Liberal Twitter continuing to openly gloat about how they can leverage the oppression of others:
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Vox piece on Cuba from a few years ago:
America now:
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The only objection I have to that thread is that many millennials (early ones) have boomer parents, too. I have cousins who are Gen X and cousins who are millennial. The current college gen is the next gen (post millennial, whatever they’re going to be called) and we’re their parents.
But, yeah, Gen X got shafted in a million little ways - all those stupid panics, being latch key kids, growing up during Nixon/Carter/Reagan years, high divorce rate, war on drugs, crack/cocaine, second Cold War and fears over nuclear war, etc. And we’re raising our kids, while taking care of our parents, who either can’t retire or are living on a fixed income.
But we still had the best music subcultures, so the boomers and millennials can suck it!
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It occurs to me that the fact that some 58% of students being homeless in East Palo Alto might mean that homelessness is not just a working poor problem, it’s becoming more of a lower middle class problem now.
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Yup.
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Handy quote collection…
I’ve been trying to figure out what variety of socialist terminology most describes what I’m about.
“Revolutionary Democratic Socialist” appears closest to the mark.
That fits for the domestic policy side of things, but it isn’t very descriptive on foreign policy.
There’s a hint of Maoism in my approach to race and imperialism, but not in a way that has much to do with China. I’m still looking for terminology that accurately describes what I’m about on that angle.
Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Assata Shakur, Kwame Ture, Denise Oliver, Akala, the American Indian Movement, etc. Those are the sorts of folks that I find influential.
Which is not to say that I necessarily agree with everything that they said or did. But I am a firm believer in the right of oppressed people to defend themselves by whatever means necessary, and I do believe that global injustice is fundamentally driven by the history and present reality of slavery, imperialism, capitalism and militarism.
Not quite sure what to call that, however.
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