Notices by Jackie 🍉 :gay_communism: :trantifa: (burnoutqueen@todon.nl), page 4

Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We’ll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.

@mima @adambyte

What I will say is that the answer to antisemitism is not making a bubble of ethnonationalism for the Jews. Carving out your own Madagascar pre-emptively is a poorly thought out idea in my opinion.

The answer is making the world unsafe for fascism.

@Njord

A "free and tolerant" society with extreme wealth inequality is indistinguishable from a dictatorship.

Also, we all know how the FBI treated civil rights leaders like MLK and Fred Hampton.

Ask an American politician about the indigenous genocide.

Then get back to me on Tiananmen Square.

I'm really not shocked about Chinese censorship, and it's really no worse than any other state.

The problem is statism and not the specific state doing it.

Yes, yes, yes, the Chinese army crushed a protest at Tiananmen Square in 1989. I believe this to be a bad thing. Yes, they censor it like crazy.

I'm just tired of seeing it used as a "gotcha", when in fact many Western governments have done similarly egregious things and then covered them up.

For example, how the US government just murdered a continent-load of people to take their land, and how they teach the colonisation of America as a family friendly children's tale.

The US is not a democracy. The US really hasn't been a democracy for a single day in its life.

The US has always been a racial-capitalist society, and its ruling class has 2 major interests:

A) protecting the oligarchy of private capital
B) maintaining white hegemony

Nearly every single policy, foreign and domestic, that is enacted by the United States is in service of these 2 goals.

If you do drive a Tesla, at the very least get a bumper sticker saying "I bought this car before Elon revealed himself as a fascist" or something of that nature

@br00t4c dog killer Kristi

The richest man on earth, at the inauguration of the president of the united states, threw up a fascist salute.

Call it a "Roman Salute" or a Nazi Salute, but fascism is fascism.

If Musk didn't express prior fascist sympathies, I might have dismissed it.

However, given the context of the wider situation, it is totally not able to be explained away, and it is obvious that this man is a Nazi sympathizer.

America is toast. There is a rapist and his favorite Nazi billionaire running the US government right now.

To all the people outside of the US, let this be your warning. Stay vigilant.

This is the ultimate "fuck you" to MLK, tbh.

Today, Racism, Militarism, and Economic Exploitation have won the biggest victory that they have won since the Second World War.

I bet Robert E Lee is looking up from his toasty spot in hell rn, and he is grinning.

The reason neofascism won was obvious. I would argue that it was the inevitable result of the Red Scare, the implementation of neoliberal economic policy after the collapse of the USSR, and the tendency of capitalism towards crisis. Let me explain here:

The Red Scare served to embolden capitalist hegemony in the system, and discourage even the most banal social democratic policies from being implemented. Without the destruction of working class politics, the neoliberal consensus and the pervasive hegemonic concept of "capitalist realism" would never have taken shape. This had a global effect, rather than a merely localized effect, due to US imperialism

After the failure of the USSR and the lethal "success" of the shock doctrine in the former Eastern bloc, the entire Western world jumped at the opportunity to double down those concepts as well, accelerating a tendency towards austerity and deregulation that started in the 70s. Those policies caused a horrific decline in living standards and health services, while causing a dramatic spike in inequality. This set the stage for both Putinism and Trumpism

And, last but not least, capitalism itself is an unstable system, and it is essentially impossible to stop it from crashing, taking all of us with it.

When the oligarchs spend billions of dollars to rig the political system against working class interests, hollow out our institutions for their personal gain, and convince hundreds of millions of people that fascism is the only viable alternative to the status quo, then of course fascism will be its inevitable outcome.

Happy MLK day!

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;' who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a 'more convenient season.'"

Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader

"white guilt" is stupid. I'm not guilty of slavery. I don't feel personally attacked when I learn more about slavery.

The only people who feel guilty over slavery are the people who know it's wrong and glorify the slavers anyways.

My prevailing attitude about slavery is that slavers should be shot, slavery should be revealed to kids as the brutal and tyrannical evil that it is, and we should commemorate the brave people who gave their lives to destroy the slavocracy. We should eradicate the shameful loophole in the Constitution that permits modern day slavery, and we should not do apologia for the slave trade.

If my ancestors owned slaves, they are bad people who deserve to be reviled for as long as they remain in the historical record.

@emptyfortress @cwebber I'm not body shaming. Lol

Props to Eugen.
Thank you for your service, and thank you for Mastodon.

How does Zuck sleep at night knowing he enabled a genocide in Myanmar?