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she/her | ☭ | philly dsa | formerly @codepink & @TUGSA_6290 | writings in the linktree | speaking for myself & not my boss

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someone call me an ambulance 💀
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Thinking about the episode of Breaking Bad that opens with Jesse explaining the Labor Theory of Value
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Many online communists underestimate the raw persuasive power that comes from being normal.
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Political science professor just translated "bourgeoisie" to mean "middle class" I-
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My building has had a groupchat for less than 24 hours and I have already suggested a rent strike
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You want Puerto Rico to be a state. I want Puerto Rico to be a country. We are not the same.
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It’s objectively hilarious that the DPRK is financing its missile program by stealing bitcoin from American crypto bros
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“Cubans have poverty” really isn’t the anticommunist own you think it is when you remember this memo exists
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God I woke up to an annoying thread. Bourgeoisie hasn’t meant “middle class” since aristocrat meant “upper class” and neoliberalism benefits from the conflation between our modern definition of middle class and this archaic translation. Especially in this context. Muting.
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Can’t believe I let New Atheists convince me that religion was the root of all evil when capitalism was RIGHT THERE
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@aufgehoben_ist We were discussing Marxist class conceptions as compared to modern ones. In that context, bourgeoisie means the ownership class. Saying it’s the same as “middle class” the way we understand it is anticommunist and incorrect
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I’ve followed over 400 random leftists in the last couple hours. Excited to slowly discover which of you are just CIA socks 🥰
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Half my feed is showing their asses today about how little they know here. I promise, every “peaceful” and “nonviolent” method you think would have been better has been tried and failed multiple times. Nobody chooses armed resistance as a first resort.
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Subcultures that are 50% communist, 50% fascist, no in between: • gym bros • weebs • gun people • soccer • cottagecore
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Nobody: Me at the slightest inconvenience:
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Badass city council candidate is asked a redbaiting question about his history with the Communist Party and gives THE BEST response!
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Alright, I’m gonna mute this now cause it’s clogging my notifs but thanks for the love y’all 😊 Also if I see anyone bad mouthing my grandma, I *WILL* hide your replies. She’s wrong but she’s trying to help me keep my man and we can’t hate on her for that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I am once again posting the Arundhati Roy quote. Palestinians WERE nonviolent for years but had no audience because they were the wrong kind of victims. Read a book you pricks.
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STOP 👏🏻 MAKING 👏🏻 LIVE 👏🏻 ACTION 👏🏻 REMAKES 👏🏻 OF 👏🏻 ANIME 👏🏻 WHILE 👏🏻 KING 👏🏻 OF 👏🏻 THE 👏🏻 HILL 👏🏻 IS 👏🏻 RIGHT 👏🏻 FUCKIN 👏🏻 THERE!!
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@Extrm8or True as that may technically be, our modern definition of “middle class” is so divergent from it that this translation can only serve to further obscure Marxist goals. It needs explanations liberals never provide & often don’t even know. “Ownership class” is the best translation.
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In case anyone hasn’t seen, Adonis Tuggle (who was recently attacked by Jon Selkie, a member of the Purdue University Police @PurduePolice ) posted this on Instagram. They are refusing to investigate or turn over body cam footage.
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*since “upper class” meant “aristocracy.” Only in the presence of literal mercantilism is the bourgeoisie in the middle of anything. Nowadays the aristocracy in places where it exists is folded into the bourgeoisie. Stop bourgeoisie with the modern concept of middle class.
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Wednesday actress Jenny Ortega expresses support for the Temple University grad workers’ strike! “I find it appalling that a university which prides itself on having begun as a night school for the working class continues keeping some of its most vital workers on food stamps.”
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Muting cause it’s clogging the notifs! Thanks for the love ❤️ it is important to have hobbies & interests outside of politics. Going outside, interacting with “apolitical” people and being a fun guy who happens to be a comrade catches more flies than seeming obsessed & combative.
