1/ Rant.

Have your spicy takes or whatever, but Twitter is not reality. We live in a selection bias bubble.

RBG dying will have actual, serious consequences whether you like it or not.

More conservative justices will be worse.
4+ more years of Trump will be worse.

2/ Shit talk the Supreme Court, RBG, the Democrats. Don't vote. Vote Green. Be never Biden. I support your freedom to do so to the death.

But there WILL be consequences. Things can ALWAYS get worse. MORE people can suffer. More liberties can be taken away.

Always.

3/ Another 4 years of the Trump regime with a stacked court is worse for the environment. It's worse for the economy. It's worse for foreign policy. It's worse for global politics.

None of this is an endorsement of Biden or the Democrats.

It just is what it is.

4/ You can hate the system.

The system does not care.
You won't hurt its feelings.

And it will come for you all the same.

If not now, later.

5/ You can protest the system and riot and burn it all down.

You will still have the Constitution and you will still need to use that system.

You can believe we can win a full revolt.
And I can believe that will be a full slaughter.

6/ You must apply a diversity of tactics. That may mean shifting the inertia from within by using the electoral system, within the system, while that is the system in place, as you actively and diversely change it.

7/ Hate electoral politics and the duopoly.
Not participating won't stop if from going on without you. You have to do more than just amorphously resist and Tweet.

Voting does actually matter. Protesting actually matters. Riots actually matter.

8/ Protests and riots can get an issue or cause visibility.

It cannot write policy or enact law.

Use diverse tactics. Within, without. Agitate, sabotage, vote, act, educate, organize, plan.

9/ Young Left Twitter:

Your voices, ideas, opinions, and new theory matters. You are our future and hope.

Also acknowledge there are older leftist thinkers, scholars, lawyers, and activists who have seen more elections, presidents, and SCJs than you.

10/ Respecting the experience and wisdom gained from a life of suffering and struggle is not elitism or ageism.

There is merit in labor, including intellectual labor.

11/ Traditions and old ideas should not be enshrined, but the wisdom of the experienced must not be discounted or abandoned.

12/ America has never been truly great.

But it HAS been better than this, and it CAN and WILL get worse.

There is also potential to remake it new.

Sometimes that is demolition. Sometimes that is a renovation.

13/ Some of us activists, protesters, veterans, and campaigners have been in this fight for a long time and we are equipped mentally and materially to die for this cause and for the liberties of our friends, family, and comrades.

14/ Who is in office dictates the terms under which we--and I-- fight and die, and over what, and for whom.

Please take that seriously when you make a "Spicy hot take."

15/ Lots of people call for revolution on Twitter.

Have you been shot? Shot at? Batonned? Gassed? Beaten?

Many people here can't handle someone disagreeing with their opinion.

Assess your actual grit.

Assess what you're willing to get shot over.

16/ The trauma is real. The violence is real. The pain and suffering is real. Death is real.

I have seen people die this summer. I have seen people get shot this summer. I have been shot at this summer with live fire and less lethals. I have been nearly run over.

Have you?

17/ Are you ready to back up that spicy hot take?

18/ This isn't bravado. This isn't superiority. This isn't heroism. This isn't sanctimony.

I'm imploring you to consider who can and will die, suffer, or lose freedoms as a consequence of certain actions or inactions you have power to take or not.

19/ If you disagree with all of this, fine. I welcome that, and am not seeking to agitate.

I ask that you engage in a discussion and treat people with dignity and respect as you debate.

20/ The hate of the far Right is easy to agree over and bond over for they are primal, simplistic hates.

The left has much to disagree over. Agreement is hard, but a vital process. It fosters solidarity and consensus. It's work. Listening is work. Thinking is work.

21/ The left must champion consensus thinking through civil disagreements. We must address differences with respect and learn the value of nuance and compromise.

The goal is unity and inclusion. That is hard. It's easy to just hate the enemy

22/ Hating the enemies of the people leads to becoming an enemy of the people.

Eradicating hate begins with eradicating it inside yourself first.

The emotion that leads a revolutionary is love.

Love and righteous anger.

23/ Somewhere, in each of our lives, exists a hill--a landfill of our hopes and dreams and all that made us who we are.

It may be of asphalt or grass, or in our fractured hearts and imaginings.

It is where you will die.

Accept it, understand it, and you become fearless.

24/ If you feel the dark creep of despair and that you can no longer go forth in this life and must end it, devote to the death all your energies to changing the circumstances causing you seek an end.

This is 'Revolutionary Suicide.'

Read Huey P. Newton.

25/ So what decisions are you going to make for the betterment of humankind over politicking?

It's life or death. Think hard.

Red out, going dark.