Notices by Philip Cardella (philip_cardella@historians.social), page 2

I'm not defending capitalism.

I'm identifying the proximate threat and that threat is founded on bad definitions and misunderstanding.

A healthy capitalist system and should accommodate regulations for food and worker safety from the government under the banner of "for the general welfare" of the people.

Neoliberalism rejects all of that.

This doesn't mean capitalism is good. It means that neoliberal capitalism is a specific strain with specific characteristics not necessary to capitalism.

@pluralistic it's probably worth noting that, at least in broad terms, this describes almost every fascist regime.

What history actually teaches us about #revolutions is the the more violent the revolution the more #violent the new regime.

#violence begets violence.

There are ways to stop or slow it, to be sure.

But Mao and Castro were probably on the right side of history. Until they weren't.

There is a time for violence. There's certainly a time for anger.

Once you *want* violence you've forfeited any claim to a fair and equal government.

Name two impressive, successful #revolutionaries who actually got shit done in the 20th century and didn't start murdering their citizens once they got their revolution. Yeah, that second part, amiright?

Anyway, now you're thinking of Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. Right?

Kinda interesting their approach wasn't killing people, isn't it?

Oh, you're thinking of Nelson Mandela? While his approach may not have been as peaceful it was the peaceful part that worked in the end.

Dude makes a clean get away on a bike, taking advantage of traffic congestion and the police's cowardice leading them to hide in their cars only to be caught holding a manifiesto and a ghost gun he could have dropped literally anywhere and not had it conclusively traced to him by a fast food employee in a different state.

That's the story, right?

I'm not saying it's false or suggesting it is.

Something isn't right, though.

He *wanted to be caught and made famous* is my guess.

@Joe_Hill the first rule of assassination is assassinate the assassin. I think the fact that he's alive punches a hole in the patsy theory but I probably know less than most people following the story closely because I'm not following it closely.

You know who is angry right now? Liberal voters.

God take me over the rainbow bridge the day someone does a think piece about why we're so angry, scared and resentful. #politics #America

I'm resentful that most people that look like me voted for a sexist, racist, transphobic, burnt steak eating, failed businessman and con artist over the most qualified presidential candidate in history.

I'm resentful as fuck. Where's the think piece on me and people like me?

I'm resentful two of the three most qualified people ever nominated for President didn't beat the least qualified person ever nominated for President by a major party by fifty points.

I'm resentful the editors at most major news outlets only know how to publish what their billionaire owners tell them to.

I'm resentful that a failed colonel from a failed (nation) state who was too greedy and stupid to rotate the tires on his military's vehicles played us.

The kids stabbed by the fascists in NYC are on my heart and mind right now.

I ache for them. For their families. For a country that would tolerate this atrocity and treat it as less important than the United Health Care CEO.

@StillIRise1963 totally agree. 100%

But I love dogs. No exception. So, in my mind, dogs are better than people.

Even a bad dog, and bad dogs do exist, are bad because people made them that way.

And I also love alligators. 100% of them. I have no illusions alligators love me. There are no good nor bad alligators. Just alligators.

For me dogs and alligators are better than people.

I still love people. I just love dogs and alligators more. And orcas. I love orcas.

I hate all things #meta but several groups in my life think #WhatsApp is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

My phone broke yesterday.

Rather the screen did.

Without the screen I CANNOT TURN IT OFF.

So on the new phone I'm trying to set up what's app and it's demanding I check my broken phone to verify I'm who I say I am.

🤦♂️

@mekkaokereke and Biden was trying to out tough on crime Reagan and Nixon. AND Gingrich in the 90s.

And let's not give LBJ a pass. He's the one the diverted money for the War on Poverty into the War on Crime, giving block grants to police to start sports leagues so they could identify pre delinquents.

Aka children they thought were going to be criminals. Children.

You probably know but for those who don't.

Book: From the war on poverty to the war on crime, Hinton, 2016

@CartyBoston @mekkaokereke @bumblebeedc agreed! I have long said I have more beefs with Biden than most Biden detractors can even name.

And I campaigned hard for him after he got the nomination in 2020 and would have this year too if he had accepted it.

This is in all honesty, my biggest beef with him.

His record (particularly as Senator) with policing and prisons is among the worst in modern history. All parties included.

@CartyBoston @mekkaokereke @bumblebeedc when Bill Clinton was still governor of Arkansas Senator Joe Biden was trying to win the race to the mantle of "toughest on crime".

I've been blocked for saying this. I've been accused of lying. I've been accused of being a Republican.

Joe Biden has been the furthest left President in history and he's still a right of center, tough on crime, neoliberal.

History is complicated and uncomfortable.

Joe Biden is an architect of the prison industrial complex

@CartyBoston @mekkaokereke @bumblebeedc let's focus on Biden doing just about the only thing he can during the lame duck session and commute the 40 Federal death sentences to life in prison.

He really can't do much else before January 20.

He absolutely can and should do that.

And no, Biden wasn't just running with the crowd. He was elbowing his way to the front of the prison industrial complex --especially while Clinton was president (but long before that too).

@CartyBoston @mekkaokereke @bumblebeedc you just named not presidents. And given Kamala Harris' track record as AG in California I'm certain she would in fact pardon the people Mekka is talking about.

Mekka said "innocent" people and meant it.

I'm talking about commuting 40 death sentences to life in prison, not pardoning.

While most prisoners in America are NOT in Federal prison so Biden can do nothing for them the Federal prisons are filled disproportionately with drug offenders.

@CartyBoston @mekkaokereke @bumblebeedc Attorney General Kamala Harris made her whole administration about fair sentencing particularly towards low level drug users.

Might she behave different as president? Of course. But we don't know. We do know while elected to serve the people of California as their top lawyer she prioritized drug sentencing reform.

For actual users. And some dealers. Mekka was talking about actual innocent people or people in there for things that are no longer crimes.

I'm just going to say it.

#Mastodon has a racism problem and we need to do something about it.

I'm not going to #BlueSky no matter how much better the experience is for anyone right now because Bluesky is a honeypot trap run by crypto nuts who are notoriously white supremacist as a whole.

I'm not going to #Threads or any #Meta product for similar reasons.

I'm not going down the #Xitter

This is it. This is my last social media spot and I'm getting tired.

@QasimRashid I keep trying to tell people, Bezos didn't obey in advance. He's a fascist. Maybe not the Hitler love mold but certainly the Mussolini lover mold.