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@JawnWalsh Grandma said “find your curlers or lose your man” 😂😂😂😂
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@alexporterr maybe he just likes jam!!!
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@JeanGreige Men don’t have good platonic friends, so if women act like good platonic friends, they can only compute it as romantic. If you’re too good of a friend to a man, he will imagine you have led him on and hate you for it, then whine about the male loneliness crisis.
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Also pls stop roasting my incredibly sexy bf?? Like, not only does he have gorgeous eyes and a fantastic beard and arms that are the perfect cuddling size and v kissable lips but he is also one of the best people I know? He’s so smart and kind and he makes me very happy so stop!!
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@meItingbytwice This one isn’t really forbidden but I can’t stop thinking about it every time I see Jeremy Allen White
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(Had to clarify what I meant by normal before I left. Lots of people reading malice into this that isn’t there. So I wanted to specify I’m not saying “don’t be queer/neurodivergent” (esp since I’m both), I’m just saying log off sometimes & have a personality outside of politics.)
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Mfs say there's only two genders because of "basic biology" and then you ask them a basic biology question and-
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Muting now cause it’s clogging my notifs but we decided that if our repairs arent done (two of us have nonfunctional AC, I have two leaks, one guy’s cabinets fell off the wall), everyone waiting on repairs is gonna put the rent in escrow til the landlord does his job.
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PS. Losing your hair early is a sign of having high testosterone so take that to its logical conclusion and ask yourself if it’s something to roast a guy about
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@xyphophorus Alas, we are not French revolutionaries. Merely 21st century American grad students, continuing with the conception that “middle class” means “us” and therefore that Marxism opposes us.
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@loukaonline Plane is one of those drag queens whose favorite joke is “haha women and girl parts so weird and funny amiright? 🤪🤪🤪” Since she views drag as a place to mock women, I’m not surprised she’d see a lesbian woman like Chappell being legit interested in drag as suspicious.
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🧵 I’m angry because this country gave them zero other options. I know Calla: these are people with big hearts who saw the suffering, who spent YEARS doing everything “the right way.” And our government taught them that doing things “properly” would not stop the violence. (1/4)
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This morning, @MerrimackPD swiftly acted to put an immediate stop to these individuals committing felonies at @ElbitSystemsLtd . These individuals published video recordings of their crimes in Merrimack on a Pro-Palestine handle on X. Thank you, MPD and Elbit for all you do.
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@AlSweigart Bold of you to assume I’m straight
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@american_druid In the context of Marxism, which is what we were discussing, it means the class which owns the means of production. It is divorced entirely from income level or where they live.
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If you cross a picket line, you have already done more harm to your fellow humans than any mean word could and they have every right to call you a scab for it
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Calling strikebreakers “scabs” is patently dehumanizing (and if your response to this is “good,” you should probably engage in some self-examination)
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@marisatomay It’s nice to be reminded every once in a while that all famous actors are, at the root, theatre kids
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Whole timeline today is mad that a Puerto Rican communist said Trump wasn’t uniquely bad among US politicians but idk, if my country was being bipartisanly held as the longest colony in history, with dems calling for full annexation, I would probably also have that opinion also
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Muting cause it’s clogging the notifs but PSA to everyone arguing about Gus taking risks or overhead or whatever against the LTV: value =\= price, none of your points are unique or interesting, and also I didn’t ask. Here’s another video for you 😘
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Stop tying your self image to having the correct takes all the time You’re not politically or ethically perfect & the goal of becoming so is limiting your ability to stand in solidarity with others Instead, be a person who is constantly growing. That’s more impressive anyway.
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Two weeks ago, the Temple University administration cancelled its negotiations with the grad student union, @TUGSA_6290 . In response, the union held a strike vote which passed with over 99%. This is the last negotiation session to avoid a strike. I’ll be tweeting updates here👇🏻🧵
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Without Right to Work protections, Michigan workers would be forced to pay money to UAW bosses or else be fired...
