“Taxpayer” is the language of individualism & grievance. It falsely suggests that public spending is or mirrors private spending. And genocide would still be objectionable it it was bankrolled by corporations directly (instead of indirectly, thru gov contracts, as it is now) It is public money, not “our tax dollars,” funding this genocide. And that public money is largely flowing through US weapons corporations. We should keep the focus on the government & companies responsible, not individualizing things to “taxpayers” who didn’t choose this

With the news that Georgia has charged 60 stop cop city activists with RICO charges, it’s a good time to learn how the state has used RICO against leftists. One place to start: Ray Luc Levasseur. 1/ Ray is a working class French Canadian from Maine. He fought in Vietnam. Then he joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Later, he ran a radical bookstore, supported former prisoners & went underground after learning of a police death squad targeting him & his comrades 2/

I don’t normally do threads on writings I dislike, but I find this article—& the underlying argument—to be both disingenuous and dangerous. Especially in this historical moment. 1/ The author argues that we have to shed an “irritating” approach to politics that is insular and assumes the self-evidence of our critique for one premised on solidarity. That’s all well & good. But seeing that as “Unlearning the language of ‘Wokeness’”?

Pure rightwing drivel 2/