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Apr 10, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
If you want to make sense of the current political moment, and why electoral politics under capitalism can never, and will never, serve anyone but the wealthy capitalists, look no further than the most influential political theorist of the 20th century: Vladimir Lenin.
A thread.
If you are like me, you did not read Lenin in High School. You did not read him in college. You have never seen his ideas debated on TV. No politician has ever claimed to be inspired by him, or even mentioned his name.
Strange, for someone so influential across the globe.
Jun 30, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Universal Basic Income advocates want to give everyone $1k a month.
- your boss will use this as an excuse to cut your salary.
- your landlord will use this as an excuse to raise your rent.
- your congressmen will use this as an excuse to slash benefits and lower minimum wage.
It isn't a coincidence that billionaires love this plan. Workers will still have to work for them in order to live, and pay their landlords for shelter. Property values will go up. Business costs will go down. Workers will not be empowered.
Jun 21, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The purpose of ICE is ethnic cleansing, via deportation.
Here's some stats on total immigrants living here:
Mexico: 12,680,000
Guatemala: 980,000
Canada: 890,000
UK: 750,000
Here are the 2017 ICE deportation numbers:
Mexico: 128,765
Guatemala: 33,570
Canada: 353
UK: 151
Hmm…
This is not about wealth, poorer Asian countries are ignored, alongside European countries.
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