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The same people who stormed the capitol are the same people who gleefully support police violence against Black and Brown people.
The same people who terrorize churches and synagogues.
The flags I saw at most often at the assault on the capitol?
Trump Flag
BlueLivesMatter Flag
Confederate Flag
This is not a coincidence.
This is literally how it works.
America's racism was leveraged to minimize and dismiss white violence.
The police stood shoulder to shoulder with this mob of violent supremacists up until the moment that they turned on them.
America made police into gods.
Those gods conferred their blessing onto white terrorism, not realizing that fascism is fickle.
White supremacists seduced America into defending their views, making space for them, shielding them from accountability and elevating them into positions of power.
Racism is how the Capitol got stormed.
Anti-Black hatred is the foundation upon which the attack was built.
Dear White People,
— Absurdistwords (@absurdistwords) March 17, 2018
Racism is just fascism that hasn't caught up to you yet.
The same people who stormed the capitol are the same people who gleefully support police violence against Black and Brown people.
The same people who terrorize churches and synagogues.
The flags I saw at most often at the assault on the capitol?
Trump Flag
BlueLivesMatter Flag
Confederate Flag
This is not a coincidence.
This is literally how it works.
America's racism was leveraged to minimize and dismiss white violence.
The police stood shoulder to shoulder with this mob of violent supremacists up until the moment that they turned on them.
America made police into gods.
Those gods conferred their blessing onto white terrorism, not realizing that fascism is fickle.
White supremacists seduced America into defending their views, making space for them, shielding them from accountability and elevating them into positions of power.
Racism is how the Capitol got stormed.
Anti-Black hatred is the foundation upon which the attack was built.
▶️What I am going to write / publish does not aim to impose something on anyone, nor to convince them of something to go against someone's opinions or attitudes.👇
▶️This represents personal observations, interests, something that I personally came across and about which I consulted with some in order to clarify doubts, but also the information that I came across!👇
▶️What I was looking for were earthquakes, and my attention was drawn to the first information about the earthquake in Croatia from March 2020, which I learned was artificially
▶️Also as an artificially caused earthquake is the earthquake in Turkey and Greece on October 30, 2020.
At the very end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, Croatia was shaken by a new devastating earthquake, the towns of Petrinja and Sisak, which was felt in several countries!👇
▶️This represents personal observations, interests, something that I personally came across and about which I consulted with some in order to clarify doubts, but also the information that I came across!👇
▶️What I was looking for were earthquakes, and my attention was drawn to the first information about the earthquake in Croatia from March 2020, which I learned was artificially
\u25b6\ufe0fU martu 2020 Zagreb je pogo\u0111en zemljotresom, u oktobru iste godine, danas, 30.10 zemljotres poga\u0111a Gr\u010dku i Tursku i to istovremeno na vi\u0161e lokacija, svi ovi zemljotresi pored ja\u010dine imaju jo\u0161 jednu zajedni\u010dku osobinu, NISU PRIRODNI VE\u0106 VJE\u0160TA\u010cKI!!!\U0001f53d\U0001f53d\U0001f53d
— \u24c2\ufe0f\u03a3\u03a1\u0392 \U0001f171\ufe0f \U0001f1f7\U0001f1f8+\U0001f1e7\U0001f1e6+\U0001f1f2\U0001f1ea=\U0001f1f7\U0001f1f8 ANTI/c\U0001f18eAL (@miljan_bof) October 30, 2020
▶️Also as an artificially caused earthquake is the earthquake in Turkey and Greece on October 30, 2020.
