Eugene V. Debs' Ghost

You got downvoted for being sarcastic, reading comprehension is dead.

The protests against segregation worked, though.

No they worked because of the Black Panthers and Malcolm X threatening the white establishment. California under Ronald Reagan push its first gun control laws because the Black Panthers used their 2nd amendment rights to ensure that black americans could walk without fear, vote, and go eat anywhere they wanted to as per the 14th Amendment.

The media has sanitized the movement to sway people into doing anything but asking nicely to an oppressive state is how you get things done, ignoring that when MLK Jr. was alive they called him a rebel who ruined every town he went into.

Defeatism doesn’t work, but neither does pretending that the narrative the rich tells us is the whole truth.

I don’t blame you, I was educated that it abolished slavery. But there’s a very big “except”. It was partially added to help sway the Confederate states to make them happy that they can keep slaves if they find enough things to arrest them for.

It’s part of why Jim Crow laws happened. And it’s exactly why America has the highest amount of people in jail than any other nation. Slaves are cheap labor.

“What do you mean I’m being arrested? I did a protest that one time!”

Meanwhile: “They can’t arrest all of us. Get the guns.”

The protests against the War in Iraq did nothing. The protests of Trump’s first admin did nothing. The protests against segregation did nothing. Or for women’s rights. Or for queer rights. Or to end slavery. Or to have representation in England about taxes.

Things are only done with the rich and state fears for their lives. The media ignored 50501, just like it did for the protests of Trump the first go around, and against Bush.

If every single person at the 50501 protest helped their neighborhood to establish mutual aid networks and community trust instead of driving for a few hours to a state capitol, Trump’s thugs would have a harder time cracking down on anyone vaguely non-white.

Americans think their favorite political sports team cares about them like the stripper actually loved them. No, you just gave them what they wanted and as soon as you’re out of sight, they’ll forget you and keep doing their job.

For strippers it’s doing a workout for a living and being proud of their bodies. For politicians it’s gaslighting the public into thinking they’re the good guys as they socially murder at home and sweep up blood abroad.

13th Amendment I assume. Slavery is allowed as punishment for any crime.

It’s always amazing to see the media of the 80s just shitting on Japan. “Cheap mass market products that never work.” “They’re going to take all the American jobs.”

In Back to the Future 2, McFly is seen as weak for having a job with a Japanese boss and getting fired for it.

Cyberpunk has Japanese decorations and cosmetics because it was invented when Japan was the yellow peril.

At the same time, Japanese-Americans were asking for reparations from the internment camps, charged with the crime of being Japanese and having all their assets sold off without any consent.

Japan was able to help get a start on the next generation of writers with the mass production of anime into Western audiences. Now if someone doesn’t watch anime it’s seen as weird.

Right now China is that “other” nation. I wonder if in 30 more years we’ll look back at it and go “What the fuck were we smoking in hating people we never even had contact with? No Chinese person ever deported me. No Chinese person ever called me slurs.”

There should be a libgen, sci-hub, internet archive, and a massive torrent of ISO standards. Standards aren’t great if they are gate kept by money. Now someone will reinvent it without a profit motive, and there’s 2 standards.

White House red phone goes off, “We’ve been tying to reach you about your nation’s extended warranty.”

Trickle down suffering is a great term for it, I’m going to use that for future use.

That is cowardly, that’s one of the few things its good for. Maybe fixing a wobbly table leg, and when you’re out of toilet paper.

Womp womp, get bent and bootlick Trump in hopes he might acknowledge you for his next grift.

More proof Rainbow Capitalism was a lie/ad campaign to take more money from queers.

I wish I could rub this in the face of every cishet who said Rainbow Capitalism was actual progress.

I would be :3

“See we caught these guys without doing it, thank of how many more we can catch if we do! Like all the terrorists America has caught with violating their privacy. …Maybe some day they will.”

I mean I’m more against Christmas for the idea you need to buy gifts, and “you gotta be happy, its the one day a year to be happy!”

But I dislike that for every holiday, not because it involves Christ or anyone else.

“I want to be respected for who I am. My identity doesn’t define me, my actions do.”

“Ew, gross.”

Cool, you can be a civil doctor too. Glad you fixed up the people who killed for a living.

Where would They Might Be Giants and Barenaked Ladies be on this? BNL, despite the name, isn’t horny.

I don’t understand what’s so confusing about wanting to make art of anything you want, including based off of Disney or whatever you want.

Sorry that me pirating something doesn’t hurt their bottom dollar but they lobby to arrest people like it does.