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07-16-2018 , 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Birdman10687
No, it is obvious what he is saying. Seems like you are being intentionally dense.

He is saying:

"Start doing revolutionary work" by "clearly separating from all electoral efforts and" instead focus on "improving the lives of the workers" which will have the effect of growing membership by recruiting from the people that are excited by that work.
he isn't though

you've got an initial proposition: "Start doing revolutionary work"

you then have a subordinate clause, clearly denoted by commas: "clearly separate from all electoral efforts and directly improving the lives of the workers"

the lack of a comma between 'electoral efforts' and 'and' indicates that all of this is subject to the 'clearly separate from'

and then you have a return to the main proposition: "and recruit and grow membership from the people that are excited by that work."

to read it your way you definitely need a comma in front of the 'and', or just a less fragmented sentence structure in general

but whatever, this is tangential
07-16-2018 , 10:40 AM
Ok, bloo, you have a critique of the article’s grammar. Your critique is noted.

Is that all you were trying to point out?
07-16-2018 , 11:01 AM
that wasn't a critique, it was confusion as to the point he was trying to make
07-16-2018 , 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Birdman10687
That is kind of sad. Tell me what kind of "impact" you are envisioning.
Part of my problem is that I don't have ideas for how to make an impact.
07-16-2018 , 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Birdman10687
Mets, you might actually like ocasio-Cortez. Turns out she is a huge Israel-stan
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...lestine-video/

Or not
07-16-2018 , 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by eyebooger
Part of my problem is that I don't have ideas for how to make an impact.
Is your workplace organized? Are the renters in your area organized?

What could you do to improve that?
07-16-2018 , 12:13 PM
Unfortunately not. There have been attempts at unionizing twice since I've started there, but votes have failed both times.

Never heard of renters becoming organized.
07-16-2018 , 12:44 PM

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1018895453935624192
07-16-2018 , 12:50 PM
The interesting question is how is Mueller bringing indictments without the server? Did they give him access to it? I don't think crowdstrike would work in court.
07-16-2018 , 01:08 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...investigation/

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Why the physical DNC server wasn’t investigated by the FBI. We’ll use an imperfect analogy here.

When investigators go to a crime scene, they use a technique to dust for fingerprints, which results in a reproduction of the contours of the tip of a suspect’s finger. It’s that reproduction that is used to find a match against a database of fingerprints; FBI investigators don’t have to take the safe with them to constantly recheck the original print. They use the copy.

That is essentially what the FBI did with the DNC server: The bureau was provided with copies of the data on the server, like duplicating your own hard drive. Had Russians accessed the physical server after breaking into the DNC, the physical server itself might have been useful. Instead, they were given the server’s fingerprint, so to speak. This was confirmed by a spokesman for the DNC and by then-FBI Director James B. Comey in testimony.

“Best practice is always to get access to the machines themselves,” Comey said in March 2017, “but this — my folks tell me was an appropriate substitute.”

One reason the fingerprint analogy is imperfect, incidentally, is that a duplicate of the data on the DNC server is a perfect copy. A lifted print is not.
07-16-2018 , 01:10 PM
I see.
07-16-2018 , 01:17 PM
I have not been following the Trump news much lately from north of the border, but can someone quickly tell me, is the US a fascist state already? Or is that still preventable?
07-16-2018 , 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by DarkMagus
I have not been following the Trump news much lately from north of the border, but can someone quickly tell me, is the US a fascist state already? Or is that still preventable?
Putin is paying Trump money for every brown person he kills or deports and everyone is in on it. There is no hope.
07-16-2018 , 01:25 PM
I sense sarcasm.
07-16-2018 , 01:30 PM
Some of what I've read lately is not too far off from that
07-16-2018 , 01:57 PM
Using the extremes to discredit the moderate is not a convincing argument.
07-16-2018 , 02:07 PM
Here's a photo I found in us open tennis wiki I found entertaining for some reason.

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07-16-2018 , 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by DarkMagus
Using the extremes to discredit the moderate is not a convincing argument.
I didn't think you were looking for a serious answer but if you want one, I would say that the level of fascism is about the same as it has been.
07-16-2018 , 02:12 PM
People in the US are being thrown in jail for speaking their minds whilst the government is trying to take away the citizens guns and democracy is being supplanted by a group of appointed elites who ignore the will of the people as they please and the populace is being distracted by a phony zeitgeist.
07-16-2018 , 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by DarkMagus
I have not been following the Trump news much lately from north of the border, but can someone quickly tell me, is the US a fascist state already? Or is that still preventable?
Been fascist quite some time, my dude
07-16-2018 , 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
I would say that the level of fascism is about the same as it has been.
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Originally Posted by Birdman10687
Been fascist quite some time, my dude
Can each of you quickly define the word "fascism" in your own words?
07-16-2018 , 02:35 PM
The communist definition is "a word to attach to things I don't like to discredit them"
07-16-2018 , 02:46 PM
Mostly eyebooger I mean the us being a police state. That hasn't increased or decreased with Trump and would be hard to influence too much as a lot of it is state/local and/or the product of a lot of time.

There is certainly a lot more that I could say.
07-16-2018 , 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by pwnsall
The communist definition is "a word to attach to things I don't like to discredit them"
This must mean you have a good understanding of what fascism is. So why don’t you explain it?
07-16-2018 , 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by pwnsall
People in the US are being thrown in jail for speaking their minds whilst the government is trying to take away the citizens guns and democracy is being supplanted by a group of appointed elites who ignore the will of the people as they please and the populace is being distracted by a phony zeitgeist.
when was there a democracy to supplant?

      
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