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Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought

@highestmarx.bsky.social

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Political theorist and anonymous adjunct, planting seeds beneath the snow.

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Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · Jan 28

Our biggest problems as a country are all downstream of our failure to hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree.

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Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 5h

I’m an American millennial socialist and it did not take a Hearts of Iron mod to make me that way. Punk music was more than sufficient.

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Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 7h

Happy Birthday Ursula K. Le Guin

“You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

The Dispossessed

Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

Rock Creek Tennis Center has no idea it will one day be a national historical site commemorating the revolutionary birth of the Transcontinental Congress

Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

Proof of the disciplinary effects that come with so much as a hint of a credible primary threat

Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

Yes it did. Time will tell if it’s effective as a springboard for organizing but it’s churlish to say a mass mobilization of general opposition to the regime is useless. Diversity of tactics, etc.

But this TikToker is just a clout chasing wrecker. Absolutely useless as analysis.

Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

He’s our Tom Bombadil

Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

No way your dreams can be possibly be sweet

Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

Wow I thought Saturday’s marches were a major morale boost and demonstration of presence that will help kick off a wave of new organizing but according to the lady who created *squints* Wicked City they were bad and dumb.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

sums it up. headlines on crowd sizes and the feeling that maybe something happens (somewhere else) aren’t action, and getting a bunch of people to show up to a party for nothing isn’t organizing.

find your people and build something real.

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Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the single funniest bits in all of KOTH

KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 8, Episode 13

Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

ITS OVAH ROCK!

Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

Weren’t most of the “little green men” killed at Hostomel?

Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

Yes I have no doubt Russia will push boundaries in some of these ways. But if you don’t have the infantry and armor to make good on those threats they don’t do much good.

Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

I think you're paranoid and you've bought in to the Russian line on this. You're falling for their propaganda too, just from a different angle.

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Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

Yikes

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Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

Russia is not a contender for global hegemony

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Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I don’t think Russia has the capability or desire to fight a full scale war with NATO right now.

They have their hands full with Donetsk and, I dunno, figuring out how to build anti-drone cages for their oil refineries.

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Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

But it is funny that there are people who have (presumably) watched how the Russo-Ukrainian War has unfolded and are genuinely worried about an "On to Berlin!" scenario

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Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't say that. No one said that.

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Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

They absolutely are not. Amazing how people still fall for Russia's hype 3.5 years into its Special FUBAR Operation

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Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

Dont count them out! At the rate they're going they might make it to Kyiv in six years or so with only around five million KIA. And then what will Europe do?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 3d

What zero pussy does to a mf’er

Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 3d

Ok we can allow one king

Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 3d

Brooklyn, baby

Uphold Karl BOO-lanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 3d

fun little thing to do is watch the last five minutes of Garland’s Civil War while imagining a, um, different cast of characters in the White House