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There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that. ~Arundhati Roy
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LaFeminista's Profile
Real Name: Alessandra
DOB: 05/06/1977
Gender: Female
Location: France
Occupation: CFD / Research
Groups: Postcapitalism, Pro Choice, Frustrati, ClassWarfare Newsletter: WallStreet VS Working Class Global Occupy movement, LGBT Kos Community, Feminism, Pro-Feminism, Womanism: Feminist Issues, Ideas, & Activism, These Green Mountains, Occupy Wall Street, Bloggers Against Torture, Sluts, Courtesy Kos, New England Kossacks, Sex, Body, and Gender, The First and The Fourth, Caucus, The KETI Program, UN Climate Summit, African Issues, I ♥ Democratic Socialism, Team Bernie, LGBT Youth Support, DK Fans of 90 for 90, 50 State Strategy Project, Women for Bernie
Diaries published: 2186 (67 days since last diary on Thu Nov 17, 2016 at 02:58 PM PST)
Comments posted: 46981 (14 days since last comment on Mon Jan 09, 2017 at 12:29 AM PST)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 150048
Total Comment Ratings: 239152
Most Recommended Diary: A Liberating Experience. I'm now free of the BS, 867 comments, 927 recommends
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I have left my diaries [a couple of thousand] intact and for the record, I still stand by what was written.
There is one small thing that bothers me, a kind and generous anonymous donor gave me a lifetime subscription and I do not like to see it...
by LaFeminista
 203 comments
on Thu Nov 17, 2016 at 02:58 PM PST
with 88 Recommends
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Some have called it a fact-less speech, that is not strictly true either:
CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump’s acceptance speech here was filled with Trump-like hyperbole and the kind of vague political rhetoric that is hard to pin down.
But there...
by LaFeminista
 135 comments
on Fri Jul 22, 2016 at 01:41 AM PDT
with 87 Recommends
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With each election I witness it is becoming quite evident that the last people that should be listened to are the Partisans, hell they can even put you off a candidate that you quite like. Funnily enough this seems to be the fundamental election...
by LaFeminista
56 comments
on Fri May 13, 2016 at 01:47 PM PDT
with 30 Recommends
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Let me be quite clear this is not an adieu, but an au revoir.
I have always thought of personality politics as a waste of time and am more interested in changing the way things are, Nuit Debout represents our thoughts far more than any standard...
by LaFeminista
224 comments
on Wed Apr 13, 2016 at 09:15 AM PDT
with 80 Recommends
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The real shame of that statement is that it is true, if you agree with her positions and votes over the last quarter of a century.
My issue is I have been in opposition to nearly all of them, the same with my choice in the Primary Bernie Sanders. ...
by LaFeminista
69 comments
on Thu Apr 07, 2016 at 01:51 PM PDT
with 87 Recommends
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Now luckily for Democrats in general there is a primary at all, because you know, well it was all meant to be so inevitable.
“We” have been told time after time any challenger had no chance, “we” even have “Math” thrown in our collective faces to...
by LaFeminista
33 comments
on Wed Apr 06, 2016 at 11:06 AM PDT
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