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have the power to hurt / but will do none / will not do the thing / I most do show
Zero mention of native Americans and being sad about not being integrated into the land grab deal seems to be the constant in the mainstream black liberation movement all the way until this day. Let’s hope it changes
Every 4th of July, I take the time to read "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July." Let us begin:
"I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."
"I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."
(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July"
Explore the speech "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" delivered by Frederick Douglass in 1852, including full text and historical context.
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July 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Zero mention of native Americans and being sad about not being integrated into the land grab deal seems to be the constant in the mainstream black liberation movement all the way until this day. Let’s hope it changes
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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“Starting today, adults are no longer permitted to be unique or to deviate from a narrow set of cultural norms while in the presence of a minor,” Gov. Greg Abbott said
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Texas Bans Being Different Around Children
AUSTIN, TX—In a landmark piece of legislation designed to stifle individuality across the state, the Texas Legislature passed a bill Friday that legally banned being different around children. “Starting today, adults are no longer permitted to be unique or to deviate from a narrow set of cultural norms while in the presence of a minor,” Gov. […]
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May 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“Starting today, adults are no longer permitted to be unique or to deviate from a narrow set of cultural norms while in the presence of a minor,” Gov. Greg Abbott said
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ICE just arrested the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
The Mayor of Newark, New Jersey is presumably a US Citizen…
The Mayor of Newark, New Jersey is presumably a US Citizen…
May 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
ICE just arrested the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
The Mayor of Newark, New Jersey is presumably a US Citizen…
The Mayor of Newark, New Jersey is presumably a US Citizen…
100 people (not men) should identify the bravest, line them up in the inner circle as gorilla fodder, the rest should press from the outside onto the gorilla, smoldering it with human pillows: save yourself the bone extraction process bad blood and add it to team building
the 100 men should first identify the 10 weakest men; the other 90 should then attack the gorilla with stabbing weapons fashioned from their bones
May 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
100 people (not men) should identify the bravest, line them up in the inner circle as gorilla fodder, the rest should press from the outside onto the gorilla, smoldering it with human pillows: save yourself the bone extraction process bad blood and add it to team building
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"Sosyolog G. Sumner, “sosyal sınıfların birbirine ne borcu var?” başlıklı kitabında cevabı, “hiçbir şey” olarak verecekti. Yoksullar, tembellikleri ve öngörüsüzlükleri yüzünden yoksuldu. Süper zenginler ve yolsuz politikacılar Allah verdiği için zengindi."
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Trump’ın ‘Altın Çağı’ – 2
“Zenginlik Allah’tan yoksulluk günahtan!” CEMAL TUNÇDEMİR 10 Nisan 2025 Amerikan işçi sınıfı, kendisiyle ilgili temel gerçeğin farkına ilk kez 1870’lerin başında varmaya başladı. …
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April 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
"Sosyolog G. Sumner, “sosyal sınıfların birbirine ne borcu var?” başlıklı kitabında cevabı, “hiçbir şey” olarak verecekti. Yoksullar, tembellikleri ve öngörüsüzlükleri yüzünden yoksuldu. Süper zenginler ve yolsuz politikacılar Allah verdiği için zengindi."
amerikabulteni.com/2025/04/10/t...
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1. He already got impeached, nothing happened, won the next election,
2. If anything somehow would happen the second the how is he going to be impeached in this Republican majority?
3. Performative opposition is just a waste of resources and mental energy, dump the opposition slot occupying mofos
2. If anything somehow would happen the second the how is he going to be impeached in this Republican majority?
3. Performative opposition is just a waste of resources and mental energy, dump the opposition slot occupying mofos
These billboards line the streets around Albuquerque, New Mexico.
