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re: which take on the song is better? 

@packbat thanks for ny’all’s input!

it’s an interesting response to me because the rearrangement feels Completely Wrong to me and i’ve been wondering if it’s just a nostalgia thing or not

re: which take on the song is better? 

lol, no opinions huh?

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idk what a good solution to this is but i do think it is the most obvious challenge to the idea of direct voting being the ideal form of democracy

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the obvious example to be beyond if you wanted to address problems affecting a numerical minority that is a minoritized population. theoretically their concerns could just get outvoted

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i feel like there is something to the idea of the tyranny of the majority and i’m not sure what a satisfactory way of dealing with that problem is

i’m happy it seems i didn’t fuck up the merge from current glitch-soc last night because i would like to not work on the instance during labor day lol

@Lady i feel like the answer is "not much tbh" but it’s a fair question!

anyway this is what we mean by “semantic shift” as, given what commewnism means today for leftists, calling the wobs commies would be ludicrous

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marx & engels at one point identified commewnism as a movement of the working class, where the working class is the leading actor of the revolution, as opposed to what they called socialism, which was a movement of the supposedly Enlightened trying to convince the powerful to be nice

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funnily enough, going by the definition of commewnism (as opposed to socialism) provided by The Manifesto, the iww is a commewnist movement

how about they start offering the generic USB controller support upgrade already

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