[wallisninety-six]

Amidst discussion about wealth inequality and race issues, I really wanna hammer into younger Gen Zers minds about how awful Ronald Reagan was

I feel like we all got propaganda’d in school on how great he was just because of basic charisma and for the fact that he made some dopey speech at the berlin wall, but looking back he was just pure fucking evil:
He caused so many problems that we’re all dealing with today- and problems that made Zoomers become “Doomers”:

• He made explicit pleas to segregationists and klansmen when talking about states rights, endangering the lives of POC in the process
  
• he KILLED unions, working class people lost bargaining power against the rich and lost livable wages, starting the end of the middle class, we never recovered
  
• His trickle down economics killed any chance of real progressive tax on the rich & ensured that trillions would go to the rich for *generations*
• He demonized the shit out of black people, he literally never saw them as human, especially those that were homeless and struggling with addictions (a problem he made much, much worse)
  
• He *knew* about the AIDS crisis and for the longest time, did *nothing*, he sat by and intentionally let so many black and queer people die horrible deaths, with no remorse. The community is still grappling with the effect of that to this very day
  

All of us are angry about how Rich people are putting down poor people during this Gamestop-Robinhood fiasco, it’s good to remember when that started to get real popular…when people say “Ronald Reagan was the devil”, they’re not fucking around.

[alanshemper]

Nothing but respect for my president

[maswartz]

Pretty much yeah!

[spainonymous]

Bernie was right

Bernie tenía razón

[berniesrevolution]

James Baldwin on why Martin Luther King’s movement for racial and economic justice stalled in The North.

[berniesrevolution]

Martin Luther King speaking with Harry Belafonte about what he saw as the next big step in the Civil Rights Movement.

[fullpraxisnow]

“[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which — in addition to its nutritional deficits — is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor — especially with children to support and care for — is a perpetual high-wire act.”

— It Is Expensive to Be Poor | The Atlantic

[bae-in-maine]

“Poverty charges interest ” holy hell. Ive never read$heard someone put it that way before. But its so friggen true.

[useless-bisaster]

See also:

(Source: Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett)

[left-reminders]

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

I laughed WAY to hard at this

[zampl]

wow!! this sucks ass

[toastpotent]

the DNC: “phew, thank god, this will finally make those young leftists vote for Biden!”

all of us: “:)”

[zampl]

the DNC has been sucking biden’s senile cock so hard that they forced the only genuine wholehearted candidate out of the race. epic timeline

[cognitohazardous]

heads up everyone

[mulatt-hoe]

He wants us to keep voting for him so he can influence the DNC with his delegate numbers to get policy for us. Hopefully he gets big ones bc im tired of living in this cursed country.

[mintyliciousbjd]

In Bernie’s live-stream today he said he couldn’t with good conscious continue given the current tragedy unfolding with COVID-19.

He sacrificed his campaign to help flatten the curve; he saved lives by reducing turnout for further nominee primaries. Look at WI… he fought for mail-in only, and when that didn’t happen, there were long lines at the polling places yesterday amid a pandemic (April 7).

Bernie cares about the people. Period.

Don’t get me wrong—my heart is shattered—but this is an unprecedented time. For instance, I saw Eli Lily announced they dropped the cost of insulin to $35 for the duration of the pandemic. Bernie can now devote his energy to pressuring this as a permanent price alteration. He can work 110% towards raising money for coronavirus relief and other progressive ideals, including future stimulus packages in the Senate.

Bernie is NOT giving up his delegates.
Any he earns here on out can help offer progressive ideals leverage.

Would I prefer Bernie as nominee? Of fucking course—no question.

I will be checking his name come the Indiana primaries on my mail-in ballot, as well voting for the delegates tied to him to give him every last delegate he can get to help shape the party’s platform.

Until then, I’ll also help promote his fundraising response for COVID-19:

berniesanders.com/aid