“Get Out” and “Sorry To Bother You” were released during Trump’s presidency, but each film was written and theorized during the Obama administration. Liberal media attributing both films’ sharp sociocultural commentary to the Trump era is limiting and misses the mark.
Since “Hamilton” is trending and it’s July 4th, reminder that Alexander Hamilton was born in the Caribbean island of Nevis and fled to the North American mainland to escape impending slave rebellions and capitalize off slavery. He’s no hero. From historian Gerald Horne: (thread)
Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that asylum seekers can be fast tracked for deportation without judicial review of their cases. Justice Sotomayor and Kagen were the only dissenting votes, which means white feminism’s precious ‘Notorious RBG’ was once again on the wrong side of history.
The AR-15 isn’t a “military-grade weapon” but when liberals say stuff like “AR-15’s should only be in the hands of the U.S. military” it shows their solidarity for victims of mass violence only extends to American citizens, and that’s part of the problem.
Omg…Vox’s documentary on the assassination of Fred Hampton, calls the Black Panthers “democratic socialists” who modeled their politics off Canada’s system. Wtf😩
Trump deported under 6,700 Haitians while in office. Biden has deported over 24,000 Haitians, more than the last 3 presidents combined. I say this to say, I don’t allow Democrats to frame the discussion around migrant rights and treatment here. Their records are just as vicious.
Biden/Harris are accelerating drone strikes in Somalia. At the current rates, 2021 is on course to surpass the number of U.S. airstrikes in Somalia than in the last several years. Kamala Harris is a war criminal.
Trevor Noah interviewed French finance minister but didn’t discuss their parasitic relationship w/Africa-the neocolonial grip of CFA franc or 🇫🇷 having 1 of the largest militarist presences on the continent. Noah then says 🇨🇳 is new colonizer & asks what 🇫🇷 will do to stop them😒
I love how it’s “Russia is isolated on the world stage!” when UN votes to condemn Ukraine invasion, but when 184 UN member states vote to lift the US embargo on Cuba it’s never “the United States is isolated on the world stage!”
Wikileaks exposing the Vatican saying they supported the 2004 CIA coup in Haiti to oust Aristide because he was a heretical Christian for supporting “class struggle” really exemplified how bourgeois religious institutions are leveraged against liberation.
I love January 1st because it’s the date historically commemorating Haiti’s Independence Day as the world’s first Black Republic🇭🇹 and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959☭🇨🇺
Many Europeans like Alexander Hamilton engaged in a case of white flight, fleeing to North American mainland where he married into one of the most affluent families in NYC. A slave owning family, which makes rather curious the portrayal of Hamilton as some kind of ‘abolitionist.’
I’m reminded of Hugo Chávez’s words to Haiti after cancelling debt in 2010:
“Haiti has no debt w/Venezuela, just the opposite: Venezuela has a historical debt with [Haiti] and their people for whom we feel not pity but admiration, and we share their faith and their hope.” 🇻🇪🇭🇹
Fuck this John Oliver wannabe. He literally says at the end that “at least European colonizers were upfront”…wtf? No mention of AFRICOM, France, NATO, or the IMF🖕🏾
Probably to his dying days he was attended to by enslaved Africans. It’s also fair to say that Hamilton could justifiably be called the captain of the 1 percent. He was a leader of finance capital. He was the early Secretary of Treasury of the nation United States of America.”
In the middle of the 18th century, London considered the Caribbean to be more valuable than the North American mainland. The problem was that Africans outnumbered Europeans sometimes at a rate of 20:1 and there were constant slave rebellions.
Jackie Chan is trending. Remember that time he said the United States is the most corrupt country in the world and western media freaked out? Yeah, good times. 😂
I remember Nazis used to troll me on here saying “Karl Marx hated Blacks” and I responded “if that’s true, why don’t y’all like him?”…lmao they never replied to me after that😆
Malcolm X said “show me in the white community where a singer is considered a white leader”
Langston Hughes said “any Negro with a new suit and $5 in his pocket can be considered a Black leader”....man, they really knew what they were talking about💆🏾♀️😂
Zhao Hua Hong was one of the last living foot-binding practitioners. Foot-binding was a deeply entrenched cultural practice in China that lasted for over a thousand years, beginning in the 10th century and gradually declining in the early 20th century. It involved the tight
That Ukraine thread by a “Russian speaking woman of color” attempts to white wash neo Nazism as decolonial resistance. The think tank world really is attempting to co-opt intersectionality to push for ‘woke’ Nazi apologism and NATO militarism. It’s disturbing.
Stalin did not kill 60 million people and if the Victims of Communism museum in DC cites those figures, they *are* spreading Holocaust denial/revisionism.
Killer Mike comparing himself and Ice Cube to Paul Robeson and Muhammad Ali was bad enough...but tweeting Spike Lee is basically the only thing that kept Malcolm X “relevant” is more than I can handle😂 These celeb ‘leaders’ gotta go man...
Y’all attacked Angela Davis as a ‘c**n’ for saying “anti blackness is global” is a limited framework of analysis. But she was correct and I see how “anti blackness” discourse is being weaponized now to support imperialism in Cuba.
