THE REALEST MATT COUCH

Anti-imperialist
Organic gardener
Political scientist
Multi-instrumentalist
Filmmaker
Punk rocker
*Tweets into the void*

[SPIDER-MAN'S LANDLORD @selfdfens]

Historically, this is where leadership is helpful.

[Ajamu Baraka @ajamubaraka]

The very fact that wearing a mask is an act to protect the "other" from you and thus an act of social solidarity explains why in U.S. society, the most individualistic and alienated on the planet, you see the scenes of people not wearing masks. Self-indulgent narcisism = USA

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The Minneapolis debate reminds me of Israel/Palestine discourse. No matter how much repression & brutality Palestinians suffer, nothing they do is legitimate except impotent words: no boycotts, no return violence: all "terrorism."

The MN violence is, if anything, way overdue.

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

@michalightning Came here for the hot takes, stayed for the baja blast tweets

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

Nah

[Matt Couch @RealMattCouch]

Make sure you're following me on Instagram at https://t.co/NwMPvPOEQ5

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

@RealMattCouch Here’s a few things conservatives have done for black Americans:

-Plessy v. Ferguson

-Republican Southern Strategy (1960s Republican Party)

-War on Drugs (Nixon/Reagan)

[jrpof @jrpof]

http://t.co/tMvNq8tgNo

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

This rant has been in the key of E minor

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

@RealMattCouch Your*

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

Shoutout to my day one @jrpof. Worst friends for life

[Robbie Martin @FluorescentGrey]

poisoning the well to troll the libs

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

Then I wake up to some hateful bozo with my name getting signal boosted by the president. #fuckmattcouch

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

Peaceful activists protesting police brutality were met with more police brutality. I don’t condone the subsequent violence and looting but I can sympathize with the frustration behind it.

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

I watched a live stream from the Minneapolis protests yesterday. The protesters were largely peaceful and were practicing social distancing. I watched as tear gas canisters and rubber bullets were fired at them by a line of riot police.

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

We are in the middle of a global pandemic and safety precautions in the US have become politicized. White people armed with assault weapons protesting stay-at-home and social distancing policies are ok but when black people protest the murder of George Floyd they are tear gassed?

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

Police in the US need to be better trained about implicit bias and deescalation of force

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

This is not a coincidence. Systematic racism has been in place for generations. The roots of which can be traced back to colonialism and the foundation of America. Police brutality is a symptom of this. Implicit bias and colorism are rampant in law enforcement.

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

Politics in the US has never been more toxic. Like radioactive ooze toxic. If it made me a ninja turtle I might be down. But it doesn’t. It just divides people into groups based on ideology. Meanwhile actual collective goods problems get ignored or pivoted to be more divisive.

[THE REALEST MATT COUCH @cattmouch]

I think I’m going to start going by Matthew