April 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
1. He already got impeached, nothing happened, won the next election,
2. If anything somehow would happen the second the how is he going to be impeached in this Republican majority?
3. Performative opposition is just a waste of resources and mental energy, dump the opposition slot occupying mofos
2. If anything somehow would happen the second the how is he going to be impeached in this Republican majority?
3. Performative opposition is just a waste of resources and mental energy, dump the opposition slot occupying mofos
Konuşsun diye kafeste sussun diye değil, analoji iptal
April 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Konuşsun diye kafeste sussun diye değil, analoji iptal
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Nestlé Buys E.Coli For $2.3 Billion
Nestlé Buys E.Coli For $2.3 Billion
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND—With the food conglomerate saying the acquisition made sense given its longstanding strategic partnership with the pathogen, Nestlé released a statement Friday confirming it had pur...
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April 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nestlé Buys E.Coli For $2.3 Billion
‘Ölene kadar bu sitedeyim’ciliğin de bittiğini görür müyüz bu hayatta?
April 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
‘Ölene kadar bu sitedeyim’ciliğin de bittiğini görür müyüz bu hayatta?
Hello, ex Twitter people: I’d love to say you’re welcome, but not my platform, nor for me to welcome any of you. Even if it were mine, I wouldn’t welcome you without first grilling you for being ignorantly complicit in, and complicit in ignorance of, the fascism you’ve be enabling for some time now
April 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Hello, ex Twitter people: I’d love to say you’re welcome, but not my platform, nor for me to welcome any of you. Even if it were mine, I wouldn’t welcome you without first grilling you for being ignorantly complicit in, and complicit in ignorance of, the fascism you’ve be enabling for some time now
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I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever
December 5, 2024 at 12:45 PM
I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever
Others believe in you & they also believe in themselves => you think they’re all/mostly stupid/incompetent => you doubt yourself = 0 contradictions
Impostor syndrome is a paradox:
-Others believe in you
-You don't believe in yourself
-Yet you believe yourself instead of them
If you doubt yourself, shouldn't you also doubt your judgment of yourself? When multiple people believe in you, it might be time to believe them.
-Others believe in you
-You don't believe in yourself
-Yet you believe yourself instead of them
If you doubt yourself, shouldn't you also doubt your judgment of yourself? When multiple people believe in you, it might be time to believe them.
February 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Others believe in you & they also believe in themselves => you think they’re all/mostly stupid/incompetent => you doubt yourself = 0 contradictions
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I agree with the quote, but Elie Wiesel spent his life weaponizing the collective trauma of the Jewish people to justify and play cover for Israeli atrocities against the people of Palestine. Maybe he’s not the best spokesperson for “speaking out against the oppressor”.
February 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I agree with the quote, but Elie Wiesel spent his life weaponizing the collective trauma of the Jewish people to justify and play cover for Israeli atrocities against the people of Palestine. Maybe he’s not the best spokesperson for “speaking out against the oppressor”.
1. Ending relationships go both ways: they’re also isolated from you
2. You can politically pressure peers by cutting ties; like all political pressure this too can be programmed and collectivized
3. If you preemptively commit to never understanding something, you will succeed
2. You can politically pressure peers by cutting ties; like all political pressure this too can be programmed and collectivized
3. If you preemptively commit to never understanding something, you will succeed
Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.
February 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
1. Ending relationships go both ways: they’re also isolated from you
2. You can politically pressure peers by cutting ties; like all political pressure this too can be programmed and collectivized
3. If you preemptively commit to never understanding something, you will succeed
2. You can politically pressure peers by cutting ties; like all political pressure this too can be programmed and collectivized
3. If you preemptively commit to never understanding something, you will succeed
Satire newspaper editorial board squares ‘global ruling class efforts’ to ‘a matter of hurt feelings’ circle
Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect
Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect
WASHINGTON—Stressing that he was open to going far higher to close the deal, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he had made an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to acquire respect. “This is a ...
