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   Diligence Jones (deliachristina@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 01:28:41 JST Diligence Jones

   Yeah....the gloss has utterly worn off the #4thofjuly .

   I used to say that the US was still worthy of celebration and sentiment.

   (I remember my Ex, at the time, looking at me with his pitying anarchist eyes. Sigh. He was right. I was swimming in patriotic bullshit.)

   Nah. Not today, Satan. Not today.

   So read the words of Frederick Douglass' *What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?* and color me unbothered.

   https://www.theroot.com/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july-1836083536

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 01:28:41 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     the older i get, the more anarchism makes sense to me.

     the state exists to protect the power of the oligarchy. that's why government is not about governance but about coercion and control.

     the united states is exactly what Marx warned would happen after the Civil War: it's become a directorship/dictatorship of the oligarchy.

     @DeliaChristina > "(I remember my Ex, at the time, looking at me with his pitying anarchist eyes. Sigh. He was right. I was swimming in patriotic bullshit.)"