anti-rev anti-fa. they/them/she/her mathematics graduate. LGBTQ+. #abolishICE#abolishcapitalism had Twitter for a while now but only just getting back to it.
@coffinelf She would deliberately choose things to do with my brothers that she knew I didn’t enjoy. When I politely declined to participate and went to my room to read she loudly complained I had ruined it for everyone and turned my brothers against me.
Police: *violently oppress and abuse everyone and shoot innocent people (usually of color) to death.
Also police: WHY DO THE PUBLIC HATE US SO?!?
Newham police escape: Cheering onlookers condemned https://t.co/SlSS970HL0
Sometimes they ask a question that allows you to explore further: “yeah but sometimes they will pay me more than I produce”. Because the answer is “yes and when that happens they fire you. You’re no longer useful to them”. Wage Slavery is real.
The single most effective argument to persuade family and friends of socialism’s value is to ask what they’re paid per hour and what, by extension, their employer profits from their hour’s labour. It blows their mind to learn they aren’t paid what their production has earned.
@EternalBusboy Exactly. Like Trump is a fuck for sure but don’t let’s pretend American capitalism hasn’t been exploiting and dehumanizing the hell out of 99.99% of people since day one.
The existence of Black or gay cops doesn’t mean anything apart from the fact that capitalist-oppression is happy to co-opt minorities into its oppressive system for its own ends. This should be no surprise - capitalism = exploitation, especially of the less privileged