Rika @leninwadi Twitter profile

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Rika

1 month

Rape, by virtue of being so common, becomes socially unobtrusive. Aditya ( @landbreadpeace ) and I write about the deeply populist pornographic voyeurism that invisibilises and enables rape.

Pornography, populism and the rape culture – The Leaflet

The horrific Kolkata murder and rape case has once again exposed the infrastructure of the damaging media and public reactions to such incidents.

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@leninwadi

1 month

"Your father and brother too?" Yeah my father attended and danced around my rapist cousin's (who sexually abused me when I was 10 ish) wedding so ig yes all men.

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Oscar Al-Halabiye, a trans woman and former dancer, joined the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon. She, along with her lover, was martyred during a commando operation. Their story is documented in "Cinema Fouad." Long live the intifada 🇵🇸

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My mother deserves so much better than the man my father is and this realisation will always haunt me. I wish I could do something for her.

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@leninwadi

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Every moment of my life is dedicated to upholding the noble values enshrined in the Constitution of India, given to us by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. It is only due to the Constitution that a person like me, born into poverty and in a backward family, is able to serve the nation. Our

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@LiveLawIndia

1 year

While dealing with a plea seeking termination of over 7-month-old fetus of a minor rape survivor (aged 16 years 11 months old), the Gujarat High Court orally observed as to how it was normal in the past for 14-15-year-old girls to get married and deliver a child before they turn

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@leninwadi

6 months

Indian men have no understanding of respect and consent and it shows. The replies (and my dms) are filled with vulgar slurs and threats. Men are justifying how sex without informed consent is normal but talking about it in public isn't. Disgusting vile insects.

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@leninwadi

1 month

Yes he knew. I told him. I begged him not to go to his wedding. Funny thing he wanted me to attend functions too

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@leninwadi

5 months

Please don't let votes go to waste. If you're eligible, you should be voting BJP out. - don't vote NOTA (It doesn't help) - please don't be an edgy idiot If you can vote them out of power, it still has a significant impact on policies that affect people. Don't be stupid.

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@leninwadi

6 months

Emotional kalesh? This is domestic violence and sexual abuse. Just vile to downplay and mock the degree of such violence.

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@gharkekalesh

6 months

Emotional kalesh b/w a Couple

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@leninwadi

2 years

I think a major relationship milestone would be having your partner in your dissertation acknowledgement. Peak romance is supporting me through academic burnout fr fr

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@leninwadi

2 years

Ipill is torture. I've been crying since last night and I don't even have a nice warm partner to comfort me through hormonal hell 👎🏻

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@leninwadi

2 years

Babe you're depressed, exhausted and hopeless? Let me tell you about a man named Marx who wrote about alienation. Then I'll tell you about a man named Lenin who tells us what is to be done.

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@leninwadi

1 month

Ambedkar was so right about these frustrated incel mfs

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@MF_mahesh

1 month

UPDATE-Got that mf beaten by the whole hostel and even authority rusticated him🤣🤣

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@leninwadi

2 years

Students at my university never show up for our political events and public discussions about political prisoners and institutional genocide but they're having a "candlelight vigil in memory of the 4 puppies lost" Is there any limit to how pathetic these people are?

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@leninwadi

11 months

The cook who works at my place just asked me about where my ex has been. I told her that we're no longer together and she's like "achcha hua aap toh waise uss bhaiya se bahut zyada cute ho apne jaisa dhundo" Thanks di patah hai but needed to hear this 🤭

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@leninwadi

8 months

Just desperately hoping and praying for the safety of people today. Please stay safe. Sending love, strength, solidarity and rage (to those who are grieving and to those who have forgotten). May we find strength in community and camaraderie against fascist terror.

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@leninwadi

10 months

Gaurav Singh, student of Delhi School of Journalism was isolated and brutally beaten by Delhi Police. He was separated from detained protestors by the police and has been missing for 4 hours!

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@leninwadi

8 months

Wherever you are, please avoid ordering non-vegetarian food, delivery workers can be harassed, assaulted or even killed for this.

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@leninwadi

2 years

Dating emotionally unavailable men to get closer to my friends.

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@leninwadi

6 months

@accharjee Dude not the point. This is about the sacrifices women have to make to keep their families together. It's painful.

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@leninwadi

4 months

This disgusting discussion on whether those women should be able to sit as they please and eat on the metro reminds me of how rich people can't let go of their entitlement to "safe spaces". Working class people just make them uncomfortable and they cloak it in fancy language.

