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non practicing heterodox economist, recovering afropessimist

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@dankwilderson
amin
3 years
bar is super low in anglophone countries. random shop keeper in the middle east can probably say this to you for free
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hey bestie
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Bridgerton men have a way with words
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@dankwilderson
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5 years
this man really fumbled rihanna sliding in his dms for clout. you hate to see it
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@dankwilderson
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3 years
smh they gentrified the masjid. reject modernity, embrace tradition. getting your shoes “borrowed” is part of the righteous path
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@dankwilderson
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3 years
unemployment
@anafricandiva
The Joyful Linguist®️
3 years
Apart from therapy, what are some things that have done wonders for your mental health?
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@dankwilderson
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7 months
needed a palette cleanser after reading that
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@devtesla
an actual dog
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r/adultry rules. every post about planning an affair is full of helpful advice, you can talk about how much you love your affair partner and hate your SO and people will rizz you up, but if you post about how it blew your life up the comments are like "what did you expect, Lol"
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@dankwilderson
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3 years
it’s a famine of lyricality,,,looking back i’ve said some things i thought were super basic that ppl held onto. it’s sad times out there
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@dankwilderson
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3 months
everything van jones does is funnier when you put it in the context that he used to be a MAOIST
@big_business_
Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴
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Here's Van Jones getting emotional over Joe Biden dropping out yes this happened
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@dankwilderson
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5 years
this tweet will never not make me laugh. this man caught us slipppppiiing
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@dankwilderson
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3 months
i live right in between the they/them and dominican bbl parts of bushwick. this gives me the correct vantage point to assess the social totality
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@dankwilderson
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3 years
if we was together and i never said anything beautiful to you i’m sorry,,,i must’ve not been inspired
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@dankwilderson
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7 months
thank you walter benjamin for teaching me this
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@heimberg_a
Robert A. Heimberg
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DID YOU KNOW THAT THE DEEPEST REALEST LOVE IS COMPLETELY UNATTACHED? THIS MIGHT SEEM STRANGE TO YOU, BUT IT'S REALLY TRUE. IT'S COMMITTED, BUT UNATTACHED.
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
never take relationship advice off twitter walahi. half the ppl on here are 17 and the other half are muslim
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@dankwilderson
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4 months
he is the moment
@Africa_Archives
Africa Archives ™
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A Kenyan protester smoking teargas from a canister thrown at him by the Anti-Riot police officers in the ongoing protests #RejectFinanceBill2o24 #REJECTFINANCEBILL2024
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
all the bad muslims that don’t use muslim pro for anything at all but inexplicably still had it on our phones took the biggest L today
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the daughter of the former prime minister of djibouti. afro nepo babies kill me man
@adaenechi
ada enechi
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The famous Kaytranada Boiler Room dancing girl Shay Lia has finally confirmed she was stone cold SOBER in that video, she was just loving life
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
i know somali wrists when i see them
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@dankwilderson
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4 months
crying we’re witnessing the first global superstar who grew up watching alpha motivation videos instead of cartoons
@theMadridZone
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🚨 JUDE BELLINGHAM ON IG.
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
forget the album, sza need to release the core workout
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@dankwilderson
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7 months
it’s outstanding how many ppl revealed themselves as intensely american in misunderstanding this tweet. ngos are like colonial missionaries in most places
@ytnessisdeath
fuck “latinidad” 🇵🇸
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nobody’s getting communism if we can’t overcome the nonprofits and NGOs
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
if i marry a muslim girl she has to be a divorcée. imma need confirmation u were disappointed by atleast one man before me. i don’t need that pressure on me
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
idk anybody that ran away with a dude they just met. ppl are kinda boring now. it’s time to admit ur grandparents are more interesting than u
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
hoyoo was telling the funniest thing. so basically back in the day in djibouti if a girl liked a guy a lot she would essentially break into his house and refuse to leave until they got married
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
we here for a good time not a long time
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
saudi: eid is on sunday somalia:
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@dankwilderson
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6 months
when refaat, god rest his soul, was emphasizing the importance of storytelling, i’d like to believe he didn’t mean ALL of you because what ??? i’d argue these are in fact —the LEAST urgent words possible
@bluejayverses
mj gomez | LOVE LETTERS OUT NOW!
