JoelleJun 19

The reason Texas is part of the USA is that Mexico made slavery illegal.

Remember the Alamo? A lot of white people don't know is that what the "brave" people in the Alamo were fighting for was slavery.

That's also why it took two years after the civil war ended for enforcement of anti-slavery in Texas. (it wasn't because of slow communication, as is told in revisionist histories, it was because white people willfully defied the law).

Freedom is always worth fighting for.

Show threadMugsysRapSheet πŸ”©πŸ‘πŸ˜Jun 19

@joelle
Absolutely, though one *tiny* correction:

It wasn't "two years after the war ended" but "two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was announced (on Jan 1, 1863.) News reached Galveston in June of 1865 (two months after the war ended.) #Juneteenth

Show threadMugsysRapSheet πŸ”©πŸ‘πŸ˜Jun 19

@joelle
On the subject of #Juneteenth...

The #RacistInChief proudly announced on his social media website today that they erected "two 88-foot tall flagpoles at the WH. One on the North lawn & one on the South."

NOT 100' flagpoles. Not 80', 85' or 90'. "88".

Ask a #racist the significance of the number "88".
https://abcnews.go.com/US/illegal-immigrants-trump-questions-workers-installing-white-house/story?id=122996015

'Any illegal immigrants?' Trump questions workers installing White House flagpoles

The workers erected two 88-foot-tall flagpoles at the White House on Wednesday.

ABC News
Show threadNick's world 🌎 πŸ‘¨β€πŸ¦― πŸ—½Jun 20
@gwaldby @joelle @MugsysRapSheet The number 88 has a meaning?
Show threaditscool900Jun 20
@gocu54 @gwaldby @joelle @MugsysRapSheet i'm gonna tell them…
Show threadNick's world 🌎 πŸ‘¨β€πŸ¦― πŸ—½Jun 20
@itscool900 @gwaldby @joelle @MugsysRapSheet I'm genuinely curious, because I truly don't know.
Show threaditscool900
@gocu54 each 8 symbolizes the letter h because h is the eighth letter of the latin alphabet
so 88 means hh, which in turn is short for "heil hitler", a common phrase in nazi rhetoric
Jun 20 at 1:07amWeb
Show threadNick's world 🌎 πŸ‘¨β€πŸ¦― πŸ—½Jun 20
@itscool900 Oh shit, yeah, definitely a bad thing for those who know the significance.
Show threaditscool900Jun 20
@gocu54 no kidding lmao
Show threadBen EvansJun 20

@gocu54 @itscool900 If you didn't know that, then you should also be aware of the concept of the "14 words" and the combination "1488", which is invariably a dogwhistle.

There is also the fact that 88 in the ASCII character set is the capital letter 'X" and there is some speculation that Musk deliberately chose that name for Twitter as a Nazi reference / piece of edgelord bullshit.

Show threadAndy DustmanJun 20
@kittylyst @gocu54 @itscool900 Interesting as the logo is the double-struck-X. https://symbl.cc/en/1D54F/ Plausibly deniable but interesting.
𝕏 Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X symbol meaning, copy and paste unicode character - (β—•β€Ώβ—•) SYMBL

Discover the meaning, copy and paste 𝕏 Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X. Full list of Unicode characters and signs on SYMBL (β—•β€Ώβ—•)!

Show threaditscool900Jun 20
@farcepest but the url is X.com…
Show threadBen EvansJun 20

@itscool900 @farcepest I mostly keep an open mind about the claims but ...

a) Neo-nazi scum have been trying to mainstream their ideas on the Internet since at least the late 90s (see, for example, the "To learn who rules over you ..." bullshit - https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/to-learn-who-rules-over-you-quote-wrongly-attributed-to-voltaire-idUSL1N2UE2LM/) &

b) This is exactly the sort of edgelord s3kr1t-in-plain-sight / i-am-14-and-this-is-deep tiresome crap that Musk thinks is clever & which is catnip for him.

Show threadRichardInSandyJun 20
@gocu54 @itscool900 Column 88 was a 1970s right wing paramilitary group in the UK, so anybody vaguely involved in UK Anti-Nazi activities in those days knew the significance of those numbers.