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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Wow, a black American who lived entirely before the GOP implemented the Southern Strategy was a Republican? That's pretty wild.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It was an interesting time of transition for both parties. There's a lot of nuance that a professional historian could parse out about it but, unfortunately it flys over most people's heads because they don't want nuance, they just want a cheap missile to lob at their opponent. It makes me disappointed because I enjoy learning history and always want to understand the full scope of what happened.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Dinesh D'Sleazy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This could be the day you enlighten someone and make someone realize they enjoy learning about history!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Basically why I wanted to be a public school teacher.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good observation. My dreams are pretty much dead at this point.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Conservatives don't believe in the party switch or whatever it's called.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

We should take down confederate statues since the democrats were founded by slaveowners very-intelligent

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That's funny, because the GOP officially apologized to the NAACP not that long ago for doing it.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If MLK talked about about liberals being bad then he must have been a Republican because all politics is just a binary of Democrats and Republicansdean-smile

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I sincerely hate that an American asked me "Are you liberal or conservative?", to which I responded "I'm neither." Then he said "Okay, what are you then?", to which I responded "I'm a communist."

And unsurprisingly... he responded with "That's liberal."

Yikes.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Both of your options were liberal"

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

If there's ONE thing I make clear to those around me, is that a communist is NOT a liberal. At least in the cold war a red could get properly called a red.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

To be fair most "communists" are liberals.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

hope someone explained it to him in the 12.5 years since this tweet

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sure somebody-

On March 10, 2021, Crews announced the Ethereum-based cryptocurrency $POWER.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I’m not talking about communism. What I’m talking about is far beyond communism. My inspiration didn’t come from Karl Marx; my inspiration didn’t come from Engels; my inspiration didn’t come from Trotsky; my inspiration didn’t come from Lenin. Yes, I read Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital a long time ago, and I saw that maybe Marx didn’t follow Hegel enough. He took his dialectics, but he left out his idealism and his spiritualism. And he went over to a German philosopher by the name of Feuerbach, and took his materialism and made it into a system that he called “dialectical materialism.” I have to reject that.

What I’m saying to you this morning is communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.

MLK (1967)

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Marx lacked idealism? That's what set him apart!

Rare MLK L.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

MLK Jr was an ultra? :yea:

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

He did “not left, not right, forward” but for real

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

snipes-hesitation

MLK was revisionist (I'm mostly kidding but still)

spoilerThe idea of him being more of a Hegelian than Marx is really funny though

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same thing chomsky-yes-honey and zizek-preference say. It's a Western Left thing: the USSR is proof that Marx went wrong because they're scary authoritarians; yet obviously the analysis is still good so they need to find a way to keep some distance from it while not discarding it wholesale.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, despite probably doing net good Chomsky's an Epstein associate and Zizek's probably an op despite having some insightful cultural critiques. Being insightful about Lacan and Hegel doesn't really mean shit when your entire schtick and reason you get published is being capitalism's "anti-capitalist" "communist." I have several of his books before he got even more craven, but he's functionally capitalism's court jester.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

THIRD WAY THIRD WAY THIRD WAY LIB

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

All my man wanted was some liberation theology.

Should've read Engel's letters on historical materialism too.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

MLK: Enlightened Centrist

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Oh shit MLK was a techbro TIL

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

jesus christ this is incredibly cringe

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yikes 😬😬😬 welp our heroes can't be right all the time

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Frederick Douglas too!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Republican party was the party of equality, of Lincoln!

WAS...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

If you think about it, Donald Trump is basically the modern day Abraham Lincoln

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Of course he was a republican, bro was a christian fundie 💀

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope you're embarrassed by how bad this comment is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I will never be ashamed of my bad posts.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Before Jimmy Carter, most evangelicals didn't vote.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And with your help we can make sure they don't ever do it again.