I dont get why any Marxist, (especially in the US) would oppose Hawai‘ian sovereignty, all while claiming to be anti imperialist-The US military continues to use the islands as a military outpost while poisoning their water after stealing more indigenous land to expand its empire
AOC basically used her January 6th Capitol Hill “trauma” to further fund the police...I immediately lost 20 followers when I tweeted she was being overly performative and sensationalist about it. I bet her Stans will justify this though. 🤧
Anastasia (1997) is counterrevolutionary propaganda that frames the Russian revolution as a curse by an evil sorcerer. The director noted he wanted to convey the fall of the Romanovs as precipitating a “dying Russia” and “oppression” of the Soviet era.
Notice the way Reuters discusses Cuba vs Puerto Rico. With Cuba’s power grid, its described as “frail, antiquated Soviet era” but nothing is mentioned of PR’s privatized electrical grid, LUMA Energy, nor the constant blackouts before Fiona that Puerto Ricans have been protesting!
I’m getting to the point where if I see a Ukraine flag🇺🇦 in a display name, I won’t retweet the person, even if I agree with a particular post. To me, that is a fascist symbol and even tacitly endorsing it makes me shudder.
I know I harp on this a lot, but I wish the US ‘left’ cared more about anti imperialism. Not just like “oppose a war/intervention” but also understanding the depths of US hegemony and its economic ramifications for the global south proletariat. It’s absolutely devastating.
Wow! My prof who’s a trained demographer/researcher of Chinese Muslims said Adrian Zenz reached out to him and other experts in the field for evidence of “genocide” in Xinjiang. He said no one responded and that his work is not regarded as credible nor pass a peer review process.
1st I learned of Shinzo Abe was in an article on Filipina elders demanding recognition/reparations for sexual slavery they experienced as children by the Japanese Imperial Army during WW2 and Abe’s refusal to apologize or compensate survivors. Don’t get why libs are praising him.
I didn’t know Ukraine was a signatory of the UN Convention Against Mercenaries treaty, so Zelenskyy calling for “volunteers” to fight in 🇺🇦 violates international law-This conflict is really exposing the “war crimes are cool if u have the right vibes” faction of U.S. liberals lol
This is a photoshopped image. The real historical photo shows signs with “Race mixing is Communism” and I have to wonder who was behind altering these images to reduce anticommunism to ‘opposing long hair’ and ‘hippies’ and for what purpose🤔
No shade, but Haiti is literally protesting ag exploitative subjugation by a US backed regime & Wikileaks revealed US worked to suppress Haitian garment worker wages- keeping American consumerism of textiles cheaper-the ‘Americans dont benefit from imperialism” takes are rather😐
I remember Beyoncé had a lyric that said “he Monica Lewinsky’d💦 all on my gown” and Lewinsky responded that correct verb should be “Bill Clinton’d on my gown” and radlib Twitter wrote dissertations how tht was an example of ‘white feminism mocking a Black woman’s literacy”😑🤦🏾♀️😆
The Memphis Police chief was previously involved in covering up a case involving child pornography because it was linked to law enforcement during her time working for the Atlanta Police dept. What a disgusting woman.
People on left Twitter who use ‘tankie’ as a slur tend to be:
1) white
2) not well versed in or outright hostile to theory
3) limited in their understanding of history
4) prioritizing of ‘anti capitalism’ over anti colonialism
5) white
😂
Florida executed a r*pe survivor who killed her sexual exploiters, Aileen Wuornos. But Nikolas Cruz is spared the death penalty for being a Nazi who shot a bunch of children? Make it make sense.
I still can’t get over Adrian Zenz basically saying ‘I have no evidence that there’s genocide in Xinjiang, but if BBC pays me, I bet I can find some’....lmaoo
The U.S. has been bombing Syria throughout the month and it’s barely been reported on. I can’t keep up with all the crimes committed by this ignominious empire.
Retired US army colonel Lawrence Wilkerson said the CIA exploits unrest in Xinjiang as pretext to destabilize China. The US sees Uyghurs as geostrategic pawns in order to put pressure on Beijing. It has nothing to do with/human rights. Why is it controversial to acknowledge this?
The thing about anticommunism is that it invariably positions you on the far right, no matter how you personally see your politics. Liberals protesting ‘in support of SOS Cuba’ were aghast at the Proud Boys in attendance but it should come as no surprise.
“Social media is like my weapon because we don’t have freedom of expression in Iran.”
Journalist and activist Masih Alinejad (
@AlinejadMasih
) was exiled from Iran in 2009. She’s continuing to speak out against the country’s treatment of women
That story about the female Iranian athlete going “missing” after competing without a hijab, were false. She arrived back in Tehran Wednesday to a warm welcome. See how easy western media generates propaganda?
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If I had to choose between feminism or Marxism Leninism, I’d probably choose feminism. 😭 sorry not sorry..Like I’m so tired of the constant male communists and their chauvinism, it’s exhausting. I will always be a Communist. But feminism is NOT ever negotiable for me. Period!
I’ve seen “🇺🇦” accounts say all the Africans complaining of racist treatment in Ukraine are hired Russia agents. This is what U.S. liberals have said about Black Americans complaining of racist treatment by Democratic and Republican admins alike. I can relate..lol
#solidarity
Watching Somali Twitter eat up Ilhan Omar has been quite satisfying. She really does give cover to U.S. imperialism. Idk why I ever assumed she was different. 😔