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What do you suggest Americans do instead of vote for Biden? Vote for trump? Vote third party? Not vote?

(I know most people would probably ask you this in bad faith but I’m just really distraught at the state of politics and keep hearing people say “don’t say he’s the only option and don’t support him” but I don’t know what alternative they have)

Withhold your vote and hunker down for four years. Do this by either voting 3rd party or spoiling your vote or not voting it doesn't matter just withhold your vote. And before you say "well what about Trump!!!" yeah what about him? He's not going to become dictator for life and he's not going to make oppressed peoples quality of life go down any more than what's already occurred under Biden. And if he does become dictator for life maybe it will galvanise Americans into actually doing something so...

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The tags are so funny because like... at first glance that might make you think that that's because black americans love Biden more than any other demographic but it's literally that every other demo either also likes trump or likes him more than Biden. It just shows that Black Americans are less attracted to outwardly fascistic leadership. Half of black americans still don't wanna vote for either lol

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I think I must have seen the same post as the anon, so I screencapped it for context and so people can decide for themselves what it means:

"Boutique theories of intersectionality". Again why do we give this settler any air time outside of sheer mockery? Also the "co-option of black power movement by the state" happened when? It's more so been marginalised and purposefully ignored by the state outside of narratives of black cop killers and terrorists.

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I’m trans and a teacher. I can’t “hunker down”

How you surviving now? You expect Floridians to hunker down? Texans? Or are the Red states lost causes in a political tug of war?

Who's life is it worth being pragmatic about? Palestinians? Immigrants? Puerto Ricans? Southern Amerikaners? Indigenous peoples? Everyone but yours?

You can either continue the Sisyphean task of never having another Republican president in office again (impossible) or you can try and use this to galvanise you to organise within your communities and build networks. Fight back with actions or die like a dog in the voting booth. Choose.

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Why is it always folks who complain the loudest about idpol who will bring up aspects of their identity when criticised.

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Standpoint epistemology bad unless it's the Chinese nationalist who has dozens of posts about Koreans that are borderline fascistic in its line of thought (I.e. Koreans are inherently more disrespectful and rude and lazy compared to the Chinese and Koreans have no culture and are just stealing from China).

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there's apparently a post by br*ndanicus under his new account going around right now that starts off with a good point, then quickly descends into how intersectionality is bourgeois anti-socialist theory that is the evil responsible for marginalized people in positions of power oppressing others right now, and my God, he and that circle hate Black people and anything Black people do so much while not understanding a single thing they criticize

I'm not gonna just uncritically believe this straight away but honestly it tracks that he would. He's basically 1 degree away from that kind of socialist.

Interestingly enough when double checking who Mcwhorter was I found this article by that kind of socialist agrees that "CRT" and "wokeism" is evil and a distraction to divide the working class and stop the revolution that will totally be happening any time in the USA guys, I prommy, the Labour Aristocracy is not too invested in this system of settler exploitation. It only disagrees with him on the reasoning for the critique without a second to think why they're agreeing with someone who very much represents the Amerikaner political establishment.

Anyways this is indistinguishable from some takes on here.

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I can't believe "i think ethnostates designed for one specific ethnic group to live in are bad actually" is a controversial opinion in the modern era.

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I WANT FOLKS TO SCROLL DOWN LIKE 2 POSTS FROM THIS POST

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I think a lot of people believe that indigeneity is:

About who was where first

Something passed down through blood

A concept that is consistent in every society where indigeneity exists.

When in reality its:

About a relationship with colonisation and settler capital (in the form of dispossession)

Is socially constructed, and one generation can be indigenous while the next one is not and can even skip generations.

Is locally constructed and is highly variable. (I.e. the one drop rule in the USA vs. Mestizaje in Mesoamerica vs. The apartheid division of black and coloured).

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Heyo folks in a bit of a tough spot at the moment while I sort out my travel back home next month could anyone spare a little bit of money <3

Paypal: Lillymarch16

Cashapp: £Lillymarch*

*cashapp no longer works internationally.

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You have to eat one of these, which are you choosing?

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Somehow the average US liberal is adamant that in order to stop fascism you have to vote for the bloodthirsty imperialist funding a genocide no matter what but also the popular vote is pointless and the weight of your vote entirely is based upon which arbitrarily demarcated piece of land you live on.

