i have a white cousin who says if i ever get killed by the police she will go on tv and say that i would have wanted the city to burn to the ground. love her. shes been on tv for her disability activism so she means it.

The way the deaths of freedom fighters is turned against them by propagandists makes me sick. Truly evil to not only savagely colonize a group of people, but also bastardize their brave fighters and distort their words to say the opposite of what their lives and struggles for justice spoke for.

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

• Lenin

just join the uprising ahead of time so that your death will be celebrated instead

This makes me think of that intrusive thought I have in my car a lot.

“What if I died in a car accident while listening to an embarrassing song and then everyone thinks that’s my jam and play it at my funeral?”

Shades of Pat Tillman during the Iraq War.