i read books & write songs. join ur local tenants union below. they/them ๐ง๐ฝโโ๏ธ if youโre gonna repost me elsewhere please tag me @/shantillyt
Starting Neo-Colonialism, The Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah - hereโs a thread for my notes!
(Also if you want to send me $30 so I can buy the hard copy and stop reading off a PDF you would be the best)
why do people get so mad when you say the government should give us stuff for free. i love free shit. what else should they spend money on but us???????????????
This is really capturing why game shows arenโt fun anymore aka โ itโs not money to take the family to Disney anymore, itโs money to pay off student loan debt, save the family house, or finally afford the get your health needs met
Honestly youโre never gonna convince me that my trauma made me stronger. Most of the behavior I learned to protect myself has been detrimental to many of my relationships and the process of unlearning it seems impossible.
โYou donโt hate capitalism you just have a shitty jobโ
No I hate capitalism. Iโve worked for myself. Iโve had my dream job. No matter what job I work, capitalism exploits our planet and all that inhabit it. I hate that. Also working sucks & I donโt dream of labor.
Chinese spying app will always send meโฆFacebook was found guilty of fucking with our elections but gotta be careful of those Chinese spies watching ur TikToks
Yโall ever get into a disagreement with someone and realize youโre not even really arguing with each other youโre arguing with the trauma each of you represents to the other in that moment???
Very disturbing to know that a big reason weโre all seeing less about Palestine is because the amount of people that have been martyred.
Itโs more important to continue to speak up and to repost the folks on the ground in Palestine rn than ever before.
I think itโs really funny when people are like โif you care about unhoused people so much why donโt you let them live with youโ
I have done that. For a whole year. & now that they have their own place and job they offered to help with my rent when I got fired in October.
โIf you canโt strike no worriesโ โ
โIf you canโt strike letโs figure out how to organize so you can do even more than strike in the futureโ โ
los angeles city council just voted to make homelessness illegal & the biden admin has given ICE the green light to start expediting deportations of families seeking asylum. the fact that ANYONE thinks liberals give a flying fuck about us continues to baffle me.
My auntโs landlord sold her building and evicted everyone. The new landlords raised the rent from $1700 to $3000. My aunt found a different place to live but one of the families in the building is homeless now. All so a millionaire could get even more money.
I donโt wanna abolish gender. I wanna abolish the gender binary. I want indigenous gender identities that colonizers attempted to destroy to be respected. I want gender self determination & I want a system that doesnโt arbitrarily value some genders & demonize others.
People were arguing on the train today and this random man screamed โif yโall donโt stop arguing ima fart on everybodyโ
And everybody shut up so fast Iโm crying
Trans people are very much in danger. Hate how often the discourse turns into โwhoโs more oppressed Black people or trans peopleโ because the answer is Black trans people. And helping the intersection of people that have it worse, helps everyone.
Ya knowโฆ these folks shooting bud light cans because they hate trans people is a blatant and aggressive threat and I kinda donโt like how folks are downplaying it and treating it like a joke.
Yโall gotta kill the idea that being polyamorous means youโve transcended jealousy. You will still feel jealous. That is normal. Feel your feelings. Learn how to communicate in a ~healthy way. Unlearn the idea that love means possession.
One time I heard a child crying in the distance & it caused me to dissociate so bad I almost walked into oncoming traffic. Nothing about me feels stronger. My ability to take horrific abuse and still function to your liking is not a virtue. Itโs horrendous.
Another nonbinary person said to me โIโm not even a trans women but when people think that I am they are the most violent towards meโ
& thatโs the truth right there.
The shit is not history. And tbh theyโre state sanctioned. Because youโre not telling me the gov doesnโt know about this and gov officials of these towns are not involved. The united states is killing is in a million different ways.
I am so frustrated by how horrible this world is because we could just be eating fruit and loving each other. Really and truly.
My grandma used to eat oysters straight out the ocean bruh. Now we canโt even swim in the shit.
I feel like the whole โtrauma makes you strongerโ way of thinking also contributes to the systemic racism that Black people face. Slavery was somehow good for us. Doctors think Black people feel less pain. Weโre somehow good at being abused. So we donโt need help.
Yall afraid of project 2025, you wouldnโt fucking believe the horrors the United States has been inflicting on the global south
โVote for the lesser of two evilsโ ask the rest of the fucking world how that impacts them why donโt ya
My exboss who fired me for supporting Palestine is Belgian. She told a coworker it was because I wouldnโt listen to her reasoning to supporting Israelโฆ
Once she stated she didnโt understand American racism because her family housed African exchange studentsโฆ
Toxic positivity is so unhelpful. I don't need to always look on the bright side. It's okay to feel sad & angry. There are not good or bad emotions. Let people feel how they feel. Focus on how you can be there for them & less on how you can change them.
