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6 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
it has never been more clear that we are on a plantation
there’s no way we should be celebrating, or taking pride in “saving” a country that we are structurally subjugated by and being held hostage in. slavery.
“black people saved the—” no, what you’re describing is slavery. the non-consensual prolongation of our subjugation and dispossession. the delaying of the inevitable. that is slavery. you’re describing an evolved slavery.
i’m being a debby downer and i’m sorry but the discourse is... bad. and gross. and full of lies and stagnated and unevolved political ideologies. and i want out of it. so i’ll just log off for now, lol

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read ‘blood in my eye’ by george jackson! Profile picture
6 Nov
the liberal media apparatus acting like they are above trump as if they didn’t create and ushered him in on red carpet, and profited off it, and squeezed out every bit of legitimation via pretending to be in-opposition to his politics 🤣
like this shit means nothing to me when your non-stop free coverage of him in 2015-16 helped put him in the white house to begin with, lol like don’t stop now!

lol, where was this “journalistic integrity” when bush/obama and co., were attending to manufacture consent for their wars? opportunistic hacks!!!!
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my goal has never been to dissuade people from voting, but to counter reactionary liberal narratives about its structural importance in the face of fascism—specifically in the terrain of nat’l politics (where the average person has v little “influence,” on the daily happenings).
the entire professional liberal apparatus—from the media, to athletes, celebrities, entertainers (many of whom who’ve been relatively apolitical their entire career), etc—has been flat-out LYING to and misleading people about the reality of our situation.
the vast majority our material actualities remain the same regardless of who occupies the slave built white house. even if the chokehold loosens itself ever-so-slightly, for those of us domestically, we are still in a goddamn chokehold unable to fully breathe.
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1 Nov
the way these people have deluded themselves into believing having no core principles makes them the adult in the room full of children who try to envision something beyond constant political violence, is actually incredibly impressive.
ever notice how “acceptance of compromise and imperfection” is never in reference to liberal democrats’ relation and proximity to the actual “left”—but to their relationships to fascists on the right (who v rarely “compromise” on their violences btw). i wonder why that is.
it’s becoming far more evident to ordinary people that liberal democrats aren’t the adult in the room, but the stabilizers and upkeepers of fascist rule. you exist to provide an illusion of “opposition”—while actively upholding the neoliberal fascist order & inhibiting progress.
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me saying “fascism cannot be voted into office”—in countries that are colonialist and/or imperialist from their inception, such as the US and germany—means that the rise towards the inevitable fascist order began when europeans set foot on the shores of west africa...
...not whenever (x) [s]elected upholder of the fascist order was elected into office, lol. can you lot please stop being intellectually lazy and disingenuous? obviously hitler and trump were both “elected”—but clearly fascism did not begin nor end w/ either of them
fascism is a sociopolitical system of governing, so while yes, the ruling class technically “allows” its subjects to vote for & “elect” (w/conditions) whomever will be the upholder of said system. it’s the system itself that needs undoing, not just the figurehead representing it.
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