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intersectionalpraxis · 4 months

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I feel the same way about Beyoncé as anon does about Taylor swift. Like you’re way too famous, and way too rich, and your fans love you and you’re gonna have money for forever, it won’t hurt your career to speak out. Especially when you use prominent figures of the black panther party, who support the liberation of Palestine, in your work. It’s frustrating.

I feel the exact same way as well! Towards Rihanna, Ariana Grande, and Selena Gomez. All of them. In the case of Beyonce, as much as I respect a lot of what her work represents, there are many aspects of things she has done that I've questioned because they're just unethical and problematic.

I never faulted her for the things she said about feminism beforehand -especially when she embraced the term later and, like you said, her homage to the Black Panthers during her performance. She does have the same if not more power than Swift that can influence culture and creates conversations, but at the end of the day they work within the US's imperialistic and capitalistic machine, and no amount of 'being a feminist symbol or icon,' can erase the damages they have done or continue to do.

#feminist #feminism #social justice #celebrity culture #beyonce #abolish capitalism #us imperialism #us capitalism #western imperialism

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smoke-and-aurora · 5 months

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#repost #american politics #american history #capitalism #socialism #political theory #us politics #us capitalism

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george-rr-binks · 8 months

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Good news for good people:

"Wokeness," as they call it, won. It is more profitable for brands to be "woke," inclusive, accepting, and against what some would call "normal," than it is to be exclusionary and that is something that brands will continue to do because they stand to make more money by being "woke" than they would if they were not. Anyone who's honestly mad about inclusive media now is only volunteering to be mad ad infinitum, because that's not something that's going to change.

And they can all suck it.

#us capitalism #wokeness #anti woke

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aquietwhyme · 1 year

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https://leftistunitedfront.quora.com/https-www-quora-com-Why-is-American-capitalism-so-cruel-answer-Alexander-Finnegan

Quora link, but this is a good read explaining some of the reasons that US capitalism is so much worse than capitalism elsewhere, such as it was in Latin America, and in current social democracies.

#capitalism #us capitalism #neoliberalism #the US has been an empire since the 19th century #the US has mostly exported misery and oppression not 'democracy'#All USAmericans have to be made aware of how neoliberal capitalism has ruined their lives if we're to end it

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tariah23 · 3 months

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Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

#Crunchyroll #piracy #funimation #money hungry ass streaming service #rambling #I’ve never paid for a streaming service in my life thank god #I appreciated using others accounts but I personally cannot see myself paying this much for a service if I had the funds 😭!#get back to pirating kings!!!#anime has always been one of the easiest forms of media to pirate anyway so y’all got this #CR is definitely not worth paying for though #CR is certainly not worth paying this much for even if it’s a yearly one time fee #capitalism #the fact that CR has always had pretty bad quality as a streaming service anyway #it buffers every time you pause or rewind anything

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politijohn · 3 months

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#politics #us politics #government #the left #homelessness #end homelessness #progressive #twitter post #current events #news #capitalism

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normal-thoughts-official · 6 months

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Please stop seeing politics as an identity and start seeing it as a collective means for change

#i am so tired of ppl trying to use 'theres no ethical consumption under capitalism' in regards to BDS #it's not about ethics it's about participating in a political strategy palestinians have spent YEARS promoting as a means for change #some things are in fact not about you #social justice #I/P #social issues #palestine #gaza #free palestine #free gaza #id in alt #overflowing trashcan

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read-marx-and-lenin · 2 months

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#haiti #us politics #socialism #communism #leftism #politics #anti capitalism

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animentality · 18 days

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#twitter #eclipse #us politics #capitalism #anti capitalism

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secondbeatsongs · 1 year

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for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

#the truman show #sbs rambles #I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them #social workers assigned to them maybe #I dunno #they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit #but here we are #tho #I guess none of us signed up for it #and our data is harvested more than ever #god #high-tech capitalism sucks turns out #OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes #let me specify:#I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this #like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold #and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie #I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem #it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did #youtube did and social media #it's us that's the problem #or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation #that's the origin of most modern problems

