You know what really bugs me? If we manage to turn the car around and avoid becoming a failed state, the Average Voter will get Y2K amnesia and say "see? It wasn't that bad" and use it as an excuse to keep voting for billionaire failsons with pseudoephedrine addictions
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Part of me is glad we tore the bandaid off instead of watching another great leader get constantly undercut for another four years as Americans try to steer the car into a tree.
I'm afraid a similar fate will befall us for the next pandemic, too.
Nevermind amnesia after 20 years; this all happened within 2 days.
1) the currency did dive instantly
2) the day after the vote, and for ages afterwards, we were still part of the EU
3) now, when it's too late, they see it
4) it's not possible to just unilaterally rejoin but people act as though it's a betrayal that the current government doesn't do that
5) the Tories burnt every tiny bit of trust there was, so even if we applied, most of the EU would be lolnope at the mere idea
I only leave my house for emergent medical appointments these days because going out almost anywhere risks my life. Normalization is COVID is killing me by inches, & I'm sick enough not to have many left.
"rights" are as fake as "laws"
"inalienable rights" is a rhetorical device
Being aware of so much of this madness, and the helplessness it invokes, is just a rare frequency of sadism that I would love to get out of my daily routine
To pour salt in the wound, despite having finished the job well ahead of the deadline, our entire development team was required to be in town, and on-call ready/available that New Years Eve, just so customers could feel reassured that we'd be there if anything bad happened.
"Congress (eventually) regained the power of the purse, so obviously the Constitution is working fine and we don't need to rock the boat by holding GOP criminals accountable."
Hopefully in the next election 16 years from now the US picks a better direction
And no, it’s not a ‘urban’ issue, and no, it isn’t evenly distributed either.