the depressing thing about what's happening and to come is how fucking unnecessary all of it was. no war forced us into this, no massive recession. bunch of bored morons pushed the "break everything" button because of the man on the tv and the people on their phone told them, and people will die.
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I don't have the time to memorize a book right now, but I worry I will pretty soon if things don't change.
not divide us.
Instead of talking about US eating the RICH, we argued w MAGAts about IMMIGRANTS eating cats.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/25/1552113/-Understanding-Trump
If the issue is race/immigrants/gender, ppl vote for MAGA.
If the issue is taxing billionaires & big corporations, ppl vote for Dems.
YES!, we're antiracist, antisexist, pro immigrants.
But if we allow that to be the dialog, we lose.
Black women must RUN on fair taxes.
But political news and punditry is the domain of upper middle class ppl for whom that life may as well be on Mars
I think about this regularly.
the war was “you aren’t more valuable than these Other groups — you’re the same”
white cis straight able nt people would rather burn it all down than share a micrometer with any body Else
It didn’t just happen; there was longterm planning from NRA to Maria Buttina to fed soc and manafort
The last ten years they've been treated like a beaten spouse when they were the only party trying to improve things for normal people.
There have been lots of people standing on the sidelines for the better part of a decade criticizing and making bets, but never once lifting a finger to pitch in.
And they want to make their indolence a virtue!
This time it's divorced dads who let Fox convince them Joe Biden is a Marxist.
Instead they want boring lame uneducated pop and catastrophic levels of destroying the planet to build more plagiarism machines
though Murdoch and Reagan probably had a big impact on reducing peoples' trust in social fabric
(https://dai.ly/x2kh5nk 20-odd minutes when it goes black and white)
https://dai.ly/xflqt2
And Randianism. Don’t forget the ultimate DudeBro, John Galt.