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Patriarchy + White Supremacy = Minority Rule
Patriarchy
+ White Supremacy
+ Oligarchy
+ Ableism
+ Anti-LGBTQ
+ Christian Supremacy
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Minority Rule
“It’s not just the cognitive dissonance of slave owners talking about freedom and equality. It’s the cognitive dissonance of having a majority-rule system ruled by a minority.” dailykos.com/stories/2017/8…
A lot of the media’s behavior in 2016 caught me off guard. But when you think of a minority rule country, you expect certain things of its press. *Of course* the press went easier on a candidate that stood for minority rule than on a candidate that challenged it.
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Border patrol agents can now shoot kids with impunity.

Yeah, I’m voting blue no matter who.
It matters which candidate wins the nomination. I’ve got a strong preference, and I’d have to hold my nose to vote for most of them. My tweet was about something else. Next time I’ll be sure to include everything you care about in 280 characters 👍
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Trump’s committed a lot of crime before and during his presidency.

He's purging career DOJ/Intel staff and replacing them with toadies.

Every article saying he’s paranoid about the deep state or he just values loyalty is flat-out propaganda.
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“You’re seeing what you’re seeing, but not for the obvious reasons.” The press gives Trump this treatment constantly.
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There are a lot of ways to criticize Obama without using a phrase with the word ‘boy’ in it.

There are a lot of people you can get endorsements from that aren’t anti-vax ableist grifters.

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I’ve heard people defend this by saying we need to prioritize issues that affect everyone, and not get distracted or divided by issues that only affect certain groups.

That’s another way of saying we should prioritize people subject to the fewest kinds of discrimination.
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