History of Elections

A documentary video essay series on international electoral history. Host: James Taichi (太一). Watch⬇️

[History of Elections @TaichiCollins]

@jonfavs @halalflow “… both parties worried about crossing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee […] Those who criticized Israeli policy too loudly risked being tagged as ‘anti-Israel’ (and possibly anti-Semitic) and confronted with a well-funded opponent in the next election.” - Obama

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@souljagoyteller Ralph Nader’s “Unsafe at Any Speed.” It led to the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act and the creation of the Department of Transportation. The book saved millions of lives but there is no reason to read it now.

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@lebrazill She’s my sister - an amazing actress, activist, and comedian.

https://t.co/PXzXyK0PT0

[History of Elections @TaichiCollins]

That’s my sister Yurie!

In addition to being a comedian, an actress, she has also been an activist.

Here is her in 2019 protesting the New York Times, in which she spent several nights in Jail. And here is one of her recent fundraisers for Gaza.

Follow her IG: babypinkhaus

[History of Elections @TaichiCollins]

That’s my sister Yurie!

In addition to being a comedian, an actress, she has also been an activist.

Here is her in 2019 protesting the New York Times, in which she spent several nights in Jail. And here is one of her recent fundraisers for Gaza.

Follow her IG: babypinkhaus

[Céline🇧🇷🇱🇧 @lebrazill]

Who is this Queen

[History of Elections @TaichiCollins]

That this garbage book was a bestseller.

She says that “When someone says it’s about class, that tends to function as a way to get race off the table.” Explains why she is able to give “racial sensitivity seminars” for Starbucks while showing no solidarity to striking workers.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

For those of us (nearly everyone) who recognize Woke 1.0 as a failure, what’s something specific you’re willing to say it got wrong? Here’s mine: the practice of describing policies that were, like, Kerner Commission recommendations as “prison abolition” to get attention was dumb

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The Italian 12 Years a Slave poster

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

what’s a movie poster that belongs in the hall of fame?

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It also took Lula and Salvador Allende 4 elections to eventually become president.

[Pat Schroeder Fan 🇧🇬🇺🇦🇵🇸 @Punished_Patt]

Oh my god HOW DOES HE KEEP FUCKING DOING IT? IT'S BEEN 4 ELECTIONS! ENOUGH!!!

[History of Elections @TaichiCollins]

@peterdaou Jfc. Of course Israel had nothing to do with the Kennedy assassination. JFK was the first president to give weapons to Israel. Read Ilan Pappe’s book, who demonstrates how Kennedy was the first president to truly solidify the “special relationship” between the U.S and Israel

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@SolarWolfess @peterdaou People who were pro-genocide just don’t suddenly become anti-genocide. He is just pretending to be a critic of Israel because it’s a popular position to have now. Where was Tucker during the 2018 Great March of Return when Palestine was considered a fringe issue? He said nothing.

[History of Elections @TaichiCollins]

I can’t believe it needs to be said. But Tucker Carlson is evil and is not an ally of the Palestinian cause.

[Norman Finkelstein @normfinkelstein]

The sinister plot behind the far-right's shift on Israel | Norman Finkelstein interview https://t.co/ZUQIcbWe5p

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@adamjohnsonCHI "If it makes some people uncomfortable then that’s life, reality is indifferent to one’s chauvinist self-delusions" should be the new "facts don't care about feelings.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

There is no Easter Bunny, there is no tooth fairy, and there is no anti-war right

[antipodean scourge @TheKnownLover]

They keep posting this shit but the Owen Wilson Obama biopic would make three billion dollars. It would be my favourite movie of all time.

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@MatthewSitman “American radicals are perhaps the first radicals anywhere who have sought to make a revolution in a country which they hate.” - Julius Lester

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A Menshevik created the very first PAC in American history.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

What historical fact sounds fake but is true?

[History of Elections @TaichiCollins]

@haydengise Remember when they wanted to draft Jimmy Dore for president because he had “one of the biggest political movements in the country”?

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@Gattungswesen25 And as Lenin stated: “Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.”

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@barbarismcrit Okay, fine. I’ll take it back. I guess I misread your earlier tweet and will recognize that you do not in fact, argue in favor of a red brown alliance.

Now your turn - answer the question: do you take issue when Palestine scholars like Norman Finkelstein uses the word “Gazans”?

[History of Elections @TaichiCollins]

@barbarismcrit No answer the question, coward.