Wake The F*ck Up: The Revolution Won't Be Funded By Your Celebrity Crush

While you were busy cheering for silk-pressed "freedom fighters," the real liberation happens outside their bullshit colosseum — and it sure as hell isn't available on Amazon Prime.

Liberation: the act of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release.

We’ve arrived at the critical turning point in the fall of empire where it has become absofuckinglutely necessary that we establish for ourselves what flavor of liberation we/you are talking about. Cuz I hate to break it to you but every liberation ain’t for everybody. This is where it gets tricky. Because if you aren’t careful, you’ll be on some other alleged freedom train that doesn’t actually lead to freedom, but rather it instead leads to a carefully curated AI version of freedom which is more like oppression on ozempic but hey, everybody is taking it so it’s not hard to rationalize why this must be what you marched for at the women’s March of 2017.

And to be honest, it’s been increasingly challenging to spot the real thing amongst so many chat gpt versions of liberation. And it’s ok to be honest about the fact that some of us have been fooled at various times over the past several years.

I’m thinking back to last summer and fall, when it became even easier to get sucked into the more fun and socially acceptable version of liberation. You know, the one where we don’t bat an eye when Black women celebrities are paid exorbitant figures of cash to ‘endorse’ a particular political candidate. I mean, who doesn’t want to be on the team where hundreds of thousands of people got on zoom calls to say ‘I’m with her’ while ‘she was speaking’ with her oh so fresh genocidal silk press. I’ll be honest, great costume. She almost resembled an actual freedom fighter. And she kinda resembled a woman I used to date. So believe me when I say I understand how tempting it was for me to want to like her and to feel like she was a homegirl, to want to be on her team, to want to both believe her and believe in her. I understand why so many felt like they had to get behind and defend her like she was our only ticket outta this burning empire hell. Good thing she wasn’t our only way or our only hope.

But for those who thought everything would just be okay if she/they had won, the good news is that she/they were never our only hope or our only way out of this. Please reconcile within yourself once and for all that the delusional showmanship of the Democratic Party is an epic display of smoke and mirrors, trickery and fuckery, only second to the nonsensical and cruel clownery that is the antics of the Republican Party.

Just because THEY tell you there are your/our only two options, doesn’t mean that there are only two options. And therein lies the key and is actually the very thing that will enable and empower us to save ourselves, when we truly grasp on a cellular and literal level that there are so many more options for survival but they only exist OUTSIDE of their one/two party step.

Marketing has done a number on the so called progressive and liberal movements which co-opted collective liberation by tryna fool all of y’all by putting a Black and Indian woman’s face on the evil empire, adding Lil Jon’s ‘Turn Down For What’ as the soundtrack, and everybody in that Roman colosseum stadium, er, I mean, at the Democratic National Convention lost their fucking minds as they cheered for cops and Republicans on their stage (yet made the very intentional choice to not let a single Palestinian near their precious piece of shit podium), while she was speaking of having the world’s most lethal military. Close your eyes and hear the chanting of ‘USA! USA!’ Now open your eyes and look around at the multiracial faces (shout out to representation though) propping up this genocidal charade. Give that lady a billion dollars and . . .

“Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.” — Juvenal

In order to join the actual people’s revolution, let’s all try to FOCUS and learn this crucial and tell-tale way to spot who is for us and who is against us . . . follow the money.

“America was started as a business. It’s not about your freedom, it’s a business. So we’re sitting up begging white men to give us our rights, NO, affect their money! That’s why white men change stuff. We don’t get right until we mess up a white man’s money.” — Dulce Sloan

Exactly. Listen, capitalism has got the revolution fucked.

Breathe deeply with me as you read this next part . . .
The billionaires are not on our side.
The billionaires are not on the side of you or your liberation.
Either we uphold the rich or do we not.
Either we eat them or they keep eating us.
Your fav celebrities will not be on your poor side.
Can we have some class solidarity please?
Maybe y’all can raise a billion dollars for poor folks, houseless folks, those who lost so much in the LA fires, I don’t know, ANY of the people who actually need money to survive this time?

Are we ready yet to be honest about the fact that we just don’t want to let go of our convenient Amazon deliveries and our Fenty bargains and those Shein purchases?

