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Dr. Manhattan

@thenewthinker.bsky.social

writer. speaker. dialectical materialist. pan-african. fanonian. gramscian. freedom fighter. || VIEWS ARE MY OWN šŸ‡µšŸ‡øšŸ‡§šŸ‡«šŸ‡ØšŸ‡ŗ

created November 14, 2024

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Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

the US is not a nation of immigrants. the US is a settler colonial society.

3/9/2025, 12:55:47 AM | 46 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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Israel is a violent, genocidal settler state… just like the United States.

3/9/2025, 12:45:26 AM | 39 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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the US is so wildly car-dependent that walking around certain residential areas will garner you weird looks. as if to say ā€œwhy are you walking?ā€œ imagine stigmatizing walking.

2/9/2025, 9:59:52 PM | 195 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart (@mskellymhayes.bsky.social) reposted

I am organizing multiple workshops this week for Chicago activists and organizers as we prepare for a possible military occupation of our city. I am tired but moving fast.

2/9/2025, 9:24:32 PM | 1015 274 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

eating lunch and i saw iShowSpeed being swarmed by crowds in Philly. wow i ain’t doing life right.

2/9/2025, 6:49:09 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Five children in Gaza among those killed by Israeli strike while fetching water

2/9/2025, 3:47:35 PM | 148 123 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social) reposted

greatest show of all time.

31/8/2025, 1:42:22 AM | 53 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think everybody on here is being attacked by bots.

1/9/2025, 2:52:41 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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sitting in complete silence is great for the mind.

1/9/2025, 1:53:35 AM | 20 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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thank you!

1/9/2025, 1:52:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture this is awkword . com (@awkword.bsky.social) reposted

Dead or alive, Rudy Giuliani brought ā€œbroken windowsā€ policing to NYC. ā€œNot only did broken windows policing fail to reduce crime, but it also provided cover for a deliberate targeting of Black and brown communities.ā€ Why? The theory comes from rightwing think tankers

31/8/2025, 9:09:37 PM | 981 246 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social) reposted

the Superman movie was terrible in my opinion.

31/8/2025, 6:10:27 PM | 11 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mr. Terrific and Green Lantern were more interesting characters than Superman.

31/8/2025, 6:32:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

the Superman movie was terrible in my opinion.

31/8/2025, 6:10:27 PM | 11 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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it’s gaslighting and ridiculous.

31/8/2025, 6:05:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

i was told i need to go to therapy because i always get upset when people cancel or change plans at the last second.

31/8/2025, 1:11:23 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this is AI

31/8/2025, 1:10:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ravin Boodram (@rvbdrm.com) reposted

Why are these posts nearly identical?

29/8/2025, 8:20:41 PM | 215 56 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 7:09:40 PM | 18357 4300 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted

Who voted for war with Venezuela?

31/8/2025, 1:19:01 AM | 12116 3722 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

greatest show of all time.

31/8/2025, 1:42:22 AM | 53 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

ā€œi forgot to press sendā€ is the new ā€œi fell asleepā€

30/8/2025, 10:16:46 PM | 29 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

this society conditions you to admire wealth and luxury, even if it’s grotesque.

30/8/2025, 12:36:39 PM | 136 29 | View on Bluesky | view

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you didn’t go to port of call?

30/8/2025, 11:24:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) reposted

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

29/8/2025, 1:09:23 AM | 2600 1133 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture samuel (@quilombo.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Esa vinculación entre la asistencia a migrantes y el trÔfico de personas es cínica y risible, pero efectiva. Varios países europeos, entre ellos Italia y Grecia, criminalizan u obstaculizan las ONG que ayudan a los migrantes desamparados, por ese motivo.

29/8/2025, 5:55:26 AM | 5 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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anybody have any recommendations for good YouTube channels or podcasts in Brazilian Portuguese? trying to learn my 4th language šŸ˜®ā€šŸ’Ø

28/8/2025, 5:12:32 PM | 11 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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wow.

28/8/2025, 6:40:15 PM | 10 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

anybody have any recommendations for good YouTube channels or podcasts in Brazilian Portuguese? trying to learn my 4th language šŸ˜®ā€šŸ’Ø

28/8/2025, 5:12:32 PM | 11 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KINOPTIKAšŸšŸ‰ Mx šŸ‡²šŸ‡½ ✊ šŸ‡µšŸ‡ø (@kinoptika.bsky.social) reposted

28/8/2025, 12:11:28 AM | 19 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social) reposted

who made this?

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28/8/2025, 2:49:44 PM | 20 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

who made this?

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28/8/2025, 2:49:44 PM | 20 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arepa Auntie (@breadbae.blacksky.app) reposted

Love is not enough to sustain a relationship. You can love someone to the highest of heavens and they can be the worst thing to ever happen to you

28/8/2025, 1:47:43 PM | 14 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Courtney Milan (@courtneymilan.com) reposted

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

27/8/2025, 5:30:08 PM | 10137 6808 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

these people don’t feel shame.

