#deMockracy

[rozmorris]

When to write poetry, when to write prose? Interview with poet and fictioneer Mike Maggio

What makes a poem a poem? How is it a different beast from richly written literary fiction? In prose, it seems, we can do most of what a poem can do, beyond just telling a story. Creative expression, profound thoughts, metaphors. We can even control how the text falls in the reader’s mind through our use of cadence and line breaks. What’s the distinguishing difference with a poem? Mike Maggio is…

[chaotic-creator]

First they came for the immigrants and I said nothing because I wasn't an immigrant

Then they came for the transgender people and I said nothing because I wasn't transgender

Then they came for the BIPOC people and I said nothing because I wasn't BIPOC

Then they came for the women and I said nothing because I wasn't a woman

Then they came for the queer people and I said nothing because I wasn't queer

Then they came for me but there was no one left to speak for me

This is me, parodying a very famous poem from WW2, about Hitler's rise to power and the oppression of the Nazi party and the 3rd reich. This is your future. This is Donald Trump's America, where anyone who isn't a cishet white christian man is the enemy. This is what you voted for. You were given the choice between freedom and fascism and you chose the KKK supporter and neo nazi. The modern day Hitler. When history looks back on this election in shame and condemns Trump and his supporters, know that they'll think of you how we currently think of the nazis. I bid you farewell sir and good luck. I hope everything you voted for comes your way specifically.

To the women, LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities in America, I am so so sorry. Stay safe, stay strong, stay alive. Don't let them win. We are stronger together. Trust in each other, stay strong together, keep each other safe

To the Republican voters, if in the next four years your wife or daughter or sister dies from hemorrhage, when your taxes skyrocket, when you're no better off or even worse off in 2028 than now, when the climate is destroyed, when queer children die, taking their own lives in fear of living in Trump's America, know that their blood is on your hands.

You elected a 34 count felon, a pedophile, a racist, a rapist, a misogynist, a bigot, a homophobe, a transphobe, a neo nazi supporter, a Hitler fan, a white supremacist, a failure of a businessman, a liar, a cheat, a self obsessed, dictatorial facist. This isn't freedom, this is tyranny.

Donald Trump is not a good man, he is not a blue collar worker looking out for the little guy. He is not my president

[cavalierzee]

Israel Is A deMOCKracy

What happened to “diversity”?

Israel is an Apartheid Entity!

If that’s the case, then jews shouldn’t be allowed to live in predominantly Christian and Muslim nations.

[a-spoonful-o-generosity]

So, it was 2018 when I knew AI would be your downfall. As cathartic as this deep fake is, it will mean this year will be impossible for you to tell reality from AI fantasy. Good luck with your deMOCKracy.

I'll leave you with a positive not. Looks like Donny got fucking Yamcha'd. LOL

how is trump alive?? like hes rlly gone thru his whole life like That …. and no one has ever just fuckin decked him?? gave him the ole one two? knocked his lights out??? incredible

[paulbakerhernandez]

Forget DeMOCKracy! Joker T. Rump's greatest crime? Flushing the Paris Climate Accords down the toilet. We WILL take our planet back! MEGA not maga! Make Earth Green Again! https://paulbaker2004.wixsite.com/mega

[dakrolak]

[wordisdrawn]

Let the Reign of Error begin.

Demockracy \dih-mok-ruh-see\ noun; a government which purports to be "by the people”, but whose own systems discourage and prohibit the equality of all members. See also: electoral college

[corvid-420]

I need to raise around $3600 bucks to run for governor if Newsom is recalled, because freedumb and demockracy or whatever.

[e]

The New European 227 cover “DEMOCKRACY” by Chris Barker

[cavalierzee]

The Only deMOCKracy In The Middle East

[adjns]

How the MeriKKKan flag has been used historically. #JusUS ##Freedumb #DeMockracy

[vbrahma]

#Repost @thatannoyedfeminist (@get_repost) ・・・ Why hasn't the government spoken out when the fundamental rights of people are being violated, you ask? Because it's the organisations that they back and support, that are going around killing journalists. #freedomofpress #freedomofspeech #demockracy #gaurilankesh #journalists #india #incredibleindia #murder #pankajmishra #ras #bjp #jdu #vhp #feminism #woc #intersectionality #poc #humanrights #smashthepatriarchy #yesallwomen

[gimpo-ranchero]

And still you believe

This aristocracy gives a fuck about you

They put the mock in demockracy

And you swallowed every hook

The sad truth is you would rather

Follow the school into the net

Cause swimming alone at sea

Is not the kind of freedom you actually want

[garudabluffs]

The Making of Vladimir Putin  [spurred on by demockracy]

Tracing Putin’s 22-year slide from statesman to tyrant.

PARIS — Speaking in what he called “the language of Goethe, Schiller and Kant,” picked up during his time as a K.G.B. officer in Dresden, President Vladimir V. Putin addressed the German Parliament on Sept. 25, 2001. “Russia is a friendly European nation,” he declared. “Stable peace on the continent is a paramount goal for our nation.”

<>SLAM POETRY : “Poetic pronunciations of superior ethnic persuasion credentials, out-of-my-mouth like flies, AND not-to-be-denied.”<>

“True Russians”, he said, would “spit them out like a gnat that accidentally flew into their mouths” and so achieve “a necessary self-purification of society.”

“By their mentality and culture, the people of Russia are Europeans.” -V.P.

Timothy Snyder, the prominent historian of fascism, put it this way: “Having toyed with an authoritarian rule-of-law state, he simply become the oligarch-in-chief and turned the state into the enforcer mechanism of his oligarchical clan.”

In 2006, Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative journalist critical of rights abuses in Chechnya, was murdered in Moscow on Mr. Putin’s birthday. Another Kremlin critic, Alexander Litvinenko, a former intelligence agent, who had dubbed Russia “a mafia state,” was killed in London, poisoned with a radioactive substance by Russian spies.

Members of the activist group Pussy Riot in a Moscow courtroom in 2012

“The unthinkable can happen. Russia’s war of choice in Ukraine is proof of that. Watching it unfold, Ms. Bermann told me she had been reminded of lines from “The Human Stain” by Philip Roth: “The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can’t stop.”

READ MORE https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/26/world/europe/vladimir-putin-russia.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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