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commie thembo 🇵🇸🔻

9 months

Starting Neo-Colonialism, The Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah - here’s 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)

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@CommieThembo

3 years

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???????????????

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This is really capturing why game shows aren’t fun anymore aka — it’s not money to take the family to Disney anymore, it’s money to pay off student loan debt, save the family house, or finally afford the get your health needs met

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299 had one of the most dramatic reality show exits of all time. #SquidGameTheChallenge

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@CommieThembo

4 years

Missionaries are colonizers and you can’t change my mind.

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@CommieThembo

3 years

Wealth inequality is SO BAD that the amount of money rich people spend on a purse would be life changing for a majority of the population.

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Honestly you’re 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.

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@CommieThembo

3 years

if people need n95 masks to keep from catching covid....they should be free.

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@CommieThembo

4 years

The United States is ~currently~ illegally occupying Hawaii, gentrifying it, taking land from Indigenous folks, & white washing/erasing their culture.

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@CommieThembo

3 years

Under communism food websites will get straight to the recipe

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@CommieThembo

3 years

“You don’t hate capitalism you just have a shitty job” No I hate capitalism. I’ve worked for myself. I’ve 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 don’t dream of labor.

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2 years

Sundown towns still exist & it’s really important people know that. It’s literally life or death.

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@CommieThembo

3 years

I would much rather people steal than starve. It really is THAT simple.

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@CommieThembo

5 months

Chinese spying app will always send me…Facebook was found guilty of fucking with our elections but gotta be careful of those Chinese spies watching ur TikToks

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3 years

Y’all ever get into a disagreement with someone and realize you’re not even really arguing with each other you’re arguing with the trauma each of you represents to the other in that moment???

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3 years

Slavery was reformed into the prison industrial complex. It was not abolished.

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@CommieThembo

2 years

What kind of solution is “get a job” when a living wage is like $60 an hour at this point

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5 months

Very disturbing to know that a big reason we’re all seeing less about Palestine is because the amount of people that have been martyred. It’s more important to continue to speak up and to repost the folks on the ground in Palestine rn than ever before.

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5 months

I think it’s really funny when people are like “if you care about unhoused people so much why don’t you let them live with you” 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.

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@CommieThembo

9 months

Loosing the chance at a large amount of money in this way would be my joker origin story

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@CommieThembo

7 months

“If you can’t strike no worries” ❌ “If you can’t strike let’s figure out how to organize so you can do even more than strike in the future” ✅

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@CommieThembo

3 years

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.

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I am constantly overwhelmed with anger about how much time with our loved ones capitalism steals from us

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@CommieThembo

3 years

Trans people can tell when you're just using our pronouns to be polite but still very obviously see us as the gender we were assigned at birth.

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@CommieThembo

4 years

Y’all swore you were gonna “push Biden left” but it really looks like he’s pushing you right

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@CommieThembo

2 years

My aunt’s 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.

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@CommieThembo

3 years

Met Gala 2021 Theme: American Independence

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@CommieThembo

3 years

I don’t 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 doesn’t arbitrarily value some genders & demonize others.

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@CommieThembo

3 years

There’s nothing wrong with not wanting to work. Working sucks.

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@CommieThembo

2 years

People were arguing on the train today and this random man screamed “if y’all don’t stop arguing ima fart on everybody” And everybody shut up so fast I’m crying

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@CommieThembo

9 months

Also don’t forget we boycotting Disney y’all.

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@CommieThembo

4 years

@ICEgov

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@CommieThembo

2 years

Trans people are very much in danger. Hate how often the discourse turns into “who’s more oppressed Black people or trans people” because the answer is Black trans people. And helping the intersection of people that have it worse, helps everyone.

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@CommieThembo

10 months

Just been fired for posting my support for Palestine if anyone knows any employment lawyers I would really appreciate it.

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@CommieThembo

1 year

Ya know… these folks shooting bud light cans because they hate trans people is a blatant and aggressive threat and I kinda don’t like how folks are downplaying it and treating it like a joke.

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1 year

They can’t let this Bud Light thing go.

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@CommieThembo

2 years

Why peel the banana if you’re just gonna do this bro I’m so confused

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@CommieThembo

4 years

If poor folks are making money off something, it’s criminalized within the week.

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@CommieThembo

3 years

Y’all gotta kill the idea that being polyamorous means you’ve 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.

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@CommieThembo

2 months

I’m real tired of the “both candidates suck because they’re old” shit because Obama & Kamala are also fucking war criminals

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@CommieThembo

3 years

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. It’s horrendous.

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@CommieThembo

3 years

Another nonbinary person said to me “I’m not even a trans women but when people think that I am they are the most violent towards me” & that’s the truth right there.

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@CommieThembo

4 months

@peachmilfshake A real one.

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@CommieThembo

2 years

The shit is not history. And tbh they’re state sanctioned. Because you’re not telling me the gov doesn’t know about this and gov officials of these towns are not involved. The united states is killing is in a million different ways.

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@CommieThembo

3 years

all profit should go to the people & not war & not one random rich dude its just feudalism with extra steps.

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@CommieThembo

5 months

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 can’t even swim in the shit.

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@CommieThembo

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Constantly tortured by how hateful everyone is of like…being earnest and passionate about literally anything

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@CommieThembo

3 years

I feel like the whole “trauma makes you stronger” 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. We’re somehow good at being abused. So we don’t need help.

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Yall afraid of project 2025, you wouldn’t fucking believe the horrors the United States has been inflicting on the global south “Vote for the lesser of two evils” ask the rest of the fucking world how that impacts them why don’t ya

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@CommieThembo

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My exboss who fired me for supporting Palestine is Belgian. She told a coworker it was because I wouldn’t listen to her reasoning to supporting Israel… Once she stated she didn’t understand American racism because her family housed African exchange students…

Ademọ́lá.