28/8/2025, 12:44:38 AM | 28 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lloyd Banks 🤣

27/8/2025, 12:44:02 PM | 14 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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these comments are super white 😬

27/8/2025, 4:26:40 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

Lloyd Banks 🤣

27/8/2025, 12:44:02 PM | 14 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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oldie but goodie.

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25/8/2025, 3:11:15 PM | 52 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

oldie but goodie.

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25/8/2025, 3:11:15 PM | 52 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture šŸ‡¬šŸ‡­ Ms. Sausage(s) šŸŽ­ (@debbiecakes.blacksky.app) reposted

Why? Why do y'all wanna kill Black and Brown people so much? Smh

24/8/2025, 11:15:16 PM | 13 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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colonialism is a species producing system. it creates humans and subhumans. and these creations aren’t rooted in biology but systems of domination and violence.

24/8/2025, 2:56:56 PM | 117 25 | View on Bluesky | view

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what implications does this have for how this group of people is treated in broader society?

24/8/2025, 3:02:33 PM | 44 14 | View on Bluesky | view

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once you fully understand what colonialism is and what it did, it’ll be hard for you to look at most statues without contempt.

24/8/2025, 5:51:58 PM | 185 37 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

once you fully understand what colonialism is and what it did, it’ll be hard for you to look at most statues without contempt.

24/8/2025, 5:51:58 PM | 185 37 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

no way some of yall are this boring. my TL is often like: ā€œi’m hungry so i guess i’ll get upā€ ā€œi think i might go to the grocery store later but i’m not sureā€ yall might as well be bots, unthinking robots.

24/8/2025, 4:45:26 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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what implications does this have for how this group of people is treated in broader society?

24/8/2025, 3:02:33 PM | 44 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

this video i’m bout to post… oof. exhibit #3323.

24/8/2025, 2:58:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

colonialism is a species producing system. it creates humans and subhumans. and these creations aren’t rooted in biology but systems of domination and violence.

24/8/2025, 2:56:56 PM | 117 25 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

white people are constantly indoctrinated to misremember their own past.

24/8/2025, 2:52:02 PM | 261 40 | View on Bluesky | view

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is someone in the pursuit of money in control?

24/8/2025, 2:14:19 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

8/6/2025, 3:27:19 PM | 25702 4784 | View on Bluesky | view

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i don’t know how freediving competitions got on my algorithm but I’m watching these videos now and i’m getting into it.

23/8/2025, 4:25:47 PM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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grief is the price of clarity, my friend.

22/8/2025, 6:19:26 PM | 85 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted

This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it ā€œhas no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.ā€ gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

16/8/2025, 4:42:50 PM | 3577 1713 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (@ebonyteach.bsky.social) reposted

I don't know how to tell people on Bluesky that yes, you actually *do* need Black people on board for all your political and social aims. You literally can't go around us, cancel us, or ignore us. Every time y'all do, everyone suffers.

17/8/2025, 5:35:03 PM | 1519 312 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Novakia (@n0v4c0ra.bsky.social) reposted

A White Supremacist society

21/8/2025, 7:14:14 PM | 14 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social) reply parent

it is a false dichotomy. the liberal mind literally cannot conceptualize ANY political activity outside of voting or calling their representative. that’s how deep the indoctrination runs.

22/8/2025, 4:27:04 PM | 25 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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what a ridiculous statement. in the liberal mind the only thing that you can ever do is vote. so wildly ahistorical. so wildly self-defeating.

22/8/2025, 4:01:49 PM | 50 13 | View on Bluesky | view

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dude in the Jubilee video said that Black Lives Matter started with George Floyd…

22/8/2025, 4:00:01 PM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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paying rent on stolen land

22/8/2025, 3:58:16 PM | 79 30 | View on Bluesky | view

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can we become human at all under these conditions or must the world itself be destroyed?

19/8/2025, 3:50:22 PM | 28 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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Black people don’t hate people on sight. we couldn’t survive in this world if that’s how we moved.

22/8/2025, 9:43:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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what kind of sick society do we live in where a graphic depicting a KKK member being hanged is offensive?

21/8/2025, 4:36:28 PM | 240 31 | View on Bluesky | view

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white people especially should buy all her merchandise and wear it to your Thanksgiving dinners with all your racist family members.

21/8/2025, 4:00:42 PM | 246 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Winifred "Goody" Burton (@authorwinifred.blacksky.app) reposted

She's adorable and her stuff is cute. IJS.

21/8/2025, 3:57:27 PM | 147 45 | View on Bluesky | view

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millions of species are going extinct not because of some misunderstanding or denial, but because extraction is profitable, and white settler colonialism existentially only finds meaning in its modes of domination and extraction.

19/8/2025, 12:29:39 PM | 220 57 | View on Bluesky | view

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i’m tired.

21/8/2025, 2:02:53 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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white people in 2025.

