I jist finished watching Ukraine on Fire.
If the USA would do that… Then I cant even say in good confidence that the USA is even a republic.
If the USA would do that shit anywhere; then how can any of us trust the results of any American election?
I jist finished watching Ukraine on Fire.
If the USA would do that… Then I cant even say in good confidence that the USA is even a republic.
If the USA would do that shit anywhere; then how can any of us trust the results of any American election?
I go back and forth on following them. I agree with most of what they say, but they veer off into anti-vax stuff sometimes and I can’t support that.
I hate how capitalism has ruined discussions about medical care, especially in the USA. Black people in the USA have every right to be skeptical of the government and even vaccines, given the history. Sad all around.
Yeah. Recently they were saying Dems are mad cause Desantis handled the pandemic better than the dems.
And Im sitting here like… It’s easy to prevent people from going broke in a pandemic if you simply let them go to work as if nothing is wrong.
I mean I’m in Washington St. What did here was lay everyone off for a month so we’d go broke and then put us back to work as if nothing was wrong. They didn’t really lay everyone one off. They just laid the manufacturers while half of everyone got told they were heroes or something like that. And oh yeah, they used it as an excuse to shut down all of the public services and fuck up the local judicial and completely undermine the speedy trial clause of the constitution.
Honestly I would have preferred them to have done nothing.
🤷♂️ I feel ya. The response was god awful. But the conservative response to “fuck it, get money.” is obviously an accelerationist approach.
But yankees are willing to tolerate a million dead. So it wouldnt have mattered if we just went along as if nothing was happening.
I don’t see how someone’s opinion on one particular group of vaccines should be considered as a red-line. It would create a massive and completely unnecessary divide among us.
There happened to be a lot of scandals around those vaccines. It would be a shame if nobody ever got to hear anything about that because everyone was too afraid of being ostracized. Why take an absolutists position on such a grey topic just to cut yourself off from so many people who have done so much for our movement.
Not only are you talking about turning your back on the most radical among the black community because you don’t want to allow any criticism over a flawed vaccine, you would turn your back against Max Blumenthal who has done so much for us, has proven himself so invaluable. Where is your gratitude that one of our best journalists becomes an untouchable over-night?
Over a one vaccine you’d split the little ground we have in half. You’d call them anti-vax as if they weren’t vaccinated against polio or smallpox like the rest of us. Again it’s more of that absolutist rhetoric. People are allowed to be concerned over issues that involve their lives and their bodies, but you would dismiss someone for addressing even a single issue that people are reasonably concerned about as “anti-vax”, as if they were against the very notion of vaccines.
But you’re right that the black community had justifiable fears concerning the vaccine and it would have been WRONG for the Revolutionary Blackout movement to not address those concerns.
All of this is Passe’. The hype over Covid is come and gone, and the damage is already done to our community. The question is are you going to insist on bring it up past the point that any of still maters?
You just made a ton of assumptions about my minor criticism. I still said I still support most of what they say. I said these discussions are difficult due to capitalism and history.
Don’t put words in my mouth.
I’ll apologize because I like you and I don’t want the bad blood.
Everyone was afraid of Covid. I was afraid. All of my friends admit that they were afraid. That fear was used to hurt us. We should have listened to each other. We should have had better conversations and more understanding, but we failed.
All good.
I actually had started following them again recently. I like their content overall. I really don’t have a good solution to address the vaccine issue in capitalist society, especially the wretched USA where healthcare isn’t even a right.
Yeah
At the end of the day we have reached such a height of contradiction that the government will not and cannot help us. It’s just like Flint, or Jackson, or the Texas Electric Grid, or Hurricane refugees; except covid was writ-large. The whole thing is collapsing on our heads and nobody is coming to save us.
Yes, it’s very unfortunate. I just tell people ‘please join a community organization. It’s basically the only way to actually help right now’