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this by the #UAW is an aphrodisiac:
"The former president is "a scab and a billionaire and that's who he represents. We know which side we're on. Not his."
https://mastodon.social/@w7voa@journa.host/112811249127280025
this is how you do solidarity ✊🏾
one silver lining about 2024 is that i do not have to talk about #techbros as being cryptofascist (aka hidden in plain sight).
Thiel, Andreessen, Horowitz, Musk, Ellison, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Gates and the whole bloat of them are not hiding anymore their sociopathic politics.
techbros is now, officially a shortcut for the technoptimist, transhumanist, eugenicist, fascist kakistocracy of Silicon Valley grifters
THE POINT BEING
with someone like Kamala Harris, you can tell they grew up around Black elders who even if they didn't suffer the penuries of slavery, where entrusted with its memory and with the duty to NEVER FORGET.
it is generational trauma.
just because that inherited trauma was proven to exist with grandchildren of Holocaust survivors it doesn't mean it is not applicable to other groups who've survived other types of genocide.
and yes, slavery IS genocide
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BARACK IS A GOLDEN CHILD
in every single possible way (yes, am using the narc term); but particularly as the only Black child in a tightly knit white family with, apparently, no more Black kin in the mix.
Barack didn't grow up around his father or his father's extended family and it always fucking shows in moments like this, when we have a whole fucking bunch of nazis ready to burn the whole country down and he is so tone deaf as to ask for an open primary at the DNC
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BARACK IS THE KIND OF NEGR@ WHO REALLY DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE INSIDIOUS VIOLENCE OF RACISM
and am going to extend this to my African kin and all the Black folks who come from majoritarian Black countries.
bless you for not being burdened by the baggage of racism, by having grown up free of the paranoia of having a target on your back just for existing.
Barack lived extremely shielded from that shit and it shows in his lack of urgency in this critical moment...
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KAMALA
NEVER HAD
THAT PRIVILEGE
even in the bougie, extremely insular world of migrant scientists and academics, she had to endure the obscenities and injustices of the American fascist state that used her Black body, as a little girl, to force desegration in the California school system.
NO YOU NEVER GROW OUT OF THAT TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE
and it's why i bawled like a baby when she described that violence during the 2019 primaries debate:
https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=6vG1Tnuvo78
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WATCH: 'That little girl was me.' Harris goes after Biden on race | 2019 Democratic Debates
Sen. Kamala Harris directly challenged former Vice President Joe Biden’s record on race during a Democratic presidential debate on June 27.PBS NewsHour | Invidious
KAMALA fascinates me not for her accomplishments but exactly for how she is like a vector, IN THE FLESH, of so many of the issues impacting Americans at all levels: race, ethnicity, migrancy, class, sex, gender, health, ability
and yet, i was not going to vote for her in the primaries (she was the first to bow out). but in spite of the Kamala Cop moniker (or because of it, i come from a family of cops), i've come to respect her the more i know about her background.
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I GREW UP A MINORITY
IN PUERTO RICO
but Kamala's father wasn't a minority in Jamaica. certainly, Barack's father in Kenya wasn't racially (ethnic minorities are whole other discussion here).
my bff is from Trinidad & Tobago and it absolutely fucking shows she was born & raised in a Black majority country. it's just a different being in time and space when you don't grow up looking behind your back all the time.
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when you get to now Jamaicans, Haitians, Barbadians, Bahamians they just BE differently. they do not have the reflexive constraints of someone who had to learn to little themselves to the point of being invisible because they were the one negr@ not just in the room but in the whole fucking neighborhood or town.
which brings me to the Kamala Harris point of this post:
KAMALA is like a rainbow of intersectionalities ESPECIALLY when it comes to Blackness
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KAMALA
is a daughter of a Jamaican Black man descended of libertos and a Tamil Indian mother. so that means she is:
- a daughter of migrants
- descended of slaves from Jamaica, an Afroindigenous majoritarian country and one of the definers of Carib Negritude
- from Tamil Indian, which has its own state but is a minoritarian ethnic group
- she's bougie, both her parents were academics; throwing one of those unspoken wrenches into the equation of US Blackness...
