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shaka 🦁👑

@beejonson.me

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marxist with a pen, hammer and sickle • dialectical materialist • renegade poet • son of thoth and yemoja • pan-african and decolonial socialist activist 🔥🇳🇬 🍉 decolonise your mind, body, and soul 🌍☭ ✍🏾 views are mine, lenin's, and fanon's 📍 kumbi saleh

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · Mar 21

Hi, so you’ve just followed me. Welcome. Before you decide to stick around, I think it’s important you know what I’m about, on here. This space is political. Revolutionary. Pan African. Fiercely Socialist. And if you're not ready for that, you’ll probably hate it here.

Let me lay it out:

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 44m

I swear, it's exhausting!

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

Yeah, I shouldn't work with capable people to raise money for victims of a genocide, simply because y'all had a beef on twitter about celebrities and celebrity gossip. Yeah, I guess someone insulting your "fave" is worse than a genocide. I fucking hate celebrity worship! 😭

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

Remember last year when I was working on one of my fundraising events for Palestine, and one of the ladies helping with the organising, a Lebanese lady, didn't want me to collaborate with another organiser. Asked her why, and turned out they had a twitter beef that nobody gives a shit about.

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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 4h

The relentless cruelty, opportunistic greedy criminality & cynicism of the imperial guzzlers, their satraps & pawns are thoroughly exposed. Their Hobbesian colonial, white supremacist "international order" is debased & obscene. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/afte... #GazaGenocide #Palestine #Israel

After two years of Gaza genocide, the West's moral pretence is shattered

Israel's slaughter of Palestinians has forced the world to confront bitter truths about the designs of empire

www.middleeasteye.net

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cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 11h

i see many ppl on here with similar perspectives & it lets me know i should avoid them & their type

there's way too much going on & too many ppl suffering to be on some "positive vibes only" BS

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 11h

White Dutch neighbour be like: "So I broke up with my ex because he's just a downer. I like men who don't complain about every little thing in life, and just try to be positive and enjoy life, and bla bla bla."

Turns out her ex is a Palestinian who's super depressed by the genocide of his people.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12h

Deal comes as families in Israel and Palestine reunite with loved ones freed from captivity in Gaza and Israeli jails.

Trump promises peace in Middle East, signs Gaza deal with world leaders

Deal comes as families in Israel and Palestine reunite with loved ones freed from captivity in Gaza and Israeli jails.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 11h

White people never cease to amaze me. Honestly. You think you've seen the worst and boom! They surprise you! As a BIPOC, always assume that every white person you meet is an unhinged racist and an out of touch individualistic human being, until proven otherwise. Really helps you protect yourself.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 13h

This also increased the price of electricity multifold because more than 58% of the Nigerian households, left out of the national grid, rely on petrol and diesel generators.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 13h

Promising to slash petrol prices during his election campaign, Tinubu declared in his presidential inaugural speech on May 29, 2023, “the fuel subsidy is gone,” overseeing a petrol price hike of nearly 488% in Africa’s largest producer by October 2024.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 13h

The World Bank projects that 139 million Nigerians will be living in poverty by the end of this year, a nearly 60% increase from 87 million in 2023, when President Bola Tinubu started implementing the reforms it had prescribed on the first day of his term.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 13h

Acknowledging that the implementation of its reforms coincided with an increase in poverty, the World Bank nevertheless calls on Nigeria to stay the course.

World Bank acknowledges poverty increase in Nigeria, but doubles down on the reforms causing it : Peoples Dispatch

Acknowledging that the implementation of its reforms coincided with an increase in poverty, the World Bank nevertheless calls on Nigeria to stay the course.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 17h

If everybody who went to a pro Palestine protest sticks to this we could actually free Palestine

brettspets.bsky.social @brettspets.bsky.social · 17h

I will not vote for any candidate who is pro Israel period.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 13h

At what point did you realise that the groups western corporate news media constantly tells you are "persecuted" in China, are actually weird and dangerous cults?

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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 14h

I do love when liberals try to critique other people for their kind treatment of nazis like there's not 260 of them currently in congress shinning nazi boots and giving nazis piggy back rides

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 16h

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 13h

[American red maga fascist republicans beating the shit out of BIPOC]

American blue maga genocidal democrats and liberals: "They want you to fight back. DON'T GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT!" 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

BIPOC: "They've just beaten my family to death. What should I do then?"

Blue maga liberals: "Vote harder!"

Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 14h

Em Cohen gazafunds.com
@EmCohen
X.com
liberals have managed to convince themselves
that to avoid "giving them what they want"
(actually fucking fighting back), they must give
them what they want (everyone being docile)
Don Winslow
e @donwinslow • ld
This is EXACTLY what Donald Trump wants.
He wants a civil war before the 2026 mid-terms.
Don't give him what he wants.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 13h

If an online image of Parenti isn't yellow, then I don't trust it. Yellow Parenti is always the correct Parenti. Period.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 13h

Instead, he said something about how America's wars have prevented another 9-11 from happening, lol. Honestly, I think American liberals are fucking stupid (I mean, which liberal isn't?) and no one can convince me otherwise.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 13h

American wars have not provided working class Americans with their basic human rights: free healthcare, housing, education, clean drinking water, etc. So exactly what "freedoms" have those wars provided for the American people? Dude couldn't list one thing.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 14h

Remember the time I got into a discussion with some American liberal talking all kinds of shit about how American wars are "necessary" because they "protect American freedoms." At one point, I got tired of going back and forth with them, so I asked them to list those "freedoms." Dude went mute.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 14h

But now women and minorities can occasionally exploit their way into becoming land-owning aristocrats. Look how far America has come. So much progress! They've got a Black woman zionist genocidal blue maga democrat imperialist cop, who ran for president. So much PROGRESS!

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 14h

In the United States of America, democracy, apparently, is when you vote and lobbyist cancel your vote with money.

The United States constitution was written by and for the local white male land-owning aristocrats, tired of taking orders from British white male land-owning aristocrats.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 14h

Liberals will say that they should’ve voted even harder! Stretch that one vote out into one vote. You can’t vote twice since that’s like, you know, election fraud, and that’s not what we want to win, even though that’s whats already winning.

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