At the very end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, Croatia was shaken by a new devastating earthquake, the towns of Petrinja and Sisak, which was felt in several countries!👇
👉🏾But I see that we are, to a great extent, producing a self-collapsing Christianity, insofar as our converts are told that the only important thing to do is to win more converts. It’s like getting the people into the armed forces, and they ask what they are supposed to do. 1/
Oh well, you are supposed to recruit.” Then they recruit more and more people, and set them also to recruiting still other people. Some day someone says, “Aren’t we supposed to be fighting a war?” “Oh yeah, there’s a war.” ... 2/
Church Mission-which is absolutely basic & absolutely valid-is to extend the faith & transform people into reliable people of integrity. Kingdom Mission is when the church stops thinking abt itself & its members & pursues God’s will in this world, not just pursues more members.3/
In his book Church Shift, Sunday Adelaja, the pastor of the largest church in Europe, says that when members do things like help in the nursery and direct traffic on Sunday, that’s not mission. It’s church housekeeping. 👀 4/
The church exists to extend the glory of God & His will in society whether or not it makes advances in church membership. Many are leaving the church today because what secular people are doing is more exciting, more relevant, concrete, & may seem to be more Biblically valid. 5/
\U0001f92fRalph D. Winter has written the best short explanation of the 2020 polarization within Calvinist & conservative circles over CRT, race, Marxism, etc. If you want to know why many blacks who were involved in the TGC world in '05 no longer are, read this! https://t.co/PvrzxzLjUr
— Anthony B. Bradley (@drantbradley) November 9, 2020
Oh well, you are supposed to recruit.” Then they recruit more and more people, and set them also to recruiting still other people. Some day someone says, “Aren’t we supposed to be fighting a war?” “Oh yeah, there’s a war.” ... 2/
Church Mission-which is absolutely basic & absolutely valid-is to extend the faith & transform people into reliable people of integrity. Kingdom Mission is when the church stops thinking abt itself & its members & pursues God’s will in this world, not just pursues more members.3/
In his book Church Shift, Sunday Adelaja, the pastor of the largest church in Europe, says that when members do things like help in the nursery and direct traffic on Sunday, that’s not mission. It’s church housekeeping. 👀 4/
The church exists to extend the glory of God & His will in society whether or not it makes advances in church membership. Many are leaving the church today because what secular people are doing is more exciting, more relevant, concrete, & may seem to be more Biblically valid. 5/
In our conversations with #STL folks about public education, we've been getting questions about what can be done at different levels of government. To help address some of those, we're doing a new #StandWithSLPS thread! So here it is:
Local 🌆vs.🏛️ State - A Thread🧵
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For starters, we should clarify that we are focused on our 3 current asks:
1. Support for a new schools moratorium
2. Creation of a citywide comprehensive plan for schools
3. Curbing of tax incentive abuse
This thread will largely be focused on the above. But first!
2/
General Remarks
Funding for local public school districts comes from 3 primary sources: local, state, and federal. According to the 2020 @SLPS_INFO Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR), 80% of revenue comes from local revenue, 13% from the state, and 7% federally.
3/
Local funding is primarily generated by property taxes, state funding gets dispersed from GR and a few other sources (lottery, etc.) to each district statewide based on the Missouri Foundation Formula, and federal funding comes in for various federal programs.
4/
State lawmakers frequently tout "fully funding" the Foundation Formula, but this is deceptive. The tried-and-true method to get to this is reduce the bar for what it means to "fully fund" the formula.
Some refs: https://t.co/3K9vhoIQJp &
Local 🌆vs.🏛️ State - A Thread🧵
1/
For starters, we should clarify that we are focused on our 3 current asks:
1. Support for a new schools moratorium
2. Creation of a citywide comprehensive plan for schools
3. Curbing of tax incentive abuse
This thread will largely be focused on the above. But first!
2/
General Remarks
Funding for local public school districts comes from 3 primary sources: local, state, and federal. According to the 2020 @SLPS_INFO Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR), 80% of revenue comes from local revenue, 13% from the state, and 7% federally.
3/
Local funding is primarily generated by property taxes, state funding gets dispersed from GR and a few other sources (lottery, etc.) to each district statewide based on the Missouri Foundation Formula, and federal funding comes in for various federal programs.
4/
State lawmakers frequently tout "fully funding" the Foundation Formula, but this is deceptive. The tried-and-true method to get to this is reduce the bar for what it means to "fully fund" the formula.
Some refs: https://t.co/3K9vhoIQJp &