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I feel like people are playing a weird semantic game,
defending this. https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1322735307377160194
defending this. https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1322735307377160194
"Well, the key word is 'yearn,' you know.
"You're not supposed to 'yearn' for violent revolution.
"You're supposed to 'accept' it.
"Sadly.
"Reluctantly.
"With enormous grief -- fully reckoning with the weight of what you're coming to."
"You're not supposed to 'yearn' for violent revolution.
"You're supposed to 'accept' it.
"Sadly.
"Reluctantly.
"With enormous grief -- fully reckoning with the weight of what you're coming to."
Which, yeah, okay.
But when people do *come* to this point,
after literally a lifetime of pain and grief and suffering and loss,
But when people do *come* to this point,
after literally a lifetime of pain and grief and suffering and loss,
racism, poverty, homelessness,
watching people die, be killed, all around them,
mired in the culture of suffering and death driven by the state and white supremacy,
watching people die, be killed, all around them,
mired in the culture of suffering and death driven by the state and white supremacy,
you get to that point, and you say,
"Okay. I see it.
"I see that sad necessity. I see why we need this."
"Okay. I see it.
"I see that sad necessity. I see why we need this."
That's exactly the point where people say,
"Oh, well, see, now you're yearning. Now you're doing it wrong."
"Oh, well, see, now you're yearning. Now you're doing it wrong."
