George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Our nation and its leaders must never be afraid to speak the truth about our past.
🎓 Doc Freemo 
🇳🇱@georgetakei Thats ironic coming from a president who has one of the worst racist records in history, he spent most of his career trying to keep segregation alive because he didnt want school to be a "racial jungle"
realcaseyrollins ✝️@freemo @georgetakei I was about to say 😂
pies@freemo @georgetakei And yet, the "moderate" Republican candidate can't even say what he said.
In Search of a Better World@georgetakei I agree. I wish we could get my country to stop idolizing #WinstonChurchill for a start. The genocidal old blowhard, that he was.
Draken BlackKnight@georgetakei
It most certainly was about states rights. For people to own slaves.
It most certainly was about states rights. For people to own slaves.
Andreas K@drakenblackknight @georgetakei Which was important for the Southern Lifestyle of the top %1 in the Southern States.
But they managed to make it sound like Slavery was something that benefitted the common white man, which considering that slaves were more or less a “luxury article” back then, and a capital investment for the big landowner.
🤷
But it was the 99% that did the dying in the Civil War.
@yacc143 @georgetakei
And not much has changed, if you look at union-busting, stock buybacks, and wage theft.
And not much has changed, if you look at union-busting, stock buybacks, and wage theft.
John Breen@georgetakei Let's ask Nimarata how she feels about the Caste system in India, maybe that's an easier topic for her to address.
0xd34db33f@georgetakei trust Joe, he was there🤣
Graeme@georgetakei Genocide Joe has not a lot of moral ground to be standing on right now given that he's enthusiastically arming and funding an ethnic cleansing.
@graeme @georgetakei The #GOP would stop that, right?
Because the Evangelicals are not Bibi's biggest cheerleaders?
Kevin Leecaster@yacc143 @graeme @georgetakei
Probably safe to assume that anyone posting something as ignorant and untrue as Genocide Joe is being paid by our foreign adversaries to try to help put the GOP back into power more than they've already got.
Probably safe to assume that anyone posting something as ignorant and untrue as Genocide Joe is being paid by our foreign adversaries to try to help put the GOP back into power more than they've already got.
@GreenFire @graeme @georgetakei
I've noticed that the Fediverse seems to have got their first generation of Putin trolls. The peace was nice as long as it lasted, sigh.
I've noticed that the Fediverse seems to have got their first generation of Putin trolls. The peace was nice as long as it lasted, sigh.
@yacc143 @graeme @georgetakei
They come in waves. We had a huge number here right after the full-scale invasion. They are getting more adept at acting like leftists though sadly especially since October 7th.
They come in waves. We had a huge number here right after the full-scale invasion. They are getting more adept at acting like leftists though sadly especially since October 7th.
@GreenFire @graeme @georgetakei
That's because the Middle East conflict is a thorny and basically unsolvable (on so many levels) issue. (so very incompatible with 500 character toots).
Which makes positioning oneself quite a bit harder, than say #UkraineWar where only the hardest Putin fans have problems with their position.
@yacc143 @graeme @georgetakei
Yes, some issues are made worse by attempting to discuss them on social media for sure it seems.
Yes, some issues are made worse by attempting to discuss them on social media for sure it seems.
@GreenFire If you're implying that calling Biden Genocide Joe someone is a paid foreign actor you can fuck right off. The dude is literally arming and funding one of the worst genocides we've ever seen in Gaza right now. But no need to be surprised on that front, he's been telegraphing that stance for decades and it's in line with US foreign policy since day 1.
@graeme
We call the ones that aren't smart enough to get paid to do Putin's work, useful idiots.
We call the ones that aren't smart enough to get paid to do Putin's work, useful idiots.
Cosmic LibrarianLittle known fact...The Civil War never really ended, at least in the South. I'm a 7th generation Texan, and I can't believe how certain attitudes have not really changed. My partner is from Massachusetts, and when I told him that several years ago, he scoffed at that notion. He no longer scoffs, but sees what I mean, especially in the last 10 years. It's been fairly recent that the Confederate flag is not flown proudly down here, with the U.S. flag and the Texas flag. If you know recent state legislation, you also know it's true. It's nuts, and white men still rule at the state capitol.
Juliet (Ryel), Rollerskating Elf 🏳️⚧️@cosmiclibrarian @georgetakei It was only in the last few years that the southern Six Flags theme parks stopped flying the confederate battle flag at their parks. And it's kind of the whole reason for their name at Six Flags Over Texas - it's named so because there were "six flags" that had flown over the area in its history.
Honestly, it's kind of remarkable that Six Flags Over Georgia near Atlanta pulled it down.
Honestly, it's kind of remarkable that Six Flags Over Georgia near Atlanta pulled it down.
Baby steps...There are still good people...They just don't get all the publicity.
TheJen will not comply5th generation Texan here. Yup
Sayeed Choudhury@georgetakei And also about our present.
Σειληνός (Seilēnós)@georgetakei I think that it's hysterical that the same party that constantly brags about freeing the slaves during the Civil War practically ties itself in knots and vomits in distress in order to avoid admitting that the Civil War was about slavery. My how the parties have changed.
Blamellors@georgetakei it was about slavery duh
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️@georgetakei
My next question would have been "tell us the good things about slavery", and then just wait.
My next question would have been "tell us the good things about slavery", and then just wait.
John Coates@georgetakei Biden going hard left socialist, I guess. /s
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 
Holy fucking shit the bar for political discourse in this nation has sunk so low that it is now at "Just Say Four True Words About Slavery" and somehow Republicans have still managed to fuck it up.
xs4me2And those who do not are not fit to run for office…
ᓚᘏᗢ@georgetakei Thank you, Joe the segregationist, for your brave take
Aral Balkan@georgetakei And the present? About genocides happening right now by the folks those very same leaders are arming?
Ramesh #NotGoingBack⬆️ @georgetakei
via Fred Wellman FPWellman on #Twitter ➡️ https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1740202205507170770
"It's actually worse than I imagined. Her husband serves in the Army of the United States. The one that won that war. That sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives to end chattel slavery on our shores. She makes it sound like it was government being mean. What a pathetic shill."
Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) on X
It's actually worse than I imagined. Her husband serves in the Army of the United States. The one that won that war. That sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives to end chattel slavery on our shores. She makes it sound like it was government being mean. What a pathetic shill.
Toadman628@georgetakei Guess she'll need to touch her heels to the ground to walk back things she stepped over with high heels?
Ted Johnson@georgetakei Biden just lost all the votes he was never going to get anyway.
Sibshops@georgetakei Haley is probably the only republican who I would seriously consider voting for.