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In retrospect, I should have put this at the beginning, but I do not support the Latine people or any people who voted for trump. This thread not in their defense. The thesis of this thread is to show how division is sowed and that division is the tool of the oppressor.

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(6) There is a clear pattern of Black Americans being treated as if they didn’t have agency. These narratives are not coming from within the community. It’s usually the press/white owned media that’s fanning the flames. The reason these narratives pop up is to hide the fact that oppressions are tied

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(5) Finally, this “Black Americans vs <insert group>” has continuously been used to isolate the Black community from any other community so that the oppressors can divide and conquer. It was “Black Americans vs Asians” then “Black Americans vs Africans” then “Black Americans vs Palestinians”… (5)

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(4) The vast majority of Latine people live in central and South America, and have no sway on American politics as well as having their own local political issues. But they are still affected by anti-Latin discrimination (including Black Latin people) whether they live in America or not. (4)

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(3) While instead the issue that this title is abstracting is much larger and much more nuanced. Latine Voters don’t represent all of Latin America, in fact, they are in the minority (there are much more Latine people in the Latin population who didn’t vote, because they aren’t Americans!) (3)

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(2) This feels like a psyop because it is boiling down the very real existence anti-Latine discrimination and racism into a culture war between “Latin[e] voters” and Black Americans (I say “culture war” because the affects this language will be more present online; ‘Twitter fingers…’ and all). (2)

bourky @itsbourky.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Oof, this article feels like a psyop and I’ll why. First, I strongly encourage you to look up “what is a psyop” and “what are some real examples of psyops that happened in the past”. Looking things up on your own is an important habit/skill to have, just copy and past what I typed in quotations. (1)

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The frustrating thing about it is that it’s so commonly used as a deflection because the person lack the emotional regulation/self awareness/honesty to face a topic head on without pointing to something else 😮‍💨

bourky @itsbourky.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Fast food 🙅🏿‍♂️ Chinese food 🙅🏿‍♂️ Italian food 🙅🏿‍♂️ Donna’s ✅

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CEO of Rent ‘Em Spoons Inc. @joialexandra.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I can’t properly enjoy my food when my mouth is on fire.

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bourky @itsbourky.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The reality is that anyone who believes that anywhere in the west is a valid place to seek refuge is not skinfolk to begin with.

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bourky @itsbourky.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Unlocking the diaspora gotta be the best thing anyone can do for their music taste, new food, and just culture and philosophy in general

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bourky @itsbourky.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Y’all can’t be getting my hopes up😮‍💨

Coogler and Ludwig and a Nolan collab got me hyped cubed, the supernatural stuff is just the icing on top!

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Good morning, I hope water has electrolytes 😭😭 because that’s all I’m having

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Good luck! Hope you get to experience that absolute relief that comes with shedding the weight of a burdening job

Them putting the U.S. flag and the E.U. flag in there to show that they are not serious 😭

Growth, honesty, the pursuit of knowledge, creativity/imagination, problem solving/optimization, compassion, and not putting up with non-sense

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Marvel. It’s easier to write stakes and grounded stories when your characters aren’t all overpowered in some way. Also better power scaling when the starting isn’t “faster than light”

Put me near infrastructure and and the stores where I buy necessities. Semi-rural with < 1 hour from a metro area feels ideal.

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Ancient Chinese history in general is wild - Taiping Rebellion, how Chen Sheng founded the Han Dynasty, having multiple ww2 level events, Metropolitan cities were flooded out several times and people just returned and settled again creating a city on top of a city.

Agreed, the only answer in line with human rights, is to secure everyone’s ability to survive given none of us were asked to be here. The least someone working a job where they’re likely consistently disrespected, is to be able to go home (being exhausted) and not struggle with surviving.

bourky @itsbourky.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Hypothetically speaking, we’ve seen too much evidence of the failures of vertical power structures. And so, “world leaders” shouldn’t even exist. That aside, yes they should be elected by the popular vote in a ranked choice voting system and not the first past the post voting system America has.

