Me and a friend are planning to do a similar kind of trip to scandanavia this summer... I absolutely adore this kind of travel!

It was really weird how unfased dems were by that lethal fighting force line.

Start with Black Project 2025

I just watched that video and was so grateful to see this one in the recommendations because holy shit that was painful seeing Nikki sit there trying to explain "okay I understand that the world is not fair, but it's tragic and frustrating to me that so many men experience injustice and violence and then come home and inflict injustice and violence on their families" while James repeatedly says "look sweetheart, babydoll, honeycakes, men have to be men and if they can't get that elsewhere they're gonna have to beat it out of and/or neglect their family." It was heartbreaking when she basically said "look, we know there aren't jobs out there; you're not coming home with the bike because we're not gonna be able to afford it" and his response is just "but I can't come home without the bike." The system does such a terrifyingly effective job of denying black men their masculinity (and even moreso black women their femininity, but that's another discussion) that even someone as brilliant and perceptive as James can be stuck inside the vortex of chasing it, blind to the female perspective and the way masculinity is being used to keep both black sexes down.

You are 100% correct. I think the biggest hurdle though is religion. Like if you live in a Red State, even in a blue dot like me, I find it SO hard to move around Christianity. It’s so much more powerful than we thought. Like I would love to learn tools to navigate this because this is the biggest block in connecting with other working class here. I am not a militant atheist. I use to find lJesus is socialist” rhetoric was a good bridge but I don’t know what the fuck happened in the last few years but they really don’t connect with it now. I think it’s honestly populism and I think populism has proven to be totally anathema to the class-based politics that leftism requires. Not sure how to move around that.

Thank you. Thank you for reminding us all that we can’t and shouldn’t just break down the structures that bind us or push them to be less binding, but to build our communities in the way we want our society to be built, to have a foundation to push back from as proof of our defiance and belief. That there’s more options to help each other than just political and violent action. I really needed to hear that.

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The words cinema bookstore got me. I'm gonna see about getting out someplace that's not the US.

I just want people to realize that some of us don't have time to wait for rights to be fought for. I understand the need for change of the system, but we disabled people are going to end up suffering due to that, and we don't have a lot of room for wiggling if you know what I mean. Our lives are successful because we have stable home lives and have had time to prepare ahead of time. We can't just leave and live anywhere if the violence gets bad. The children are gonna have the worst time. The department of education and the laws that govern it are the base layer that hold the laws that we need to keep disabled children being educated fairly and correctly. Let me tell you, as someone who was that disabled child at some point, it's already on shakey ground. It's llike a tower of building blocks being held together by glue and some string. Also, we are gonna need money and power as well. Some people are gonna suffer. You did say this, but the truth is, honoring them and remembering them later on is not gonna bring them back. Those disabled kids who can't read are not going to be able to get that time back either. We don't get to always vote for what we truely believe in. We vote for the people that allow us the live, because unfortunately in some respects, we are at the mercy of the majority. Especially those of us who need a lot of assistive tech, or don't read print. Braille is extremely expensive. and some of the organizations that could help with this have spent years advocateing for things that are useful when the system is working correctly, but aren't gonna be that great when everything is in flux or falling down. So to be honest, we've gotten screwed. Again!

You and your friend are beautiful and i'm glad you got to experience a bit of joy.

What the fuck I just had a conversation with a stranger 2 days ago about going to Italy and Croatia with her

You’re a pathetic clown who desperately wants to be a victim because you’re not smart enough to have any real achievements in life.

Looks so chill and beautiful❤

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very excited for the comprehensive guide to direct action!

You had the oppurtunity to vote Trump out, YOU REFUSED, and now you want to do "diwect action" after the fact? Nah fuck off.

These terms are losing any meaning. The state forcing an individual to do anything is authoritarian. It doesn't matter if you think what they are forcing is good or bad. If you haven't figured out they use race and sex to distract from the real problem which is class, please look around... 90% of white people were and are poor and have been treated like shit throughout history. The only thing that matters is that if you are rich or not and they will use any difference we have to divide us.

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Marxism is not the answer to the non-problem of the drmocratic election of Donald Trump.

US is a fascist country much more than Russia and China...

I wish you’d pronounce Kamala’s name correctly 🙏🏾

Did you vote for Kamala? Yes or no?

