WanderingLefty

he/him, anti-capitalist, pessimistic yet hopeful lefty, academic, computer scientist, philosopher

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@Io_Lou @rodolfodeangeli @libsoftiktok @adidas Because this wasn’t made for you, next question.

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@salltweets Go make some trans friends, Sall. It would make you less of an ugly person

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@truckdriverpleb Lol, fuck that little dweeb. I’m glad he was pushed around

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@ianmiles No way, another video of a black person acting inappropriately? Could this be a completely coincidental choice by Nazi boy once again? So unexpected!

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@JaSalls @juan_dla_mancha @ianmiles I’d need to see a citation, because some brief googling seems to show that blonde and blue eyes were rare among the Greeks

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@juan_dla_mancha @JaSalls @ianmiles We should conclude she had the most common Greek / Persian features, which is dark hair, brown eyes, tan-to-brown skin. And she probably had a hooked nose. But otherwise, these are just the most probable claims, since there really is scant evidence of what she looked like

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@juan_dla_mancha @JaSalls @ianmiles Yes, many Greeks are regarded as white today.

Cleo’s family lived in Egypt for 200 years before she was born and the Ptolemaic dynasty likely intermarried with Persians, hence olive-to-light brown skin. And in any case, Macedonians also possessed diverse skin colors.

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@ChuckDaMan1945 @ianmiles That’s not what White means. There are white people all over the globe. White Russians are white, for instance.

She likely had Persian heritage in addition to Greek, so she was both Asian and European.

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@JaSalls @ianmiles Blue eyes / blond hair is unlikely only because most Greeks and Persians did / do not have those features.

In any case, most people in America if they saw Cleopatra would probably think she’s vaguely middle-eastern. She wouldn’t be classified by most as “white” or “black”

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@JaSalls @ianmiles The evidence for her particular appearance are scant, but if we base the appearance on her known ethnic ancestry (Greek/Macedonian/Persian), the most likely answer is brown eyes, dark curly hair, and olive / light brown / tanned skin. She also likely had an aquiline (hooked) nose

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@ianmiles Nazi boy hates gay people

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@TheMarsey @waltermasterson It was pretty funny. “Here I brought you a cake!” *pours milk into box of cakemix”

Pretty good analogy to “life begins at conception”

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@ianmiles What does it mean in concrete terms for you, nazi boy, to “stop the woke mind virus” and therefore “solve” poverty / homelessness?

Because Hitler-loving piss babies like yourself typically just want punitive violence. No systematic critique of systems of domination and exclusion

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@ianmiles @WhoWhatYou Oh look, I scroll down his tweets and only a few tweets back, here he is bitching about Netflix show about an urban legend Ukrainians pilot being cast as an Afro Ukrainian woman. Newsflash: black ppl exist in Ukraine and most of them are in Kyiv!

https://t.co/M6UsJl5yhi

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Netflix has gone too far.

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@ianmiles Nazi boy posted another video of black ppl doing something obnoxious. He also called them “youths” in scare quotes. Wonder what that could be about, @WhoWhatYou

What a strange pattern of finding videos of black ppl doing bad stuff. It’s not racist tho! It’s just a coincidence!

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@zezba9000 @waltermasterson And this is the right reply to cynical conservatives trying to “own” activists by telling them they are hypocrites for having an iPhone. Sure, I am responsible for a tiny portion of climate pollution. But you know what matters more than that? Policies. Governments. Corporations.

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@zezba9000 @waltermasterson The point about responsibility is also about effecting change. It’s more effective praxis to go out and protest governments / corporations and try to get them to change their actions because their actions matter a lot more than whether I buy an iPhone.

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@zezba9000 @waltermasterson If A shoots B because C is holding a gun to A’s head unless A shoots, that doesn’t mean A isn’t responsible. It means A bears some responsibility but C bears more responsibility. And extending this metaphor further, billionaires are like C holding a million guns to ppl’s heads.

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@zezba9000 @waltermasterson Same thing for responsibility as it concerns something like economic egalitarianism. Sure, poor Americans benefit from a system that relies on exploitation of the global south, but their responsibility is far less than those at the top.