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1 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
No, it just consumes other people. And you are okay with that.
There are a lot of ways to think about “politics”. The definition that I’ve found most helpful is this. Politics is the way we have decided to fight over resources and power without literally going to war over it. And in a general sense, that’s better than the alternative. BUT...
We should never lose sight of the fact that the outcomes are still deadly serious. We are “politicking” over things that people are willing to kill and die over. Our elected officials turn it into a game. They can still be friends because they aren’t the ones dying.
The fact that folks like @ChrisMurphyCT have lost that perspective tells us a lot about the Democratic Party. They’re not working for us. They haven’t been for a long time. And we need to replace them with representatives who understand that this is still life and death.

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1 Mar
This tells an awful story. I'm mad and I haven't even fully finished it. No stock options is the infuriating part. Listen y'all. Do not work at a "startup" if you aren't getting options. It is part of your compensation.
A lot of people ask about what makes a company a startup. There are lots of ways to think about it. To me there are only 2 things that truly matter.
1) They are starting small but the goal is to get big quickly.
2) You take equity in the company in lieu of cash compensation.
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28 Feb
Oh. nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1…
"Cut off your hair to symbolize the desire for a better life."

Whew. Most racist shit ever.

Black people have always been told there is something wrong with wearing our hair the way it naturally grows out of our heads.
I've talked about this in the past. I'm still wrapping my head around the role that assimilation plays in white supremacy. White people do it without thinking about it. Forcing people to debase themselves in order to assimilate.
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20 Feb
This exchange is pretty infuriating. But it's worth reading to understand how a lot of conservative white men view the world. Please don't include me in replies to Jeff. I'm done for the day.
Jeff is actively deleting replies now. Seems he doesn't want people to know how he really feels about this stuff. But I do want to surface this particular exchange he had with @karlitaliliana. This is how white conservatives respond when asked to grapple with racism. Screenshot of tweets between Jeff and Karla. Karla talks abo
Sorry. Here's a better screenshot.
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19 Feb
No offense to Robert, but this is pure fiction. America has never had jobs at profit-driven companies that were "meant for teens". That's something we convince ourselves of to justify the fact that they're shit jobs with low pay. Because we think kids deserve that but not adults.
Next comes the trope about forcing Teens to do shit jobs to "build character". All of this is part of a fiction that is meant to a) provide cheap labor to multi-billion dollar companies and b) shame adults who are forced to take these jobs into accepting lower pay.
There are 10 million plus people out of work right now. But we're gonna sit here and say a company like Uber is supposed to be using teen drivers? McDonald's employs 200K people today. That has gone *down* in recent years. It makes no sense.
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18 Feb
I see the conversation today is “we shouldn’t celebrate Limbaugh’s” death. I can’t help but hear it as “white people should experience no consequences after an entire life spent harming people.”

Y’all didn’t do anything about him when he was alive, but now you got a problem? FOH
This has nothing to do with Limbaugh. It’s entirely a cultural taboo against speaking ill of the dead. There are a lot of people who have been conditioned to believe that comes back on you in some way. It doesn’t. The only consequence is other humans giving you a hard time.
I support everyone who is feeling even a small measure of release today as a person who spent *decades* actively trying to make their lives harder and more miserable is no longer able to do so. And fuck anybody who tells you that you shouldn’t be happy about it.
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26 Jan
Did y'all know that a lot of white people don't have the cultural concept of "real talk"? You know where you stop saying the diplomatic thing and tell people what's really going on. They just don't have it. You try to have a moment of "real talk" and they freak the fuck out.
It's one of the things that makes it difficult for PoC, and Black people especially, to form real trust relationships with white people. Y'all don't know what's going on because no one tells you. And no one tells you because you can't actually handle the truth.
I've come to understand that white people have their own seemingly convoluted way that they decide what's going on and what to do about it. I have a really hard time navigating those rituals. I think a lot of us do. And it damages our ability to be successful in white spaces.
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