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shaka 🦁👑

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marxist with a pen, hammer and sickle • dialectical materialist • renegade scribe • son of thoth and yemoja • pan-african and decolonial socialist activist 🔥🇳🇬 🍉 decolonise your mind, body, and soul 🌍☭ ✍🏾 views are mine, lenin's, and fanon's 📍 kumbi saleh

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · Mar 21

Hi, so you’ve just followed me. Welcome. Before you decide to stick around, I think it’s important you know what I’m about, on here. This space is political. Revolutionary. Pan African. Fiercely Socialist. And if you're not ready for that, you’ll probably hate it here.

Let me lay it out:

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

More than 400,000 people came out to watch her speak for nearly an hour on Sunday, October 5, reflecting on her and the party’s achievements in the first year of her term, and the continued 'fourth transformation' of Mexico."

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

Mass mobilizations have been a feature of Claudia Sheinbaum’s first year presiding over Mexico, and to finish her first 'accountability' tour of Mexico and mark one year of governance, she had her biggest yet.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

People's Dispatch: "In recent weeks, Sheinbaum has visited all 31 states of Mexico, outlining her administration’s current projects, plans and results in each state.

400,000 in Mexico City’s Zócalo celebrate one year of Claudia Sheinbaum’s government : Peoples Dispatch

In her speech to a full Zócalo, Sheinbaum reviewed her government’s major accomplishments in a year of global turbulence largely amid a US tariff war and military threats

peoplesdispatch.org

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Traveler @wanderer86.bsky.social · 4h

Americans looking down on “3rd world countries” like we’re not one ourselves will forever be hilarious to me.

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Waseem elmadhoun🇵🇸 @waseemmlol.bsky.social · 5h

Bluesky keeps deleting my account, but I won’t stop trying to make our voices heard.
I’m Waseem from Gaza — I lost my home and job in the war, and now my children and I have no shelter.
Please help us raise $600 to buy a tent to protect us from the cold 🙏
gofund.me/35fdca7d
@mommunism.bsky.social

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 5h

Palestinian families like Waseem's are being violently displaced & starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & invasion while Bluesky torments them with deletions. Please help by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, & shelter:

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 4h

*so-called Black "artists"

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 4h

Said it's an "honour" to have her cat's hair on me. To which I replied, "Then may all the honour be yours." I'm cool with visiting you. I just refuse to sit and be "comfortable" in all that cat hair. I don't think we're still friends, lol. Haven't heard from them in two weeks. It's all cool, tho. 🫶🏾🙂

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 4h

One of my white Dutch neighbours wanted to know why whenever I visit her, I never sit on her couch. Told her I don't wanna sit in cat hair. I don't want car hair on my clothes, and also, I don't breathe properly in spaces filled with cat hair. Then she kinda got pissed, lol.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

Exactly this! I wonder what kinda conversations they've had with him behind closed doors.

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

The same ice cube who made a liberal slop barbershop movie where he portrayed Black Panthers as "crazy", "violent", and "unreasonable" people. All of this just so he could "get the bag" and stay wealthy. Capitalism ruined art, and celebrities remain mindless tools of the capitalist ruling class.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

Even ice cube who's famous for saying "fuck the police" (and even got arrested for it in his youth) is super silent as the same police in riot gear was unleashed on students and anti zionist activists peacefully protesting a genocide of Black and Brown people in the Middle East and Africa.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

All of them, whether it's beyonce, rihanna, taylor swift, etc., are all capitalists — exploiting poor working class people, in order to maintain their wealth, and of course, speaking up to condemn the mass slaughter of Black and Brown people, especially innocent children, is a bridge too far!

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

There's also all your wealthy and so-called "outspoken" rappers who are fucking silent, as the same thing that was once done to African Americans, is being done to Palestinians, the Congolese, and the Sudanese, right now. Your kendrick lamar, jayz, j. cole, nas, snoop, ice cube, and all whatnot.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

You've got so-called Black artists who cosplay the Black Panther for profit, staying silent in the face of a genocide. A GENOCIDE! And their fans celebrate and defend their silence and say stupid shit like, "Yeah, what exactly is beyonce supposed to say? She's just another helpless Black woman."

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

Capitalism really ruined art. Whether it's music, games, movies, paintings, etc., it's all now a source of profit making for the wealthy. Art doesn't inspire anymore. Art doesn't condemn the oppression of the masses anymore. Hell, art doesn't even speak up during a fucking genocide!

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

Seeing videos of "former" taylor swift fans talk about how her latest album is just a money-grabbing scheme. And I keep thinking to myself how she's not an artist, she's just a capitalist. A capitalist who pretends to do art. Maybe there was a time when she actually did art, but that's long gone.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

The reality is that we are all human and without each other there is no future. We cannot exist without one another. We cannot survive without one another. Humans share 99% of DNA, so we all have common ancestry and we are literally all connected. How I long for a neighbourhood with neighbours.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

And they're not just kids, they're also OUR KIDS. Westerners who know nothing about community, and lack the "it takes a village" mentality, have this strange belief that we owe each other nothing and if they aren't "kin" to them they don't matter, but the reality is we all share this planet.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

I feel so depressed by all the suffering of Palestinian children that I've seen on my screen. Their gruesome murder, starving, torture, kidnapping, etc. It hurts me so much. I get super frustrated and infuriated by people who defend the mass murder of Palestinians, especially the little kids.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 15h

"Socialism doesn't work," they say, as they prepare to continue their genocidal economic sanctions and embargoes on the innocent people of Cuba and Venezuela.

"Capitalism definitely works," they say, as they prepare to bail out the unhinged libertarian capitalist government in Argentina.

Me: 🤷🏾‍♂️

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

Thanks. 🙏🏾

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

Nobody trusts israel apologia anymore, and people’s biases are now stacked squarely against the zionist entity. They’ve got nothing to work with and nowhere to start from."

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

In order to successfully propagandize people you need to first get them to trust you, and then you need to feed them narratives which appeal to the cognitive biases they already hold.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 5h

Propaganda is an effective tool of mass-scale psychological manipulation, but it isn’t magic. It isn’t going to miraculously erase what people know in their bones to be true.

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