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In an age in which education is a commodity accessible only to the wealthy, requiring degree-level education for police officers is indistinguishable from the property qualifications required for membership of the yeoman dragoons in the 19th-century: a private standing army of the respectable upper-middle class, wielded by political elites to violently suppress the struggles of poor citizens for democratic rights.

Sometimes I wonder how far America is down the path of progressing towards being an anti-racist society, then I remember there’s a national-level sports team which is literally named after the skin colour of the native peoples who inhabited the area before they were subject to violent ethnic cleansing by Anglo-Saxon settlers, and that everybody talks about it as if this were the most normal thing in the world.

Liberalism: (n.)The belief that if you get your head stoved in by a lesbian, hijab-wearing law enforcement officer, bleeding to death in police custody is lovely.

Liberalism is not an answer to the rise of xenophobia, white nationalism, and fascism in America. It never has been. It was Franklin D. Roosevelt who put Japanese-Americans in internment camps. It was John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson who gave legitimacy to Hoover’s counter-intelligence programs in order break the revolutionary potential of Black, Brown, and Native liberation movements. It was Bill Clinton who gave teeth to an incarceration system which destroys communities of color. And it has been Barrack Obama who has deported and detained more Latinos than all other presidents combined. Liberalism has always been a reluctant and feckless coconspirator. None of this is a defense of conservatism, it is, as Steven Salaita put it, “an invitation to discover (or create) a politics that doesn’t necessitate dispossession,” to build progressive and radical solutions. 

“The U.S. dropped an average of 72 bombs every day — the equivalent of three an hour — in 2016,” totaling 26,171 detonations in nations including Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan according to an analysis of American strikes around the world conducted by the Council of Foreign Relations… but that’s okay, because Obama is a liberal, yeah?

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Fun story. This is how Tom Kenny got the inspiration for the spongebob voice when he heard a small person dressed like a Christmas elf saying this verbatim during a break