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urgent words from ocean vuong's ig today
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
how i disappoint both my imam and my cia agent
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@dankwilderson
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5 years
pretty wild that working class subcultures more or less disappeared as the price of essential goods (rent/food) skyrocketed while non-essential services steadily declined. everybody just goes to work to pay for their exorbitantly priced room share and watches netflix
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
muslim women are down bad because on minder i regularly match with 10/10s and i know damn well i am not playing in that division
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@dankwilderson
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3 years
there are e-girls and e-boys but somalis are the first e-nation walahi. never has there been a country where everybody is dysfunctional and so online. from paltalk to tiktok dhammaanteen waan jirrannahay
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@dankwilderson
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2 years
it’s very humbling to realize your best tweeting days are behind you. all i do now is send problematic takes to the gc like an adult
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@dankwilderson
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5 years
no..........*misses bryson tiller beat drop for the 342nd time*.........DONT your so sexy aha
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a lot of comments are about israel polluting / cutting of trees etc (true). but i think there’s probably an even deeper point about israel’s historic role in the region, (global) class formation, and environmental degradation
@capitalatrisk23
BatmanCapital 🦋
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@visegrad24 How is climate change and Palestine connected ??
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@dankwilderson
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5 years
when frank wilderson said “white people are not simply "protected" by the police, they are the police,” —i felt that
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
i got surveilled for prayers i missed. i’m finished
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i know the vibes are bad when this topic rolls around
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@dankwilderson
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5 years
i think of this gramsci letter at least once a week
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@dankwilderson
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3 years
everyone in nyc is on anti depressants because u not meant to live like that i promise
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
pillow talk with a white woman be feeling like u on the phone with a customer service rep
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@dankwilderson
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5 years
i can’t believe man said kimchi properly but called muqmad little cubed meats. we’re actually finished out here
@rahna__
annie ⁷
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Hear me out. Anjero somali + kimchi + the little cubed meats
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thinking about that nigerian guy i went to grad school with that was renting a $3500 studio next to campus just to never come to class. we are actually not all part of the same diaspora
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
the diraac and bra combo is the only reason i haven’t left the somali community yet
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
talking to a somali girl is always risky because u never know when she’ll drop a bombshell on u like she thinks she’s in love with a guy she met in seoul or she does spoken word poetry
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
talib kweli built a career off the back of mos def’s talent and a flow that sounds like when u try to fit everything in at the end of a voicemail. and instead of counting his blessings he wants to do a harassement marathon. i’m sick
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@dankwilderson
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5 years
freelancing sounds so fucking wild honestly. how you just wake up every monday and have no idea where rent is coming from this month. what kind of goose chase life
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@dankwilderson
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5 years
america: we going to the moon gil scott heron:
@anexis__
KARI FAUX IS DISRESPECTFULLY UNDERRATED
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Yoo America really went to the MOON before giving niggas rights.
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
me on a normal day vs me today
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@dankwilderson
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7 months
who saw a hillary clinton interview and said let’s get stephen a smith on the line?? and even funnier he cooked her
@prem_thakker
Prem Thakker
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Stephen A. Smith on Hillary Clinton telling undecided voters to "get over yourself:" "I don't think it was a very wise statement on her part. How did that work out for her in 2016?"
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@dankwilderson
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biggest issue with diaspora poetry is actually a profound lack of curiosity about the culture they hail from. we should require 1 hour conversation with your parent in their mother tongue per poem. no more mangoes, give me 3000 words on social reproduction among the majeerteen
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@dankwilderson
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“people talk about themselves in acronyms oddly disassociated from their lived experience…there is an odd estrangement from one’s sense of an agentic self”
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@UchePOkoye
Anambra 1st son
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I recently found out that people living with ADHD do not miss people. For them, it is "out of sight, out of mind" . If you are not physically there, you don't "exist". This has really messed up a lot of relationships..
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@dankwilderson
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3 years
sometimes i check clubhouse to remind myself what joblessness can do to a person
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@dankwilderson
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3 years
okay guys that was fun but no more discourse please
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the funniest sell outs are ppl that sell their soul mad early. like how you 23 already doing cyber security for an arms manufacturer? did you even give being a good person a chance ????
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@dankwilderson
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3 years
it’s funny that everyone is selling lifestyle precisely when most ppl can’t afford lifestyle. nice culture we have here
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2 years
when i’m 4 drinks and two zoots in at the club and i see a somali girl
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@dankwilderson
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2 years
chief keef could write black skin white masks by 27 but fanon couldn’t give us love sosa
@Rap
RapTV
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Chief Keef turns 27 today. 27. He’s only 27 but has influenced 3 new generations of rappers. Insane.
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funniest part is without knowing a single thing about her i can safely say she’s nowhere near the worst of djibouti’s nepo babies. there are some wild stories out there
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@dankwilderson
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8 years
Every time I think of giving up I just ask myself, "what would Nelly do?"
