Happy Jan 6th! Remember, 1st coup always fails!🙂
Hitler. Saddam. Castro. All the big names took at least 2 shots, regardless of political philosophy!
And in the USA the rules of civility discourse meant that after Jan 6th, Biden had more to say to Black folk than he did to the far-right politicians that supported it.🤡 He made a big show of saying that he would fire any member of his admin that was "rude" to a member of the far-right.
He asked us to move on. Our answer was no.
It's still no.
It's amazing how many people move smoothly from:
"Oh calm down Black people! It won't be that bad! They wouldn't do that!"
straight to
"ZOMG! The sky is falling! Democracy is at stake! *Incoherent wailing*"
without ever passing through common sense actions, like stop giving these clowns a platform, and let Black people vote maybe.
There is zero self-awareness of being wrong for years about what these people are up to. Zero self reflection on how almost 40 million Black folk saw it coming.
I make the joke about Blackstradamus 🔮🧙🏿♂️ because of course Black people aren't clairvoyant. We don't actually see the future. We just don't bury our heads in the sand when racist people tell us exactly what they intend to do.
The US really did big investigations to find out who was behind Stop the Steal🤦🏿♂️ But one of the main dudes registered a "Stop The Steal" website! In 2016! And then said exactly what he would do! And looks like a 70s Bond villain! And literally has a Nixon tattoo on his back!
The greatest threat to Democracy is not cartoonishly evil racists who fumble and bumble their way through insurrections. Whose idea of a coup involves pooping in their own hand and then smearing it on the wall of Nancy Pelosi's office.
The biggest threat is people who see all this, and then decide the right action to take, is to increase police budgets targeting Black folk, in the name of fighting a completely made up and sensationalized crime wave.🙂🙃
They did Jan 6, and my life gets harder?🤷🏿♂️
I have friends who are very good at math, with job titles like "Professor of Economics" and "Data Scientist," that genuinely believed that poor Black people were shoplifting their way into driving drug stores in San Francisco bankrupt.🤦🏿♂️
I had to point out how drug stores actually make money (the pharmacy/prescriptions), and how they really get customers (foot traffic), and how their own quarterly reports even before the pandemic, showed huge over saturation of drug stores in San Francisco.
I had to point out to my mathematically proficient friends, that if you managed to shoplift every single item in a Walmart superstore, including grocery items, tires, lawnmowers, TVs, all items on shelves and in the back of the store, then you've only stolen about $4 million worth of inventory.🤡
The "Shoplifters are hurting us!" was always a lie. It wasn't even a credible one. And y'all believed it.
It was always "Too many pharmacies" combined with "Pandemic WFH has reduced SF foot traffic."
@deilann
Yep. That weird product selection is carefully curated to attract different customer segments.
Every single non-pharmacy related product in a drug store added up together, is a rounding error. That entire part of the store only exists to remind us that there is a drug store at this location, and we can fill scrips here.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/261290/cvs-caremarks-revenue-distribution-by-product-group/
It is a "drug store where you can buy toothpaste and tampons," not a "toothpaste and tampon store where you can score some Oxy and Insulin."
@mekkaokereke or to wave that they have basic needs goods like toothpaste and tampons they don’t actually care if they sell or not, when you look at the price compared to anywhere else on market street in the faces of people who struggle to access these things.
sure seems pretty deliberate to make some shoplifting happen when you spell it out that way
The drug stores in suburbia have completely different stock.
mekka okereke 
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