Don't beat around the bush and end up befriending fascism to find "common ground" because you will not, and it will just end up taking the reins and bringing us back to square one.
i stopped believing in obama the day he went to flint and decided to publicly minimize an ongoing water crisis. it makes me irrationally angry that older Black folks like my parents still venerate him and don’t have the courage to take a critical look at his legacy.
Abdul El-Sayed on Israel-Palestine:
I understand on both sides of this debate, we're also dealing with a lot of trauma. A lot of trauma.
I understand that for a lot of Jewish Americans, there's the trauma of the Holocaust and the need to have a refuge. I understand that.
And I also understand that for a lot of Palestinian Americans and Palestinians everywhere, there's the trauma of the Nakba.
We've got to be able to create the circumstances within which both of these deeply traumatized people can have a conversation built on principle. But to me, the answer has to be principle. It has to be.
This is what happens when a greedy, money hungry, exploitative multi-billion dollar corpo such as Rockstar Games slams expensive prices on useless garbage and pretends consumers, whom they don't even care about, will just be ok with it.
GTA 6 fans are already 3D-printing their own Macca the Gator figures instead of buying the $400 Collector’s Box
A fan-made 3D model has been shared online so anyone with a printer can make their own
This is a blatant attempt to suppress the vote ahead of this year's midterm elections.
Eligible voters will be disenfranchised by this flawed tool.
It is un-American in every way.
Women have spent their whole lives playing male characters without complaint. Give you one female protagonist and you cry like babies. So pathetic. Some men can’t handle a woman being the hero unless she’s there to admire, rescue, or sexualize.
palestine is not a “trend” btw. there are still innocent people suffering. there are still children being killed. there are still families losing their homes, their loved ones, and everything they have. everyday.
Yes its insane.
now delete tiktok because its mere existence is useless and is no longer what it once was
even most people on there lack the ability to research anything, they just eat whatever the algorithm feed them.
I'm disappointed but never losing hope.
You can critique/shame politicians and want something better, this is something liberals don't really understand they easily fold and accept it when their politician makes a wrong decision that isn't consistent with them or their policies
“Democratic Socialism” is when you plant olive trees for social media while your hyper-militarized police force escorts Benjamin Netanyahu around the city.
I organized protests under de Blasio, Adams and now Mamdani. Under late de Blasio and early Adams, we routinely blocked traffic without being arrested. Then, under Adams, that changed. Cops themselves told us the orders were coming from the top. We could literally watch NYPD’s posture change alongside directives coming out of City Hall.
So spare me the idea that the mayor is some powerless figure with no responsibility for how his NYPD treats protesters. He appoints the police commissioner. He can remove the police commissioner. If none of this is his responsibility, then what exactly are we voting for?
And if the answer is “affordability,” is New York even more affordable right now? More importantly, since when do our principles end where our own material comfort begins?
But hey, maybe this is the “socialism” everyone was promised. More national than I expected.