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“COMMUNISM NO FOOD BREAD LINES POVERTY” I cry from my Miami beach house as the US malnutrition rate climbs to almost three times that of Cuba and my neighbors die on the street
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@torohive Everyone acting mad at you over this take clearly gets their perspective on feminism from vibes and tweets rather than actually having read any scholars who talk about gendered power relations. Cause you’re right and jokes reinforce norms.
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psa: strikes work
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@idonotbleed “joe biden will defund the police!” well, buddy, you’ll never guess what my opinion of those guys is…
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@WashProbs When men say “my ex was crazy!!” this is what they mean 95% of the time
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PSA: I have left CPUSA. This is the statement I wrote to my chapter on the subject. It is the first and last I will be saying on this front.
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@SamRamani2 US State Department reading this rn
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@WireRacing Maybe we should yell at them more about how they’re bad people for thinking this. That will change their minds, surely
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@Aaraam_thambran @Kanthan2030 Much respect, our man found time to kill Nazis and chase that bag 😤
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Who keeps doing this I just wanna talk....
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Glad I could be the one to let you know. Muting cause there’s too many of y’all but DM me if the “all my apes gone” guy’s apes turn up on a missile or something
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@film_girl If Sawant is too extreme for you, you probably shouldn’t be in DSA. She’s great & she’s improving people’s material lives with the word “socialist” attached. The recall campaign is more DCCC type bogarting & if you support it, you’re supporting what keeps down your candidates too
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Indiana University police department is presently brutalizing students who have been camped in a so-called free speech zone for less than a day. At least 24 arrests, including faculty members, with a sniper stationed on the roof beside the meadow. Video credit to @psc_iu
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@natalieshatalie Reminds me of
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The Communist Party of Israel greets CPUSA's 32nd Convention
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@Extrm8or It’s correct within a certain context but this wasn’t that context. It was incorrect in the context. And then you showed up and said “well actually” and described a hypothetical context where it would have made sense. It’s needlessly pedantic and contrarian.
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@EOpsych The solution is always “be EVEN nicer to men who hate you” and if your political project produces a reaction from men, it’s because YOU weren’t accommodating enough. No investigation of why they feel more kindness from women is always demandable, regardless of context.
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@ethan_wh_ Fascists crying is my comfort character 🥰
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@mustachetoilet I work a full-time corporate “day” job and another job on nights/weekends and live frugally, but no one has deliver my 20 houses yet? Is there a customer service line I can call??
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@sammajammaz I thought so too— Grandma prolly just forgot to put on her glasses 😌
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@skafawna “I’m sad because I had what I felt was a mutual friendship and it turns out much of his behavior was secretly conditioned on me eventually dating him. When I said I wouldn’t, I lost my friend.” “So you think that your male friends getting a crush on you MAKES THEM BAD PEOPLE?!?!”
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Pretty fuckin embarrassing that this country is still walking around with a Constitution from the Pirates of the Caribbean times js
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I’m so lucky to be in Cuba. I feel so blessed to be in this place where the water is kept clear, community groups are funded, there is space for sustainable fashion shows at clubs. I wish all Americans could see the reality is so different from what they’re told #CubaPorLaPaz
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PSA: the first thing Fidel Castro & Che Guevara did after the Cuban Revolution was take this golf course/country club owned by Americans and turn it into a national school for the arts which to this day provides full tuition, room, board, and stipend to all Cubans admitted.
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@Tori4ThePeople Also worth noting that they’re ONCE AGAIN acting as if being Jewish and being Palestinian are two mutually exclusive and antagonistic categories, as if Mizrahim don’t exist.
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Accidentally let it slip in a job interview that I tried to start a union at a previous job can I get an F in the chat?
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Reminder that when we say “Israel is an apartheid state,” we aren’t making an analogy. It’s not a comparison to South Africa. It is us accusing the Israeli government of a specific crime against humanity called apartheid as outlined by the International Criminal Court and ICSPCA.
