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Evo Morales was forced out of Bolivia because of a western-backed coup, during which a bunch of white Christian fascists tried to destroy the power of Bolivia’s indigenous movements (a movement Morales was part of.) 

NYT is really mask-off with this shit. 

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The nyahgation of the nyahgation :3

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Tfw your coup fails ahaha

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“Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a place called San Bernardino. You’ve never heard of it. You’ve never been to America. But you’ve certainly heard a lot about gun violence in the U.S. It seems like a new mass shooting happens every week. You wonder if you could go there and get stricter gun legislation passed. You’d be a hero to the American people, a problem-solver, a lifesaver. How hard could it be? Maybe there’s a fellowship for high-minded people like you to go to America after college and train as social entrepreneurs. You could start the nonprofit organization that ends mass shootings, maybe even win a humanitarian award by the time you are 30. Sound hopelessly naïve? Maybe even a little deluded? It is. And yet, it’s not much different from how too many Americans think about social change in the “Global South.” If you asked a 22-year-old American about gun control in this country, she would probably tell you that it’s a lot more complicated than taking some workshops on social entrepreneurship and starting a non-profit. She might tell her counterpart from Kampala about the intractable nature of our legislative branch, the long history of gun culture in this country and its passionate defenders, the complexity of mental illness and its treatment. She would perhaps mention the added complication of agitating for change as an outsider. But if you ask that same 22-year-old American about some of the most pressing problems in a place like Uganda — rural hunger or girl’s secondary education or homophobia — she might see them as solvable. Maybe even easily solvable. I’ve begun to think about this trend as the reductive seduction of other people’s problems. It’s not malicious. In many ways, it’s psychologically defensible; we don’t know what we don’t know. If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable. Of course you’d want to apply for prestigious fellowships that mark you as an ambitious altruist among your peers. Of course you’d want to fly on planes to exotic locations with, importantly, exotic problems. There is a whole “industry” set up to nurture these desires and delusions — most notably, the 1.5 million nonprofit organizations registered in the U.S., many of them focused on helping people abroad. In other words, the young American ego doesn’t appear in a vacuum. Its hubris is encouraged through job and internship opportunities, conferences galore, and cultural propaganda — encompassed so fully in the patronizing, dangerously simple phrase “save the world.””

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“The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems” by Courtney Martin

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Capitalism can’t save the world, but it can simulate the experience and sell it to you.

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do you think marx and engels ever explored each other’s bodies

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lesbians got left out of the google doodle today featuring Marsha P Johnson when just about every other mainstream identity was there. and what makes it worse is that lesbians were included in the concept art and were removed for the final piece.

I know it’s just corporate pride and I shouldn’t really be that upset over this but it’s yet another example of people not respecting lesbians enough to recognize us as our own community

lesbians are not an afterthought, we do not deserve to be tacked on at the end or deliberately removed because “well lesbians are just gay women so they can be grouped in with gay men” we have separate histories and experiences and we deserve to have that recognized

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Telling people that MBTI types are for people who think they’re too smart for star signs is for people who have managed to find a way to fill the void created by a questioning of the nature and purpose of the self, born from the deep social alienation of capitalist modernity, in a way that does not involve the satisfaction garnered from relating to complex, pre-generated personality categories, and therefore believe they are too smart for both star signs and mbti types. 

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For those who see history as a competition, Latin America’s backwardness and poverty are merely the result of its failure. We lost; others won. But the winners happen to have won thanks to our losing: the history of Latin America’s underdevelopment is, as someone has said, an integral part of the history of world capitalism’s development. Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others— the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison. Potosi, Zacatecas, and Ouro Preto became desolate warrens of deep, empty tunnels from which the precious metals had been taken; ruin was the fate of Chile’s nitrate pampas and of Amazonia’s rubber forests. Northeast Brazil’s sugar and Argentina’s quebracho belts, and communities around oil-rich Lake Maracaibo, have become painfully aware of the mortality of wealth which nature bestows and imperialism appropriates. The rain that irrigates the centers of imperialist power drowns the vast suburbs of the system. In the same way, and symmetrically, the well-being of our dominating classes— dominating inwardly, dominated from outside— is the curse of our multitudes condemned to exist as beasts of burden.

Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent  (Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina)

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"Calling out Gal Gadot for supporting the IDF's violence against innocent Palestinians and her support of the apartheid state is anti-Semitic" Coool. Cool. Coooooool. Okay, but what if there's a difference between calling her out for her Jewish identity and calling her out for supporting an oppressive regime? What if, say, opposing Israel's treatment of Palestine and its people is not the same as not believing in the Jewish right to self-determination? What if pretending that the heinous treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli state is somehow a part of being Jewish and therefore criticising it is anti-Semitic is actually the more anti-Semitic viewpoint because it links Jewish identity to something so awful which many Israelis and Jewish people actually don't agree with? Try and reconcile that with your ID pol trash discourse. Like I get that there are people who are being hypocritical in calling out Gal Gadot more than they would people who say, support the US army... but also understand that not everyone has such bias and there are very valid points behind criticising her support of the IDF. And maybe because Wonder Woman is so big at the moment people who ordinarily don't speak out about such things see it as a way to raise awareness about an issue which is often swept under the rug? What I'm trying to say is that yeah there's an influx of terrifying anti-semitism from the current rise of fascism, but there are also legitimate criticisms that must be made of the Israeli state. There are more options than just being anti-Semitic and refusing the criticise the Israeli state.

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you’re not alone

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probably not as salty as you sucking your own dick while you read the god delusion

I am so done with new atheists, especially those in the left. Like I hope you’re having fun over there pretending to be more intellectual than people who follow religions, while ignoring the true horror that is late capitalism. Too bad it’s hard to be “rational” about anything when you’re crammed squarely up Richard Dawkins asshole. 

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Terfs and general misogynists are two sides of the same coin, which sees women as walking vaginas and uteruses. Like if your idea of feminism is forcing women into the same faux biological-determinist cage but with a different name, your politics are bad and you should feel bad.

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im writing an assignment linking nationalism to gendered oppression and all I can think about is this fuckng dril tweet

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i love the fact that like… if you wanted to you could throw a chair… stool…. lamp… medium sized houseplant… even a lightweight table…. theres nothing physically stopping you from throwing furniture around, only social constructs and your own cowardice.

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Me, being political but still getting deep into shitty internet aesthetics: the revolution will be pastel vaporwave or it will be nothing