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February 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Satire newspaper editorial board squares ‘global ruling class efforts’ to ‘a matter of hurt feelings’ circle
1. Democrats will shift right back to empire’s state policy line the moment they think they’re in charge (election or otherwise)
2. Both about equally dems are most definitely either calculatedly coy, or, systemically soft Israel sympathizers
3. Settler colonials gon stick with their kind
2. Both about equally dems are most definitely either calculatedly coy, or, systemically soft Israel sympathizers
3. Settler colonials gon stick with their kind
New polling shows Democrats sympathizing more with Palestinians (35%) than Israelis (9%) with regards to the “conflict.”
32% share their sympathies equally.
32% share their sympathies equally.
February 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
1. Democrats will shift right back to empire’s state policy line the moment they think they’re in charge (election or otherwise)
2. Both about equally dems are most definitely either calculatedly coy, or, systemically soft Israel sympathizers
3. Settler colonials gon stick with their kind
2. Both about equally dems are most definitely either calculatedly coy, or, systemically soft Israel sympathizers
3. Settler colonials gon stick with their kind
So if the quoter gets blocked their reader gets blocked out of the content because? @support.bsky.team
February 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
So if the quoter gets blocked their reader gets blocked out of the content because? @support.bsky.team
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In things that you absolutely saw coming, Federalist and Daily Wire writer who accused drag queens of being groomers arrested for child molestation.
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Conservative film critic who called child trafficking movie a 'call to action' arrested for child molestation
Aaron Gleason is currently out on bail.
www.dailydot.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
In things that you absolutely saw coming, Federalist and Daily Wire writer who accused drag queens of being groomers arrested for child molestation.
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@petersinger.info would defend joining a mass r*pe queue to stall the process, would even actually follow through when it’s his turn to soften the blow on his end, and shrug criticisms off by saying “look at the inefficiency/adverse effects of non involvement policy of anti r*pe activism in history”
February 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
@petersinger.info would defend joining a mass r*pe queue to stall the process, would even actually follow through when it’s his turn to soften the blow on his end, and shrug criticisms off by saying “look at the inefficiency/adverse effects of non involvement policy of anti r*pe activism in history”
If it’s necessary why would it have to be kind?
February 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
If it’s necessary why would it have to be kind?
Cynicism by aoc = pronouncing Dems complicit in the empire
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
February 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Cynicism by aoc = pronouncing Dems complicit in the empire
I live in New York City in the year 1863.
The mayor is controlled by a corrupt political machine.
The police department is run with bribes from criminals.
The biggest employers profit from child labor.
The real estate barons build slums.
The very worst people in America are in charge of America.
The mayor is controlled by a corrupt political machine.
The police department is run with bribes from criminals.
The biggest employers profit from child labor.
The real estate barons build slums.
The very worst people in America are in charge of America.
I live in New York City in the year 2025.
The president is a convicted felon.
The mayor of NYC is an indicted felon.
The secretary of defense is a Fox News host.
The secretary of transportation is a Fox News host.
The very worst people in America are in charge of America.
The president is a convicted felon.
The mayor of NYC is an indicted felon.
The secretary of defense is a Fox News host.
The secretary of transportation is a Fox News host.
The very worst people in America are in charge of America.
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I live in New York City in the year 1863.
The mayor is controlled by a corrupt political machine.
The police department is run with bribes from criminals.
The biggest employers profit from child labor.
The real estate barons build slums.
The very worst people in America are in charge of America.
The mayor is controlled by a corrupt political machine.
The police department is run with bribes from criminals.
The biggest employers profit from child labor.
The real estate barons build slums.
The very worst people in America are in charge of America.
My problem with the oligarchy interpretation of how things stand in the settler colonial empires, and their protectorates, is the way it leaves out HOW its constituent masses consent to it: not by some enforced ignorance from without, as this meme frames it, but from within by inheritance.
January 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
My problem with the oligarchy interpretation of how things stand in the settler colonial empires, and their protectorates, is the way it leaves out HOW its constituent masses consent to it: not by some enforced ignorance from without, as this meme frames it, but from within by inheritance.