Mr. Coke said to Mr. Mayor
"You know we got a process like Ice T’s hair
We put up the funds for your election campaign
And, oh, um, waiter, can you bring the champagne
A real estate fronts as opportunities arousing
To make some condos out of low income housing
Immediately we need some media heat
To say that gangs run the street and then we bring in the police fleet
Harass and beat everybody till they look inebriated
When we bought the land motherfuckas will appreciate it
Don’t worry about the Urban League or Jesse Jackson
My man that owns Marlboro donated a fat sum"
It is lmao. You can find it in pretty much any news article about the series.
Broke: taking money from Jeff Bezos
Woke: taking money from Jeff Bezos
This man is powerful.
Boots does some good work from what I hear and he actually calls himself a communist which is pretty significant, I don’t really think you need to be on a FBI watch list to be a real leftist either, that’s absurd.
Hasan I don’t care or know anything about.
comparing Hasan whos basically a lib with a communist like Boots is insulting tbh
Why do you think people like Hasan or Boots can find huge platform in Amazon? Simply they are not an immediate threat to capital.
it’s not that simple because capital commodifies everything - even revolutionary work - as long as it gives them money
like it says in the old quote, the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them
naturally this process of commodification can also trivialize the message and/or co-opt its authors, but that’s another matter
Why do you think people like Hasan or Boots can find huge platform in Amazon? Simply they are not an immediate threat to capital.
No single individual is an immediate threat to an institution.
But, as Lenin liked to say, the Capitalist will sell us the rope we hang him with.
At some point, the middle-manager doing production at Amazon isn’t looking for ideology. That person’s looking for a positive revenue stream. If Boots costs $X to produce and yields $X*2, he’s a good investment whether he’s minting Obama-style white noise or Revolutionary rhetoric. These people just don’t care how they make a buck.