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@leninwadi

5 months

Long live the First of May ♥️✊

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@leninwadi

5 months

Oh my god, I knew when I was gonna hear the most "diplomatic" unserious shit when I heard her say "as a law student" Girl can't even say religion :p Push fact pull factor 😭 Politics isn't a 9th grade chapter introduction on force 👍

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What are the issues the youth of Bengaluru will vote on? Watch #ElectionExpress , with @nabilajamal_ #ITVideo #LokSabhaElections2024 #Karnataka

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@leninwadi

8 months

The suspension of 2 students and following violence by the JGLS administration against students who protested against wrongful suspension over a discussion on hind*tva destruction is alarming, appalling and illegal! How does Jindal have the audacity to teach law and constitution?

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@leninwadi

2 years

A man who has multiple rape allegations and he has publicly admitted to one of the allegations is not only celebrated but excessively "successful" as a celebrity. Never tell me rape allegations affect the glorious careers and lives of these men.

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@leninwadi

9 months

Love how people are realising that their favourite girlboss (Mahua Moitra) is actually a bigot.

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@leninwadi

6 months

Remember and reclaim the radical legacy of Babasaheb's resistance. May we struggle for and build the India that he envisioned for us - free from exploitation and mindless superstitions.

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@leninwadi

2 years

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

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@leninwadi

8 months

Sanghi logic is celebrating lynching over suspicion of nonveg food, ban of nonveg food delivery in multiple states on 22nd, overall implementation of consuming only "pure" veg food but also calling me delusional for warning people about the violence laced with the same logic?

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@leninwadi

2 years

Caste par PhD kar rahe ho aur Jay Rajputana ke naare laga rahe ho. Badhe hi gazab ke communist ho 🤨

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@leninwadi

6 months

Swiggy doesn't even recognise its "delivery partners" as employees but definitely recognises the parenthood of pet owners this National Pets day. The audacity to talk of parenthood when you don't even allow a fair income and living to their families (includes children and pets)?

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@leninwadi

4 months

Taylor Swift fans are so embarrassing. A rich white girl who singlehandedly causes extensive damage to the environment and can barely get over a pathetic racist cockroach will definitely not give a single fuck about genocide. Keep your guilt and playlists to yourself.

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@leninwadi

9 months

Putting this out there again because under the pretext of lived experiences someone who was NOT a sex worker encouraged so many vulnerable women and queer people to become sex workers. She would give tips to start. Honestly, I can't wrap my head around such cruel insanity.

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@leninwadi

1 year

I stayed with a guy after he beat me mercilessly, thinking he loved me. Someone who hits you can't love you. Please leave. I'm crying in front of my mother who came to attend my convocation because of how pathetic this person has made me feel.

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@leninwadi

4 months

There are many meaningful critiques of Spivak and this isn't one for sure. Classic identity politics conundrum. I'll weaponize my identity against yours. Now people can waste their time on how it's okay to hurl slurs at a woman no matter who she is.

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@leninwadi

6 months

"Untouchability is not practiced in urban spaces. Maybe in villages. Things are changing" Yup, things are changing.

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Our dedicated Pure Veg Fleet will only serve orders from these pure veg restaurants. This means that a non-veg meal, or even a veg meal served by a non-veg restaurant will never go inside the green delivery box meant for our Pure Veg Fleet.

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@leninwadi

1 year

@thedelhiwalla Stop dehumanizing people, you classist bigot

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@leninwadi

5 months

Yeah porn infested men are sick and should honestly be removed from society so women aren't degraded and killed. Will never ever accept pro sex work pro porn opinions 🚮

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it’s so over

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@leninwadi

8 months

Long live queer resistance! Long live Palestinian resistance! Resist pinkwashing of the people's liberation 🇵🇸

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@leninwadi

2 years

I wish the worst to women who ask us for threesomes with their boyfriends. Why would I want to share your misfortune?

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@leninwadi

2 years

Only valid Halloween couples look imo

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@leninwadi

6 months

"There might be some overlap between untouchability, casteism and vegetarianism but it's not the same" Meanwhile, people brutally kill Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims on false suspicions of carrying meat in this country. Anyway, good time to read Ambedkar 👍

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@leninwadi

4 months

“No Pride for some of us, Without liberation for all of us!” Martha P Johnson This Pride month, my heart goes to queers in Palestine. We will not let the world forget your resistance. From the river to the sea 🇵🇸

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@leninwadi

11 months

Spoke with him. Got closure. The way he was yelling at me while I had a panic attack just reminded me of that day I was begging him to stop hitting me and he didn't stop. was scared to lose someone who loves me. He doesn't. It hurts but I'm calm now 🥰

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@leninwadi

11 months

Since December, I've been subjected to sexual violence thrice - by a close friend and a comrade at a home I thought was mine, at a slum while doing trade union work and omw from office to home in a public bus. How am I supposed to live like this? How can I escape being a woman?

