If you have to start a sentence with 'I'm not racist, but...' then chances are you're pretty racist. Jewish leftist. Opinions my own. RT≠endorsement, obviously.
Since today is
#StarWarsDay
I'll collect some of my Star Wars tweets and threads here, starting with my longread from last year about why the prequels are extremely relevant to the rise of Trumpism and the failure of liberal centrism:
Revenge of the Sith is actually good in that it accurately depicts how society can be willingly led into fascism through conspiracy theories about "elites" and the use of ethnic scapegoating to explain economic oppression of the masses, and how liberalism is powerless to stop it
If Democrats' message in 2022 is "Republicans are the party of Q-Anon" and Republicans' message is "Democrats said they'd give you $2,000 and then didn't," guess who's gonna win the midterms
Funny how people act like it's so shocking and awful when poor people in faraway countries turn to terrorism just because an occupying army destroyed their homes and killed their family, but when they watch Star Wars they still recognize that Luke Skywalker is the good guy
Good morning! 57% of Americans and 78% of Democrats support Medicare for All -- the DNC platform committee just voted 76% to 22% to oppose it.
Also, 67% of Americans and 78% of Democrats support marijuana legalization -- the platform committee voted to oppose it 67% to 31%.
I saw the Oklahoma City Bombing out my second grade window
Columbine happened when I was in sixth grade and 9/11 happened my freshman year of high school
The Great Recession began six months before I entered the job market
Millennials' lives have been *defined* by disaster
Painting street murals and changing racist band names and recasting white voice actors who play black characters is fine I guess, but none of that is going to stop black and brown people from being murdered and harassed so how about we get back to the part about defunding police
Nike may be a problematic company in many ways, but they aren’t stupid. Lol if you think they don’t already know their bottom line will be better off standing with Kaepernick than kowtowing to bootlicking dipshits who shred their socks over a marketing campaign
In just three days, we’ve seen:
1) A hate crime against black people in Louisville
2) The arrest of the
#MAGABomber
, who targeted prominent Democrats
3) A mass shooting at a synagogue
And the media talks about “both sides” because some Republicans got yelled at in a restaurant
FACT: MLK led a fundamentally political movement, and denying this truth is not only an affront to his legacy, but a vile attempt to actively dismantle everything he worked for
You know how the original Star Wars was great because George Lucas had a bunch of ppl who helped him tone down his more ridiculous ideas, but when he made the prequels he had become an industry juggernaut so there was nobody who could tell him if an idea was dumb as hell? Anyway
Republicans: "How DARE you compare the current political climate to the conditions that led to the Holocaust!!!!"
Actual Holocaust survivor: "The current political climate reminds me of the Holocaust"
“This moment is the most important moment of my life.”
Eva was sent to Auschwitz at age 14.
As a Holocaust survivor at 92, she reflects on the current political climate — and why she feels hopeful that we can overcome division & fear.
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The pre-Civil War owner of South Carolina‘s Myrtle Grove Plantation, Nathaniel Heyward, was quite possibly the largest slaveowner in U.S. history — enslaving between 1,600 and 2,000 Black people on his Lowcountry rice farms.
Anyway, his house burned down last night
Hey
@Costco
, I thought everyone had to wear a mask in your stores-- Y'all cool with letting people flaunt public safety then threaten other customers? "Dan" should be banned
Florida man at Fort Myers Costco in "Running the World Since 1776" shirt flips out on elderly woman who asked him to wear a mask and man who defended her
#BecauseFlorida
(via
@profjaffar
)
Trump very clearly does not know the words to the national anthem, but please tell me more about how Obama was unpatriotic for not wearing a big enough flag pin
14/ I’ve compiled a list of "verified" Twitter users who have attacked me *in just the last month alone* for my
#AmericaFirst
positions. Of those 81 people, 74 are Jews, while only 7 are non-Jews. Here is the list:
Kavanaugh citing the fact that one of his friends was raped as evidence that he did not commit sexual assault is the new “some of my best friends are black”
Ron Paul, who published hundreds of racist newsletters in the 80s calling black men “animals” and referred to Martin Luther King Day as “hate whitey day,” just tweeted (then deleted) this shockingly racist and antisemitic political cartoon