Jei Aoki 

We are in a Class War - Here's the 411 🧵 The only way to assuredly stand a chance is to educate ourselves. This will be a lengthy thread, so feel free to bookmark and refer back to it later -- Sources to be cited.

In 1970, the median rent was $108 a month which about 68 hours of work at minimum wage Today, the average 1 bedroom apartment costs $1,500 a month, about 207 hours at minimum wage But it’s all because we waste money on coffee

Nothing to see here.

Fran Lebowitz on the billionaires: “Every time someone suggests [a wealth tax] they say I’m moving. Go! They add nothing to New York. In the 19th century, those robber barons, they employed people. All this money magic employs no one. Goodbye, go. We don’t need you”

And people still ask why Black women don’t trust the medical system like history didn’t literally weaponize healthcare against them.

Richard Pryor in 1977: capitalism needs racism to function. Keep people separated by race and they never figure out who the real problem is.

So forget the 14th Amendment?

Even if they thought it was drugs, you gone let somebody OD on the floor and that’s ok to you?!??

Congress gets free healthcare for life, a pension when they retire, and $79 A DAY for lunch... that’s all BEFORE their $175,000 a year salary. The system is a joke and tax payers are the punchline.

For those upset about this, here’s how much hotel CEOs make per year for comparison: Hilton CEO: $27.6M Hyatt CEO: $26.7M Marriott: $22.97M Wyndham CEO: $13.55M Choice Hotels: $8M They can afford to pay their workers more if they can afford to pay themselves this.

the trump administration is going to use fucking CYNAIDE bombs on animals??? in their homes??? to get rid of them???? I AM FUCKING LIVID, this shit cannot keep happening!!!

You played yourselves. You started screaming that any inch closer to a fair society was socialism. Public option? SOCIALISM! Healthy environment? SOCIALISM! Living wage? SOCIALISM! Affordable higher ed? SOCIALISM! Y'all gave socialism better marketing than we could ever wish for

No I work in retail where I can quite literally see how much money I’m making the company. I’ll do anywhere between $600 and $2000 in a 5hr shift while only making $71. It’s more radicalizing to see the dramatic extent at which your surplus labor is being extracted

You mean the terrorist who shot up the mosque? Or is he not considered a terrorist because he’s christian?

Kind of insane that over 1000 people are in jail rn for a crime that doesn't even exist anymore.

Give them everything they’re asking for.

🚨do you understand what just happened.. Trump sued his own IRS for $10 billion over leaked tax returns.. then settled with his own DOJ.. and the settlement created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded fund to compensate his political allies the president filed the lawsuit.. the president's DOJ settled it.. the president's allies collect the money.. and you're paying for it the fund covers Jan 6th defendants.. Mar-a-Lago raid claims.. the Russia investigation.. anyone who says they were a victim of "lawfare" can file a claim and get a check they named it the "Anti-Weaponization Fund".. and made the number $1.776 billion.. they even made the corruption patriotic in 1974 Nixon resigned for using government agencies against political enemies.. in 2026 the government is cutting checks to political allies and calling it justice

Many of them didn't. Your great-great-grandmother was probably drinking opium for her nerves, sold at the corner shop as cheap as a pint of beer. It was called laudanum, a mix of opium and alcohol that doctors handed out for anxiety, sleeplessness, and "women's troubles." Mothers fed it to crying babies. The babies often stopped crying because they stopped breathing. The men drank. By 1830 the average American was putting away almost two bottles of liquor a week. Whiskey cost less than coffee or milk. People started their day with a shot and ended it with another. Toddlers drank from their parents' rum mugs. ADHD has a long paper trail. A Scottish doctor described kids who couldn't focus in 1798. By 1846 there was a popular German children's book about a boy called Fidgety Philipp who couldn't sit still. In 1902, a London children's doctor named George Still wrote a famous paper on the same kids and called it a "defect of moral control." Same kid, three different centuries. Depression and anxiety had old names too. Melancholia, hysteria, the vapors. Treatments included bloodletting, ice baths, and chaining people to a wall. By 1937, American mental hospitals held 451,672 patients and took up more than half of every hospital bed in the country. Inside the walls, about 1 in 10 patients died each year. Then came the lobotomy. Between 1949 and 1952, around 50,000 Americans were strapped to a chair while a doctor hammered an ice pick through the thin bone above their eye and wiggled it around inside their brain. It took about ten minutes. Sixty percent of the patients were women. About 1 in 20 died from the procedure. Many of the ones who lived came out with no personality left. The man who invented the procedure won a Nobel Prize. Britain's male suicide rate hit 30.3 per 100,000 in 1905. The lowest rates ever recorded in British history are happening right now. Plenty of our ancestors didn't make it. They drank themselves dead. They overdosed on shop-bought opium. They got locked in asylums and never came out. They had picks driven through their eye sockets. They killed themselves in numbers we don't see today. The conditions were always there. The treatments just used to be worse than the disease.

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need so many tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, legal protections, bailouts, and trade protections? When citizens need these things, why is it socialism?

And moreover they misquote the constitution, the bill of rights, and the declaration of independence constantly. This is why education is the cornerstone of democracy. And the conservatives have been wearing away its enamel for ages. Whilst the liberals are complicit. Pathetic.

I’ve come to realize we are debating with people who don’t know who Locke, Robespierre, Hobbes, Voltaire,Rousseau or Montesquieu are. And this is why we cannot get them to wrap their head around the fact that the government owes us more than what they say they do.