Anyways, Puerto Rico is a US colony and the US is imposing murderous sanctions on Cuba while holding another Latin American head of state hostage in New York. Death to the US empire, may all American people be free of Yankee imperialism soon.
Critical to note that Greenland is a Danish colonial holding and that the squabble over "ownership" between Denmark and the U.S. is not the U.S. impeding on Danish sovereignty so much as one colonial power pressuring another to transfer colonized land amid an imperialist gambit.
"I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say."
—co-founder of the NAACP, WEB Du Bois, 1956.
Just going to continue emphasizing that this, detaining a bunch of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime and incarcerating them en masse in a fortified location against their will because they are part of a specific ethnicity or other group, is a concentration camp
We need to call privatization what it is: adding a profit tax on to a public good. A public post office puts all it's resources towards delivering mail. A privatized post office will diver a large chunk of it's income to shareholders. In what universe is that better?
the way we're socialized to see violence only as interpersonal—not see state violence (policies that create poverty/kill), structural violence, institutional violence—is very deliberate. same w/ panics about ~shoplifting~ vs how much corporations steal from every single one of us
hating snow because you “have to drive in it” proves that the car owner mindset destroys your innate connection to nature and shatters any sense of wonder you may have at the phenomenon of existence. owning a car depletes your soul