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blueskittlesart · 2 months

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i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

#WERE LOSING YUZU AND CITRA. I DONT KNOW IF YOU ALL UNDERSTAND HOW INSANE THIS IS #game emulation enables piracy yes but it’s also an INCREDIBLY powerful archival tool.#there are plenty of games out there that only exist in their original formats due to emulation.#this lawsuit has HORRIBLE implications for video game history. it makes it incredibly easy for companies to scorched earth their products #if they’re not profitable enough. ART IS GOING TO BE LOST BECAUSE OF THIS. GAMES PEOPLE WORKED INCREDIBLY HARD ON #it won’t just happen to bad games. it won’t just happen to old games. they will use this to keep their remake/virtual console model going #forever and you will never be able to play your favorite games in their true original forms ever again.#i am fucking INSANELY mad rn. capitalism is the death of art fr #personal

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inkjette · 8 months

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So at my workplace, we fund a Food Is Free shelf. It's the basics: take what you need, give what you can - our town has a high level of poverty, there's a cost of living crisis, be the good you want to see in the world etc etc.

Today we had a guy knock on the door and ask if we had a plastic bag he could use to carry a few things - I said sure, got him a plastic bag, and he started packing up his 2 rolls of toilet paper, his 3 or 4 foodstuff items. He said he'd been to a funeral out of town (1500 kms away) and spent his paycheck on fuel - he was only broke till Friday, he said.

And I said, well I'm glad we could help, it's why we have the shelf. We want the community to use it.

And he said:

But people ABUSE it! I've seen people take heaps of stuff from it - and they don't even have kids or anything. And it's fair enough, some people are struggling until the next paycheck, but other people just ABUSE it. You need a sign that says TAKE ONE ITEM ONLY or something. I've taken something from here maybe twice, but I've seen people coming round every week! I've even put stuff on the shelf! Yeah, you need CAMERAS or something. People abuse it.

So here is a man who is actively utilising a public resource that we created to support our local community...And yet he is so brainwashed by capitalism into thinking that people don't deserve basic needs - if they're not working hard, or maybe they're struggling but they don't have it As Bad as others, or they're using a FREE RESOURCE more often than HE thinks is acceptable. He thinks that we should use security cameras to crack down on people "STEALING" from the Food is FREE shelf. Like he's more worthy, like he's a better person, because he doesn't need as much help as others might.

Sometimes, when something is free, people might abuse it. But isn't it better to offer the support to people who need it? To offer an opportunity for people to get back on their feet (even if they're only broke till Friday)? To provide help, no questions asked and no conditions needed?

So what if people abuse it - isn't it worth it if helps someone?

#capitalism can die in a hole #people are fundamentally good and all they need to do is the basic resources they need to survive #still cannot get over the fact that we need CAMERAS to stop people from *checks notes* using a food pantry for its intended purpose?#anticapitalism #solarpunk #mutual aid #community aid #community networks #food is free #food pantries

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george-rr-binks · 1 year

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#us politics #us capitalism #anti capitalism

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mywitchcultblr · 9 months

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This is what happened when a fanfic site is profit driven. Wattpad sucks 😞

The email/DM from Wattpad is so condescending. Imagine pressuring writers to update and work while they are doing it for free and fun. Also, the discovery? Algorithm? Of Wattpad looks like a stressful popularity contest 😑

#wattpad #ao3 #fanfic #fandom #writing #writer #archive of our own #twitter #the capitalization of fandom is a sin #capitalism strikes again #capitalism #late stage capitalism #when your hobby is used for the profit of a corporation

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politijohn · 1 month

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#criminal justice #news #important #current events #Kentucky #politics #us politics #government #twitter post #capitalism #homelessness #end homelessness

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nando161mando · 6 months

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"UPDATED finished video: Thousands march on US Capitol for Gaza.

On the 21st of October, another major march for Gaza assembled near the Washington Monument and marched on the US Capitol. The march stretched for several blocks on Constitution Ave, sometimes while stretching all the way across the road.

Finished video of major Palestine march in DC"

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