Deep down, too many of us really still want to still be able to justify the ticket cost that is attached to Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar concerts. And remind me again, why exactly is Taylor Swift your Barbie feminist hero? Because remember, most of us are three bad months away from homelessness. None of us are three good months away from being millionaires.

So which is it?
Will the Revolution be televised or not?

And as we have arrived at the series finale of the 248 year old American empire, we’ve actually seen this reality show before. So we should know the fucking answers to the test by now.

Be honest about it.
She/they were never going to save you.

They wanted to cosplay as you so you wouldn’t do anything more than vote blue no matter who.

You abandoned the Palestinians, the Congolese, the Sudanese, Haitians, every oppressed person on the planet who will not survive as long as the American empire is able to kill American kids with American guns more than anything else, and life goes on as normal, because we are all too damn distracted with confusion, pettiness, infighting, despair, hopelessness, fear, and canceling each other over the most innocuous shit to fucking do something about it.

And in abandoning the plight of the oppressed people all over the globe, you actually abandoned yourself and your marginalized American neighbors, friends and family. Because you thought that the bombs they continue to be happy dropping all over Gaza and the West Bank wouldn’t be dropped right on your sweet little American head too.

Oops. That was quite a miscalculation that was made.

So now we’re here and this is where raising and throwing a billi at politicians got us . . . the rolling out of the red carpet for the new American Hitler and his white South African zooted zillionaire bestie.

We got got.
Again.
And I swear that this may be our literal last chance to save the world.
But you gotta know what you are swinging at.

Bring your focus to what collective liberation is, and tell the truth about the fact that literally you are not free while a child in Gaza, a child in Haiti, a child in Myanmar is not free.

I suspect that the Trump/Musk administration is helping you see that now in a way that you didn’t and haven’t when the administration was just a scooch less fascist.

Beloveds, it is high time to turn your back on even the smiling fascists who very well may look like you, who you very well may have admired and looked up to in the past. It’s painful, I know, because I too had to have some very difficult conversations with the former version of me who kept trying to fit revolution into the political system.

Now what?
Well, we’re a few months early but the spirit of Black August comes to mind . . .

Study. Train. Fast. Fight.
Organize.
Link up.
Mutual aid.
General strikes.
Stop paying taxes.
Take care of each other.
Get some restorative justice in your life.

Learn about alternatives to capitalism such as socialism, communism, even anarchy. Stop buying their shit. Unfuck yourself from your addiction to American consumerism, entitlement, and supremacy.

Reject empire in every way possible.
You can not tear down what you are also propping up.
This is what is meant by defy, disobey, disrupt.
Your colonizer mind can’t come happily into the revolution with you.
Decolonize your shit.
And that starts with your mind.

Maybe if the revolution looked like that, people who changed their minds and then changed their behaviors, the billionaires and the oligarchs and the fascists would be more worried about you, about me, about us. They should be worried. Our obnoxious insistence on making them obsolete, our audacity to see our collective humanity as the very essence of how we shift our ways of being and creating a world, a society, that doesn’t revolve around the American dollar, taxes that fund global terror, and the ridiculous cat and mouse game that the uni-government pretends to play every election cycle. Don’t feed them. Eat them. Our refusal to shut up and stay in line, our resilience for leaning and depending on each other for how we are going to get through these tough upcoming days, our need to exist by creating our own spaces outside of their crumbling structures, and to see each other, hear and actually listen to each other, hold each other, and have each other’s back, THAT is the liberation that should scare the shit out of them.

That won’t happen until we stop taking their bread and start baking, crowdfunding, and giving away our own bread (see The Black Panther Party Free Breakfast Program). That won’t happen until we stop going to their circuses and start planting community gardens and starting free book drives instead. That won’t happen until we stop funding politicians' campaigns and start investing in mutual aid. As in, if the fascist Democrats can count on you for another $5 donation to ‘fight’ the fascist Republicans, once again, you’ve lost the plot and you will stay right where you have always been. Read: not free.

And for the love of the planet, quit all the damn whining, complaining, blaming and finger pointing at anyone in the working class cuz girl, it’s really not me and those of us who didn’t vote blue who are the reason we are in this fucked up position, please get for fucking real. Know your enemy. It ain’t us.

Get with the actual liberation program.

You can start by saying, ‘I condemn the United States of America’ and join the global fight for collective liberation.

May our revolution no longer involve negotiating with the American terrorists running all sides of the government.

Long live the resistance.

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