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@whatifalthist It speaks to how modern systems discipline/control the body (or specific ‘types’ of bodies). IE: school as a sedentary activity occurring at a desk disciplining the body into the white collar workforce. Comes from Foucault I think

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@whatifalthist Posting from an alt bc my main is private. Not a public figure but I am a historian in academia (fellowships, research, etc) of a similar age and background (Philly area) and have watched your vids with interest for a while. Let me know if youre interested

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@whatifalthist Are you willing to apply this logic to trans people? You seem very averse to even attempting to understand people who have variant gender identities

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@Sinsux9100 @libsoftiktok @AlachuaSchools The librarians? The author of the book? Who are “these people”?

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@NYPDretiredHV @alionesss @libsoftiktok @AlachuaSchools Do you… do you watch the news?

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@graceand_truth @libsoftiktok @AlachuaSchools Arent you guys the ones trying to get rid of this book?

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@PeasantSalad @YannisEmpanada You’re generalizing. I’m talking about the specific case of leftist veterans— of which there are a great number. Why should they be excluded from the movement? What does antagonizing them gain?

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@PeasantSalad @YannisEmpanada Comparison to cops is a false equivalency. Someone who has left the AF and gained class consciousness or who left after gaining CC is categorically different from a cop who continues to serve.
A lot of these soldiers sign when they are 18-20 years old! They are kids! Victims!

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@PeasantSalad @YannisEmpanada Is it really that different though? I just feel like some grace should be held for the poor young people who have been lured into the military by propaganda & the forces of capitalism. Where does purity politics get us?

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@PeasantSalad @YannisEmpanada genuine question. where do you draw the line between ‘worker’ and ‘manager’?

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@Exoavolin @PeasantSalad @YannisEmpanada this is a valid point

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@PeasantSalad @YannisEmpanada DPRK during the Korean War used propaganda to entice american soldiers (especially Black soldiers) to defect. here’s a pic of some vietnamese war propaganda directed at american soliders. do some reading and, i cannot emphasize this enough, touch grass

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@PeasantSalad @YannisEmpanada the work of enforcing imperial rule is not exclusive to soldiers. all of us in the FW are implicated to some degree & excluding ex-AF from the movement is just virtue signaling.

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@TheUnfunny_One @YannisEmpanada touch grass

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@TheUnfunny_One @YannisEmpanada My question to you would be: should we exclude people from the coalition because of military service? Often times that experience can be radicalizing. Blanket exclusion seems bad strategy and unscientific

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@TheUnfunny_One @YannisEmpanada I mean you can just google “military demographics” I dont need to argue facts with you. if you talked to any ex-military leftists they will also be able to tell you that the military structure itself is heavily class-based.

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@PeasantSalad @YannisEmpanada if you arent willing to try to empathize with and understand the working class soldiers of empire you are doing yourself a disservice as a marxist

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@TheUnfunny_One @YannisEmpanada by denying the fact that AF recruits intentionally among poor and racialized people you are limiting your understanding of a crucial mechanism or the imperialist system. please read a book or talk to someone irl about this

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@Nerdyredneckrob @libsoftiktok I guess I just don’t really see what you see in this vid. To me it was her telling a story about how certain assumptions can be ingrained in us even as children