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An African child displayed in Human Zoo in Brussels, Belgium in 1958.

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@CommieThembo

4 years

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.

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@CommieThembo

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I think it’s 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.

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@CommieThembo

5 months

Rest peacefully. This shit is so horrible my god.

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@InsiderWorld_1

5 months

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

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@CommieThembo

3 years

"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

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@CommieThembo

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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 don’t need most of these things. Find ur local community garden.

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@CommieThembo

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I feel like Trader Joe’s really just gentrified processed foods. Like yall are just eating TV dinners with a nice font on them.

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@CommieThembo

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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 so….expected but traumatizing nonetheless.

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@CommieThembo

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Being neurodivergent is so painful sometimes. People often assume malice from my actions but honestly I’m just anxious & confused & I want to go home.

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@CommieThembo

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My mom ate at Cracker Barrel today and all the food was so bland she rushed home to take a Covid test 😭😭 she thought she lost all sense of taste but the test was negative and she ate a hot link to make sure

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@CommieThembo

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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.

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@CommieThembo

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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.

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@CommieThembo

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Last I checked BDS has not called for a boycott of Abbott Elementary or Stranger Things, but I still think it’s good for folks to be outraged and not want to watch shows with celebrities that not just condone, but celebrate genocide.

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@CommieThembo

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When did people stop following the “everyone has to exit before you enter” rules for elevators and subways cos I cussed a man out today

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@CommieThembo

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I saw a post that said “I can have a good life and experience great things while being incredibly sad” and it kinda slid my brain back into place idk

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@CommieThembo

3 years

The way this graphic portrays the fight between Black folks and white folks as “equal” 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??? I’m tired

💚 Kulani 💛

@MagicJoyfriend

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hey yt "leftists", don't do this 😃

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@CommieThembo

3 years

this is a landlord hate account

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@CommieThembo

3 years

@diligenda Humbly offering these these amazing Black women beekeepers to replace

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@CommieThembo

5 months

We are living in a failed state. My fucking god.

Ted Cruz Called The FBI on me

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Elderly man self-immolates while being evicted. Housing is a human right.

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@CommieThembo

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if you've come away from this thinking "well all medical care/accommodations should be free" you're absolutely right

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@CommieThembo

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Same landlord has ghosted everyone and hasn’t given everyone their deposit back. Literally illegal shit. All landlords are leeches, just like all cops are bastards. They don’t provide housing, the hoard it & push people into homelessness.

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@CommieThembo

3 years

I really don’t care the context. Cis men calling a woman a b!tch will always be wrong to me & make me feel unsafe.

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@CommieThembo

3 years

Also SOMEONE has to work the shitty job right? So you just think some people should suffer? Like I do not get it?

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@CommieThembo

3 years

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.

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@CommieThembo

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Black men are allowed to talk about the unique oppression they experience at the hands of white women. That doesn’t make them a misogynist.

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@CommieThembo

3 years

All in a days work 💗

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@CommieThembo

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White people saying what is & is not a sundown town in the replies…. Be forreal a lot of y’all were surprised racism still existed in 2020 so let’s…not do that. 👍🏽

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@CommieThembo

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I really don’t get y’all’s allegiance to Starbucks the coffee isn’t even good. It’s overpriced. Most of it is straight sugar. You can get some instant coffee, creamer, and boil some water it doesn’t even take long my gawd.

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@CommieThembo

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the land, stolen. the people, stolen. the profits, stolen labor value. give it back rn i'm outside.

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@CommieThembo

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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. It’s performative. Boost Black creators. Boost Black GFMs. Donate money to Black run mutual aid groups. Send Black folks money.

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@CommieThembo

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I hope US settlers also remember we’re on stolen land & our government is actively oppressing Native people.

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@CommieThembo

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I just feel like y’all don’t understand that poor people live in Los Angeles lol

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@CommieThembo

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Someone said “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” In response to a Black person saying it’s bad to get married on a plantation y’all make me sick 😭😭😭😭

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@CommieThembo

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MAKE HIS POCKETS HURT

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@CommieThembo

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It’s interesting how a lot of folks use “femme” to just mean “I can tell that ur AFAB” because people call me femme all the time and I don’t consider myself femme at all & I don’t refer to myself that way & yet

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@CommieThembo

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You don’t have to be thin to be androgynous.

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@CommieThembo

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If your politics doesn’t involve landback & Native sovereignty, it’s neocolonialism.

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@CommieThembo

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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 didn’t have a car. So ya kno…find another gotcha

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@CommieThembo

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@benegotherit Maybe it’s just Los Angeles but 90% of the white women I see do their makeup like this lol. I’m sure the artist has seen a white woman before. Y’all are everywhere.

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Recently — 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 I’m realizing they did not lie and really spoiled the whole movie for me 🫠

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The official trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. 💅

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@CommieThembo

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its litchorly our money and i want it now

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@CommieThembo

3 years

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.

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@CommieThembo

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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.

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@CommieThembo

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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.

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Transphobia is a result of colonization & the erasure of Indigenous gender identities & expressions. Decolonization is fundamental to trans rights and vice versa.

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Don't want people to steal? Improve their material conditions. People will hoard wealth and then be surprised when people steal from them lmfao.

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@CommieThembo

3 years

Audre lorde really referred to a conversation with cishets as “heterocetera” LMFAO

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@CommieThembo

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Still in a LA queer nightlife groupchat & the whole thing fell apart yesterday because someone wrote “sounds about white” and then the creator had a meltdown and said they’re closing the chat because they won’t deal with racism 😭

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