"I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"

[Fiendish Thingy]

Interview with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, by Perry Bacon.

Bacon asks “why not just say ‘we are winning’ ?”

Táíwò: Yeah, I think that phrasing is important because one of the things that I alluded to when I first explained why I use that phrase is: what I’m not trying to do is look at these heinous murders, look at this mass campaign of ethnic cleansing, and say nothing bad is happening or “this is what victory looks like.”

That is absolutely not the impression that I’m trying to give. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. Why I’m saying this is because things look so dire. And the ability of federal forces to concentrate on slivers of the country and generate these spectacles of hyper-violence is part and parcel of their political strategy to make it look like they have power that they don’t, in fact, have.

Never forget this one absolute truth:

Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless

[orangecrush]

1. Truth

K&R

[leftstreet]

2. Excellent!

DURec