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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 18:43:35 +1100
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On 5/01/2025 10:54 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Jan 2025 14:04:39 -0800, john larkin wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 14:33:10 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/4/2025 12:20 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 11:30:07 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 1/4/2025 11:09 AM, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fox News et al. generates a whole variety of fatuous nonsense and
>>>>>>> they see what gets clicks and eyeballs and what doesn't, throw shit
>>>>>>> at the wall and see what sticks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then they feed the most highly-rated nonsense to Trump/Musk/Vance
>>>>>>> et al who bring it up in their next speech or X post and the hoi
>>>>>>> polloi are like "Wow, they know what's on our minds. they really
>>>>>>> understand us!"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You sneer at the people who keep you alive. Maybe they shouldn't
>>>>>> bother.
>>>>>
>>>>> PS: I can do my own tech support, plumbing, and car repair, and the
>>>>> overwhelming majority of Americans aren't farmers. And robots and
>>>>> migrant labor don't vote.
>>>>
>>>> Do you generate your own electricity, pump your own water, kill your
>>>> own chickens, do your own surgery and nursing, chop your own wood to
>>>> heat your house?
>>>>
>>>> Keep bees for wax and honey? We did that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are we operating under the premise that there are only conservatives in
>>> the service industry sector, and the trades?
>>>
>>> I don't have much further to add to this (somewhat confusing) scenario
>>> if that's the case because I reject the premise as being silly. There
>>> are no leftists in medicine or nursing, now?
>>>
>>> I didn't start studying electronics seriously until my late 20s, and
>>> didn't make any money at it for years after that. I've had lots of jobs
>>> over the years, washing dishes, delivering papers, stocking shelves,
>>> tech support, sales, senior care-giving..
>>>
>>> Not sure what grudge you think I have against the "working class", I
>>> _am_ the working class!
>>
>> But are you a hoi polloi ?
> 
> No Leftists are among the 'hoi polloi' - they're a class apart: better
> than everyone else and therefore entitled to rule the world. Apparently.

Cursitor Doom tries to pretend that he is an English gentleman, quite a 
few of whom do think that they are entitled to rule the world.

He clearly doesn't hang around with real leftists who are enthusiastic 
about educating their colleagues and co-workers.

It was a leftist who said "If took the most ardent revolutionary and 
vested him with absolute power within a year he will be worse than the 
Tsar himself".

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/801264-if-you-took-the-most-ardent-revolutionary-vested-him-in

Mikhail Bakunin was being rude about Karl Marx around 1876, and it took 
nearly fifty years for the prophecy to come true, but real leftist do 
know the quote - and the fact that I do doesn't make me any kind of real 
leftist, no matter how well that would fit Cursitor Doom's delusions.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney