8/ As fans, we instinctively cheer for parity.
For underdogs. For teamwork over ego.
Sports don’t just reflect socialism.
They celebrate it loudly, emotionally, every game.
For underdogs. For teamwork over ego.
Sports don’t just reflect socialism.
They celebrate it loudly, emotionally, every game.
June 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
8/ As fans, we instinctively cheer for parity.
For underdogs. For teamwork over ego.
Sports don’t just reflect socialism.
They celebrate it loudly, emotionally, every game.
For underdogs. For teamwork over ego.
Sports don’t just reflect socialism.
They celebrate it loudly, emotionally, every game.
7/ Even in European football, socialist ideas thrive.
Some top clubs, like Barcelona, are fan-owned.
Promotion/relegation rewards merit and punishes failure.
UEFA’s Financial Fair Play limits reckless spending.
The goal is competitive balance.
Some top clubs, like Barcelona, are fan-owned.
Promotion/relegation rewards merit and punishes failure.
UEFA’s Financial Fair Play limits reckless spending.
The goal is competitive balance.
June 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
7/ Even in European football, socialist ideas thrive.
Some top clubs, like Barcelona, are fan-owned.
Promotion/relegation rewards merit and punishes failure.
UEFA’s Financial Fair Play limits reckless spending.
The goal is competitive balance.
Some top clubs, like Barcelona, are fan-owned.
Promotion/relegation rewards merit and punishes failure.
UEFA’s Financial Fair Play limits reckless spending.
The goal is competitive balance.
6/ Teams with tighter budgets innovate to survive.
Think “Moneyball”: using analytics to find undervalued players.
When wealth is capped, creativity thrives.
It’s not a flaw of socialism, it’s one of its strengths.
Think “Moneyball”: using analytics to find undervalued players.
When wealth is capped, creativity thrives.
It’s not a flaw of socialism, it’s one of its strengths.
June 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
6/ Teams with tighter budgets innovate to survive.
Think “Moneyball”: using analytics to find undervalued players.
When wealth is capped, creativity thrives.
It’s not a flaw of socialism, it’s one of its strengths.
Think “Moneyball”: using analytics to find undervalued players.
When wealth is capped, creativity thrives.
It’s not a flaw of socialism, it’s one of its strengths.
5/ Collective bargaining? Socialism again.
Players form unions. They negotiate together, and strike together.
Even billion-dollar leagues can’t function without labor solidarity.
Players form unions. They negotiate together, and strike together.
Even billion-dollar leagues can’t function without labor solidarity.
June 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
5/ Collective bargaining? Socialism again.
Players form unions. They negotiate together, and strike together.
Even billion-dollar leagues can’t function without labor solidarity.
Players form unions. They negotiate together, and strike together.
Even billion-dollar leagues can’t function without labor solidarity.
4/ The draft is the opposite of free-market logic.
The worst teams get first shot at the best new talent.
It’s designed to protect parity, not profit.
That’s not capitalism; it’s competitive balance, enforced from the top down.
The worst teams get first shot at the best new talent.
It’s designed to protect parity, not profit.
That’s not capitalism; it’s competitive balance, enforced from the top down.
June 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
4/ The draft is the opposite of free-market logic.
The worst teams get first shot at the best new talent.
It’s designed to protect parity, not profit.
That’s not capitalism; it’s competitive balance, enforced from the top down.
The worst teams get first shot at the best new talent.
It’s designed to protect parity, not profit.
That’s not capitalism; it’s competitive balance, enforced from the top down.
3/ Then there’s revenue sharing.
Big-market teams (like the Lakers or Leafs) subsidize smaller ones.
It keeps the league competitive, and alive in smaller markets.
That’s collective wealth redistribution.
Big-market teams (like the Lakers or Leafs) subsidize smaller ones.
It keeps the league competitive, and alive in smaller markets.
That’s collective wealth redistribution.
June 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
3/ Then there’s revenue sharing.
Big-market teams (like the Lakers or Leafs) subsidize smaller ones.
It keeps the league competitive, and alive in smaller markets.
That’s collective wealth redistribution.
Big-market teams (like the Lakers or Leafs) subsidize smaller ones.
It keeps the league competitive, and alive in smaller markets.
That’s collective wealth redistribution.
1/ People think sports are hyper-capitalist, billion dollar machines.
Ironically, most major leagues are structured around socialist principles.
Let’s talk about it. 🧵
Ironically, most major leagues are structured around socialist principles.
Let’s talk about it. 🧵
June 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
1/ People think sports are hyper-capitalist, billion dollar machines.
Ironically, most major leagues are structured around socialist principles.
Let’s talk about it. 🧵
Ironically, most major leagues are structured around socialist principles.
Let’s talk about it. 🧵
11/ Propaganda erases. Memory resists.
Andor and One Piece show that authoritarianism doesn’t end with violence, it ends with rewriting.
