All violence under capitalism is inherently interconnected and interdependent. We are all fighting the same beast in a different form. Confronting imperialist and colonial violence is part of confronting climate catastrophe.
If you are born into a family with financial security I actually think dedicating your life to actively trying to help people is probably the best you could do.
The USA is not sliding into fascism. It is not starting to escalate. We are the motherland of fascists. Please accept that. Please stop talking about this country like it ever wasn’t fascist to begin with.
people have been asking y'all to boycott Disney for their ties to the genocide in gaza and no one listened.
a white man gets fired and suddenly, everyone is coming together to bring disney down?? this is how i know y'all don't give a fuck about black and brown lives.
“When we decline to speak ill of the dead, it’s because we have compassion for the living. In this respect, I am sorry for Kirk’s children. I don’t know if Kirk was a good father, but if he was, that does little to mitigate the damage he did to other people’s children.”
Charlie Kirk aside, imagine the crowd hyping his pro-gun rhetoric. Then a shot rings out. In that instant of panic when they realize they might die by the very thing they worship, did the irony finally hit them?
Every American historian uses this image to teach students about 'manifest destiny' and ethnic cleansing, but I would guess that most of us didn't imagine that the US government would unironically reclaim it in the twenty-first century
the liberal framing of Mamdani and Rama as cool Muslims vs scary Muslims (even if implicit) is really funny when you remember that his father wrote the seminal book and coined the term ‘Good Muslim, Bad Muslim’ — about the false & dangerous binary created about Muslims to serve imperial ends.
“If the goal is for queer Palestinians to live in an open, tolerant society, then they need first to survive Israel’s aggression. There can be no Pride under occupation.”