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My father was a talker and a storyteller. Because of this, there was no time when we, his children, did not know we were Palestinian. The stories I remember about his boyhood in the 1930s and early 1940s were nostalgic, both comic and bitter. But there were more political stories that began to teach us what it had meant to be Palestinian under the British Mandate. According to my father, people were barely aware they were on the eve of disastrous events that would make them refugees. They did not realize that the Zionists, not the British, were their real adversaries. Yet, while I was growing up, I don’t recall hearing his stories of 1948, the last months before the fall of his hometown, Jaffa. Were we too young to be told? Did it not mean anything to children who had never seen Jaffa? What happened when my father returned to Palestine was that his memories now became the guide to a living history and a real place. And he told the stories to me and to anyone who would listen. Jaffa was the heart of my father’s Palestine. On the wall of his apartment in Ramallah when I came to stay in 2001 was a large sepia poster: a historic photograph of an Arab man staring wistfully out to sea with a large town in the background. At the top, in Arabic, it said, “Jaffa 1937.” On my first visit to Palestine to see him in 1993, I sensed the thrill he felt at having mastered the new situation. The good part was embracing and being embraced by the community he had found, whether in the West Bank or in various other parts of pre-1948 Palestine. The anxiety of being there was betrayed by his dry mouth and the beads of sweat on his forehead as he drove us around, approaching Israeli military checkpoints or getting lost because he couldn’t read Hebrew. For me, the landscape was familiar from Lebanon and Jordan, which I had known well growing up. The barren highways and the cities branded by Hebrew sounds and sights were menacing, though, especially when combined with the heavy presence of Israeli soldiers, reservists, and guns. He was eager to show me and my small family the whole of Palestine, from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, Nablus to Nazareth, Jericho to ‘Akka. His tour of Jaffa, the same one, I was a little hurt to discover later, he gave to many others, was about claiming and reclaiming the city in which he had been born, the sea in which he had swum as a boy, and the home he had been forced to flee in 1948. On his own first visit in 1991, he’d asked friends to take him there. Initially he was disoriented. Most of the landmarks weren’t there. The neighborhood by the sea where he’d grown up had been razed by then, though twenty years earlier his brother had done what so many Palestinians have done and described: knocked on the door to find out which Jews—Russian, Moroccan, Yemeni, Polish—were now living in their old family homes. Suddenly, my father said he had spotted the Hasan Bek mosque where he had made the call to prayer as a boy. Bit by bit, circling more widely around the mosque, he began to find his way. It was a former student of his who had made him rethink his refusal to go back. She often traveled to Israel and the Occupied Territories. He recalled that she had told him once, “Ibrahim, Palestine is still there.” He was happy, he said, to find this true. There is an image in one of Doris Lessing’s African Stories (1981) that has never left me. A young girl, a white settler living in southern Africa, looks out over the savanna and acacia trees and sees the large gnarled oak trees of her English fairytales. My father did the opposite. Where I, who never knew anything else, could see only the deep gouges in green hillsides made for Israeli settlements with garish red tile roofs, or miles and miles of highways criss-crossing the rocky landscape and claiming it with modern green signs in Hebrew and English, or non-native evergreen forests to hide razed villages, my father saw beyond, between and behind them to the familiar landscapes of his youth.

– Return to Half-Ruins: Father's and Daughters Memory and History in Palestine by Leila Abu-Lughod.

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The idea that it's impossible to care both about anti-black racism and the "issue at hand" interestingly enough forms parallels with actual US fed tactics that were and most likely still are employed against small left-wing. I'm sure most people have read the article "Why Misogynists Make Great Informants."

If not, you should because the traits ans tactics of informants in this article are very much applicable to all forms of bigotry from racism to homophobia to islamophobia and so on. Downplay bigotry through academic speak, dismiss it as irrelevant or as "not the time", say the right keywords and so on and so forth.

Obviously calling people feds even if they're doing the feds work for them for free is ridiculous so I do not wish to do that but... for folks shouting "ah fed! You care too much about intersectionality, you USAmerikkkan stooge!" they're acting closer to the traits of an actual informant than anyone.