21/8/2025, 11:58:56 AM | 1142 320 | View on Bluesky | view

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her instinct is to protect KKK members, the group they used to hunt down Black people and brutalize them and murder them… this is how so many white people think. do you know how exhausting it is to live in a society full of these people?

21/8/2025, 1:39:35 PM | 381 29 | View on Bluesky | view

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white people in 2025.

21/8/2025, 11:58:56 AM | 1142 320 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Leslie Gray Streeter (@lesliegraystreeter.bsky.social) reposted

Slavery was really bad.

19/8/2025, 8:39:38 PM | 566 92 | View on Bluesky | view

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white people are okay with Black people in their workspaces so long as Black presence affirms white order… meaning be silent, subordinate, cheerful, non-threatening, and above all, do not expose the absurdity or violence of the system.

20/8/2025, 3:52:57 PM | 157 36 | View on Bluesky | view

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reform just strengthens the cage.

20/8/2025, 12:05:04 AM | 38 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

white people are okay with Black people in their workspaces so long as Black presence affirms white order… meaning be silent, subordinate, cheerful, non-threatening, and above all, do not expose the absurdity or violence of the system.

20/8/2025, 3:52:57 PM | 157 36 | View on Bluesky | view

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reform just strengthens the cage.

20/8/2025, 12:05:04 AM | 38 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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Africa, Latin America, parts of Asia, all places that are considered backwards dirty and diseased yet central to the reproduction of global capital.

19/8/2025, 10:24:46 PM | 42 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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no moral appeal, no amount of dead Palestinians or children dying from malnutrition will convince the empire to change. they cannot be pressured into justice, justice must be seized.

19/8/2025, 9:21:34 PM | 52 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

no moral appeal, no amount of dead Palestinians or children dying from malnutrition will convince the empire to change. they cannot be pressured into justice, justice must be seized.

19/8/2025, 9:21:34 PM | 52 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Xabier Ostale (@embers1.bsky.social) reposted

šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„

19/8/2025, 3:44:07 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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can we become human at all under these conditions or must the world itself be destroyed?

19/8/2025, 3:50:22 PM | 28 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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the problem is that these colonial logics still shape the way white people see the world.

19/8/2025, 3:34:46 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this world where white = civilized, orderly, innovative, intelligent, clean. and people of color = dirty, unintelligent, lazy, useless, expendable and subhuman, is the grand mythology of world making in the eurocolonial world.

19/8/2025, 3:30:11 PM | 36 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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Europe is literally the creation of the Third World.

19/8/2025, 2:46:58 PM | 21 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Europe is literally the creation of the Third World.

19/8/2025, 2:46:58 PM | 21 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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European ā€œreasonā€ and ā€œrationalityā€ are not progressive, disembodied, neutral processes. they were structured alongside colonial conquest and genocide.

19/8/2025, 11:41:35 AM | 105 22 | View on Bluesky | view

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i’m not against theory. i’m against academics who treat theory as the destination.

19/8/2025, 12:39:10 PM | 39 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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millions of species are going extinct not because of some misunderstanding or denial, but because extraction is profitable, and white settler colonialism existentially only finds meaning in its modes of domination and extraction.

19/8/2025, 12:29:39 PM | 220 57 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Manhattan (@thenewthinker.bsky.social)

European ā€œreasonā€ and ā€œrationalityā€ are not progressive, disembodied, neutral processes. they were structured alongside colonial conquest and genocide.

19/8/2025, 11:41:35 AM | 105 22 | View on Bluesky | view

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liberal reformism is not naĆÆve, it’s counterrevolutionary.

19/8/2025, 11:21:55 AM | 77 15 | View on Bluesky | view

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liberal reformism is not naĆÆve, it’s counterrevolutionary.

19/8/2025, 11:21:55 AM | 77 15 | View on Bluesky | view

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what is substack like?

18/8/2025, 3:41:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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being in the top 10% of a sick system still makes you sick.

18/8/2025, 2:33:49 PM | 86 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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my point wasn’t about what shows up in your feed. it was about how TikTok monetizes the illusion of intimacy through ego-centered gifting mechanics. if you ā€œcuratedā€ yourself out of that reality, congratulations. but pretending it’s not the platform’s core business model is not sound.

18/8/2025, 1:57:15 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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in this economy, i don’t blame people for using it, but that system is used to gamify loneliness and the desperation to be seen.

18/8/2025, 1:15:58 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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tiktok is just an emotional strip club… just ego, performance and the illusion of connection.

18/8/2025, 12:49:22 PM | 44 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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the rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

17/8/2025, 9:09:49 AM | 98 21 | View on Bluesky | view

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the rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

17/8/2025, 9:09:49 AM | 98 21 | View on Bluesky | view

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under late-stage capitalism, even white people are losing their historical guarantees and are increasingly becoming disposable.

16/8/2025, 10:40:19 AM | 46 9 | View on Bluesky | view

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typically, what passes for ā€œprogressive politicsā€ in the US is often just peaceful management of oppression.

16/8/2025, 3:30:30 PM | 200 51 | View on Bluesky | view