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@leninwadi

6 months

Boyfriend giving me live JNUSU election updates from JNU. Laal leherayega ✊

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@leninwadi

6 months

Communism in theory and practice always taught me (and the many comrades I work with) love, community, struggle, care and strength. Communism equipped me with resilience, hope and solidarity. Camaraderie has always cut through left melancholia.

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@leninwadi

7 months

In India's "education hub", we finally see hope for growth and knowledge instead of dying students.

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@leninwadi

9 months

Blinkit threatens and harasses workers for unionizing. In fact, under the farce of "delivery partners" denies basic labor rights to workers. #justiceforblinkitworkers We see through your facade @letsblinkit

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@leninwadi

6 months

“I am of opinion that in believing that we are a nation, we are cherishing a great delusion. How can people divided into several thousands of castes be a nation?" In the face of brahmanical hindutva, Babasaheb asks this. Bhim Jayanti wishes to all. May we relentlessly resist.

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@leninwadi

5 months

Brings me so much hope and strength to witness the courage of protesting students of Columbia! With the loud slogans of azadi, it's clear that from Kashmir to Palestine occupation is a crime! That colonizers across the world are scared of students who know of liberation.

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@leninwadi

8 months

Law students padhai par dhyan nahi dete bas gaanja fukte hai aur fir J Sai Deepak ko seriously lete hai. Don't be like that. Padhai karo nasha mukt ho

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@leninwadi

6 months

Long live Comrade Bhagat Singh. Long live communism ✊

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@leninwadi

10 months

Aaj maine saree pehni

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@leninwadi

3 months

Jyoti Basu visited Israel and wanted to establish relations with it? That man has singlehandedly damaged the reputation of the Indian left like no other.

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@leninwadi

10 months

From Kashmir to Palestine, occupation is a crime.

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@leninwadi

8 months

Oh and queer liberals you can keep your brahmanical trash opinions to yourself and your pink washed pride parties of UC cis gay men and women who take credit for years of struggle led by poor trans women and marginalized queers on ground. Stop projecting from your ivory towers.

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@leninwadi

2 years

Sanitized Feminism of privileged women will never lead to liberation.

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@leninwadi

1 month

"Har ghar tiranga" but the majority of our country doesn't even have a home. Either the sense of home, if one has a house that exists, is tainted with domestic violence, sexual violence, child abuse and/or violent trauma. Slums razed. Houses bulldozed. Homeland revoked. Ironical.

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@leninwadi

2 years

University is so alienating. I barely look forward to interacting with anyone here because it's a series of tiring and meaningless conversations. I really miss being surrounded by my comrades outside campus and hosting insightful conversations.

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@leninwadi

11 months

The death of a celebrity feels personal to many but not the death of innumerable toiling and struggling people. Such is the gruesome logic of capital. Your life is much closer to those directly antagonized by capital's violence, not those who go by luxuriously.

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@leninwadi

11 months

"Israel is not a nation that has an army, it's an army that has a nation" Achin Vanaik

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@leninwadi

10 months

Wong kar wai dyke

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@leninwadi

4 months

My partner is really drunk and he can't help but end every sentence with "I love you so much". He's so cute he's going to pass out but he can't stop yapping to me about how much he loves me. Adorable 😭

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@leninwadi

2 years

Love to see how the left unites to protect abusive men. A member was expelled from AISA for repeated sexual harrassment complaints, now he is conflating sexual harrassment allegations with character assasination (classic) and casteism (also classic).

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@leninwadi

2 years

Radical love must be violently and loudly professed. bell hooks writes that true love refers to those relationships that fight against opression and domination. Love must be fought for.

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@leninwadi

2 years

Most of you are just classist here and pretend to be progressive in the most girlboss way ever. Your "ideal" rich date as a default "standard" is something so many people cannot afford. Nothing can make me agree that luxury is what brings women joy.

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@leninwadi

1 year

Reading "queering the map" notes from Palestine. De @th to fascists. De @th to supremacists. De @th to zi*nism. De @th to all that is antithetical to love. May revolutionary love and solidarity against all bigotry prevail.

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@leninwadi

2 years

"No one aspires to beg. But people aspire to theft. I've met people who want to become IAS officers." - Professor while talking about the criminalisation of beggary

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@leninwadi

2 years

How can you mourn Father Stan Swamy on his one-year death anniversary a month ago and then celebrate independence? I too want to know what gives you the heart to celebrate years of bloodshed, death and oppression.

