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#whitesupremacy

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Around my third year of being on City Council as a climate activist in my own community I came to a realization that there were only two truly important issues in Canada and the World.

1) Climate Action. (ie. #endfossifuels)

2) Decolonization. (ie. #whitesupremacy #patriarchy)

All other issues and solutions eventually circle back to one or both of these two things.

It is easy to see who supports, or enables, the forces that prevent those two goals from being reached.

What I didn’t anticipate at the time was how those regressive forces would converge, coalesce, and crystallize into political movements that are now attempting to destroy civilization’s incredible social progress since WWII.

Big changes are very near. That is why it feels like things are getting worse even as we all see there is so much good already in place.

It is that the pushback from the powerful few is increasing. They see their advantage slipping away.

We either fall to the past or push through this resistance and truly enter the 21st century.

But it is clear now… we will need to PUSH.

No incrementalism.
No hesitation.

We have to demand the absolute best outcome now and make it real.

/endSoapbox

“They always tell me it takes time. How much more time do you want...for your progress?”
James Baldwin

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@ErickaSimone
I've blocked over a dozen accounts here and it all started from seeing a response pushing back at a White person blaming Black political leaders for "not doing enough" to fix a problem caused by .
And these people probably believe they are "allies".
Stop and think about that. Self-reflect on it.

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"Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
[…]
• Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.
• The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.
• In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered."

Sullivan, Hickel, 2022 : sciencedirect.com/science/arti

@histodons 🧶

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(2/2)/From Nate Bear's post "Fucking liberals man":

"We should despise a liberal class who long ago abandoned any commitment to anti-war ideals and now schill for war. We should recognise a liberal class who drill more oil than the bad guys, who finance and commit genocide for the irredeemable, soulless husks they are.

And we should never look to them to save us from evil, from horror, from fascism."

substack.com/@donotpanic

substack.comNate Bear | SubstackPublic health, ecology, power, empire, capitalism, society, other stuff

« Earlier this month, […] Trump announced plans to end all future funding to South Africa […] Trump went on to announce a new specialized refugee program which would facilitate the entry of White South Africans — Afrikaners — into the U.S., as a result of "government sponsored race-based discrimination." It's left many wondering exactly why Trump has taken up this new interest in South Africa? The answer to this may lie in a group of white billionaires and political insiders from apartheid-era South Africa that have embedded themselves within Donald Trump's orbit, a group which includes the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, the billionaire Peter Thiel, Trump donor and official David Sacks, and well known South African golfer Gary Player. » cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/trump

CBCTrump, apartheid and the PayPal mafia | CBC RadioWhy has Donald Trump taken up a new interest in the condition of White South Africans? We’ll walk you through how a small constellation of Afrikaner men penetrated Trump’s orbit, the conspiracy many of them promote, and how the legacy of Apartheid continues to linger over our politics today.