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4 years
girl said i don’t look like my dating profile pics, i blocked her immediately. can’t talk to someone that isn’t serious about subverting the surveillance state
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5 years
fidel didn’t die for this man
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4 years
abolish the rational decision making industrial complex. god is not dead, embrace romanticism
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4 years
i owe an apology to minneapolis somalis walahi. iga raali ahaada. waad dadashen. absolutely the most elite diaspora now
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sorry for using the wrong palate, the wife guy in ur heart is the only tool you need to paint a canvas
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4 years
progressive muslims can do everything but pray 5 times a day. amazing
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3 years
as a young diaspora boy going through life, you have three options in terms of film taste. you either become a marvel guy, a tarantino guy, or a battle of algiers guy
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@dankwilderson
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3 years
didn’t even have to check the location,,only one type of girl finds this funny
@lilsmichelle
lili michelle لیلی
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just had sex with a guy who immediately put the joker on after
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3 years
@bluesformami random faraax in your fb message requests >> this
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
i’m dead that everybody was interested in black liberation for like two weeks in may/june then moved the fuck on
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4 years
if french mandem didn’t straighten their hair so much this wouldn’t happen
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interesting outcome of the blm 2020 protests is everybody thought american kids were being radicalized when in fact they were workshopping a more deeply held liberal sensibility. new range of anti political black couture in ig story and zine format
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@dankwilderson
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2 years
i’m seeing a bit too many father’s day posts on my carefully curated supposedly misandrist tl. you guys are under surveillance
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
me: sees white person posting black lives matter also me: sees white person NOT posting black lives matter
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@dankwilderson
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the concept of buying time has to be the most deluded recent entry into the discourse. buying time for WHAT???
@EagleEye1906
mac has never been a typhlosion supporter
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Kinda feel like you’re overlooking the part of James Baldwin that would tell you that voting for Kamala is, again, a means of buying time. People like Baldwin understood the use of participating in the election, but also understood elections alone will not save us
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y’all told me gen z was going to save us but all they do is reenact minstrel shows on tiktok and take antidepressants
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
ppl think 2020 is a special edition year but realistically it’s the beginning of a decade that will only get worse. buckle up my friends
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3 years
mustafa the poet kills me man that guy really goes everywhere in his ana muslim saax suit
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3 years
dom kennedy, my fave wack rapper, has a single called “rollin papers” in 2021. this nigga so out of touch it’s endearing
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@dankwilderson
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11 months
bell hooks had one good opinion actually
@simoneumba
SimplySimone
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And just like that, Break My Soul is Israelis new fight song 😒
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@dankwilderson
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5 years
muslims 🤝 natalie portman being against idolatry
thinking about this
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
when the history books are written, they’ll correctly periodize this as the fyre festival era. the exhaustion of the future does not even leave us a past, the questions thus becomes, not where is, but where was ja ??
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@dankwilderson
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it’s unfortunate what being chronically online can do to a person
@saroyahx
Saroyah♡ྀི🎀
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It's absolutely sickening how Lebanese people manage to be anti-Black while bombs are dropping around them. And I wish every type of misery on them
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them: explain how leftism became so academic me:
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@dankwilderson
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3 years
this how i feel on zoom
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4 years
abolish the getting the speaker at a protest and pouring ur heart out to guilt riddled white liberals industrial complex
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3 years
this is so funny the uk really is four lions
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
i feel so bad for kids that come into academia and read journal articles with unbridled sincerity. listen, more or less any given article you come across is 50% waffling
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@dankwilderson
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2 years
ppl have a hard time realizing why left youtube will never takeoff like the andrew tate’s etc. one thing is trying to undo a worldview the other is reinforcing a misogyny that you already have. these are two completely different tasks
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@dankwilderson
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3 years
just stalked my own tl naturally and can confirm, i am insane
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@dankwilderson
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3 years
guys the issue with taxing the rich isn’t that we can’t trust the gov to redistribute it (that goes without saying), it’s that as a socialist you want to intervene in the process of producing that value to begin with. redistribute our fucking time
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@dankwilderson
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2 years
minnesota is such a simulation. the first time sheikhs protested it was against suldaan seeraar
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i would never shame my girl for wearing a bikini in public. my boundary is whether or not she’s ever reposted a rupi kaur poem
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3 years
i didn’t realize how much unemployment and vibes was doing for me until niggas expected me to be in the office at 8 am sharp
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3 years
there’s no capital letters in arabic. i serve a higher power
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unfortunately this is OUTSTANDING racism
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@matthewschmitz
Matthew Schmitz
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Helen Andrews (⁦ @herandrews ⁩) reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates
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@dankwilderson
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4 years
@flatheadahmed @haaniyah_ divorce has a certain jenny say quack an absent father can’t provide
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5 years
i’m sorry guys but saying radical sounding but ultimately content-less filler like “abolish capitalism” will never not be cringe
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6 months
me trying to merge two very diff parts of my tl rn
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@dankwilderson
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8 months
the main reason i don’t accuse people of being psyops on here is that america’s greatest triumph is not needing to pay people to behave like cops. in russia they pay their trolls, we produce them naturally —triumph of ideology
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@dankwilderson
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i heard if you actually pay for tidal beyoncé sends you a voice note saying lebron would get it if he wasn’t such a left wing nut job. crazy stuff i kno
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