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KAMALA is made of different, and sometimes at odds, definitions of Blackness.
her dad was from the era (and most certainly the circle of intellectuals) that defined NEGRITUDE as not just a cultural expression of the African diaspora across the Caribbean but an ethos, an ontology, a praxis.
Negritude is by definition at war with USA's white hegemon's definition of Blackness. but sometimes it's at odds even with the pop culture expression of Blackness by black folks
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then add to that her Indian heritage; which btw is super common in the Caribbean.
countries like Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago opened their doors to migrant workers from India to bust unions and make sure sugar plantations never stopped producing the cash crop.
there's a lot of Black Carib folks out there with Indian and other Asian nannas and gdaddies. Naomi Campbell is an example of that. she has a Chinese paternal grandmother.
anyways... back to Kamala...
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AM 4th GENERATION LIBERTA
that means there are 3 people before me that were born emancipated before me: Papi, abuelo, bisabuela.
that's it.
Spain protracted the emancipation of Puerto Rican slaves until it couldn't anymore. so slavery for some of us is literally 3 people away.
Kamala comes from libertos on her father's side also... and yet, because they're Jamaican libertos, their experience is specific to the island, not the United States...
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Y'ALL GONNA LEARN
TO PARSE BLACKNESS
i was born in this country, like many Puerto Ricans, but i would never call myself African American; not out of disrespect for African Americans but out of respect for my Afroboricua ancestors.
the chattel slavery is the common bond —especially genetically speaking— that unites Black peoples across the Américas; from Alaska to La Patagonia. but each region and country have their own expression, it's own history of slavery...
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and it shows that Barry Rukus didn't grow up around Black aunties.
https://mas.to/@obeto/112831328196537950
but on a more serious note: white America thinks we negr@s are interchangeable. @so_treu posted yesterday an article criticizing that very point.
yeah, Barack is the first Black POTUS but he isn't descended of libertos —of African or Afroindigenous people freed of chattel slavery born in the Américas— and it always shows for those of us who are.
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#2024Elections #USpol #DNC2024
Biped Earthling (@obeto@mas.to)
Attached: 1 image Hearing that Barry is calling for an open Democratic primary is rather depressing, quite annoying, and on point for him. It is also very odious. Shame on him.mas.to
IT'S A DIFFERENT BLACKNESS
WHEN YOU COME FROM
A MAJORITY AFRICAN
COUNTRY
all my life i've been told, but Liza you don't look Black. but i grew up in Puerto Rico where the population of Afroboricuas was decimated with the mass migration of the 1940s.
our numbers dwindled en La Isla while they soared here: Neil Degrasse-Tyson, Jean Michel Basquiat, Carmelo Anthony, Kelis are all examples of the Afroboricua diaspora now seen as African Americans
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VIGOROUS REMINDER
«41 Million Members of Gen Z Will Be Eligible to Vote in 2024 | CIRCLE»
https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/41-million-members-gen-z-will-be-eligible-vote-2024
Zoomers are not only the largest block of new voters this country has ever had; they are the first majority minority generational cohort in the United States. thanks to all those mommas popping out babies in the Year of the Dragon (2000).
my contribution to the trend is THING2. with THING1 i gave y'all 2 Zillennials.
you're welcome.
41 Million Members of Gen Z Will Be Eligible to Vote in 2024
Authors: Alberto Medina, Sara Suzuki Contributors: Peter de Guzman, Lily Feng, Katie Hiltoncircle.tufts.edu
that's what you old kids call synergy
The Atlantic: Joe Biden Made the Right Choice | In his painful decision to withdraw from the race, the president put his country first.
Talking Heads Bot: A man he made a house
🗣️ 📣 ALL HANDS ON DECK
#Biden is endorsing #Kamala Harris for #POTUS
"My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this."
UPDATE VIA @chrisgeidner
the billionaires are winning.
all hands on deck.
«It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties a President for the remainder of my term.
