The fact that you're no more able to imagine the possibility of the truly substantive changes we need, than you are able to understand any possible socialism other than your one experience of something you somehow misunderstand as exhausting all possible forms, is your failure
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Replying to @upwithppl @uhshanti and
that I grew up among generations of community/family members/friends/ who actually lived through variations of these ideas before? And have also lived for various periods of time in Europe (and respect and want to adopt aspects of their welfare systems in California?)
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
what's your exposure to real lived experiences of these transitions and systems?
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I took this photo in 2011 in San Salvador at the university where 6 Jesuit priests and their housekeeper and her daughter were shot. I saw the autopsy photos. I saw Oscar Romero’s bloody clothes from his assasination. 1/pic.twitter.com/44ytobHfx6
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Replying to @LiaOffLeash @kimmaicutler and
I was in foxholes where guerillas hid for months because a murderous capitalism govt backed by colonialist forces targeted them for wanting a more just equitable world. I respect you and don’t know you, but this is wildly condescending.
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Replying to @LiaOffLeash @kimmaicutler and
Youre entitled to your opinion re: communism, but please don’t assume that none of us know what we’re taking about or that we’re entitled privileged adventurers! You’re a venture capitalism, for crying out loud!
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the interesting thing about joining venture is realizing that the firms all work for pensions (AKA the public sector trying to sustain retirees) and university endowments. These are levers worth learning about and using.
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This doesn’t.... respond to a single point? I’m glad you find meaning in your work, I guess.
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Levers to use, I meant, from an activist perspective, not an investor's perspective. Most of the top-tier firms are working to make financial returns for ostensibly mission-oriented institutions like universities, teacher retirement funds, charitable foundations, etc.
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With all due respect, I seriously question the efficacy of this, but this is wildly off topic from your original point.
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you made an ad hominem about my job, and I was just adding some context. It hasn't really been tried, so I can't tell you how efficacious it would be.
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It’s not an ad hominem to point out that you are a venture capitalist, as it says in your bio, or that VC is fundamentally at odds with the redistribution of resources that Sasha/Shanti were advocating for, but I think we’re talking past each other @ this point. Have a good night
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