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@p1mpgamestrong We’re working on it 😎
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@SwannMarcus89 Liberal capitalists are literally in power doing the “actual solutions,” it’s just failing like it has for 25 years and people are so mad at your failure they’re engaging in fantasies of violence online. Random Twitter guy isn’t the issue here.
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2019 Recap for IU: • Nazis • Prof Rasmusen went viral for being sexist, racist, homophobe • Palestine group banned from advertising events in Center for Study of Middle East • New sexual misconduct report record • Students can now only see therapists 1 hour a month • This👇
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Disgusting video from Pi Kappa Phi at @IndianaUniv
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The American left is gonna get so powerful once it learns that you can join an org without agreeing to 100% of its national leadership’s opinions and that nobody outside of the internet gives a shit about all the party splits and rivalries that seem so important on the bird app.
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@TransMao Fun fact on how untrue this is: Cuba is and has been a huge exporter of sugar. After the revolution, the government instituted policies to encourage greater milk consumption/production for growth. Add in the hot climate and you get ice cream EVERYWHERE. Took this pic at 10am 😂
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This version has better captions than the autogenerated ones if anyone's interested. Also, the candidate is @Seth4ThePeople
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In case anyone is unaware, al-Shifa hospital is also where the death count for the present war on Gaza is being collected. The siege on the hospital is not just causing a loss of life but a loss of death records. We will now never truly be able to know how many have died.
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The US forced these girls to watch death and destruction then showed them EVERY SINGLE “CORRECT” OPTION was futile. It refused to budge no matter how much they did. And left them with the choice to either throw a wrench in their own lives or sit by and let a genocide happen.
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And now it is very clearly trying to make an example of them, the same way it has been with Stop Cop City protestors. Felonies, prison time: these things ruin lives. And none of this would have happened if “democracies” listened to their people in the first place.
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How @mdc_dsa does Christmas 🎅 #CoalForCongress
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@touchingcheeses One day, after prison abolition, we will view prisons the way we currently view plantations. And people will continue to do this for the same reason plantations become B&Bs and wedding locations.
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@punishedgarage But also lowkey you’re not doing nothing even if you are just laying there. Holding positions, especially weird flexible ones? Clenching? Dudes think women do nothing cause they’re doing cardio & that’s what they think “doing something” looks like but we’re doing isometric holds.
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@Calebej37 I’m technically a “humanities” (political science) but I literally teach coding for statistical analysis. My class is indistinguishable from a course you’d see in a stem building. But you know what it is distinguishable from? Union busting 101 😌
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@benedict_rs Best therapist I ever had was a therapy group. Just a bunch of people going through the same shit, all about the same age at the same university, brainstorming solutions, empathizing & learning from each other. Also shrooms + nutritionist > therapist in terms of ED recovery.
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President Xi, my people cry out for freedom
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They chose not to sit by. And I can’t fault anything they did as part of that choice. But I’m angry as all hell they were forced to make a choice like that so needlessly. It didn’t have to come to this. Our government put these children in that position for having empathy!
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@computercart @AMythicWitch “The cultural tutor” + Roman face statue? 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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As usual, fighting the right wingers is fun but I gotta go for a run so I’m muting. I’ll come back & hide the rep(lies) the Cuba Haters leave later cause ✨no free clout✨ In the meantime, don’t let anyone tell you Cuban poverty is anything but US sabotage. This post is proof.
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@lupulinous @jamesdgreig I can explain why this one sucks! It’s an English translation of a Spanish protest chant. In Spanish, the words for united and defeated DO rhyme (unido/vencido) but in English we have to chose between rhyming and making sense so it’s lose-lose there
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Temple University is such a bad liar fr. They really think undergrads are going to believe that “supporting the strike endangers your grades” when, in the same email, they also tried to tell them there’s only 117 strikers 💀
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@SiouxSkelding When a cop beats you up for having marijuana
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Want to understand the nonprofit industrial complex? Watch Tiger King and keep an eye on Carole Baskin: thread 👇
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