Truth is criminalized. History is edited.
In the end, survival isn’t enough. What matters is being remembered rightly.
#OnePiece #Andor #AbolishICE
Andor and One Piece show that authoritarianism doesn’t end with violence, it ends with rewriting.
Truth is criminalized. History is edited.
In the end, survival isn’t enough. What matters is being remembered rightly.
#OnePiece #Andor #AbolishICE
June 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
11/ Propaganda erases. Memory resists.
Andor and One Piece show that authoritarianism doesn’t end with violence, it ends with rewriting.
Truth is criminalized. History is edited.
In the end, survival isn’t enough. What matters is being remembered rightly.
#OnePiece #Andor #AbolishICE
Andor and One Piece show that authoritarianism doesn’t end with violence, it ends with rewriting.
Truth is criminalized. History is edited.
In the end, survival isn’t enough. What matters is being remembered rightly.
#OnePiece #Andor #AbolishICE
10/ The U.S. doesn’t call it fascism.
It calls it “security.” “Peacekeeping.” “Law and order.”
But like the Empire or the World Government, it thrives on fear, silence, and rewritten histories.
It calls it “security.” “Peacekeeping.” “Law and order.”
But like the Empire or the World Government, it thrives on fear, silence, and rewritten histories.
June 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
10/ The U.S. doesn’t call it fascism.
It calls it “security.” “Peacekeeping.” “Law and order.”
But like the Empire or the World Government, it thrives on fear, silence, and rewritten histories.
It calls it “security.” “Peacekeeping.” “Law and order.”
But like the Empire or the World Government, it thrives on fear, silence, and rewritten histories.
9/ What happened in Ohara isn’t just fantasy.
From Ghorman to Ohara, the method is the same:
Erase the target. Blame the victim. Justify the violence.
Call resistance terrorism. Call mass murder peacekeeping.
The names change. The blueprint doesn’t.
From Ghorman to Ohara, the method is the same:
Erase the target. Blame the victim. Justify the violence.
Call resistance terrorism. Call mass murder peacekeeping.
The names change. The blueprint doesn’t.
June 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
9/ What happened in Ohara isn’t just fantasy.
From Ghorman to Ohara, the method is the same:
Erase the target. Blame the victim. Justify the violence.
Call resistance terrorism. Call mass murder peacekeeping.
The names change. The blueprint doesn’t.
From Ghorman to Ohara, the method is the same:
Erase the target. Blame the victim. Justify the violence.
Call resistance terrorism. Call mass murder peacekeeping.
The names change. The blueprint doesn’t.
8/ Propaganda doesn’t just lie.
It reshapes memory.
Ohara wasn’t just destroyed.
It was rewritten, its people branded extremists, its history erased.
That’s how authoritarianism survives: not just by killing truth, but replacing it.
It reshapes memory.
Ohara wasn’t just destroyed.
It was rewritten, its people branded extremists, its history erased.
That’s how authoritarianism survives: not just by killing truth, but replacing it.
June 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
8/ Propaganda doesn’t just lie.
It reshapes memory.
Ohara wasn’t just destroyed.
It was rewritten, its people branded extremists, its history erased.
That’s how authoritarianism survives: not just by killing truth, but replacing it.
It reshapes memory.
Ohara wasn’t just destroyed.
It was rewritten, its people branded extremists, its history erased.
That’s how authoritarianism survives: not just by killing truth, but replacing it.
7/ It wasn’t genocide, they claimed.
It was “preventing global destruction.”
Just like the Empire, the World Government hides atrocity behind necessity.
State violence always writes itself as defense.
It was “preventing global destruction.”
Just like the Empire, the World Government hides atrocity behind necessity.
State violence always writes itself as defense.
June 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
7/ It wasn’t genocide, they claimed.
It was “preventing global destruction.”
Just like the Empire, the World Government hides atrocity behind necessity.
State violence always writes itself as defense.
It was “preventing global destruction.”
Just like the Empire, the World Government hides atrocity behind necessity.
State violence always writes itself as defense.
6/ The Marines initiated a Buster Call, bombing the island.
They sank evacuation ships carrying civilians.
They framed survivors, branding them as terrorists.
They erased Ohara from maps, and rewrote the story.
They sank evacuation ships carrying civilians.
They framed survivors, branding them as terrorists.
They erased Ohara from maps, and rewrote the story.
June 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
6/ The Marines initiated a Buster Call, bombing the island.
They sank evacuation ships carrying civilians.
They framed survivors, branding them as terrorists.
They erased Ohara from maps, and rewrote the story.
They sank evacuation ships carrying civilians.
They framed survivors, branding them as terrorists.
They erased Ohara from maps, and rewrote the story.
5/ Once they started studying history that the World Government wanted buried, they were labeled traitors.
