For me, it was seeing the Third Precinct of the Minneapolis police department engulfed in flames….
Of course, it was a chud FBI informant who did it… but for that moment, I had some hope.
Then Obama told some NBA players to get back on the court…
About America, it has to be the 2020 riots, which in turn led to some of my greatest disappointment that I've ever experienced when i saw that easily co-opted and de-fanged by shitlibs, and ultimately lead to nothing. Most hopeful for the world, Bolivia overthrowing Anez was beautiful, and China coming to such a place of prominence in the world gives me hope for the end of the US empire. If India goes red in my lifetime, that will probably be the peak.
libs dancing and kneeling with cops like 3 days after George Floyd was murdered :jokerfied:
Late 1990's Internet culture when we thought that with the added productivity that most people would be working 20-30 hours a week by 2020.
Instead the rich took 90% of the profits from productivity gains and now the US is more unequal than any country in the world.
Trump getting covid. not long term optimistic but it was definitely short term step in the right direction.
Was doing stuff with my friends, got the notification on my phone, and we all literally stopped what we were doing and started laughing, talking about how he was gonna die and America was gonna be 0.00000001% better.
Pulled up :azan: stream and watched him do the crab dance and shit. I was genuinely hopeful for the future of America, thinking if he dies there is some modicum of justice out there.
Of course he got better and nothing changed after he was gone, but personally the sheer exuberance of joy we had in that moment to stop everything we were doing and shit on the big wet boy hasn't been matched in terms of optimism for this beached whale of a nation.
That was such a great weekend. I still think about it from time to time. That's the last time I was really, politically, happy. Trump dying wouldn't have brought socialism but it would have been very funny. I wanted to watch him die and pretend not to be dying but dying. Then his followers pretending not to be owned trying to act like it's all a secret Q operation. Watching the lib media stuck between celebration and trying to be annoyingly respectful. I played the Ghana funeral dancer song on repeat for hours. I loved the memes.
Yeah it was just political catharsis for like 2 days straight, that can only be matched if like any of the existing US presidents + Kissinger get put into the popular video game Minecraft and thrown into the nether.
it was dumb, unfruitful, and ultimately pointless but it was just fun. The memes were fun, watching everyone trip over their own contradictions was fun, collectively rooting for the covid disease inside his body was fun.
maybe the police station burning down is a better example but it was hard to share in the joy of that from so far away personally.
That week was the most enjoyable week I had on Twitter ever. Just so many good and funny posts. It seriously couldn't stop being funny
I was optimistic about bernie. All us chapos were
I didn't picture a golden throne. I pictures him hitting brick wall obstructionism. Then slowly as we just stopped doing thins the world would get better. It would soon become apparent that all we have to do to save the world is just sit down quietly and rot with dignity and the new world would bloom.
Still waiting for one of these rounds of covid to break america completely so you could say I am somwthing of an optimist myself.
The Nevada primary was the last day I had any hope in electoralism
What's that joke stalin yoused to say everytine something bad happned?
Never again would his heart know kindness
Still waiting for one of these rounds of covid to break america completely
I have good news
I wasn’t tbh. Because Hillary warned us!
Lmao, but parenti did warn us.
It was the 2020 race riots for sure. Felt like the first time politics were happening outside of voooooting every 4 years. Not because there weren’t other protest movements but just because they felt like the first ones in a while that had a real political engine under them demanding results regardless of process and institutions, even if they weren’t particularly organized
A lot of people from the protests are learning about organizing and getting better at it
Yeah probably the protests. Also idc who started the fire, seeing those pigs run from the precinct is burned into my memory and still makes me happy to think about.
Other than that probably the rally in NY after AOC endorsed Bernie. Felt like we'd roll that primary.
That rally was fun, remember those shrill freak long islanders yelling at us outside the rally
The better part was how the majority of the country thought the precinct deserved to be burned to the ground.
If we're excluding childhood naivete (which we should be), I'd say right after the 2020 Nevada Caucuses. It really seemed like Bernie was going to win. I knew Bernie wasn't really socialist even then, but it really seemed like we might be able to move the needle politically, in a way that would have had real impact for working-class Americans.
Then came the weekend before Super Tuesday, of course.
The weekend Klobuchar, Buttigeug and Harris all dropped out, people on Bernie reddit were celebrating beating all them out, and I just remember saying, no, this is bad. This clears the way for Joe to win by consolidating all the boomer/libdem votes.
Worst I've ever felt being right.
China singlehandedly reducing global poverty levels in the last thirty years as neoliberal austerity lowers it almost everywhere else on earth.
I was watching the third precinct fire on Unicorn Riot’s stream and I felt :sicko-surveillance: throughout my entire body
Hell yeah, I was also glued to Unicorn Riots stream, they did incredible work both covering it but actually interviewing people on the streets, even had some of the surviving families speak about how police brutality effected them and their family. It was top tier reporting all around
America: finding out the local DSA is full of commies and constantly growing.
The world: China weathering all the attacks coming its way.
https://mobile.twitter.com/iwriteok/status/1348028943656394753?lang=en
A literal handful of blue haired :im-vegan: radlibs and anarchists drove back an entire battalion of armed to the teeth chudihijadeen
also the time Proud Boys came to SF and literally couldn't even set up their stage because the moment they got off BART they started getting absolutely savaged and one of them pulled the "I'm black bro I'm not racist!" and then got his jaw broken almost immediately after
Seeing the Patriot Prayer dude have to give his little speech from a motel room in Pacifica was :chefs-kiss:
https://mobile.twitter.com/iwriteok/status/1348028943656394753?lang=en
NIce clip, but the guy who posted it is a fed.
Yes, that's why I lovingly refer to him as an anarcho-fed, along with his pal Emily Gorcensnsizksisi who literally wrote software for drones that blow up brown people
the dude makes 300k a year podcasting
sus
I still like him for the most part, he has OK coverage of domestic events
edit: I really don't like the ICE Must Be Abolished guy he hangs out with
:doomjak:
Fuck I volunteered for that piece of shit. God damn the month after that sucked seeing who he picked for his cabinet….
The Minneapolis police department burning was cool in the moment but like, the next day it was pretty clear it was either some adventurer or someone trying to drum up sympathy for the police. It's a real shame how quickly the 2020 protests got swallowed by the Democratic machine - I think people overstate how potentially revolutionary they were. Like - pro-police consent got manufactured real quick after shit started burning.
2020 Nevada caucuses a good pick here. Boring pick but I feel at least in the US it's right. Bernie bouncing back from that heart attack is up there too.
