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i stopped arguing w/people w/ regard to police/prison abolition, because it’s v simple: if you want to end “police violence,” you want to abolish the police. if you don’t want

“race was invented to keep working class people divided,” in discussions about the antagonisms between black/white people is reductionist, and i think it would be more fruitful to name ideological

i read “black marxism” for the first time in 2017-18, and i always felt like i understood the gist of it—but it was always a little overwhelming and intimidating, lol.

the “immigrants make america great” is one of the best exemplars of, often well-meaning, liberals just completely missing the point, lol the existence of the sociopolitical position of ‘immigrant’ in

liberal individualism has plagued all factions of society, where even in discussions about mental health & addiction, the societal response is either carceral or liberalized notions of “self-help”/“self-care”—as opposed to

“coming out”—especially in the terrain of neoliberalism, which individualized, commodified, and turned the concept into an industt; an exemplary of liberal “progress”—further naturalizes the regime of heterosexuality, and we sho

there is a coordinated counterinsurgency effort by the professional liberal media class to divert energy away from the CLEAR radical direction the slave, colonized, dispossessed, and superexploited class is headed—as

btw, you cannot hold politicians accountable when they are not accountable to you, but to capital. you cannot hold politicians accountable when they do not fear you, or fear the

i’m no purist, whatsoever, and i believe in the idea of voting to ‘minimize’ harm & pushing toward progress at a local (and even nat’l) level. we should totally celebrate

we have seen more black faces in high places, and have absolutely fuckin’ NOTHING to show for it. the last couple months we’ve witnessed black mayors, in chicago & atlanta

here’s kwame ture, with care & grace, describing the intimate details of how john lewis betrayed the sncc & the black liberation movement at-large ‘cause he was more interested in

the state department must be so pleased, woke tiktok zoomers just do their jobs incredibly well... for free.https://twitter.com/astoricatra/status/1282830803811151872 even if everything in the video that’s being said is absolutely true: