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sometimes I think the problem with a lot of protest vote related discourse is that it hyperfocuses on one specific type of voter who is relatively easy to understand when there are so many more voters who have even stupider reasons than are readily imaginable

gonna be annoying and say I opposed the American journalism institution-ideology complex before it was cool

this was probably peak social credit time. it’s crazy making when US publications are reporting on some black mirror thing that really obviously just…doesn’t exist.

gonna be annoying and say I opposed the American journalism institution-ideology complex before it was cool

incidentally Mao was successful in establishing himself as head of the Chinese communists because he recognized that 1920s-30s China was an agrarian society and therefore the revolution wasn’t going to come from the barely-existent urban proletariat but rural peasant farmers

ngl I’ve rapidly developed a somewhat intense attachment/defensiveness of Ilhan Omar. The targeting of her just feels so emblematic of all the bullshit this administration has put the Twin Cities through (though ofc I don’t want to elide the fact that her being Somali plays a huge part in this)

ngl one of the most annoying things in existence is literally being like, several different minorities and having someone else’s minority status brought up as a reason that I should give their opinion more credence

i as an immigrant poc trans person do not actually need to give the opinions of white native born trans people extra weight over my own, thanks!

I don’t know who needs to hear this but there are in fact more types of people on the left (broadly construed) than brunch libs and leftist doomers

I need a certain brand of TERFy cis woman who inhabits women’s health spaces to realize that it is in fact not normal to be in debilitating pain from your periods or to have wild, unmanageable hormone-induced mood swings, and acting like it is in order to gatekeep womanhood from trans women

Plenty of women actually do not have physically or mentally debilitating periods, and a specific kind of medical suffering is not the price of entry into womanhood

I need a certain brand of TERFy cis woman who inhabits women’s health spaces to realize that it is in fact not normal to be in debilitating pain from your periods or to have wild, unmanageable hormone-induced mood swings, and acting like it is in order to gatekeep womanhood from trans women

worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative

The distance between Ilhan Omar’s Minneapolis office and Renee Good’s memorial is less than a 20 minute walk. It’s about a 40 minute walk to Alex Pretti’s memorial. (George Floyd Square, is, incidentally, about a 10 minute walk.)

worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative

ngl one of the most radicalizing experiences I had as a youngster is witnessing people arguing in one case that murdering civilians is always wrong turn around and argue that it was acceptable in another case

you could argue it wasn’t the same people but when the general consensus leans one way in one case and the other in another, it’s at least some of the same people