... hello?... is this thing on?... he will continue to rape AmeriKa and destroy what future we had UNLESS someone ends him... just a thought... nothing more... nothing at all...

Bernie Sanders issues a scathing takedown of everyone who won’t call Trump a liar

Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a fiery response to critics who take issue with him labeling  Trump a “liar” on Tuesday, penning a Medium post titled “What should we do if the president is a liar?”

Sanders took specific issue with a recent Washington Post piece by Amber Phillips denigrating the senator for lowering the “state of political discourse” by calling Trump a liar. 

Phillips argued several of Sanders’ “corrosive” tweets represented how “Political norms — like, don’t accuse the president of the United States of lying without evidence, or don’t accuse the former president of the United States of wiretapping your phones without evidence — have been eviscerated.”

Sanders was not pleased, to say the least. In his post, he burned Phillips, saying her “complaint appears to be that it is improper for a United States senator to state the obvious.” Read more (3/7/17 8 PM)

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A strong point but not entirely true. Occupy Wallstreet had many whites and they were treated the same. Its not about who is protesting, its whose being protested. Government protests dont stir up near the shit storm protesting corporations does. Reveals who is really the power today.

A reminder of the difference between equally non-violent protests when the protestors are majority black and majority white in terms of the police.

And if you need a reminder of what happens when it’s non-violent Native Americans well…

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It has nothing to do with America thats for sure. But the Republican agenda hasn't been concerned with anyone but the rich elites well being for 20 years.

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The end of net neutrality is the end of free speech. Were fucked folks. Get ready for the system to fail.

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Yes.

EDUCATION SHOULD BE FREE! HEALTHCARE SHOULD BE FREE! WATER SHOULD BE FREE! INTERNET SHOULD BE FREE!

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I JUST BURST OUT LAUGHING OH MY GOD JON 😂😂😂

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Scumbag corporations! Reject business having human rights!

Healthcare in the US

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Fuck Nazis under any name.

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Interesting piece. Racism and sexism is right, like the Salem witch trials this is a matter of a mass of people are losing grip with reality entirely and simply dont understand right and wrong, their fanaticism is overriding all sensibility. They're voting against themselves and we have the facts to prove it. This comes down to poor education and capitalist endoctrination. They cant figure out how anything works and they've been well programmed to believe giving the rich more somehow doesn't detract from their wealth.

JACOBIN MAGAZINE

As pundits grappled with the realization that Donald Trump would be the next president in the days and weeks following election night, a common-sense narrative took hold. This election was about “the revenge of working-class whites,” the blue-collar, non-college-educated men across the key Rust Belt states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin whose lives had been devastated by globalized trade and deindustrialization — and who abandoned the Democrats to vote for Trump in droves.

According to this narrative, these voters’ frustration with the economic and social destruction they had experienced for decades exploded in a rage against “the establishment,” and found an unlikely tribune in Trump, who struck a nerve with his anti-trade, anti-immigration message.

Against this conventional wisdom, some countered that race and gender, not class, proved decisive. Pointing out that voters with annual household incomes under $50,000 voted for Clinton, they argued that Trump’s support was based in a layer of older white men who have seen their power and dominance threatened in an increasingly diverse United States.

For these analysts, the election was the revenge of the racist white patriarchy, those left behind by the shifting tide of history who couldn’t stomach the idea of a strong, successful woman as president. According to this narrative, Trump’s success lies in his willingness to appeal openly to the racism and misogyny of this key demographic.

While both narratives get important things right about why Trump won, they also leave troubling questions unanswered. How could the election be about class if the poorest voters still voted for Clinton? How could deep-seated racism explain Trump support when many of his voters supported Obama in 2008 and 2012? If misogyny was key to voters’ motivations, how did Trump turn out so many white women?

Each of these questions highlights a fundamental problem not only with the competing narratives about Trump’s victory, but with a core tenet of much conventional political analysis: the assumption that demographics are destiny.

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