mekka okereke Jun 20

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116778230127383031

🤷🏿‍♂️Why are they all from Australia today? Australians must be angry that their football team lost to the US, so they're taking it out on me by sending their silliest poasters to argue with me on Juneteenth.

Look, I'm sorry that the Golden Koalas suck at football or whatever. Truly. And I mean they truly suck, not that I'm truly sorry. Losing to the USA at football? In front of the whole world? Embarrassing.

But look. If you're confused about why Lincoln's actions from the 2 years from the Emancipation Proclamation, until Black soldiers showed up in Texas, gave Confederates the impression that they would not face any real accountability for murdering more Black people and keeping slaves after the proclamation? If you don't know what happened at Fort Pillow, or what a Radical Republican was? Then go read a history book. But don't post silliness in my mentions from Australia on Juneteenth, talking about "Lincoln only had 5 days to hold Confederates accountable! Timeline error! 🤡"

Show threadmekka okereke Jun 20

Any country playing against the US team right now has one job: win. This is more important than Commonwealth countries beating England. Let England win. Save your strength. Beat the USMNT.

Guide for patriotic US citizens:
In football, we cheer *for* the US Women's National team. We cheer *against* the US Men's National team. Nothing against them, but you don't give Trump the satisfaction.

Same in ice hockey: Cheer *for* the US women, and *against* the US men.

In basketball, we cheer for both the men's and the women's team.

Because patriotism is supporting the 64% of US people that *don't* like fascism, and that care about other people.
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Americans, if in doubt about whether to support a US team, ask yourselves, "If this team won gold, would they turn down the invite to go take fashy selfies and eat cold hamburgers in the oval office? Would they use their platform to speak out against fascism? Would they even get an invite?"

Show threadmekka okereke Jun 20
This is fashy garbage. We don't cheer for this.
Show threadJohn Ripley
@mekkaokereke Lol they're even using the desaturated US flag, widely co-opted by white supremacists as a symbol.
Jun 20 at 1:24amWeb
Show threadlifewithtreesJun 20
@jripley @mekkaokereke it’s all over design and fashion too. Fascism can only deal in binaries and removes colour in all the ways (art music people etc).