Then came the labels: dangerous, subversive, enemies of peace.
Truth became treason, and the state made them disappear.
Then came the labels: dangerous, subversive, enemies of peace.
Truth became treason, and the state made them disappear.
June 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
5/ Once they started studying history that the World Government wanted buried, they were labeled traitors.
Then came the labels: dangerous, subversive, enemies of peace.
Truth became treason, and the state made them disappear.
Then came the labels: dangerous, subversive, enemies of peace.
Truth became treason, and the state made them disappear.
4/ Ohara is one of One Piece’s clearest allegories for state censorship.
Ohara was an island of archaeologists, home to the world’s oldest library.
Its people preserved world history and studied ancient texts, work once permitted by the state.
Ohara was an island of archaeologists, home to the world’s oldest library.
Its people preserved world history and studied ancient texts, work once permitted by the state.
June 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
4/ Ohara is one of One Piece’s clearest allegories for state censorship.
Ohara was an island of archaeologists, home to the world’s oldest library.
Its people preserved world history and studied ancient texts, work once permitted by the state.
Ohara was an island of archaeologists, home to the world’s oldest library.
Its people preserved world history and studied ancient texts, work once permitted by the state.
3/ Both regimes weaponize language.
The Empire calls a massacre a “response”.
The World Government calls genocide a “Buster Call”, referring to military response used in extreme emergencies.
Repression is always downplayed as a necessary act by the oppressor.
The Empire calls a massacre a “response”.
The World Government calls genocide a “Buster Call”, referring to military response used in extreme emergencies.
Repression is always downplayed as a necessary act by the oppressor.
June 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
3/ Both regimes weaponize language.
The Empire calls a massacre a “response”.
The World Government calls genocide a “Buster Call”, referring to military response used in extreme emergencies.
Repression is always downplayed as a necessary act by the oppressor.
The Empire calls a massacre a “response”.
The World Government calls genocide a “Buster Call”, referring to military response used in extreme emergencies.
Repression is always downplayed as a necessary act by the oppressor.
2/ In Andor, the Empire kills to maintain order.
In One Piece, the World Government erases islands to bury truth.
Neither regime is clumsy.
They’re calculated.
Their violence is systemic, not spontaneous.
In One Piece, the World Government erases islands to bury truth.
Neither regime is clumsy.
They’re calculated.
Their violence is systemic, not spontaneous.
June 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
2/ In Andor, the Empire kills to maintain order.
In One Piece, the World Government erases islands to bury truth.
Neither regime is clumsy.
They’re calculated.
Their violence is systemic, not spontaneous.
In One Piece, the World Government erases islands to bury truth.
Neither regime is clumsy.
They’re calculated.
Their violence is systemic, not spontaneous.
1/ “Andor” and “One Piece” are set in vastly different worlds, but both tell the same truth:
Authoritarianism doesn’t start with violence.
It starts with control of truth, of memory, and of fear.
Let’s talk about how these stories expose real systems of power.
Authoritarianism doesn’t start with violence.
It starts with control of truth, of memory, and of fear.
Let’s talk about how these stories expose real systems of power.
June 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
1/ “Andor” and “One Piece” are set in vastly different worlds, but both tell the same truth:
Authoritarianism doesn’t start with violence.
It starts with control of truth, of memory, and of fear.
Let’s talk about how these stories expose real systems of power.
Authoritarianism doesn’t start with violence.
It starts with control of truth, of memory, and of fear.
Let’s talk about how these stories expose real systems of power.
9/ One Piece endures because it speaks to real-world struggles.
In an era of fascism, state violence, and rewritten history, stories of resistance aren’t just escapism. They’re essential.
One Piece teaches us to question power and dream beyond it.
#OnePiece #AbolishICE
In an era of fascism, state violence, and rewritten history, stories of resistance aren’t just escapism. They’re essential.
One Piece teaches us to question power and dream beyond it.
#OnePiece #AbolishICE
June 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
9/ One Piece endures because it speaks to real-world struggles.
In an era of fascism, state violence, and rewritten history, stories of resistance aren’t just escapism. They’re essential.
One Piece teaches us to question power and dream beyond it.
#OnePiece #AbolishICE
In an era of fascism, state violence, and rewritten history, stories of resistance aren’t just escapism. They’re essential.
One Piece teaches us to question power and dream beyond it.
#OnePiece #AbolishICE
8/ Luffy’s socialism isn’t theoretical. It’s lived.
He builds a crew without coercion. He makes no claim to rule. He fights because others can’t.
It’s a model of resistance: one that values people over nations, liberation over law, and community over control.
He builds a crew without coercion. He makes no claim to rule. He fights because others can’t.
It’s a model of resistance: one that values people over nations, liberation over law, and community over control.
June 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
8/ Luffy’s socialism isn’t theoretical. It’s lived.
He builds a crew without coercion. He makes no claim to rule. He fights because others can’t.
