“This idea that we can’t talk about regulating capitalism because it would be a form of socialism has a profound silencing effect, and it’s going to take us quite a while to convince average Americans of the difference between Stalin and single-payer healthcare.”

If you’re genuinely interested in learning more about settler colonialism and answering questions like “wait what does land back look like?” “What can I do?” and “What are the contexts informing this and why do Indigenous people reject being part of the US/Canada?” there are free syllabi online which can answer these questions (they will not answer it directly, the point is to get you to think for yourself and ask more questions that can lead you to thinking more deeply about this and how you can personally take action towards better practices of solidarity) 

Accomplices Not Allies:

My friends. Being cautiously optimistic does not ”jinx” anything. There is no force in the universe which punishes us for having hope. There is no god waiting for us to stand up in order to knock us back down. If things do not get better, make no mistake, the only beings who are consciously sabotaging us are those humans denying us financial aid and health care. They are only people, and they can be defeated.