Thread by @JuliusGoat

"Radical."

https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1062545323040620544

Normal: An authoritarian president mobilizes the U.S. military on Texas soil to score political advantage in an election he intends to discredit.

Radical: Let's take care of people if they're sick.

Let us all be radicals.

Normal: A dead-eyed neo-Nazi mocks the Statue of Liberty's status as a beacon of freedom on behalf of a President who let Puerto Ricans drown and calls African countries "shitholes."

Radical: What if everyone in our society was educated?

Let us all be radicals.

Normal: Racist round-up troops hide outside public buildings and board public transport to entrap people who have lived here for decades, steal children from their mothers, cage them, forget about them, sexually abuse them.

Radical: They shouldn't.

Let us all be radical.

Normal: Let's ignore calls to change behavior that science now believes endangers all human life until it's too late anyway, we need to bring back coal mining and boost oil profits.

Radical: Let's try to save human existence on the planet.

Let us all be radical.

people sure do believe things

Normal: The ability to live in a society must be earned by profit.

Radical: The ability to live in a society is the point of society, it what society contractually obligated itself to provide when we agreed to allow it to exist by forming.

let us be radicals

let us be radicals

Normal: The only people who matter are the people who can afford to matter, everyone else is mooching freebies.

Radical: Everybody matters. Everyone is art. And someday you too will no longer be profitable. Don't you know that yet?

let us be radicals

Normal: But who will *pay* the price of educating everyone?

Radical: Who will pay the price for an uneducated populace?

Let us be radical.

Normal: But who will pay the price of healthcare for everyone?

Radical: Who will pay the price for a nation of despairing people with little to lose?

Let us be radical.

Normal: How can we afford caring about everyone?

Radical: How can we afford caring about only billionaires?

be a radical

Normal: People desperate for the basics of existence are lazy leeches greedy to steal from the rich.

Radical: Wait, isn’t a prime indicator of greed having way more money than you need? Answer me tomorrow, btw, I’m about to start my third job.

be radicals be radical be radicals

This 👆is my favorite, because people really do think those just trying to get enough to stay alive are greedy, while the people who have way more than they need and are cartoonishly offended at any suggestion they give any of it up are the victims of greed somehow? 🤔

Normal: Sneering at the very idea of utopia.

Radical: Aiming toward an ideal.

be radicals

We can absolutely pay for it, White Enough Guy. We can pay for whatever we want.

Right now we want to pay for welfare for corporations and billionaires, and machines of war.

Normal: Its unrealistic!

Radical: Choose a better reality.

Let us be radical.

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