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When you get sick (or need a dentist), life goes from feeling like it costs 23,880 a day to costing 2,367,890,000.99 a day 😮‍💨

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POV: it’s 2048, we’re about to go onto 25 years straight of Republican administration. The next round of legislation comes out now - “effective today, Jackie Chan’s parts in Rush Hour are to be replaced with Awkwafina”. 😔

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The Black Will Smith @marcussniffles.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Holon… was that Cactaur from Final Fantasy??

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Nope. I need someone to tell the server that i asked for no pickles on my burger

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Good morning, nah I’m getting social media fatigue and I want to stick to just one for a while. But I appreciate the spite TikTok users have towards the technocrats and the selfish federal government

ᴍɪᴋᴀʏᴇʟ ᴍʏᴇʀs @chaclo.blacksky.app · 16/01/2025

Who y’all got in a 1 v. 1 - John Wick or Jason Bourne? They first have to find each other from across the world; Wick gets the help of that shadowy organization and Bourne gets the help of the CIA.

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Because we’re supposed to be a team and I want the strongest person available to be my partner

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My younger coworkers can’t download programs and use installation wizards, unzip files, they can barely navigate directories, and much less learn how things (in general) work by taking them apart. Even optimizing queries for Google or scouring/exploring the internet isn’t happening as much.

Tinker. Much of our modern tech is simplistic (phones with built in batteries, chromebooks/Macs that feel immutable); everything is now one swipe or tap away. Older tech was much more modular and customizable, so we learned to take things apart and mess with settings.

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Big facts, I see how they both represent the monopolistic nature of the industry

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Take one and two aren’t that wild 😮‍💨 but the last one is interesting. In what way are Taylor Swift and Elvis alike?

Niggas In Paris and H.A.M (invented a new slang that lasted almost a decade), that album was a moment

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Why? Did you just want to walk around bad people obliviously? Do you want to be a part of a community without doing the work to cultivate a healthy one or having discernment? Some are finding out their community might be the “bad guys”. Either way, I like the transparency this “realization” brings

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Shi probably like Pokémon yellow

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Is her career a quarter thanks to wielding patriarchy through Matthew Knowles steamrolling his way through some young women’s’ budding careers and her having upperclass parents? Yes. Is she overrated? No. But also, who cares? Being overrated is a critique that’s subjective and offers no depth

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Right. There are valid critiques of Beyoncé - is she tied to sweatshops in South Asia? Yes. Does she not spend enough money on philanthropy? Yes. Does she commodify Black culture and profit off of contemporary politics while silent? Yes. Are many of her fans toxic and parasocial? Yes.

“Comments you couldn’t make in 2007 for 500, Alex” 😭

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I have a very long list of shows that are amazing and some not very mainstream, but I’ll just give a couple off the top of my head: Kingdom, Dark, Tales From the Loop, and Umbrella Academy

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that, with geopolitical and historical context, Kill Monger’s idea of protection (and freedom from outside influences/despotic or imperial nations) across the diaspora through muscle (having advanced tech and a powerful military), similar to Teddy Rosevelt’s “big stick” policy, is actually sensible

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Through various means such as overthrowing sometimes democratically elected leaders, working with 3rd parties to employ Jackels (everyone should get into the rabbithole of Jackels in overseas politics), supplying weapons to both sides of conflicts, and much more

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In addition to this, it was clumsy to make a CIA agent a major character in the movie. This has the effect of creating a redeemable avatar for the irredeemable U.S. empire (a literal quirky CIA agent). Considering the CIA is responsible for the past and current destabilizing of nations through

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I hope this isn’t controversial but Black Panther 1. By painting Kill Monger (who had unaddressed racial trauma, lost his dad to the Hamlet/Lion King trope, and displaced, and wants acceptance from his community - Wakandans) as the villain, it undermines the themes of sovereignty and decolonization.

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Oh this is a hard one because it needs to have either magic or Clark Tech but also be relatively safe, which is a tall order. I’ll go with Inception because there’s so much potential for dream parties, dream gaming, etc.