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The left, with its lockdowns, pronouns, masks, Russophobia, mandates and Female erasure, and the right, with its imperialism, racism, militarism, xenophobia and antiabortionism, are Opposite Wings of the Same Vulture. There is no electoral solution. One must exit and start over from scratch.

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The point of AI is to replace humans, period, in every facet of society.

And good one by Woodhouse about the pro-censorship turn by the "right." "Left" and "right" have for a long time been two wings of the same capitalist bird.

One could say this has been the case since the first time social democrats took over a national government, in Germany on 11/9/1918, two days before the Armistice which ended the WWI fighting between the big powers. The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) went on to bloodily put down a mass nationwide insurrection by workers and rank and file military personnel, a process which went on for several years. Among the dead were former SPD parliament members Rosa Luxemburg and Kerl Liebknecht. This has set the pace, right to today's lockdown-enforcing social-democrat-run regimes.

[EDIT to add: actually, by that point in 1918, it had been a year since the Bolsheviks, a party which believed in enacting a social democratic program via the seizure of state power by force, rather than elections. had already imposed a capitalist program ("state capitalist") upon the Russian working class. See Maurice Brinton "Bolsheviks and Workers' Control, 1917-1921," 1970.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1970/workers-control/

"They discuss the definition and timeline of “the Machine,” the impulse behind transhumanism, the differences between the Western church and Eastern Orthodoxy, and the relationship between paganism and Christianity, among other topics. It’s well worth listening to in full. "

Sounds very interesting, thanks. Indeed thanks for every single item here. So glad to have come upon this Substack, which i've added to my list of recommendations.

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Thanks for your thoughts, Jeffrey!

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By the way, Vincent, i copied and pasted this item into my latest Newsletter.

https://jeffreystrahl.substack.com/p/newsletter-51724

And Andy stated he'd be into you coming on to a WS4C meeting to do a presentation, i'd like it as well.

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