Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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The Plot To Help America’s Children
Responding To Readers: New York Times
@Tom Yes. I took one thing and made it seem like another thing because it is. Capitalism is a religion. Not of sorts, but of ideology. I have been dirt poor my entire life. I find it almost…
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Capitalism Is Killing our Children
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Tim Barrus, The New York Times
Tim Barrus | North Carolina
Politicians say we’re lazy. They fervently believe we are out to impoverish them, rob them, grab their wealth and run. There is no Robinhood who is going to save us. No merry men. No Friar Tuck. But there is…
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It’s About the Purse
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hey kid i found your doll
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first, they will starve you/ that knot in your gut never goes away/ then, they will lock your brother up for shoplifting/ food/ food so you could feed your belly with it food/ then, that bitch from social services keeps coming around and you threw rocks at her car but…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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AMERICAN ECONOMICS IS RUBBISH
America is a fascist state. It’s allegiances are to a version of capitalism that has nothing to do with actual human beings who are brainwashed that capitalism is the only way to run a railroad. And America protects its fascist state with a chokehold around the…
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MY FAT WHITE ASS ON A SPIT
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A reader at the New York Times takes my fat white ass to task:
BorisRoberts
Santa Maria, CA
You know what,Tim? Perpetual victimhood does not move you forward in any way. Going to prison, is a choice. Running from police, is a choice. You aren’t afraid of the police, they…
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I told My Stdents 2 Kill Themselves
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An Excerpt From the New York Times and Going Rogue
West Liberty High School, Iowa
Most teachers had given up on the lot of them. The bad ones. The kids who fall between the cracks into the awesome, Great Divide. Great Divides are everywhere. It was about learning to debate.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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“I don’t see how I can make it work.” Right. It’s humiliating. Degrading. We are a region, not a state. How do you address poverty in West Virginia, and forget the states it borders. Haves and have nots all over again. Survival is ephemeral. Nothing works. I borrow the school…
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Going Rogue
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A great sadness descended from the irony of midnight’s abyss not unlike red dust storms made you dream of rivers and the solitude of rivers and the river’s edge of sound and wounds and fatal roads and going away.
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FUCK THE COPS
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Both Andrew and I have had a lot of experience avoiding cops. We knew too many people, all of them members of Antifa, who had quietly disappeared. They just weren’t there anymore. Vanished. No one dared to question authority about where the evaporated were. The ubiquitous party line was that…