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16 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
One of the most infuriating things that happens almost daily is when political shows that have given incalculable time to the Right to communicate conspiracy theories air these people regurgitating them and then shake their heads like they can’t believe anyone thinks this.
For years now, networks and newspapers have given platforms to Trump and other conspiracy mongers for clicks and ratings, all while hardly ever pushing back or wringing hands over calling them lies. These segments are measuring their own effect on culture.
It wasn’t just the Right profiting off wild, baseless conspiracy theories. Our media, our political parties, our tech corporations, all of them made a ton of money off corrosive, society-destroying, endangering lies. To act like this came out of nowhere is complete madness.
Until we reckon with the fact that our economic, political, and media systems are wired to profit directly off destructive decisions and behaviors, we’re only going to slide deeper into the muck and society is going to grow increasingly more dangerous.

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12 May
People are acting like the ouster of Liz Cheney by the GOP is a puzzling development, but the truth is that this is who the Republican Party is and has always been.

What we're watching is the inevitable evolution of a dangerous political movement.

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Liz Cheney's refusal to trumpet the Big Lie of a stolen presidential election.

This should be lauded, but we can't pretend the GOP has not trafficked in these poisonous mythologies for decades now, and that this lie is that different from past propaganda.

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Pundits, journalists, politicians, and historians have long laundered the real and disturbing truth of the GOP through this sepia-toned lens of Ronald Reagan, a completely fabricated, alternate reality that hides the disturbing truth behind star-spangled mythologies.

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12 May
It comes down to this. The Republican Party only cares about power and will only support democracy as long as it reflects back their will. When it stops, they’ll destroy it.

This is about domination at all costs, principles don’t enter into it. They’ll happily eat their own.
People have to stop trying to view American politics through this “liberal vs. conservative lens.” The principles are window dressing, a means to an end.

The explanation for the GOP’s actions is much, much simpler. It’s about power at all costs. Full stop.
What so many willingly or unwillingly have yet to understand is that hypercapitalism and white supremacy’s hold on American reality are slipping.

The Right is aggressively attempting to protect this old reality. Principles don’t enter into it. This is about power.
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6 May
All right. We need to talk about white supremacy, slavery, colonization, and why the Right keeps pushing fake history.

The truth is that white supremacy is built on the lie that white people are acting out of kindness as they murder and enslave.

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The Right has been rabidly pushing this lie that capitalism isn't racist, that America isn't prejudiced, and that anyone talking about history or politics otherwise is engaged in an attack.

What they're doing is desperately attempting to protect themselves and their power.

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It's no coincidence that this has been happening more and more lately. Incidents like Rick Santorum's disgusting remarks, saying that America was made from "nothing" and that natives had no culture or influence are intentional defenses of white supremacy and its mythologies.

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5 May
Starting an “extra inning game” in the 8th inning of a doubleheader with a runner on second is a confluence of unbelievably stupid and insulting ideas.
I’m just so tired of abysmal management and all this needless, exhausting tinkering.
You’re baseball. Stop this garbage. Quit trying to please people WHO HATE BASEBALL.
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4 May
The capitalist system was LITERALLY built on the backs of enslaved people of color and the systematic destruction and exploitation of their societies.

This is the undeniable, demonstrably accurate origin.
To begin the capitalist system, a relentless machine that continues based on and fueled by the continual exploitation of people of color, European powers relied on the mythology of white supremacy to enslave and destroy people. That’s how accumulation worked.
Slavery, colonization, forced labor, genocide, the establishment of prejudiced laws and government, were all tools of capital accumulation.

Capitalism isn’t incapable of racism. It’s literally intertwined and indivisible. Pointing out cultural “progress” doesn’t change this.
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3 May
From the very beginning, nations used corporations for power and profit until corporations turned a corner and reversed the process, transforming nations into support vessels, making use of their militaries, diplomatic functions, and, most importantly, the resources of the people
Corporations were a means of nations moving beyond their boundaries, particularly so they could profit off colonization, slavery, and exploitation. Then, once profit reached a point, the corporation began feeding off the nation and used those boundaries against the people.
Hypercapitalism threw gas onto the fire of growing corporate power, creating an international system to their purpose and liking. Now, corporations have evolved beyond states, outgrown them, subsisting off them as support and theater.

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