The mayor of Minneapolis is a Democrat. The governor of Minnesota is a Democrat. The Minneapolis City Council has no Republicans. Don't tell people "voting blue is the most important thing." They've been doing that for decades and it hasn't worked. - centrists are complicits
@JoeBiden says police should be trained to "shoot unarmed people in the leg instead of the heart". https://t.co/yyRpWh1ZKh LOL! Trump said the same thing
LBJ on the riots of 68: “What did you expect? I don’t know why we’re surprised. When you put your foot on a man’s neck and hold him down for 300 years, and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off.” https://twitter.com/ktumulty/status/1267489623762186242
Before Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, nearly 75% of Americans disapproved of him. So it’s pretty hard to take white people at face value who are expressing nostalgia for him and his protests when, all other things being equal, they probably would have opposed him in 1968. - many are Hypocrites
seeing the state indiscriminately target all protesters even as liberals are busy separating them into good ones and bad ones is an incredibly clarifying experience - fundamentally, it's a class war
The Double Standard of the American Riot https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/06/riots-are-american-way-george-floyd-protests/612466/ The nationwide protests against police killings have been called un-American by critics, but rebellion has always been used to defend liberty.
After police used tear gas and pushed back peaceful protesters for Trump’s church visit, Pelosi reads from the Bible. “A time to heal, the book of Ecclesiastes,” she says, adding she hopes Trump will be “healer in chief and not a fanner of the flames.” https://t.co/D1ipln2GS9 https://t.co/opl7bQmDQv - hahaha.....everyone knows that Pelosi graduated from 神学院, right? American government is a cult.
By escalating his personal skirmish with Twitter into an all-out political war with the social media companies and their special legal protections, President Trump has inadvertently opened a path for America to repair the misinformation ecosystem on social media, including its most pernicious form - foreign governments promoting propaganda to interfere in our elections. He even may trigger a civic revival. https://apple.news/ApJu4isAFR2WdgYgpTPJ_fw All that needs to happen now is for Democrats in Congress to take up Trump and his supporters on their complaints and push through a bipartisan repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects social media companies from most legal liability as publishers. As several commentators have pointed out, this may hurt Trump more than it helps him, which is a big motivator for Democrats. But more importantly, a repeal of Section 230 could start a domino effect that will end with a healthy reset on how those platforms are used and viewed by the country—and may even give an unexpected boost to real critical journalism.
Capitalism structurally compels us to work and produce beyond society's actual needs. And the more we produce, the more we have to consume, to mop up overproduction. Consumption becomes a structural imperative - a form of labour in itself. The consumer is not sovereign, but serf. - Jason Hickel
35 of the 50 largest cities & their police forces are governed by Democratic mayors. I don't wanna hear that Dems can't do anything to stop the police violence. They have the power - if they don't use it to stop the police violence, they are complicit. https://t.co/b39JNFhobU It’s amazing the degree to which the Democratic Party is just nowhere. No plan, no solidarity, no presence, nothing. So why to vote blue again? DEM is not the opposition party.
Angry Republicans declare “This is a time for choosing. America or Trump.” The Lincoln Project ads keep getting tougher by the day. https://twitter.com/joenbc/status/1268334228778909697
