this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd
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We weren’t thinking at all.
Until we as a country understand that we are not invincible or special this will just get worse and happen again over and over.
They're not doing so well right now.
I read up on the 1918 influenza flu the second it became apparent that we were unable and/or unwilling to actually combat it.
Conclusion: yup, we're boned.
But it's past that and has become cult like.
"Sport" just carries a less serious tone to me.
I feel like literature and marketing has given the term a largely positive connotation
what we need is a benign dictatorship
No.
You moron.
What doesn’t track is these decision makers are only one generation removed from the GD tariffs. Decadent.
This is at least as much of an “average citizens” problem as it is an “elites” problem
One of the worst things libs did to politics was tell their party they'll vote for them no matter who. A mandate to do nothing.
How do you think we got here? You think voting has nothing to do with this fuckin psycho getting to tank the economy vs. the intelligent black woman working to make things better.
Even then Manchin voted for the largest climate reform bill in history and Ketanji Brown Jackson. I don't know why you think a Republican would be an improvement
My 87 year old mom wasn't allowed to go to public pools because of outbreaks
they got theirs, they're set up to keep getting theirs
Let’s keep the (productive) focus on class conflict & avoid folk-sociology
Tom Morgan