136 points

The average person is conflict avoidant and terrible at negotiating. In general life, this is even a virtue. But it’s bad for revolutions. Get more comfortable being stubborn, people

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88 points

Thank God, it’s finally a beneficial use for this personality trait of mine

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16 points

ODD kids will lead the revolution

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22 points

Tsarists, Russia 1917: “Hey, just delay the revolution a bit. We’ll get better :(”

Lenin: Nah.

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11 points

Good thing we haven’t set up any of our online spaces to cater to liberal norms of civility and get anyone who disrupts anyone else’s way of thinking banned haha

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Bonus points: practice on your boss

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126 points

An immediate vote might be a win. A months away vote is a defeat for the student movement here.

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52 points

It also gives the opps more time to stage some shit which will compel the school to seize negotiations on grounds of “bad faith”

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Full agree that if they had actually gotten a vote within the next week, that is an acceptable outcome.

This is horseshit and they’re gonna fuck around and find out.

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What amuses me the most is that libs would get mad if they saw this thread.

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Y’all don’t understand how things work. Don’t be naïve. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Etc etc fucking etc

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68 points

“tHiS Is PrOgRrEsS”

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y’all

I’m not one for inspecting people’s language choices and I’m not even from the US, so I don’t have a dog in this race… but goddamn, libs using y’all annoys me to no end

Edit: I should have been clearer here. There’s lots of varieties of US English which use y’all and that’s obviously natural, it’s just that I’ve seen lots of wannabe DC staffer coastal lib types using it in a way that feels kinda condescending and annoying

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Yeah! What drives me nuts is that some libs like using it as a kind of folksy affectation, but I might be reading too much into it

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17 points

Embrace your inner Philadelphian

Embrace “yous”

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6 points

Some cunning linguist could definitely do something interesting investigating the “dialects” of political parties or movements, like a spiritual successor to Victor Klemperer’s LTI.

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y’all

I grew up in the in the SF Bay Area and at the time when I was a kid to me Marin county was the most “typical” place in California. By “typical” I mean liberal. That was a million years ago back then politics was purely adult stuff. Kids never bothered with and didn’t give a crap about.

Now - many decades later - when I’m trying to get the voice right of the most liberal person possible - I try to imagine what a wine mom (Or a wine dad. A micro-brew beer dad?) in a house costing many millions would say on the net as she sipped a $300 wine. Of course - nobody in Marin is going to use y’all in speech. It’s as foreign to them as talking to an actual leftist.

Y’all in rich white lib online usage is a patronizing “folksy” word to get the moronic hoi polloi to understand the realities of politics in the real world. Compromise must be the order of the day because blah blah blah blah blah…

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I error checked my humor format - haha. I haven’t lived in California for decades. I wanted to see how rich Marin County actually is. Yeap - I’ll keep my Marin country wine mom for reference.

10 Richest Counties in California (2023) | PropertyClub

  1. Santa Clara County
  2. San Mateo County
  3. Marin County
  4. San Francisco County
  5. Alameda County
  6. Contra Costa County
  7. Orange County
  8. Placer County
  9. Napa County
  10. Santa Cruz County
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20 points

Y’all mad bro?

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I keep seeing y’all discourse. I grew up in the south and the word is used by everyone as part of the typical dialect. Maybe it’s an affectation in some parts of the country but it’s just a normal word where I’m from.

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4 points

That’s because you’re from the South and Southern American English and Appalachian English are the two biggest dialects that normally use y’all.

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11 points

you can’t just say where your money is spent!

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107 points

A few months later:

The vote was rigged and nothing changed??

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59 points

They’ll hold the session after October 7 which will be full of Mossad propaganda pretty much everywhere. So they’ll become more pro-israel after the vote.

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I somehow entirely missed the obviousness of why the vote will be in mid or late October because I forgot the number seven.

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18 points

Rigged? I’m guessing the only vote that takes places and matters is the admin, and they will vote no. There’s no need for rigging lol

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96 points

Damn these mfers got that ivy league education…

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43 points

And they’re about to find out what having an Ivy League education is all about.

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32 points

It’s all about that DNC internship baby

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