Maybe it's 2 years of being told I love genocide, or maybe it's the fact that my ex- called Ted Kaszinski "Uncle Ted," endlessly ranted about ecoanarchism, & also orchestrated 2 false arrests & one 302 after beating me. Either way! Done w/ psychopaths masquerading as "Leftists."
Like this is why "Leftists" on this website have no power over me, lol. Do you know how many monologues about Luigi Mangione I've had to listen to? Like, can you even imagine being like, "If I don't nod along to this Luigi Mangione rhapsody I MIGHT GET BEATEN AND THEN ARRESTED?"
Hasan Piker is the EXACT SAME MAN. I can't barely handle it. Well, maybe he doesn't call the Unabomber "Uncle Ted" & perhaps he hasn't already beaten up a woman but the energy is there. Also why would I take "Leftists" on here seriously ever again? Or anywhere?
People who channel "anger" into political causes are not to be trusted. Note this is different than BEING ANGRY *in response* to something. A lot of people just want an excuse to be a psychopath.
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John Thune is nervous. He just spread a bunch of lies on @pbsnewshour but I noticed one thing in particular: He reassured the audience that the underlying structure of ACA would be intact. He's lying. But I don't think I've heard a Repub make a promise about ACA like that before.
Maybe it's happened & I just haven't noticed it. If you have, we should pinpoint the time when they shifted from full-frontal ACA attack to "Don't worry about the baseline of ACA." That's a shift. It's either new or it happened & we didn't notice. Either way. . . .
Republican Senate Majority leader reassuring the public re: the "basics of ACA" (& his reassurances are lies) is interesting. Particularly in the midst of a government shutdown w/ some role reversals occurring. Signals need for defense of ACA; possible weakness.
I've been sitting for a few minutes asking myself, "Do I look at Minneapolis? Do I not look? Is it wrong to choose not to & to do something else? What does that even mean? I don't think I have anything interesting to say about it. . ." I do think we should share grief. Emotions.
I think it is a disservice to the issues we care about to constantly approach them as if we have to say something novel, or interesting, or pithy, or whatever. I think this is one of the worst effects of social media, in its current form. We can't just be regularly human.
This is particularly true in times of rising fascism. It's also true in terms of violence against children. It's true about all the evils of the world & our own country.
Yes. I am finally done. After 9 months, I am done. I had a very good lawyer and he told me not to say a peep about the police to anyone because what they really needed to be was "soothed." That they needed time to calm down. That's what the police needed. And it worked.
I was arrested 13 days after the presidential election. I still had my Kamala Harris signs. When the police were typing up the false charges against me, & laughing to each other, they said, "Who's she gonna tell? Twitter?" Then: "Bet she's proud of those Kamala Harris signs now"
I had seen the Harris campaign was trying to "depolarize" the electorate. There's research indicating that signs of patriotism are strong associated w/ Republicans. So, for the 1st time in my life, I bought American flags & decorated my Kamala Harris signs with them.
This is a photo of my mother's roommate, Jimmi, from when she lived in Paris in the 1960's. Jimmi was American, from California, & went by the stage name Mademoiselle Crème de Coco. Like many Black Americans, she recieved cultural appreciation in 1960's Paris, per my mom's memory
Western societies' racism operates in different ways. France had--& has--a racism problem, largely directed to Arab ppl, Jewish ppl, & Black African immigrants. It is simultaneously true that the French revere Black Americans & Black American culture.
Jimmi told my mother that she much preferred Paris to the U.S. b/c she did not encounter as much racism there. She eventually left Paris to go tour in Russia. She invited my mom to come & be her assistant; to manage her hats, clothes, wigs, etc. My mom declined. They lost touch.
The last 2 years have been a lesson in how little Americans understand the world prior to the emergence of nation-states. In some sense, I think the rigidity of this anachronistic lens helps us remember facts of WWII much better than those of WWI.
Obviously other things contribute to these differences in remembering fact/detail. WWII closer in time. My grandpa fought in it, whereas his father fought in the previous war. Nazis were almost incomprehensibly evil in their project. The very American story of D-Day. Etc.
Still, I'll tell you this: Every few years I ask my dad to explain the origins of WWI & he does so quite exquisitely but, up until recently, I couldn't really remember much other than random phrases like "Serbian Nationalism," detached from narrative; just floating in my brain.
Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, & Joe Biden would all know that such a statement was not only deeply disrespectful to Kamala Harris, but to Black women more broadly. And that is one of the reasons, in my view, Bernie Sanders is a two-time primary loser.