Greta Markurt

If you’re serious, you will optimize for survival, because you can’t keep playing if you’re dead.

Stop framing your life around answers or goals. And start framing it around questions.

You don’t kill the movement by killing the man; you hand the movement his ghost. Worse, it gives his allies carte blanche to crack down harder, scream about “lawlessness,” and tighten their grip in ways the system can’t easily reverse. Nonviolent resistance doesn’t just look better — it works better, because it leaves the institutions intact and... See more

Riots and assassinations aren’t the start of conflict — they’re the bloody finale of years of systemic harm.

but the discomfort is not proof that you’re failing; it’s proof that you’re present in the process. when you feel that itch of inadequacy, that awkwardness of not being fluent yet, that is the body’s way of recording: something new is happening here. neurons are straining to connect. muscles are memorizing movements. patterns are being written. the... See more

Look closely and you’ll see the same cycle everywhere: systemic harm → public backlash → state repression → escalation. The violence we notice is just the breaking point.

This is where privilege hides: in the ability to see violence only when it disrupts comfort, not when it defines someone else’s daily life. For Black Americans living under the threat of police stops, for trans youth watching their healthcare disappear, for immigrants fearing the next raid — politics has always been violent.