Liberal by upbringing/Socialist by choice, but (n),000 pages behind on the reading - he/him/comrade - nerd/tradesperson/grandpa/cat dad Eternally Shadowbanned
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Grumpy Lefty Carpenter retweeted
For the hegemon, the ethnonationalists, the bully - history always starts the day someone punched them back.
Grumpy Lefty Carpenter retweeted
Found some vintage Troy Jackson footage in the CNN archives during their 1998 logger protest. (on the right)
The reality of folks like Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, Liz Smith, et al, trying to minimize the progressive theme of this election cycle remind me of the saying "Some use statistics like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, and not illumination."
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Pretty rich watching Jeffries and Schumer take the credit for the Bluenami, when it's obvious that the true architect of the win was Steven Miller.
The weather has been good for the fungi recently. These are the next candidates for partially burying in the yard to provide soil nutrients.
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Grumpy Lefty Carpenter retweeted
Funny to me and probably only me that wirelessly charging a phone means the nearest solar panels are generating DC electricity, which inverters turn into AC, which the wall adapter turns into DC, which the wireless charger turns into AC, which the phone’s rectifier turns into DC
They say that cyanide smells like almonds, but what they're really saying is that almonds smell like cyanide.
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Grumpy Lefty Carpenter retweeted
You keep trying to explain empire to Americans like they are being tricked.
Like if you just show them enough evidence, they will finally break.
But what if the truth is simpler.
What if they saw enough already and decided they prefer being on the side that gets to drop the bombs.
What if all the "not in my name" signs are the minority and the silent majority is perfectly fine with the trade.
Grumpy Lefty Carpenter retweeted
To Racists & Ignorant people:
NYC is a city, not a country, so the appropriate suffix should be -abad or -pur, not -stan.
As in:
- Mamdanapur or Mamdanabad
- Ramanapur or Ramanabad
I do so love the impromptu snowstorms of orange, yellow, and red you get with sufficiently strong gusts of wind this time of year in New England.
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