people are always shocked when they learn my mom owns her apartment in lower manhattan but this is how. i had no idea we were “squatters” until i got older. they fixed it up and a decade later the city sold the building to my mom and all our neighbors for $1.
A profile on Gloria, a 22-year-old single mother who decided to occupy an abandoned home in Southwest Philly. Here, she discusses her story, process, and reasoning:
over dinner he asked why i agreed to go out with him but before i could respond he was like “my eyes right?”. they were green 🙄 he went on and explained his entire family was light skint then proceeded to list their eye colors back three generations. ate my food & ghosted him.
i’m suspicious of people who say they grew up with nothing and out the same mouth say socioeconomic class is an indicator of ambition because like— did you not see your family bust their ass for scraps?
you either internalized a deep hatred for your people or you lying. 🤣
She’s incredibly wise and is intentional about everything she does, which is probably why she’s so successful at such a young age. Honestly love that for her
they also did this in 2020 during the george floyd protests.
except they drove through harlem with their sirens blasting all night to harass black folks and stop them from sleeping.
People are reporting the NYPD held a large vehicular protest yesterday in city vehicles using city resources while on the clock to protest against people being released on bail. This is extraordinary.
i still remember the first day we got running water 😭 i was so amazed water was coming out the faucet but why i still wanted to bathe in my bucket 😩 now the apartment is worth over a half mil.
when i was in his class, he called yt people his “vanilla brothers & sisters” & when i promptly lit bernie sanders’ zionist ass up after he popped in as a “guest”, west put on his cape and transformed into the cr*cker comforter
anyone who wants to lead this empire is an opp
Reminder there is in fact a good third party presidential candidate
Cornel West is a political activist and philosopher so make sure to vote this year because this might be the most important vote of the century so far
this some nasty ass propaganda considering the military is reporting record-low enlistment rates for young people.
using the black celebrity class to turn us into food for the empire…again.
nobody should watch this shit.
🤮
in 2024 i’m begging yall to please PLEASE do not share or post content that is purposely meant to humiliate people. especially kids.
y’all commentary be on point and sure tweet about it. but reposting the actual video adds to the spectacle of it all. the spectacle is ALSO harm.
re: the subway shooting
so a black man was arguing with a non-black latino couple about migrants beating up cops?
the men square up.
BM gets stabbed.
he pulls out a gun.
then is shot w/ it.
then the same cops he was defending show up to handcuff his lifeless body?
chile—
a lot of you guys are not going to want to hear this but your rebellious white teen angst doesn’t count as an anarchist phase just because you didn’t bathe.
A lot of you guys are not gonna wanna hear this but I stopped being an anarchist after high school bc the more research I did, the more I realized the people I called “tankies” had been historically right about like everything. I just hadn’t done enough research yet to know it.
#QuietOnSet
completely undermines its message by including drake bell.
he says his conviction of child endangerment was fraught with misinformation?!
his abuse was “not physical”?!
y’all really allowed a predator to rebrand in a documentary that outs abusers?!
disgusting.
cuz idk id never have the type of ambition or drive that allowed my mother to partially raise a whole child in an abandoned building while making only 11,000 a year. im not built like that. i’d fold.
An affordable-housing complex specially for teachers has opened on the grounds of a California elementary school, in what is “being held up as a model for the rest of the state”
so close.
it’s actually:
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
— Assata Shakur
george jackson talked about how black folks in the US have a unique RESPONSIBILITY due to our proximity to this empire which is to organize UNCOMPROMISING REVOLT and destabilize the US from within.
but they never wanna talk about THAT uniqueness.
people say shit like this but the “western morals” be:
“don’t kill LGBTQIA people” &
“you can’t marry an child”
meanwhile, these “morals” aren’t even consistent WITHIN western hegemony AND attributing anti-patriarchal ideals to the west is just ahistorical.
Many “communists” reject the *material* hegemony of the West, but still support it as a *cultural* and *intellectual* hegemon. I.e., uphold Western morals as eternal, and call for subjugation of countries that have their own value systems.
@lord_lila
all major cities reported hearing professional grade fireworks at night during this time. palestinians told us they use sleep deprivation as psychological warfare during civil unrest. i believe it is/was a coordinated effort.
@itsmeBigFabe
@GoHomeKJ
if being disgusted by predatory behavior and rape makes me sensitive then i’m ok with that 🤷🏽♀️ if we should be sensitive about anything it’s rape
the wild thing about the migrant hysteria in new york city is that a “migrant” will be attacked for “invading the city and taking resources” and then it’s just a non-black latino born and raised in the bronx.
to the FBA/ADOS psyop cult leaders, eric adams, and the NYPD who are all manufacturing consent for a even more militarized NYC by spreading xenophobic propaganda: i hate yall suck my dick
i wasn’t allowed to watch shows like johnny bravo and ren and stimpy as a kid and now i learn that pedophiles were getting pleasure from injecting children’s media with sexual references.
the empire is crumbling and people are coping in all types of ways. romantic escapism or gender war escapism? hustle & ambition escapism or “soft life” escapism? wellness industrial complex escapism or spiritual bypassing escapism? choose your fighter.
using the story of a black palestinian militant to make the argument she wasn’t persecuted because she was black —
WHEN SHE HERSELF SAID SHE WAS TARGETED BECAUSE SHE WAS BLACK
IS SO FUCKING UNBELIEVABLY NASTY
jay-z’s calling beyoncé a young lady because he’s an old ass man who groomed her.
while we all rightfully calling that pink lady out for being an abuse apologist, beyoncé’s abuser is accepting awards for global impact
an award named after another notorious abuser aka dr. dre.
