@Pluto's Republic Please, please, that if you decide to go that you tell me. Then we shall go together, dog and alligator. Shucks. How long you think that travel ban is gonna last? I don't wanna go in cold weather. You know, it's a genetic thingy.

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...and come to Paris and Greece with the rest of the Bohemians. Life is too short to waste it on the debris of derailed evolution.

@wendy davis These are the admonitions which, I being a wretchedly-certified practitioner of the healing arts owe as a fiduciary duty to my coterie of adoring patients. To wit and forthwith, dear wd, that the aforesaid comment and any attached attachments do not in any way imply or suggest a medical course of treatment. Nor will I be held liable for mal-diagnosis, either erroneous or omitted, when the provision of advice is proffered. Thus, in the case of your stinging critique of my failure to note your pathologic knee joints (patello-femoral as well as the more usual femoral-tibial arthritides). Therefore, the lack of information about inability to ambulate unassisted, would substantially effect any statements made or implied by said physician, vitiating any diagnostic failure of commission and / or omission.

Thus, the avalanche of pertinent factoids with which you showered me, may lead me to more revision of the original question: on your feet or on your knees? Please send x-rays and physiotherapy evaluations to me so that I properly make any suggestions regarding orthopedic disabilities which may be present.

Thank you for your kind attention to this admonition.

Verbiage crafted by Alphonse Alligator, attorney-in-fact to Alligator University

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what you mean by 'on my feet or on my knees', of course. if by on my feet you mean: by any means necessary' as we've discussed earlier, then 'on my knees as a keyboard warrior'. but then i'm already on my knees metaphorically, needing two crutches outdoors. so there's that a well.

i'm pretty much ready to die, but the only way i'd harm another is in defense: then, with my hands...easily, which i've stupidly done many times, but not to the death, of course.

but please, please do tell me 'which good old days' you've alluded to.

dunno whether or not to bring this from glen ford (balack agenda report) i'd taken to my current post on the new $483 corona virus package. but:

Diseased System in Shut-Lockdown: Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism, april 23, 2020

If growing misery among the masses is what made revolutions, the Lords of Capital would have been deposed from their ruling perches long ago. But human beings do not spend their lives tallying cumulative assaults on their well being and dignity, and ruling classes are expert at blaming despised Others, foreign and domestic, for the ills of society. History shows us that economic crises do not become political crises that seriously threaten the ruling order until a critical mass of people come to the realization that the system itself is rotten, unbearable and incapable of meaningful reform. They must not only hate the rulers, but also hate the rulers’ system of governance more than they despise domestic Others and “threatening” foreigners. Otherwise, the Lords of Capital will simply find another face to represent their interests, defusing popular disconnect.
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The people’s level of consciousness determines whether an economic crisis becomes a political threat to the rule of the rich. As Frederick Douglass said, “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” There are tipping points in history, although correctly identifying them is easy only in hindsight. Economic collapse, famines, natural disasters and, especially, wars have most often served to tip the mass consciousness from solemn sufferance to rebellion, at least among the most volatile sectors of the oppressed.
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Socialism became the dominant ideology of the oppressed, including the most active Black strugglers and intelligentsia in the United States. It was the revolutionary Black nationalist and socialist movements that made the Sixties a period of political change and profound danger to domestic racial capitalism and U.S. imperialism, causing the rulers to impose a counterinsurgency-type system of Black Mass Incarceration. At the same time, a Black Misleadership Class was cultivated -- bound to the Democratic Party -- to manage the increasingly Black cities and to limit Black politics to that which is acceptable to the Lords of Capital.
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In this time of incomparable economic and health crisis the real Left, small as it is, must make the case for socialism and the overthrow of rich man’s rule. At the beginning of this article I wrote:” History shows us that economic crises do not become political crises that seriously threaten the ruling order until a critical mass of people come to the realization that the system itself is rotten, unbearable and incapable of meaningful reform.”

I believe that such a critical mass exists, right now. Not enough to make a revolution, but more than enough to start the process.

the graphic at the top:

which signifies to me his earlier #DemExit/#EnterGreen. but what he means by 'a revolution is anyone's guess.

anyway, RL chores are callin' my name.

signed,

#OnMyKneesKeyboardWarrior