Brian Marick5d ago
“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.” - Davis X Machina
Show threadNicole Parsons5d ago

@marick

Billionaires have always counted on the self-defeating voting patterns of bigots.

"Harlan Crow, Republican hedge fund billionaires Joseph Edelman, Dan Loeb, Paul Singer, Cliff Asness and Bruce Kovner, the hyper-conservative Bradley family from Wisconsin, the foundation of the late “funding father of the right” Richard Mellon Scaife, and the controversial and scandal-marked Walton Family"

https://hedgeclippers.org/billionaire-backed-bigots-in-the-big-apple/

The better way...
https://the.ink/p/archive-the-opposite-of-fascism

Billionaire-Backed Bigots in the Big Apple

In progressive New York City, it’s easy to think that rampant racism and homophobia in schools is unique to far-away conservative places like Florida and Tex

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Show threadHuntn004d ago
@Npars01 @marick Avoiding focus on Trump’s Criminal Psychosis for this moment, he expertly harnessed bigotry because a pack of dummies were blinded by their racism, thinking they could be part of the Wealthy White Man’s Club because they are of the right color… even though they are on the menu. 1:2
Show threadHuntn00
@Npars01 @marick The Club has become more elite and exclusionary for the last 50 years, and the blind disenfranchised fools actually think the problem is wetbacks, not the destruction of a healthy democracy that 65 years ago was seriously flawed, but headed in the right direction (civil rights movement). 2:2
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