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Scott Bennett
@letsmakethempay.bsky.social
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Writer, raconteur, pretentious jerk.
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letsmakethempay.bsky.social
How watching an old episode of The Sopranos helped me realize how AI threatens our entire legal system.

#artificialintelligence #law #evidence #AI

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November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
Confronting fear, confronting your programming… how waking up to uncomfortable realities dismantles hierarchy… but thanks to Andre The Beast Crayton for having me on his show… watch “Scott Bennett HD Full Episode” on YouTube…

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November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
When people ask me why I think it’s okay to use AI art in my posts, my response is that I believe it is valid to use the tools of our oppressors for liberation. I would never criticize a slave for grabbing the master’s pitchfork during an uprising.

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AI Comment Mystery
Was it something I said?
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November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
I know you’re scared. I am too. But the rich are really scared. And you want to know something really scary? They should be.

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This Halloween the Rich are Terrified
... they should be
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October 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
Andre The Beast Crayton was kind enough to have me on his show to talk about class consciousness. I really enjoyed our conversation and I hope you will as well. Please check it out!
October 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
If someone with limited power is trying to push you around, tell them to shove it up their ass.

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October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
Have you noticed that anybody with even a little authority seems emboldened to abuse their power these days? Resist petty tyrants!

#tyrants #pettytyrants #trump #maga #authority

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Resist Petty Tyrants
Stay strong when authority abuses power
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October 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
The Trump Administration hates it when people are “woke.”

But what does woke even mean?

Woke means awake, conscious. Class conscious…

#woke

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Define "Woke"
Woke means awake, conscious, class conscious
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October 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Why conservatives tend to agree that existing hierarchies are justified...

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October 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
The reason conservatism exists is to maintain hierarchy. It has always been this way.

#hierarchy #conservative #rightwing

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Conservatism is the Fight For Hierarchy
The Right seeks to preserve or expand the privileges of those at the top
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October 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Trump’s ice goons pull guns on an unarmed guy on a bike in Rogers Park. Terrorizing neighborhoods
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
How capitalism lost the war in Vietnam…

#vietnam #warfare #communism #ushistory

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How Capitalism Lost the Vietnam War
Parts 1-5
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October 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.
October 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Why equality threatens all hierarchies...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Contact your reps & the State Dept to demand the release of abducted #Sumud #Flotilla members 🚨

✏️ Write Sect. Of State Marco Rubio:

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Abby Martin & Greg Stoker: Final Message From Gaza Flotilla Before Israel Attack
YouTube video by Empire Files
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October 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Capitalism, patriarchy, racism, religion all share one trait. The source of modern political instability is hierarchy... and it's on the way out

#hierarchy #capitalism #fascism #patriarchy #zionism

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Downfall of Hierarchy, Part 1
Capitalism, patriarchy, racism, religion all share one trait. The source of modern political instability is hierarchy... and it's on the way out
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October 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
Trump’s pursuit of authoritarian power is demolishing the constitutional system. If the laws that govern American society are meaningless - so too are the laws that govern modern American corporations.

#eattherich #maga #capitalism #communism

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How Trump Could Kill Capitalism
Blow it right up
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September 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
If our government acts lawlessly then law becomes meaningless.

The entire power apparatus of American corporations and capital ownership depend upon the rule of law.

If the law becomes meaningless, so too are elite and shareholder ownership claims.
September 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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When the president engages in openly lawless behavior he undermines the entire legal system, threatening to make all laws meaningless. Which is actually a huge threat to the entire capitalist system.

#maga #trump #law #scotus #capitalism

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Outlaw President
The President's Lawlessness has Much Bigger Implications
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September 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Word to Chicago protesters: going “floppy” is a tactic that annoys police, wastes their resources, and makes them look bad.
samwhyte.bsky.social Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · Sep 5
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”
September 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
Visited the Buck$ and Brew$ podcast… I was a little surprised at how much the others agreed with me for saying things that would have once been considered beyond the pale in American discourse. But hey, if you follow my here, you know I can be pretty persuasive.

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The Democrats Won't Stop Fascism
The Two-Party System is a Trap
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September 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Reposted by Scott Bennett
windycityprintshop.bsky.social
Anyone without a brain worm wriggling around inside their skull would agree. RFK Jr.’s conspiracy-fueled takes on public health are actively killing Americans every day. I made this shirt to get more people talking!

Get yours here: windycityprintshop.etsy.com/listing/4329...
A white tee shirt with a print featuring the nostalgic ox-and-wagon travel scene from the educational game “The Oregon Trail” with text “You died from following RFK Jr.’s advice. Also, FDT!
August 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
Warfare is good for business. Just think. If the U.S. wasn't using deadly force somewhere, American military companies could fail! Not having war is bad for share prices. Peace is bad for business.

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War is (Still) a Racket
This was definitely one of my best posts from last year.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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When you consider that businesses are run by dictators—that a firm is not a democracy—it makes sense why a series of rich guys at the top of the capitalist world think government can be run without following any laws.
How Musk, Trump, and your boss learned to hate democracy
Work is a dictatorship. Is the government next?
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August 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
letsmakethempay.bsky.social
“Propaganda and public relations have the same goals and job descriptions; ergo, they are the same thing.”

My friends at Fair Observer were kind enough to reprint my Substack post on propaganda and BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster. Check it out!

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Public Relations Means Propaganda
Public relations is propaganda designed to influence viewers’ attitudes and behaviors. Just look at BP — the oil corporation saved itself from ruin...
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August 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM