Angela Davis told a group of students to not assume she means them when she talks about leaders of the future & that university students have a tendency to discount the experience & wisdom of people who learned on the street. Yall do that everyday on here.
They told an entire generation of kids that they could just go to college and they would succeed, then straddled them with debt & asked why they didn’t become an electrician
I shout when I’m sad or angry so I’m posting again today. My mom died of a treatable cancer last night. It doesn’t kill most people. She was only 52 and died because she’d had it so long. She never saw a doctor, never had insurance. She was a cashier at the mall.
You hate all rich people regardless of their jobs because you’re part of a little social bubble that has made them into abstract villains for your contempt. Don’t even try to pretend you were uniformly victimized by the wealthy. That’s absurd rationalization
#BREAKING
: A 1-year-old infant, a member of a homeless family, died under an overpass near Los Angeles International Airport Friday morning, authorities say.
I was incarcerated when I was a 14 year old child and it will never stop being weird and monstrous to me that the US has actual child prisons and we all just think that’s normal
once asked a guy his worst fear and he said "the slow decline of capitalism around us causing every piece of infrastructure to fail or collapse but it happens so slowly no one notices or stops it in time" and that's now my worst fear too
Some people say she is wrong for bringing her baby to work. Because its unsafe for a child. And others respect the fact she is doing what she has to do. What yall think 🤔 👀
The government had to “interfere” to make your boss:
Give you consistent paychecks
Limit your hours to 8 hours
Pay you livable money
Not kill you in a fire
Not indenture children
Not allow women to be sexually assaulted
But you want them to have a free market lmao
Yum Brands(who own Pizza Hut) have one of the largest CEO to worker gaps in the world and are spending $2 billion on stock buybacks this year. This isn’t about cost - it’s about punishment
@cowlerey
“You want feminism well you’re gonna get hit” yeah one of the main reasons wanted feminism was so they could divorce their husbands who hit them
My mother died at 52 from being uninsured while Joe Lieberman lived to be 82 years old on his government funded healthcare. Forgive me but I won’t be spending any time mourning.
I was born poor and I'm gonna die poor but on the way there I'm sure as fuck gonna make some trouble for everyone involved in my oppression and the oppression of everyone around me ✊✊✊ this fight is for life, not an election.
One of the hills I will die on is that sexual assault in prison being widely accepted is one the most barbaric and inhumane aspects of our society. I don’t care what they did, no one deserves to be raped.
Talked to a mom about her son's time in Alabama prisons. He went in at 18, was raped, beaten & extorted. He came out with severe PTSD, anxiety, nightmares. He died last year at 27. These prisons do nothing but traumatize & brutalize. Devil's islands. No accountability. 1/2
I joke about it too but let’s stop blaming years. Every year is worse than the last year because of capitalism & climate change. There is no better year coming until we do something.
I honestly believe Americans are becoming meaner and more hostile in general and I don’t think it’s a random occurrence but the result of a society that’s crumbling around us
A lot of you are still missing the point: the question is not which one is better, it’s the fact that the hegemony is what told these people to go to college in the first place
A lot of yall can’t live inside your warm house and eat food 3x a day without consuming alcohol and marijuana but wanna be in my mentions calling people who sleep on concrete addicts
@MusingsHistory
@TCTBACK
The comments seem to think the districts fight eachother in war. You only get two tributes, no weapons. Obviously a single tribute from Florida will kill us all, half of us unintentionally.
Airbnb sold itself as a way for regular people to rent out their rooms. Instead it's become a shady hotel business with rich people buying up housing to use them as permanent motels. This must end.
NEW: Airbnb broke our housing system. In some towns up to 40% of available apartments are Airbnbs.
But people are fighting back. When Irvine, California banned short-term rentals, rents dropped.
Now a movement to regulate Airbnb is sweeping the nation.
@BenjaminPDixon
the Nazis were economic populists. The worst imaginable outcome for the United States would be if the right goes left economically before we do, while staying far right socially.
@vivafalastin
Liberals love to sit there in their nice homes acting like someone is coming for them while poor people are actively murdered in the background
Well this blew up. I'm glad we can all share in our mutual hatred of Walmart. Plugging my favorite progressive candidate. Cori Bush is a real one & fighter who believes in our principles, shes up against the establishment in Missouri. Donate ⬇️⬇️
@charliebravo13
Yes, they literally did. You’re failing to understand the climate of the conversation in the 00s. There was no “get a STEM degree” until after the economic collapse & subsequent hoardes of over qualified college grads
@The_Acumen
Just like RBG, she represents a generation of white women who felt like they themselves were more important than the women who came after them
@lawsforwords
this concept didn’t even exist when most of these kids went. It’s the result of an over abundance of degree holders & a lack of good paying jobs
@worsematt
If the job requires any skill then I don’t understand why employers insist on acting like your butt in the chair is your greatest contribution and not the skills
You cannot on one hand say that is a crime to be homeless and on the other hand say that landlords can charge any price they want. You are creating the problem you want to solve.
Correction. Do NOT put Bernie three times. Spread the word. You must choose "uncommitted" for your second and third choice
#NevadaCaucus
#BernieSanders
@pblest
@starrystarryn_t
The difference between whether you believe Iraq was an atrocity or a little mistake lies in whether you believe Iraqis are human beings
@AshtynLaw
Reminder that the majority of dentists are rich kids who went from mommy’s house to college to make 100k a year and have no concept of poverty
@sarahhollowell
poor people have a level of empathy that no rich person has ever dreamed of having - I have never been rich but whenever I had a good night as a dancer I used it all to take care of my sisters.
americans when you don't go to college: maybe you should have gone to college and gotten a real job if you didn't want to live in poverty
americans when you go to college: No one made you go to college, you shouldn't have taken on debt if you didn't want to live in poverty
@Igbo_Montana
@bigsnugga
yeah there is actually a difference between "the state of israel did a bad thing" and "jews are bad" & if you're doing the second it's just bigotry
When moving back in with your parents isn’t an option you really start to recognize how little help there is and how little it takes to end up with nothing
Housing isn’t optional. You can’t just build a house. You can’t build a shed. You can’t live in nature. You can’t live on the street. When there is no option except to rent or buy we cannot justify allowing free reign in the price of housing
Criticizing hungry people for “wearing nice clothes” as if the moment you lose your job you must toss all of your clothing and adorn yourself with the Official Burlap Sack of Poverty
For 8 years I’ve been asked to sit here with a straight face and accept this alternate reality where I as a single mom driving Uber was the real bully against the most powerful people in my state
The main problem with the DSA style left--a problem that permeated the Bernie campaign as well--was believing you could simply bully people into submission without having the numbers or the power to actually back that up. That has consequences, to wit: 1/
Honestly the Democrats have worked really hard to re-label themselves as the only thing standing between us and fascism and they have destroyed that image completely in just two weeks
@_waleedshahid
Worked in a progressive campaign where “trying not to get noticed by AIPAC” was said often - surprising to no one, they almost always go after leftist candidates only
Im a single mom, an ex stripper, a GED recipient, a minimum wage survivor, and I am running for local office because I believe that people like me deserve a voice too.
My mom was not a good mother and I feel conflicted to even talk about her but no one deserves to die in middle age because they couldn’t access healthcare. My mother died of poverty.
@EricLevitz
You fail to understand the issue if you think it’s about “who belongs there” and not that people were forcibly removed from their homes and live under an apartheid system for the crime of having lived there when someone else wanted to