Black FreeThinkers

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[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

At the risk of being naïve and getting egg on my face come June... I think Trump got shredded in the birthright citizenship case. And I think the Court only took the case TO shred him, and look reasonable by comparison.
My latest in @thenation
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[Black FreeThinkers @BlkFreeThinkers]

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[Black FreeThinkers @BlkFreeThinkers]

@ModernInvest Good Morning.

Here are a couple of links about “cheese banks.” Take some time to look it up.

https://t.co/oKw1qFRgpX

[Black FreeThinkers @BlkFreeThinkers]

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[Black FreeThinkers @BlkFreeThinkers]

@ModernInvest Congratulations!!

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US.
My latest in @thenation

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[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

As of this moment, the entire federal government is in violation of the Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment —not b/c the government has ended DEIA programs, but b/c the government is discriminating against employees and new hires based on the color of their skin.
Latest in @thenation
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[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are false idols promising “freedom” & “prosperity” but it’s all a trojan horse for ushering in the age of technocratic billionaires controlling the population with AI. What makes it worse is Democrats will go along with it. We need an opposition party.

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

"The Jews are never accused of teaching hate when they remind the world of the crimes that were committed against them."

[Margaret Kimberley @freedomrideblog]

Liberals are praising J. Edgar Hoover. I told you not to trust them.

[Black FreeThinkers @BlkFreeThinkers]

Dialectical Historical Atheism https://t.co/6RuP0XZg6E via @YouTube

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The problem with liberalism is that it rests on a fundamental contradiction that cannot be resolved. It will always fail, it will always collapse, and this explains everything about our current moment.

Liberals try to hold two commitments at once: on the one hand, they are firmly committed to capitalism; on the other, they express support for principles like human rights, democracy, equality, freedom of speech, environment and the rule of law.  This duality is the core of liberalism.

But there's a problem. Capital accumulation requires cheapening labour and nature. This eventually comes into direct conflict with principles like rights and equality. And whenever this conflict appears, the liberal ruling class sides with capital, abandons their lofty principles, and throws workers and nature under the bus.  Every. Single. Time.

This results in flagrant displays of hypocrisy. They run on nice-sounding platforms but end up either betraying their promises or actively working against their stated values. They'll slash public services, bail out banks, imprison journalists, beat up students, expand fracking, coup democratically elected leaders in the global South, bomb liberation movements, fund a genocide - they'll even trash international law itself - anything that's needed to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation.

At most, they may try to negotiate mediocre compromises, a few social policies here and there - some abortion rights, a tiny increase in the minimum wage - but nothing that might pose any serious threat to capital accumulation. Thus the soul-crushing slowness of liberal incrementalism.  Ultimately they are unwilling to take any of the obvious steps that would actually resolve our urgent social and ecological crises.

This is why nobody trusts liberal politicians.  This is why they come across as so fantastically insincere, and even sneering.  This is why they feel so spineless and *empty*.

The center cannot hold.  Liberalism will always collapse, inevitably handing power to fascists, and this is not acceptable.  There is only one way to overcome this deadly impasse, and that is to mobilize a socialist alternative. A political movement that can unite the working-classes, overcome capitalism, deliver real economic democracy, and enable us to achieve rapid progress toward social and ecological goals.

[Dr. CBS @drcbs_]

When income and privilege are your (precarious and reversible) buffer, reaction becomes the way to rabidly defend them in an attempt to not end up like THOSE Blacks (or whatever other poor members of a marginalized group). Schadenfreude.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Brett Farve literally embezzled money from a Mississippi welfare fund. He is actual garbage.

[Hampton Institute @HamptonThink]

In 1969, Fred Hampton warned us that identity politics based outside the fundamental struggle of class would lead to nothing but black capitalists and "negro imperialists." The same rule applies to all historically-marginalized identities. We are now seeing this come to fruition.

[Antipode @antipodeonline]

Starting today! https://t.co/RJDVgs2iHA