We get this shit sometimes and it depresses me to no end. All economic systems & countries—Cuba, France, China, Sweden—use vaccines just as they use microchips, germ theory and gravity. Big Pharma monopolizing an industry doesn’t make the basic science of the industry wrong
Lots of powerful corporations control essential functions of our life, the solution is to weaken their stranglehold on these essential function not to act as if the functions themselves are a sinister plot made up out of whole cloth
Again, find me a scientist in Cuba who thinks the mRNA vaccines are sinister poison. Find me just one. You can’t because no one credible in the global south thinks they’re a problem, it’s a made up, largely American YouTube-induced brain disease
the problem is corporate greed hoarding vaccines and preventing tech and information sharing not the underlying logic of vaccines themselves which have been used for decades and saved millions and millions of lives
Talk to any nurse who worked in an ICU in April 2020 versus today. Ask them how many 25, 30yo’s they saw die in April 2020 versus today. Look at the death rates now of vaxxed and unvaxxed. These vaccines have save countless lives. It’s maddening this even has to be argued

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5 Jan
There are lots of good reasons to want kids in school, setting aside the rich liberal anti-union mob. It’s effectively free childcare and meals for poor families and socialization IS essential to development. CTU has repeatedly asked Lightfoot to address these issues…
outside the schoolroom and she ignored them. Teachers are well aware of how important in-person is and I wish people would stop casually accusing them of not knowing or appreciating this. They’re not cigar chewing villains uninterested in the well being if kids
Along with better safety measures, alternatives to the childcare functions schools provide have been part of their demands since the pandemic began but at each turn they were told to fuck off and comply with the “act like everything is normal” approach
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16 Nov 21
when people ask me to sum up rightwing grievance politics I think of the time Virginia slaveowner Richard Henry wanted to protest high taxes levied by the British so he forced his slaves to protest the tax hike on his behalf w/ banners denouncing the taxes as "chains of slavery"
from this (very excellent) book amazon.com/Internal-Enemy…
Forcing slaves to hold signs saying high taxes are literally slavery while you sit at home is a foundational image. All American politics henceforth have flowed from this single moment
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16 Nov 21
See I think this where there’s confusion. That Americans did radical and righteous things being rammed into some Essential American narrative is often times simply ahistoric. The IWW built a foundation of labor progress but explicitly rejected nationalism. Where do they fit in?
Are the Black Panthers part of some American fiber? Runaway slaves who justifiably sided w/ British in War of 1812? Labor radicals who disrupted supply chains during WWI? Some movements used the banner of Americanism but many explicitly did not. Just convey this reality imo
Retconning all progressive movements into some preordained American Way is a self serving tautology that views the people who occupied the relevant space of North America as, by definition, part of some coherent political project which is goofy kid shit.
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16 Nov 21
This shit is so insecure. Insisting the US is ultimately Good & Moral, no matter how nuanced & handwringing one may be about “mistakes,” is so transparently political & about soothing egos it’s weird we have to act like this has anything to do w/ fidelity to historical precision
Let’s all just admit it’s about political utility & social cohesion & ameliorating the cognitive dissonance inherent in running a liberal empire that supposedly promotes human rights & democracy while bombing & propping up dictators and not, at all, about proper historiography
Again, there are dozens of countries on earth who don’t tell themselves exceptionalist fairy tales and their citizens get along his just fine! The sun doesn’t have to rise and set in our ass, truly
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15 Nov 21
Bail reform in NY was already very watered down, now supposed Rational and Reasonable Reformer Eric Adams wants to basically kill it. Remember: this is about caging humans for months, sometimes years, before they’ve even had a trial, much less been found guilty of anything.
Again, BLM & abolitionists were scolded time & again during the campaign by the Serious People at the NYT and MSNBC that Adams was going to “balance” “real reform” w/ “safety”. Other than cosmetic changes in leadership: what actual reforms has Adams proposed since he was elected?
Proposals Adams has made since primary win:

✔️ Ending school mask mandate
✔️ Bringing back “jump out boys” NYPD unit that was shelved in 2020 because it harassed and killed so many black people
✔️ Teaching “crypto in schools”
✔️ Hiring more police officers

❓ “Police Reforms”❓
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14 Nov 21
Yes! A 1859 NYT editorial scolding abolitionists as unreasonable and doing harm to the cause of opposing slavery is a fascinating read, especially the part where they say “silence on the part of the north concerning slavery would be the best policy”
“The very best thing that could possibly be done towards the abolition of Slavery would be for the North to stop talking about it.”
“Ten years of absolute silence would do more than fifty of turmoil and hostility, towards a peaceful removal of the evil. It is quite possible that the Abolition crusade may force a bloody and violent termination of the system, but this no sane man desires”
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