It’s a model of resistance: one that values people over nations, liberation over law, and community over control.
He builds a crew without coercion. He makes no claim to rule. He fights because others can’t.
It’s a model of resistance: one that values people over nations, liberation over law, and community over control.
7/ The world of One Piece is fiction, but the acts of oppression are not.
Tyranny, inequality, carceral violence, imperial power; these are not fantasy.
Neither is his answer: freedom without domination and refusal to bow to unjust power.
That’s not just a story. It’s a political vision.
Tyranny, inequality, carceral violence, imperial power; these are not fantasy.
Neither is his answer: freedom without domination and refusal to bow to unjust power.
That’s not just a story. It’s a political vision.
June 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
7/ The world of One Piece is fiction, but the acts of oppression are not.
Tyranny, inequality, carceral violence, imperial power; these are not fantasy.
Neither is his answer: freedom without domination and refusal to bow to unjust power.
That’s not just a story. It’s a political vision.
Tyranny, inequality, carceral violence, imperial power; these are not fantasy.
Neither is his answer: freedom without domination and refusal to bow to unjust power.
That’s not just a story. It’s a political vision.
6/ Luffy’s not a Marxist, but he is a revolutionary.
He shows us another kind of power:
Not domination, but care.
Not control, but community.
In a world built on oppression, choosing freedom for all is a radical act.
That’s what makes him dangerous. That’s what makes him inspiring.
He shows us another kind of power:
Not domination, but care.
Not control, but community.
In a world built on oppression, choosing freedom for all is a radical act.
That’s what makes him dangerous. That’s what makes him inspiring.
June 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
6/ Luffy’s not a Marxist, but he is a revolutionary.
He shows us another kind of power:
Not domination, but care.
Not control, but community.
In a world built on oppression, choosing freedom for all is a radical act.
That’s what makes him dangerous. That’s what makes him inspiring.
He shows us another kind of power:
Not domination, but care.
Not control, but community.
In a world built on oppression, choosing freedom for all is a radical act.
That’s what makes him dangerous. That’s what makes him inspiring.
5/ Luffy doesn’t fight for nations or crowns.
He fights for people.
He burns the World Government’s flag.
Declares war to save one friend.
Destroys prisons, defies gods, topples tyrants.
To Luffy, freedom is only real if everyone has it.
He fights for people.
He burns the World Government’s flag.
Declares war to save one friend.
Destroys prisons, defies gods, topples tyrants.
To Luffy, freedom is only real if everyone has it.
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5/ Luffy doesn’t fight for nations or crowns.
He fights for people.
He burns the World Government’s flag.
Declares war to save one friend.
Destroys prisons, defies gods, topples tyrants.
To Luffy, freedom is only real if everyone has it.
He fights for people.
He burns the World Government’s flag.
Declares war to save one friend.
Destroys prisons, defies gods, topples tyrants.
To Luffy, freedom is only real if everyone has it.
4/ Luffy’s crew isn’t a hierarchy, it’s a community.
There’s no forced loyalty. Each member joins freely, follows their own dreams, and fights for each other.
It’s the anti-authoritarian dream: a horizontal collective, united by loyalty, not control.
That’s not just friendship. That’s political.
There’s no forced loyalty. Each member joins freely, follows their own dreams, and fights for each other.
It’s the anti-authoritarian dream: a horizontal collective, united by loyalty, not control.
That’s not just friendship. That’s political.
June 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
4/ Luffy’s crew isn’t a hierarchy, it’s a community.
There’s no forced loyalty. Each member joins freely, follows their own dreams, and fights for each other.
It’s the anti-authoritarian dream: a horizontal collective, united by loyalty, not control.
That’s not just friendship. That’s political.
There’s no forced loyalty. Each member joins freely, follows their own dreams, and fights for each other.
It’s the anti-authoritarian dream: a horizontal collective, united by loyalty, not control.
That’s not just friendship. That’s political.
3/ Luffy doesn’t want to rule. He says:
“I don’t wanna conquer anything. It’s just that the person with the most freedom on the sea is the Pirate King.”
His dream isn’t about power, it’s about freedom.
Not just for himself, but for everyone he sails with.
“I don’t wanna conquer anything. It’s just that the person with the most freedom on the sea is the Pirate King.”
His dream isn’t about power, it’s about freedom.
Not just for himself, but for everyone he sails with.
June 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
3/ Luffy doesn’t want to rule. He says:
“I don’t wanna conquer anything. It’s just that the person with the most freedom on the sea is the Pirate King.”
His dream isn’t about power, it’s about freedom.
Not just for himself, but for everyone he sails with.
“I don’t wanna conquer anything. It’s just that the person with the most freedom on the sea is the Pirate King.”
His dream isn’t about power, it’s about freedom.
Not just for himself, but for everyone he sails with.