A centrist Democrat just complained to me that Democratic socialists alienate him with our progressive policies. Cry me a **** river. Blocked.
I have to read headlines about how DSA might cost Democrats a seat. I never read headlines about how centerist democrats cost Democrats seats by blocking progressives. Even though that happens far more frequently.
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in reply to Franceska Mann • — (0.0.0.0/ 0) •Politics make me puke so I'm not familiar with centrist or more right or left or whatever!
We need a revolution.
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The centrists are the people in the Democratic Party who love war, court Republican votes, pass surveillance laws, and court monied donors. There's never money for healthcare or humanity, but their donors pay low taxes and use the government as tools to increase their own personal profit. Centrist Democrats are to the right of Republicans in the 1980s. You could also call them Neo liberals.
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Revolution does not
begin with fire
But with attention
A chair pulled back,
A question voiced
It is not destruction that
unsettles power,
It is people choosing to appear,
to stand where they can be seen
and answered.
The new enters this way:
Fragile, unfinished.
Born from the courage
to love the world enough
to risk beginning
once again.
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A beautiful poet wrote this for me at the European Christmas fair in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2025. He didn't sign the poem with his name. He lives in Wisconsin.
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in reply to Franceska Mann • — (0.0.0.0/ 0) •@Franceska Mann It is very beautiful 🙂 Although my vision is a little bit similar and never encourage violence to achieve anything at all but problems. Did you ever read the Cyberpunk's Manifesto and the part of our vision on society?
The Society which surrounds us is clogged with concervacy pulling everything and everybody to itself, while it sinks slowly in the quicksands of time.
However doggedly some refuse to believe it, it is obvious that we live in a sick society. The so called reforms which our governments so adeptly use to boast, are nothing else but a little step forward, when a whole jump can be done.
People fear the new and unknown. They prefer the old, the known and checked truths. They are afraid of what the new can bring to them. They are afraid that they can lose what they have.
Their fear is so strong that it has proclaimed the revolutional a foe and the free idea--its weapon. That's their fault.
People must leave this fear behind and go ahead. What's the sense to stick to the little you have now when you can have more tomorrow. Everything they must do is stretch their hands and feel for the new; give freedom to thoughts, ideas, to words:
For centuries each generation has been brought up in a same pattern. Ideals is what everybody follows. Individuality is forgotten. People think in a same way, following the cliché drilled in them in childhood, the cliché--education for all children: And, when someone dares defy authority, he is punished and given as a bad example. "Here is what happens to you when you express your own opinion and deny your teacher's one".
Our society is sick and need to be healed. The cure is a change in the system…
A Cyberpunk Manifesto
The System¶
The System. Centuries-old, existing on principles that hang no more today. A System that has not changed much since the day of its birth.
The System is wrong.
The System must impose its truth upon us so that it can rule. The government needs us follow it blindly. For this reason we live in an informational eclipse. When people acquire information other than that from the government, they cannot distinguish the right from the wrong. So the lie becomes a truth--a truth, fundamental to everything else. Thus the leaders control with lies and the ordinary people have no notion of what is true and follow the government blindly, trusting it.
We fight for freedom of information. We fight for freedom of speech and press. For the freedom to express our thoughts freely, without being persecuted by the system.
Even in the most-developed and 'democratic' countries, the system imposes misinformation. Even in the countries that pretend to be the cradle of free speech. Misinformation is one of the system's main weapon. A weapon, they use very well.
It is the Net that helps us spread the information freely. The Net, with no boundaries and information limit.
Ours is yours, yours is ours.
Everyone can share information, no restrictions.
Encrypting of information is our weapon. Thus the words of revolution can spread uninterrupted, and the government can only guess.
The Net is our realm, in the Net we are Kings.
Laws. The world is changing, but the laws remain the same. The System is not changing, only a few details get redressed for the new time, but everything in the concept remains the same.
We need new laws. Laws, fitting the times we live in, with the world that surrounds us. Not laws build on the basis of the past. Laws, build for today, laws, that will fit tomorrow.
The laws that only refrain us. Laws that badly need revision.
Then there is the Vision.
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A Cyberpunk Manifesto
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