"For my part I am not prepared for citizenship in the United States. I do not want it. . . . It takes greed of gain to make a successful citizen of the United States. — Walter Adair Duncan, father of the Cherokee social welfare system, in Statehood (1893)"

*screams into a bottle, seals it up, and tosses it into the ocean*

You do get to choose who you are going to be in this current moment. That's all you can control [and even that is a challenge].

Jesus famously did not disrupt proceedings at a place of worship and call out religious hypocrisy

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

Loll they voted for this

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.

I miss TRL.

Bad news: the French are kidnapping passengers on busses. Good news: Musicology Duck and other passengers are safe now, I think.

This MLK day, resolve to remove cultural colonists from your life.

Replying to PipeDream305

actual self-accountability demands more than acknowledgement of bad judgement or ideas. you have to also take affirmative action to address the terrible things you said and did. you have to do that with no expectations that people you harmed will ever accept or certainly forgive you.

Very grateful for her contributions to a profound technology spanning many uses.

People still be standing for the anthem at sports events

should we hold our noses and try to lure idiots who voted for Trump into the big tent? sure, probably. do we owe literally anything to public "intellectual" racists who own a collection of vintage calipers? absolutely not.

Someone writing a fucking post is not a conversion to anything. Stop being absolutely dense.

MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

gullible loser.

I worked for DHS (contractor). I was tasked with writing code to import and index countless petabytes of confiscated hard drives & phones. Every single one I happened to see during prod testing was from a brown/arab person. Not a single white supremacist in the bunch. This was Obama era, btw.

i once read "the rights you think criminals should have are the rights you think everyone should have because the state can criminalize anyone" and it changed how i think about everything

You could stop giving them oxygen. That is an option.

We do not live in boring times but some people are bored.

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

"Abolish ICE" is too complicated? Get real. Such transparent nonsense.

yeah man I miss the 80s when America was run by a cabal of SMART Nazis and a SKINNY stupid pedophile

And we are not "centering whiteness" by honoring folks like John Brown or Viola Liuzzo. They counted the cost and laid down their lives for the struggle just like one of my great-grandfathers did. This is why we need A People's History of Humanity (Zinn) instead of the propaganda and lies.

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk

Waiting for the day when we will live in un-Presidented times. 🙂

Yes, evil people are horrible and scary and malicious and very bad. But the worst kind of person is the one who considers themselves to be kind, labels themselves a *good person* yet lacks critical self awareness in how their fixed ideologies are harmful and a detriment to those around them.

I have a vision for the future DC and I know we can win it.

It actually makes no damn of a difference what the polling is at if the guy is still at the helm.

We live in hell.

Let this system fail. Why do people fear the collapse of a society that was built to harm so many?

So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away. Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.

BRO WHAT??!!

Fuck "independents" man 😭😭😭 Stand for something. Or fall for anything. Same goes for "moderates".

Duh.

This is such an important point. This is why AOC & now Zohran freak out the establishment, because they have different plans for state power. Please read the entire thread.

So that is why Gavin Newsom has been laying the groundwork for his presidential campaign by heavily signifying to fascists that the hears them and is willing to listen & even concede to their bullshit. It is why there is no reason to believe that he, himself, is not a fascist or fascist sympathizer.

It's CRITICAL to do this. Otherwise they fall into the category of model minority and suddenly we've slipped back into the status quo (a death sentence.)

To be a minority face of US-led empire (&now that we've shifted further into fascism, just to be a Dem face of it) you have to heavily signal that you will not seriously disrupt the agenda of white supremacy & capital in any way.

Stop giving dems (little d) money ...just pump it back into your communities. Donate to a library, a co-op, give it to a neighbor who is struggling to pay for food and rent. Do you even talk to your neighbors? The money will be better spent giving it to a mother who needs to cover day care.

Activity of the day; say you hate where white supremacy has taken this country every time you're in a a room full of mostly white people and observe their reactions.

You know who else was obsessed with whole milk and dairy? FIDEL CASTRO. youtu.be/DF-yBAkLFfw?...

They shouldn't allow videos of podcasts. That content should get taken down

Again it is something that people in previous eras have commented on but I still find it just astonishing to witness in my own: fascism is somehow the natural ideology of loser men, just all of our most pathetic and contemptible instincts rendered into a worldview.