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Sat 8 Aug 2020 09:47

@mnovember2 if I were to engineer a flu as a biological weapon I’d engineer one that would mutate into harmlessness fairly quickly. What would be the advantage of attacking everyone in the world forever?

Sat 8 Aug 2020 08:54

@mnovember2 it does seem significant that each time you get such a pandemic, the permanent effects are milder. I mean I’m open to arguments as to why this will now reverse.

Sat 8 Aug 2020 08:52

@mnovember2 well I imagine there are 3 obvious models: the Black Death (generational outbreaks for several centuries), Spanish Influenza (second extremely devastating spike then dies dow), or Hong Kong flu (kills millions, quickly mutates into typical flu). Why are you predicting the first?

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 22:02

@RadikaleLiebe how was the action? (I was still recuperating. Be a bit yet before i’ll be marching around. Hopefully not too long.)

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 20:45

@MrSIowJam @hannahgais Cool. One rather wonders what this person’s list of good people on the left might consist of. Who’s left?

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 17:40

@JBujes @davidwengrow title isn’t quite there yet, because I don’t think they’ll let us call it “The Dawn of Everything.” For subject, this might give a hint: https://t.co/S9HlK9XTgB

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 17:38

@TomRidleyUK @JoeRRyle “I’m rubber you’re glue” isn’t going to help. Lying isn’t going to help. Everyone knows Corbynites didn’t control the money. You give yourself away by saying things that are so obviously, demonstrably false. Now I’ll block you.

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 17:37

@matt_young @IanMorrisLabour @JoeRRyle no in 2017 the Blairites were trying to lose and almost failed; in 2019 they came up with the more efficient strategy of forcing Corbyn to change his position on Brexit

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 17:35

@TomRidleyUK @JoeRRyle yes and you’re over a hundred feet tall and are married to Emma Watson

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 15:34

@TrueMythocracy @JoeRRyle You’re the one who’s being condescending. And they most certainly did say what was happening. If you were a member and didn’t know you must have had your head up your ass and we’re too busy shouting at your own innards

Fri 7 Aug 2020 15:13

@TrueMythocracy @JoeRRyle They did use it. Look as I say I agree they should have gone for broke and deselected, but your casually dismissive attitude is stupid – you act like there was an easy obvious answer & there wasn’t

Fri 7 Aug 2020 14:02

@TrueMythocracy @JoeRRyle I agree they should have been way more aggressive. But they did do a lot. Just every tiny move faced insane unified opposition from press, bureaucracy, etc

Fri 7 Aug 2020 13:59

@dayvidbaaba @davidwengrow @SolarpunkA We tried that. Were told chain stores would automatically put it on the religious shelf

Fri 7 Aug 2020 13:57

@TrueMythocracy @JoeRRyle Actually they got their people into positions of structural power but it was a gradual process and by the time they’d done it, it was too late

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 13:38

@davidwengrow @SolarpunkA Nobody likes “the dawn of everything” – but it’s descriptive

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 10:59

@yona1959 @rattlecans If I could look at the sea it would surely help. I never seem to get near it

Fri 7 Aug 2020 10:02

@JBujes @davidwengrow working title is “The Dawn of Everything” but we don’t think they’ll let us use it. The one David and I have been writing since forever.

Fri 7 Aug 2020 09:51

@AnarchoP well sometimes it’s sectarian groupthink too. The people who particularly hate me, for instance, seem to be either Libcom or Jacobin adherents, primitivists, “anti-imperialist” tankies, Insurrectionists (or whatever they’re calling themselves nowadays…) etc

Fri 7 Aug 2020 09:49

@Anarchae0logist I wish that were the case, but from my own experience, the impulse to vilify, mock, condemn individual people over even rather minor differences in perspective is endless & really alienates outsiders