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16 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
From Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism

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America’s chickens are coming home to roost. Image
TW: colonial violence ImageImageImageImage
Thinking a lot about all the people saying “I can’t believe we’re seeing US troops in DC!” Where should they be? What were they doing there?
There we are. Image

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It’s wild how many political debates are just financially comfortable people who’ve never given much thought to what it’s like to be poor shouting over poor people who are trying to tell them about it.
If you’ve never tried making it work getting paid minimum wage you really can’t imagine the stress. If you’ve never skipped meals because you had to you don’t know what that feels like. If you’ve never worked a minimum wage job you can’t imagine the physical exhaustion.
You’re literally in survival mode all the time. If you’ve been middle class your whole life it’s an epistemological blank.
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17 Jan
I never hear concerns about how the McDonald’s CEO making $18,012,549 per year might drive up the price of a Big Mac.
That’s $8,659.88/hour.
I make a lot less than that so if you feel like it I’d be very grateful: ko-fi.com/babadookspinoza
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17 Jan
The failure to identify the growth of fascism at home with US imperialism abroad will always prevent us from addressing either problem. They are the same phenomenon.
“I haven’t seen this kind of thing since I was in Baghdad doing it myself to the locals.” “These weapons belong in the streets of Kabul, not Washington, DC!”
Fascism is the suspension of liberal-democratic rights to extract more profits from workers and oppose proletarian power, usually coupled with white supremacy. That’s the essence of US imperialism as well: white supremacist violence to solidify a system of hyper-exploitation.
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January 17, 1961: Patrice Lumumba, the first democratic leader of the Congo, is murdered by the Belgian government after being deposed in a CIA-backed coup. “Without dignity there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free men.” Image
“The Soviet Union is the only great power whose position has reflected the will and wishes of our people. Therefore the Soviet Union proves to be the only great power that has supported the Congolese people in their struggle from the beginning.”
You can’t understand Lumumba’s importance, or the size of his legacy given that he was only Prime Minister from June to September 1960, without understanding the horrors of Belgian colonialism (particularly during direct rule by Leopold II, responsible for 15 million deaths).
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16 Jan
I might have to start putting my ko-fi link under any viral tweets from now on, please don’t think less of me lol. I work full-time and make like $700 every two weeks. I’m trying to pay for school as I go because I’m already in so much debt but last semester that didn’t happen.
Not like I’m gonna have my editorial independence compromised by people sending me tips, I gave up the idea of trying to monetize this account a long time ago.
“Editorial independence” was a joke. These are tweets.
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First of all this is bullshit because these companies make enormous profits that could and ought to be converted to wages, but if prices are being kept artificially low because workers aren’t being paid enough to live, then our reaction should be to welcome the price increases.
The shameless selfishness of people on this site is incredible. You’re willing to keep people on starvation wages to save you $5 every couple weeks? Fuck you.
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