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Kettle
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The urge to say something profound is strong, but the commitment to irony is stronger.
March 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Support Indigenous language schools.
February 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The British Museum calls itself ‘world heritage,’ but its halls are full of stolen time, looted gods, and fractured histories. They didn’t ‘preserve’ culture—they severed it from the people who lived it.
February 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Nahuatl, and Chinese lacked a word for ‘homosexuality’—instead, they had roles, metaphors, and statuses. This suggests sexuality was fluid, relational, and embedded in culture, forming a continuum rather than fixed states.
February 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
When oppressive systems collapse, what replaces them depends on what structures already exist—if liberatory infrastructures aren’t in place, new empires will emerge.
February 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The last uncolonized space is your dreamstate. Your waking mind is monitored, but your subconscious is still free.
February 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Funny how indigenous identities are always framed as ‘naturally fading’ while colonial identities are seen as ‘organic progress.’ If erasure was really that ‘natural,’ there wouldn’t be so many policies enforcing it.
February 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Hunger is not an accident. It is a policy. Whether it was poor whites eating dirt in Appalachia, enslaved Africans rationed just enough to work, or Ireland’s Great Famine while Britain exported grain—famine is a tool of empire. The hungry don’t rebel. The full don’t question.
February 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Imagine making a movie about ancient Egypt where everyone looks Greek, but a Black Pharaoh is ‘unrealistic.’ That’s not a historical debate—that’s white supremacy in costume.
February 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM
They taught you dates, not motives. You learned about slavery, but not about how banks financed it. You studied the Civil Rights Movement, but not how the FBI tried to destroy it. You passed history class—but did you get the lesson?
February 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM
The war you fight is older than you. It is not merely against governments or policies—it is against order itself, against the arrangement of the world, against the architectures of domination which call themselves “civilization.”
February 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
If the Virgin Birth was actually parthenogenesis (a real, natural form of self-fertilization), then genetically speaking, Jesus would’ve been female. And yet, he lived as a man.
February 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
If Queen Amanirenas was named ‘Marcus Aurelius,’ she’d have a whole Netflix series. Instead, she led Kushite warriors, crushed Roman armies, and took a bronze statue of Augustus as a souvenir—and got ignored.
February 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
You say ‘settlers.’ We say ‘thieves with guns.’ You say ‘discovery.’ We say ‘genocide.’ The language of empire has always made violence sound noble. Stop romanticising crimes against humanity.
February 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
To sell your labor is to rent your body. To rent your body is to concede that someone else has temporary jurisdiction over your existence.
February 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
A law is not a moral truth—it is an act of power. It is enforced not because it is just, but because someone is willing to use violence to uphold it.
February 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Abolition didn’t destroy the labor system—it just rebranded it. Prison labor, sharecropping, sweatshops, and ‘gig work’ all run on the same model: exploit the desperate, keep them powerless, and call it ‘opportunity.’
February 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The border is a fiction maintained by violence. The same empire that disregards sovereignty for extraction will impose sovereignty as a weapon when those displaced by its policies seek refuge. There is no contradiction here, only power preserving itself.
February 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Black men in suits still get shot. Indigenous elders in ceremonial dress still get arrested. Trans women who ‘pass’ still get murdered. The problem isn’t ‘how we act’—it’s the system that decides some lives are disposable.
February 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The larger the system, the more brittle its intricacies. Its complexity is both its strength and its vulnerability—so long as one understands where to introduce entropy.
February 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Capitalism tells you systemic change is impossible. Morphogenesis says otherwise. In nature, structures evolve when conditions demand it—
January 31, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Colonialism made grief an individual burden. Ancestors knew better. Grief is not to be carried alone—it is meant to be dispersed, ritualized, made communal. The weight of loss is meant to be held by many hands.
January 31, 2025 at 5:31 AM
You think you’re just watching action movies, but you’re also getting pro-military recruitment, corporate-friendly narratives, and whitewashed history. Soft power works best when you don’t realize it’s happening.
January 31, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Apparent monoliths are often composite structures held together by inertia rather than true cohesion. It is not necessary to break the stone—only to loosen the mortar.
January 31, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Colonialism stole resources. When independence hit, the IMF lent the same countries money—on conditions that kept them dependent. Theft → Debt → Control. And now they call it ‘foreign aid.’ Brilliant, really.
January 31, 2025 at 5:30 AM