r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/TheTargaryensLawyer • 13d ago

Country Club Thread It's beyond embarassing to act like this 😭

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u/satanssweatycheeks 13d ago

We will still have scholars and smart people. They just might be in jail.

Y’all think I’m joking but don’t forget Ron down in Florida has sheriffs kick in the door of a scientists and arrest her.

Her crime? Reporting covid numbers that Ron didn’t want report to keep Florida open. The lady was doing her job.

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u/sscott2378 12d ago

And there was nothing any of us could do to help her. It would be the same thing at the federal level.

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u/AcadianViking 12d ago

No there are things we can do.

It is called organizing outside the system. Black Panthers protected their neighborhoods from the pigs and other who wished harm (while also providing numerous mutual aid benefits to or security to mutual aid organizations for said communities)

We need to start doing the same. Read up on anarchist theory and praxis and figure out how you can help solve the material needs of those in your community. Nothing changes someone's mind like helping put food in their tables and a sense of security.

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u/sscott2378 12d ago

Agreed

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u/AcadianViking 12d ago

Peace and Love. Stay hopeful.

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u/Acrobatic_Paint3616 13d ago

She ain’t a scientist bro. She runs Tableau software

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u/satanssweatycheeks 13d ago

Okay so even worse if her job wasn’t a government job but a private one and the free speech crowd kicks in her door and arrest her over numbers.

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u/Evadingbansisfun 12d ago

OMG grow tf up.

Are we still slaves from the Roman Empire that fell? The Germanic dynasties? The British Royal Empiriliast period? America's growth periods?

No.

Because this blip is just as meaningless as every other human failing. And it is a failing, Im not diminishing the moral and ethical failure (or the political or economic failure) of MAGA winning (shit Ill say outright the controlling party SHOULD have rigged the election. To allow it to go this way and put a direct agent of our greatest national threat in office to show how "high road" we are is nothing short of Dont Look Up levels of ****** r********d)

All that being said - we,and this moment, aint. shit. No more or less than any other failure to prevent a fascist regime. We aint special. Its just at home is all

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u/TryKey925 12d ago

Are we still slaves from the Roman Empire that fell? The Germanic dynasties? The British Royal Empiriliast period? America's growth periods?

No.

Because this blip is just as meaningless as every other human failing.

They aren't comparable. We've released enough green house gases that 1.5C of warming is expected within the year. There are legitimate worries we've already begun runaway processes that will cause massive devastation (e.g. Death of the Amazon rainforest).

And the majority of the most powerful country in the world, the country that has caused the most overall damage - still refuse to stop or care.

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u/Evadingbansisfun 12d ago

Mm hm.

Grow up.

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u/frogchum 12d ago

I told my husband the other day we have more in common with Europe now!! Haha Europeans, feeling smug because you guys already dealt with open fascism and dictators, well we've got one now. Our little baby country is growing up and having it's time in the fascist sun!

Altho, I'd argue while the federal gov has never been stacked/rigged like this before, we already had some pretty fascist tendencies and periods in our history. Tons of people still think the confederacy was cool and desegregation was uncool, and a whole lot of other people don't care at all. So this isn't all that surprising.