where’s that article about the military changing its propaganda to appeal to gen-z so that they see military service as a tool for self actualization and social change
my lady has this habit that used to bug me: whenever anyone brings up the NYT she just says “fuck the new york times” and refuses to participate in the conversation
for years i thought it was an overreaction to their bad politics but now i realize more of y’all need to do that
imagine if every time a white guy did a terrorism instead of doing the “if they were black or brown...” game we asked how many federal agents they were in contact with
@Tendin2
@KashNona
when my little sister had her first one she was curled up in pain and says “ i just have to get through this and it’s all good” and i’m like “you know this is every month right?”
i’ll never forget the look on her face
you don’t need to share their good op-eds, you don’t need to dunk on their mediocrities or try to catch them in ideological gotchas. we just need to say fuck the new york times and keep it moving
@theebabydyke
@sagittarioh
just go do something evil and make the money, i promise you’ll feel better than helping rich people move their untaxed wealth around
It’s truly maddening to watch people on the left and right attack AOC for being at the Met Gala. She is doing what she can to help change a very broken world and system. Let her enjoy her life.
The purity nonsense from people who oftentimes are doing nothing is insufferable.
BREAKING:
Zelensky to incept the International Legion, a home guard formation enlisting foreign nationals willing to help defend Ukraine.
You know what to do, boyz and gals.
there’s this popular liberal refrain that understanding our past helps us make a better society but when america obsesses over its past it’s because it is trying to avoid looking at its present
feels like this is about setting up a framework to seize the assets of people you declare a gang (rappers, any group of random black people, potentially entire neighborhoods)
i'm sure that won't be abused
it didn’t miss me that the first two people we see the new black captain america save are NYPD officers to a crowd of cheering black faces
disney said we gonna get that propaganda fuck whatever verdicts happen this week
NYT: “The suspect’s identity was previously known to the F.B.I. because he was linked to another individual under investigation by the bureau, according to law enforcement officials.”
the thing that bugs me is that there’s so much focus on what happened but not who carried out the violence. it’s not like those white folks just dusted themselves off and never harmed black people ever again
"Set in the 1920s, Marked Man follows a young black man who joins J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation and then infiltrates Garvey’s UNIA organization, testing his loyalty to both race and country as he grows weary of both men’s actions."
imma pass on this one
i think the BAR read on wakanda forever is mostly correct
when me and my wife were walking out of the theater she said “sucks to see so many black and mexican actors killing each other instead of the CIA” and she was right
we really need to start reconsidering the logic of these protests that march people into overnight holding like salmon swimming upstream while bears wait on the banks
cops kill one person and that immediately becomes a financial windfall for them. money is poured into overtime, cash is poured into their coffers for “reforms,” bail funds are stuffed by people from around the world and that money goes into local court/jail systems
@negaversace
@ronninator
other day my little brother, who has been in a car accident basically every year since he started driving (including in my car), started arguing he was a better driver than me after i asked him not to run another stop sign 😤🤯
none of you know me so all I can do is promise you that I said the exact same things about all of those movies. if the implication is that I’m racist for thinking a disney movie looks bad, cool, glad that’s the standard now!
america has essentially been in a state of race war since reconstruction. we can keep talking around that but this doesn’t really change until the side with a vested interest in maintaining the violence lays down its arms or is defeated
yes, the venture capitalists spent years subsidizing it as they decimated the cab industry and lobbied our city council and state houses to make things easier for them to abuse workers
It makes me sad that mentioning the "Ferguson uprising" doesn't get the respect it deserves. I have to remember a lot of Twitter users are very young, but damn, this was just 7 years ago and it was a major uprising against the state that anyone on the Left should appreciate.
I still remember when BLM national pulled the funding from local organizers. Folks were scrambling to keep the work going. All so these ghouls could sit up like this
Lol the Hugo awards were sponsored by Raytheon this year and Twitter is filled with small time authors of dystopian science fiction taking about how it’s important to acknowledge the shades of gray in the arms trade.
cops kill one person and that immediately becomes a financial windfall for them. money is poured into overtime, cash is poured into their coffers for “reforms,” bail funds are stuffed by people from around the world and that money goes into local court/jail systems
we can keep arguing the semantics of nazi symbolism or we could have a sober conversation about our inability to
a) defend our communities
b) prevent material support to foreign nazis
Gonna go against the grain here and say that he's being attacked specifically BECAUSE he is connecting the black American struggle with the Palestinian struggle. Many people don't even want a whiff of that analysis to fly out
I see war in Ghaza like dead babies daily… I’m from Philly my family and friends live amongst a lot of murder I also grew up around that … I been in and out of prison my whole 20’s most my cell mates was killers … my dad was killed at 5… out on probation for 16 years…
none of these weak ass american christians will ever stand up and loudly object to war, poverty or incarceration but they’ll relish their ability to inconvenience others in the name of religious freedom
this is why all that 1619 project, moral arc of the universe jibber jabber just gets an eye roll from me. you can either tell a story about america or you can tell the truth
those things don’t overlap
'The King will not be one for chemotherapy, he has always argued against it. He's a great believer in natural herbs, potions and things like that.'
This is how you know Charles and the Royals have not had the covid vaccine.
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@NotABigJerk
I met this rideshare driver once while I lived there. Big, stereotypical redneck type guy. He told me was retired but loved driving because it let him meet people from "everywhere" and that the alternative "fox news all day and church on sunday. Seen what that done to my buddies"
He served his time and works as an anti-violence advocate now. You don't have to like it but this is probably the ideal outcome for society.
But if you want the dude silenced and dead, just say thst
What reality are we living in where a school shooter does 17 years in prison, gets out, talks about being a school shooter on tiktok for clout, and grows a huge following overnight. Literally, LITERALLY insane.
I saw the "no one in 2003 knew the premise for the Iraq war was a lie and you didn't either" tweet that everyone is subtweeting and somehow wasn't ready for it anyway
tl;dr: a left movement that’s been decimated by counterinsurgency efforts needs to understand the mil-intel-police complex’s role in violent radicalization! y’all keep falling down these ID holes and into free speech fights and that shit doesn’t matter. issa whole ass war
and the reason this is so hard for people to acknowledge is that the white supremacist violence has never been about the elimination of black people, it’s about our subjugation. the plantation mentality never left this nation it just spread
america has essentially been in a state of race war since reconstruction. we can keep talking around that but this doesn’t really change until the side with a vested interest in maintaining the violence lays down its arms or is defeated
why did hundreds of people - from cops to FBI agents to reporters - all keep quiet? these people have no answer for it. they’re not capable of thinking critically
@WrittenByHanna
people love that “main character” shit on here but everyone forgets how a slightly famous person would make a tumblr and would just get slowly dragged for days until they unleashed all their racism