I think itโs very fun that after being fired for supporting Palestine, and my coworkers quitting in solidarity that we are now starting our own co-op & will be donating a portion of our profits to a family through operation olive branch.
Video for Zomi & Chef Oli from only eight days in the new kitchen of
@WCKitchen
in Deir al-Balah, where they were cooking thousands of meals for people in Gaza; they were among the people who were killed today by Israeli warplanes
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." -Assata Shakur
Folks complaining about boycott fatigue are so silly to me. I genuinely think we should stop buying stuff as much as possible for the foreseeable future lol.
Overconsumption is killing the planet. We genuinely donโt need most of these things. Find ur local community garden.
Ngl getting fired for supporting Palestine & watching a majority of the white & wealthy people in my industry flock to me ex employers defense and frame me as a angry vindictive Black women has been soโฆ.expected but traumatizing nonetheless.
Being neurodivergent is so painful sometimes. People often assume malice from my actions but honestly Iโm just anxious & confused & I want to go home.
My mom ate at Cracker Barrel today and all the food was so bland she rushed home to take a Covid test ๐ญ๐ญ she thought she lost all sense of taste but the test was negative and she ate a hot link to make sure
I mean this entire country is a sundown town police get away with killing Black people every day. And the solution we were given was to vote for a man and a VP that have been increasing funding for police at every turn.
I really hate when people talk about it in the past tense I literally stopped somewhere tryna pee is texas and we had to get back on the Fuckin freeway and hold it.
Last I checked BDS has not called for a boycott of Abbott Elementary or Stranger Things, but I still think itโs good for folks to be outraged and not want to watch shows with celebrities that not just condone, but celebrate genocide.
I saw a post that said โI can have a good life and experience great things while being incredibly sadโ and it kinda slid my brain back into place idk
The way this graphic portrays the fight between Black folks and white folks as โequalโ on both sides and not one systemic racism that ~one group benefits from. & acts as if Black power movements and white power movements are the same??? Iโm tired
Same landlord has ghosted everyone and hasnโt given everyone their deposit back. Literally illegal shit.
All landlords are leeches, just like all cops are bastards. They donโt provide housing, the hoard it & push people into homelessness.
The whole reason pride exists is because of the stonewall riots which were riots against police brutality. Specifically police harassing and arresting folks not conforming to cishet gender presentation.
White people saying what is & is not a sundown town in the repliesโฆ. Be forreal a lot of yโall were surprised racism still existed in 2020 so letโsโฆnot do that. ๐๐ฝ
I really donโt get yโallโs allegiance to Starbucks the coffee isnโt even good. Itโs overpriced. Most of it is straight sugar. You can get some instant coffee, creamer, and boil some water it doesnโt even take long my gawd.
Not so casual reminder to white folks:
No one wants to read your thread on MLK. No one wants to see your googled photo and quote. Itโs performative. Boost Black creators. Boost Black GFMs. Donate money to Black run mutual aid groups. Send Black folks money.
Someone said โthere is no ethical consumption under capitalismโ
In response to a Black person saying itโs bad to get married on a plantation yโall make me sick ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
Itโs interesting how a lot of folks use โfemmeโ to just mean โI can tell that ur AFABโ because people call me femme all the time and I donโt consider myself femme at all & I donโt refer to myself that way & yet
Also helped out the same encampment 2 times a week for a whole year. Used to bike an hour from work and straight to the encampment. Make food in my own kitchen. Would even run errands for folks even tho I didnโt have a car.
So ya knoโฆfind another gotcha
@benegotherit
Maybe itโs just Los Angeles but 90% of the white women I see do their makeup like this lol. Iโm sure the artist has seen a white woman before. Yโall are everywhere.
Recently โ I was at a party and someone told me they new the entire plot of this movie because their friend worked on set and with every trailer Iโm realizing they did not lie and really spoiled the whole movie for me ๐ซ
I really love my fellow communists & anarchists because I ask ya'll about your dreams & all you talk about is having just enough to give to other people. I read somewhere that when sunflowers cant get any sun they turn towards each other. Well, everyday I'm turning to you.
Every single Black person in jail on a drug charge is a political prisoner. The war on drugs is a war the united states government is waging against its own citizens.
We should not be normalizing armed security in the grocery store or on public transit. These are signs of a failing society. If people cannot afford to feed or house themselves corporate greed is reaching new heights.
Transphobia is a result of colonization & the erasure of Indigenous gender identities & expressions. Decolonization is fundamental to trans rights and vice versa.
Still in a LA queer nightlife groupchat & the whole thing fell apart yesterday because someone wrote โsounds about whiteโ and then the creator had a meltdown and said theyโre closing the chat because they wonโt deal with racism ๐ญ