To think trump election will reverb all around the world and will make more far-rightists to be elected.... *Sigh*

2 min in: I think its a mix of sexism, racism, lack of reaserch (they automatically think trump is better for the economy even though 23 award winning economists stand with kamala and the only one whos opposed them is trumps People. Which has caused People to vote for trump because they assume he, a White man, is just better at that stuff) and a appeal to vibes GOOOOOOOOD the american People love vibes and unfortunately cool aunt is not nearly as belives in America as alpha sigma big daddy

Yes time to organize by buying your book, subscribing to your sponsored media platform and giving you money on patreon right? Did I forget like share and subscribe to boost your relevance in the algorithm 🤪 surely we can fight racism by giving money to our favorite left wing creators 🤭

That American Indian vote split at 07:53 😨😱😰 It CRUSHES _both_ the white & Latino Republican vote despite them having some representation in Kamala's biracial heritage. I'm disappointed but not surprised, I knew that as per usual, mainstream media analysis was missing some groups from the convo. All this overblown talk about black men letting their own down and only _post_ election was there breakdown of Latino right-shift even though that was in the making for months. And still no talk of AAPI vote even NOW. Black folk - you guys are _still_ getting scrutinised, judged and held to impossible standars of account more harshly than other POC groups in America ... and even though the last 10 years have seen an uptick in education in why all POC need to have solidarity; that "closeness to whiteness" is an attractive power illusion but it's actually a degrading position even for the person doing it ... well we're still here. I know that Indians both in their country and diaspora are in general very anti-black, lots are deeply invested in their caste system. So even they're often a target of anti-POC racism .. many do buy into the respectability politics of "we're the good type of immigrant, we don't like the bad ones" etc etc. A 2nd gen American Indian dude on Reddit (yes I know not a quality source but gives some qualitative insight even if not rigorous) was pretty upfront about this reality and broke it down: Many Indian diaspora Americans are socially conservative but also very economically conservative. They have businesses large and small, its one of their cultural markers of success. Amongst all immigrant communities Indians are the most economically successful _before_ they even arrive to the US ... (tbf he did say it's harder for a disadvantaged Indian to get an H1B). That hyper-capitalistic, success equals = financial, elite education, social status priority factors huge in their communities. Add in the "one of the good ones" immigrant mentality, the comfort they have with excluding ethnic groups from their communities either through caste, religion (there's a LOT of anti-Muslim sentiment), old-fashioned racism etc ... youre left with a lot of very proud Indian American Trump voters who either outright expressed they didn't care what happened to other groups cause they "got here legally" or "well I'm not them. Why should I worry about them?" Sucks but yeah.

Anark has a great video on the idea of defeatism in leftist culture. worth a watch

15:30 Imma keep it a hundo, buddy. The vast majority of people did not vote or not vote based on Gaza. American voters, like all voters in any country, don't vote based on foreign policy but on domestic issues. People care more about increased prices of their groceries than they do about Gaza. Call it self interest or Maslow's hierarchy of needs or whatever, the simple fact of the matter is that Gaza was not one of the main significant reasons why Harris lost. There's just been a global anti-incumbency bias. Harris lost because of sexism, right wing media saturation, and the fact that she was part of an unpopular adminsitration and in an election where the people wanted Change, she offered only Continuity. This is the age of populism, not status quo. If Harris had some more aggressively populist and inspiring messaging, she could've possible won, even if her Gaza policy was the same as it was.

Very excellent points brother Prince. We're at what I see as the most dangerous period in human history. You are so right this colonial settler project was founded on violence, terrorism, patriarchal white male rule. And definitely the Democrats have miserably failed us big time and we also know how viciously bigoted and racist the Republicans are. What really agonizes me is how do we produce a concrete and viable alternative to this decadent and rotten system?

All because the collective conscious of America refuses to be conscious and acknowledge their shadow 😢

What you really see, is the flaw in any democracy, being majority rule. Minorities group, and still can't do shit against majority oppression. The only thing what minorities can do is emigrate.

And were you talking like these when Biden won? Holocaust Kamala offered the people, the workers, the poor, etc., I have nothing against organizing against this capitalist duopoly,, but please don't g o to sleep when the democrats are in power.