I will speak to the Nation later this week in more detail about my decision. »
![Joseph R. BIDEN, Jr. July 21,2024
My Fellow Americans, Over the past three and a half years, we have made great progress as a Nation. ‘Today, America has the strongest economy in the world. We've made historic investments in rebuilding our Nation, in lowering prescription drug costs for seniors, and in expanding affordable health care to a record number of Americans. We've provided critically needed care to a million veterans exposed to toxic substances. Passed the first gun safety law in 30 years. Appointed the first African American woman to the Supreme Court. And passed the most significant climate legislation in the history of the world. America has never been better positioned o lead than we are today.
I know none of this could have been done without you, the American people. Together, we. overcame a once in a century pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We've protected and preserved our Democracy. And we've revitalized and strengthened our alliances around the world.
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let me express my deepest gratitude to all those who have worked so hard to see me reelected. I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being an extraordinary partner in all this work. And let me express my heartfelt appreciation o the American people for thr faith and trust you have placed in me.
I believe today what always have: that there is nothing America can't do — when we do it together. We just have to remember we are the United States of America.](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/3030375 "Joseph R. BIDEN, Jr. July 21,2024
My Fellow Americans, Over the past three and a half years, we have made great progress as a Nation. ‘Today, America has the strongest economy in the world. We've made historic investments in rebuilding our Nation, in lowering prescription drug costs for seniors, and in expanding affordable health care to a record number of Americans. We've provided critically needed care to a million veterans exposed to toxic substances. Passed the first gun safety law in 30 years. Appointed the first African American woman to the Supreme Court. And passed the most significant climate legislation in the history of the world. America has never been better positioned o lead than we are today.
I know none of this could have been done without you, the American people. Together, we. overcame a once in a century pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We've protected and preserved our Democracy. And we've revitalized and strengthened our alliances around the world.
[...]
let me express my deepest gratitude to all those who have worked so hard to see me reelected. I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being an extraordinary partner in all this work. And let me express my heartfelt appreciation o the American people for thr faith and trust you have placed in me.
I believe today what always have: that there is nothing America can't do — when we do it together. We just have to remember we are the United States of America.")
for months been sounding the alarm, while battling cancer, that the corporatist elite of the Democratic Party were a danger because they HATE primaries
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111452721992162840
PRIMARIES ALWAYS FAVOR VOTERS NOT DONORS and the party's kleptocracy didn't want to deal with the little people. so much easier to get that off-the-SEC-records money from billionaires.
and why billionaires paid not have primaries?
#GAZA
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva@mastodon.social)
don't think Dems understand Zillennials register to vote but won't register to a political party. that's a problem in counties where primaries decide the winner BEFORE THE GENERAL ELECTIONS Democrats do not want primaries.Mastodon
Y'ALL!
Kamala will get BIPOC Zoomers out to vote. she may well get some GOP zoomer kids to cross party lines and vote for her (young women, this is your election).
remember: the vast majority of Zoomers aren't registered with a party.
am still voting for Kamala with my protest boots on.
2024 is a vote against #Project2025 and a rebuke of tech/finbro neonazis like JD Vance; but the fight against fascism is beyond the ballot box.
VOTE WITH YOUR PROTEST BOOTS ON
Where there is widespread progress and enlightenment for the people under a democratic system, there is a backlash of Fascism. Where are we now? Do we really have to go through the whole cycle again?
Fascism - Totalitarianism, Nationalism, Authoritarianism | Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Intellectual-origins
#fascism
#uspolitics
#2024Elections
Fascism - Totalitarianism, Nationalism, Authoritarianism
Fascism - Totalitarianism, Nationalism, Authoritarianism: Mussolini and Hitler did not invent fascist ideology. Indeed, fascism was neither a 20th-century creation nor a peculiarly Italian or German one.Encyclopedia Britannica
«Vance and billionaire investor, David Sacks, organized a recent Silicon Valley fundraiser for Trump. The event, at Sacks’s home in San Francisco, raised a reported $12 million for Trump’s campaign.
Several leading AI innovators attended that event which impressed Trump enormously.
It was noted that Sacks spoke at the Republican National Convention Monday night.»
