Not the Only One

The most confusing thing billionaires/rich people are trying to achieve these days is ‘being likable’. Buddy, if you really wanted that maybe give away your money to real people with needs??

Russia, Hungary, Italy, and India have become fully fascist. The USA, UK, France, and other countries are teetering on the edge of fascism. If we do not reverse the last 4 decades of wealth redistribution (and the wealth gap that came with it), people are going to keep turning to whatever demagogue promises to make their lives better. 6-minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT51baakfS

Australian police forces were brought into being to protect the interests of white settlers against the country’s first inhabitants whose lands and lives were being systematically taken away. This history has translated into contemporary patterns of over-policing and the world’s highest rate of incarceration. Jude McCulloch argues that contemporary styles of policing divide communities into "those to be protected, and those seen as a threat", and that this boundary is often demarcated by race.

If you are ever in downtown Memphis, stop to absorb this historical marker. It's on South Second in the vicinity of the National Civil Rights Museum. 1866 MEMPHIS MASSACRE On May 1, 2 and 3, 1866, MOBS OF WHITE MEN LED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT ATTACKED BLACKED PEOPLE in the areas near South St. (aka Calhoun and GE Patterson). By the end of the attack, the mobs had killed an estimated 46 black people; raped several black women; and committed numerous robberies, assaults and arsons.

So husb + I just had conversation about #homelessness, cost of living, #mentalhealth, hopelessness and the #inhumanity that is raging out of control around the world. "#Therich don't care about the poor anymore. They look after themselves and #thepoor can just go away and die for all they care" he says. I reply "Nobody cares about ppl struggling anymore. How many ppl would give a friend $1000 or real-deal support if they needed it. We have a niece with 3 kids struggling on her own and yo...

ESPN commentator Bomani Jones stated that, “Cam can’t shatter the stereotype because every time somebody shatters the stereotype you put the damn thing back together … Cam is not responsible for shattering the stereotype. The people who put it out there, they are responsible.”

288 new COVID cases in Victoria today. Arguably the state with the harshest carceral responses to the pandemic. It’s almost like responding to a virus with police, fines and criminalisation didn’t work aye?