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This is an interesting review and a good intro to new municipalism (or what @davidjmadden calls 'socialist municipalism')

But it misses some key aspects of what makes the movement distinctive, and distinct from London's municipal socialism.
So here’s a thread on municipalism...


Municipalism is not simply ā€œa political stance as well as an approach to shaping the built environmentā€ (as @davidjmadden puts it) – it’s a distinctive strategic approach to democratising the local state and transforming urban economies using urban spaces as a platform…
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Municipalism adopts a ā€˜dual power’ strategy: 1) supporting commons and practices of commoning through which a more democratic, cooperative (and potentially prefiguratively postcapitalist) ā€˜solidarity economy’ can be instituted;
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...and 2) seeking to take hold of the political institutions of the local state through mobilising social movements for winning electoral office, to reimagine and transform the state from within, through guerrilla occupation of bureaucracies, in order to support 1) above.
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Means and ends are intertwined in a prefigurative politics that ā€˜feminises’ the state’s decision-making processes and subverts technocratic managerialism in favour of 'collective theory-building' and open-source, crowdsourced deliberative-democratic policy-making.
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Today I am ASHAMED of my people. The BACKBITING, BLATANT THEFT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, APPLAUSE AND SUPPORT GIVEN TO SAID THIEVES, THE CRABS IN THE BARREL MENTALITY AND BEHAVIORS... ALL OF IT!!!!!!! WHEN & WHERE do ETHICS & MORALITY come in? I’m also seeing A LOT OF SELF 1ļøāƒ£ā–¶ļø

HATRED. Because YOU CAN’T love yourself, and LACK INTEGRITY. You CAN’T love yourself, and ALLOW yourselves to be used and swayed by DISINGENUOUS, FRAUDULENT, CALCULATING, MANIPULATIVE, THIEVING people. You WOULDN’T just stand by, or take part in UNSCRUPULOUS behavior. 2ļøāƒ£ā–¶ļø


ESPECIALLY against people who THOUGHT ENOUGH OF YOU AND YOURS, who would CREATE something to BENEFIT YOU AND YOURS at THEIR EXPENSE. What WRONGS YOU are willing to do or allow to be done to others, is a DIRECT REFLECTION of how LITTLE YOU THINK OF YOURSELVES. It DOESN’T 3ļøāƒ£ā–¶ļø

matter if you disagree with those people. It DOESN’T matter if YOU have decided for PERSONAL reasons that YOU no longer want to support or applaud those people. But, RIGHT IS RIGHT...and WRONG IS WRONG. And, YOU have to have enough SELF RESPECT to STAND ON THE SIDE OF RIGHT 4ļøāƒ£ā–¶ļø

and CALL OUT THE WRONG. This is NOT about *liking* people, and joining *cliques*, or clubs. YOUR individual behavior AFFECTS THE ENTIRE COLLECTIVE. The MORE people who VALIDATE, PARTICIPATE, CONTRIBUTE, and PROMOTE the UNPRINCIPLED, IMMORAL, UNETHICAL, CALLOW BEHAVIORS of 5ļøāƒ£ā–¶ļø
Marjorie Taylor Greene is dangerous and vile


Marjorie Taylor Greene is dangerous and vile.

Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in 2018 and 2019 before running for Congress



Marjorie Taylor Greene is dangerous and vile.

Republican Who Endorsed School Shooting Conspiracies to Join House Education Panel
On 18.12.2020, computer engineer @FitTuber shared @YouTube video titled "10 Safe & Useful Ayurvedic Tablets to Replace Allopathic Pills (Instant Relief)". The drugs he promoted were by @baidyanathgroup, not sure if it was paid promotion. I bought them:
https://t.co/w6Sh2pMvJf


10 drugs, details, batch numbers R given in picšŸ‘‡. All by @baidyanathgroup exept 1 by https://t.co/tg46sBhJr2
We did GCMSMS, ICP-OES and FTIR analyses on these samples. Here are my 10 safer modern medicine alternatives 2 @FitTuber's untested, potentially harmful #Ayurvedic drugs


Kanthsudharak Vati by Unjha Pharma
@FitTuber: 4 sorethroat, cold, cough
Analysis: Lead 0.54 mg/kg, Cadmium 0.4 mg/kg, Thallium 0.71 mg/kg and industrial phenols.
Low values, but not ideal.

Safe alternative: Levocetrizine & non-sedative cough syrup Levodropropizine


Baidyanath Rajbati
@Fittuber: for bloating, gas
Analysis:
Mercury 1.2 mg/kg
Arsenic 2.25 mg/kg
Male anabolic hormone - hydroxy testosterone+
Curcumin
Talc powder

Safer alternative: activated charcoal+simethicone (non-absorbed, no side effects) or short course esomeprazole.


Baidyanath Bilwadi Choorna
@Fittuber - 4 diarrhoea
Analysis
Thallium 3.68 mg/kg
[fun fact: 10-15 mg/kg is lethal dose for humans. Death can occur at lower dosages] https://t.co/9ozOKROhCK
Fenretinide - synthetic anti-cancer drug
Liver toxic chromium phosph.

Safer: Racecadotril
Let us look back at fairly recent history for a moment, shall we? Beginning in mid September and growing louder in October, 2016, a campaign of there is an explosive document out there that if you only saw it would destroy Trump and you need to know about this!


This wasn't even Sources Say, this was I am such an insider that I have seen this thing and *pearl clutch* if only I could tell you but trust me. My response was publish it then. If it is so explosive and so important, publish it. If it is that important, let me see it.

Cut to January, 2017 and Buzzfeed publishing the Steele fanfic I mean dossier and there it was. That was what Our Super Duper Ultra Connected Insiders meant and, apparently, believed to their hearts that it was true. Trump was being run by Russia! Russia Russia Russia!

As I stated then and as I continue to state, it is my firm belief that the goal with the dossier and all the related spying upon Trump was to charge Trump with treason after Trump lost in 2016. And by treason I mean actual treason. I mean Trump is a spy and being run by Russia.

Trump has been run by Russia since the 1980s has been going around the Left wing internet circles for ages. This is not a new charge. Look at the rhetoric used by Hillary Clinton to this day about Trump and Russia. The goal was a treason charge. Pour encourager and all that.