@TheFoundHoney
@GoHomeKJ
exactly. like people on here saying “weird” dudes act like this. huh? you mean rapists? and that’s the problem with the video. if you going to show a predator explicitly name it so people know this isn’t just creepy; it’s assault.
i remember the 1st time i saw johnny bravo.
my mom watched like 5 mins of it, switched the channel, and very firmly told me: “no man is supposed to talk to you that way. you can’t watch that show in this house or anywhere else.”
i thought she was trippin.
she was not.
@itsmeBigFabe
@GoHomeKJ
and you keep saying i can’t be sensitive and imma say it again: i will be sensitive about sexual assault and it’s not a flex to be insensitive to rapist behavior being shown for a laugh without it being condemned.
not only were creating a culture at work that allowed them to easily groom & abuse kids on and off set.
they were creating a media culture to benefit ALL predators.
normalizing sexual harassment & objectification very early makes it so all kids are more susceptible to abuse.
the more research i did, the more i realized, we all should be weary of cracker communists because, historically, they don’t know shit about anarchist history outside of the west.
they could’ve included his story without giving him the chance to retraumatize his victims.
talmbout “the abuse wasn’t physical”
i’m sure the victim feels the impact of that abuse in their body every fucking day
dique “not physical”
why are people qualifying sexual assault?
she said anarchists don’t discuss imperialism or historical materialism 🤣
just telling on herself cuz of course you didn’t do that bb. of course YOU didn’t.
idgaf i’m not defending no black people who willingly wrap themselves up in the amerikkkan flag to be the representatives of this empire at a nationalistic superspreader event just because they’re— black? idc what happened to them.
earth said “y’all can’t just be sustaining a global fascist military regime with no consequence. we’re all connected whether you like it or not silly 🤭”
people who understand this existed back then. at every stage of colonialism, people understand this.
this issue is the buffer classes.
the buffer classes purport getting concessions from a fascist state is a viable long-term solution.
it is not.
During the Civil Rights movement, I dont think there was a true understanding, a true grasp, on the fact that white people would rather burn this house to the ground with everyone in it, including them, than see a sunrise where we all eat from the same table.
this person is a weirdo and i need all my younger mutuals to know this person is not your peer.
they are 30 years old and at their big age they should know what is and isn’t appropriate when interacting with people 10 years younger than you.
whole documentary is like:
“how could this happen?”
“there were so many signs”
“no one did anything”
and then they do the fucking thing that they consider so inconceivable aka platform someone who preys on children. 🤮🤮🤮
@Only1Subliminal
you keep commenting on my post after i blocked you because your colonizing ass wants to insert yourself where you aren’t wanted. your opinion as a settler means nothing here. your ancestors were cold-blooded murderers. go worry about that.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” — Desmond Tutu
@fkaken_tori
i honestly hope you can. i want my own house. i’ve been thinking about this especially considering how expensive houses are now. this worked in my neighborhood at that time. it was the hood. the city wanted families to move-in and do the work of improvement for free.
“Affordable housing” as a phrase doesn’t make much sense to me. The obvious next question would be “affordable to who” and the answer is almost NEVER most people or all people lmao
look at how they try to discipline anybody who dares to speak out against SA in movement spaces.
the message is:
if you dare critique us, we will open you up to even more reactionary violence (peep the FBA fascists in the comments receiving no push back from a “communist”)
@Qasabaxi
bernawi (the first woman in the video) said out of her own mouth RACE was a factor in her arrest. not just her nationality.
so yeah a video that directly contradicts that by saying her race was irrelevant her is anti-black.
using the story of a black palestinian militant to make the argument she wasn’t persecuted because she was black —
WHEN SHE HERSELF SAID SHE WAS TARGETED BECAUSE SHE WAS BLACK
IS SO FUCKING UNBELIEVABLY NASTY
people may not mean harm when they say “they got money for x, but not x” but it is
that type of logic leads to reformism
we should start with money isn’t real in the first place. scarcity is manufactured. they not misallocating funds. capitalists are INTENTIONALLY killing us.
classed black people from the suburbs scare the shit out of me tbh.
they stingy ASF, will call 911, and think not knowing how to play spades is a personality trait 🤮
the same united states government that trafficked us, ritually tortured our ancestors, and still systemically murders us to this very day, is telling us that immigrants are our
#1
enemy and niggas is ready to DIE behind that?!
sad.
hate to see it.
no one thinks the west subjugates these places because of their cultural and intellectual values. we know that’s political theater.
we should not contribute to the erasure of anti-patriarchal movement building WITHIN those contexts by attributing their ideals to western hegemony
this bitch made a video using bernawi’s story to say that antiblackness is irrelevant in palestine
but the very woman she’s referencing, wouldn’t agree with that.
she actively shared that her race was very relevant and thousands of people are co-signing this silencing of her.
black people all over the world experience white supremacy in unique ways based on the political realities of their region.
black folks’ experience in the united states is unique? yes.
exceptional? no.
to claim it was exceptional is just— ✨amerikkkan exceptionalism✨
a lot people struggle with math because we’re taught how find the answer.
instead of how to think about numbers.
when your child gets older, they will benefit from the number sense this activity promotes.
don’t skip it.
The reason why government agencies hit me up, and they don't hit you up, is because they are intelligence agencies, and you need to be intelligent. There are no applications. I have the principles to say no, you would say yes because you're dumb. LOL.
@LeArielleSimone
no! please don’t contribute to short term rental demand that’s motivating landlords to convert apartments to airbnbs. visit those neighborhoods if you want but stay/sleep in the tourist areas.
@dipperdesperado
exactly. i wouldn’t use the title “anarchist” alone to describe my politic but it’s very telling how communists online constantly talk shit about anarchism when the fascists are right there.
my type picks are marijuana induced escapism, social media escapism, information overload escapism, and lil razzle dazzle of “someday my prince will come” escapism.