Why did Trump Pick Vance | Barry Shaw | The Blogs
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-did-trump-pick-vance/
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#2024Elections #Gaza #Trump #Biden
Saudi Arabia flexes wealth with ‘Davos on South Beach’: $10 trillion gathering of billionaires and celebs
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#2024Elections #Gaza #Trump #Biden
Bill Ackman is the anti-DEI guy that got the president of Harvard canned.
if the November elections aren't about #Gaza for the American oligarchy, whose valuations were signed, sealed and delivered by Saudi "investors", i don't know what else to tell you
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Bill Ackman Has a Plan for 'New Gaza' - Jewish Business News
https://jewishbusinessnews.com/2024/04/07/bill-ackman-has-a-plan-for-new-gaza/
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#2024Elections #Gaza #Trump #Biden
Bill Ackman Has a Plan for 'New Gaza' - Jewish Business News
Bill Ackman is a billionaire and the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, a hedge fund management company.Shai Genish (Jewish Business News)
Washington Times is a neofascist rag; but it's important to read the rationalizations DC think tanks are paid to come up with, by the oligarchy, to manufacture consent. those rationalizations are worked out in marginal blogs and publications like The Washington Times first before being spread, like a virus, across corporate media.
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Make Saudi Arabia great again - Washington Times
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/11/make-saudi-arabia-great-again/
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#2024Elections #Gaza #Trump #Biden
«The pullback on The Line comes as the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund has yet to approve Neom’s budget for 2024 [...] It shows that the financial realities of the trillions of dollars of investment are starting to cause concern at the highest levels of the Saudi government as it tries to fulfill its ambitious Vision 2030 program...»
Saudis Scale Back Ambition for $1.5 Trillion Desert Project Neom - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-05/saudis-scale-back-ambition-for-1-5-trillion-desert-project-neom
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#2024Elections #Gaza #Trump #Biden
«Flitting between the kind of imagery that evokes a dystopian Death Star evil empire, the apartheid architecture of [...] Neom carries a dizzying dash of techno-optimism.
Despite claiming to be a solution to environmental crises, it assumes the endless free energy of the Saudi oil glut and disregards the consequences.»
Saudi Arabia’s Neom is dystopia portrayed as Utopia
https://www.ft.com/content/04fcb9d4-5907-45b0-9388-f84b34bc4bea
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#2024Elections #Gaza #Trump #Biden
Saudi Arabia’s Neom is dystopia portrayed as Utopia
Hermetically sealed in its 500m-high mirrored walls, its huge carbon footprint makes it anything but a city of the futureFinancial Times
"Inside Saudi Arabia's $1 trillion mirrored 'landscraper'
https://nypost.com/2022/07/27/inside-saudi-arabias-1-trillion-mirrored-skyscraper/
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#2024Elections #Gaza #Trump #Biden
Inside the stunning $1 trillion mirrored 'landscraper' of Saudi Arabia
New images of The Line, a trillion-dollar mega-development, have emerged to show a stunning sci-fi array of miles-long towers filled with greenery and amenities. It will rise higher than New York…Zachary Kussin (New York Post)
«"With Trump and Vance in the White House, the Israeli right would have full U.S. support for their wildest fantasies – a judicial coup, West Bank annexation, settlements in Gaza and military confrontations with both Hezbollah and Iran.»
In First Remarks as Trump's VP Pick, J.D. Vance Urges Israel to Finish Gaza War 'As Quick as Possible' - Israel News - Haaretz.com
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#2024Elections #Gaza #Trump #Biden
In first remarks as Trump's VP pick, J.D. Vance urges Israel to finish Gaza war 'as quick as possible'
The Ohio senator, who once wrote that Trump could be 'America's Hitler,' accused President Biden of 'making it harder and harder for Israel to win that war' and vowed to 'reinvigorate the peace process between Israel and Saudi Arabia'Ben Samuels (Haaretz)
🗣️ INJECT THIS JOY INTO MY VEINS
https://mastodon.social/@b9AcE@todon.eu/112746884419961708
one of the banners says:
OUR POPULAR FRONT IS
ANTI-COLONIALIST AND
ANTIFASCIST
that's how you do it.
BTW
fuck off with the "you're not #antifa if you vote". that makes you a nihilist.
nihilists are the opposite of liberals who think voting is all they need to do.
the duty of antifascists is to win. voting is ONE tool in the arsenal. that's why you vote & build & protest.
learn from the french.