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@leninwadi

8 months

Working on field with such grossly penetrated saffronization is so difficult at times. The expressions on people's faces can so quickly turn violent even on the slightest mention of minority rights.....

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@leninwadi

2 years

Other people worry about their exes moving on. I worry about my exes reading more than me. No mf now we're competing forever.

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@leninwadi

9 months

We're so against sex work, porn, surrogacy and any form of reproductive gendered labour. Stop pretending any of this is a helpful means of survival. It's rape, brutal and institutionalised rape.

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@leninwadi

8 months

"Religion must be of no concern to the state, and religious societies must have no connection with governmental authority. Everyone must be absolutely free to profess any religion he pleases, or no religion whatever, i.e., to be an atheist, which every socialist is, as a rule."

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@leninwadi

1 month

Discussed this with a friend because we travel a lot for work - how we're always shrinking our physical and emotional existence for men is so degrading. They always take up space - through subtle sexual nudges, stares, rubbing and manspreading. They always exercise male power.

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POV- woman in bus

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@leninwadi

2 years

People hurt you and leave you like you're an object (of either desire, convenience, entertainment or simply some form of comfort/security). Nonetheless, these human relations are so dehumanizing. They remind you of how people cannot make space for you because you're too much.

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@leninwadi

2 years

Submitted a Freudo-Marxist paper today on fascism and Islamophobia. I have no idea what the political views of the prof are. Please god don't fail me.

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@leninwadi

10 months

Gurlie went to Kasol and played Palestinian music in an Israeli cafe 😭🇵🇸

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@leninwadi

7 months

Worked closely with sex workers and it's so horrifying how the "anti-trafficking" brigade in India has accumulated so much capital only to continue criminalizing vulnerable women or imprison them and abuse them in their own rehabilitation centers. Haunting.

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@leninwadi

8 months

"Plz sir polis sir dilli polis plz this r*ndi on twtr is illegal acts very srs matter sir plz cognisance sir take it 🙏🙏🙏" Police nahi bloody Mary samajh rakha hai jo teen baar naam liya prakat hojayegi 🤣🤣🤣

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@leninwadi

6 months

Boyfriend has been calling me for the past few days to check if I'm awake for work (because I stay up late talking to him) and I'm almost always already awake but I get to listen to his voice first thing in the morning and it's lovely. Day made.

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@leninwadi

2 years

"Fascism is a distraction." निहायती बेशर्म और निर्दयी

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@leninwadi

9 months

Cyber crime cell is so useless. Their website is dysfunctional it won't upload images that are below 10 MB. I checked multiple times. Compressed the image. Even converted it to try if PDF or something else works. I called the helpline. The man was so arrogant. Said he can't help

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@leninwadi

9 months

Blinkit hiring bouncers to assault protesting workers is a grave violation of labor law and constitutional rights. It's inhumane. Say no to such hooliganism! #justiceforblinkitworkers

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@leninwadi

9 months

Middle class women romanticizing camgirling and onlyfans is so disgusting to me. Of course they're victims but also active agents of patriarchy. They claim that this is also sex work. No, it's not. Prostitution is "sex work". Not a comfortable virtual interface.

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@leninwadi

2 years

Love it when communist men reduce communism to a moral category 😩 No "comrade" you being a communist doesn't absolve you of your bigotry

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@leninwadi

2 years

My roommate has been comforting me but still

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@leninwadi

6 months

Last night while talking to my partner I took cute pictures of him looking at me lovingly. Told him I'll story it because he looks so pretty (he's gorgeous) and I'll add a cute song to it. He said 'mine all mine wala?' yes babe nothing in the world belongs to me but my love(you)

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@leninwadi

2 years

It is natural for a liberal to speak of “democracy” in general; but a Marxist will never forget to ask: “for what class?” - Lenin

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@leninwadi

2 years

My kitten, Lenin, loves roaming around but he always comes back home to eat and sleep. Today Lenin didn't come for lunch and I was looking for him all day. I cried at least 5 times because I wasn't sure how he was. He finally came back home rn to have dinner. I hate(love) him

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@leninwadi

11 months

When they ask "But do you condemn.....?" Remind yourself of when and why Fidel Castro said "Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me."

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@leninwadi

9 months

Now you know how these people thought that veganism was so affordable 🤣

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@leninwadi

6 months

Brahmins are literally hanging by a thread (janaeu)

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Brahmin Twitter 🙌🏾😅

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1 year

My feminism 10 years ago vs My feminism now

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9 months

"What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it." We're so back with the SCUM manifesto.

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