npadiak.bsky.social
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Rogers Park, Chicago
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I’m reading this and knowing my wife is going to catch up on RHONY tomorrow and I am *very* excited to get her reaction.
So, thanks for giving me something to look forward to in these awful, awful times, I guess!
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Yup!
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“The personal responsibility party!”
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Infuriating
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If only these fucking voters could pull themselves up by their bootstraps and inform themselves using widely public information.
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Yup! That’s the “party of personal responsibility” for ya.
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For real
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Exactly
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These fuckin’ marks.
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FFS
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Yep!
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YES
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YUP
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Grew up in the deep cornfields of north central Illinois but now live in Chicago. The derision and contempt I get when I come home is palpable.
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Idiots, all.
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And, honestly, how do we reach people like this? How do we convince people that their slight discomfort absolutely does not and should not take precedence over hundreds of thousands of deaths?
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Yuuuuup
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… off as condescending and hurting their ruggedly individualistic feelings.
The “party of personal responsibility” cannot and will not take responsibility for being educated, informed grownups who take voting seriously and by their own stated logic, it’s their own fucking fault
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… climate-damaging practices?
Nope! Not according to these voters.
It’s on *us* to “meet them where they are.” It’s on *us* to convince them that demonstrably true things are true—preferably by blasting it directly into their eyes or ears, but not too shrilly or expertly, lest we risk coming …
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… shouldn’t these biologically numerical “adults” be capable of informing themselves about the threat of violent fascism?
The relative success of the post-pandemic American economy vis a vis inflation?
The entirely inarguable reality of climate change and Trump’s stated ambitions to escalate …
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… to every news cycle and every John Kelly quotation. They’re busy living their lives and they simply don’t have time to contemplate the role of politics and politicians, right? These poor, busy, honorable voters.
Except, wait: personal responsibility and bootstraps and such. So, by that logic …
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… only one irrefutable piece of evidence that they’re full of shit and deserve nothing more than derision, scorn, and ridicule.
Now, how about those marks who voted Trump “despite” his stated authoritarian ambitions?
We’re told to empathize: People are busy. They can’t possibly pay attention …
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If I told any of these MRA “alpha”types over and over again that they were a bunch of flamboyant drag queens, would there suddenly be a podcastverse full of high-voiced Dolly Parton types?
By their own stated logic and vaunted personal responsibility, yes!
The fact that this isn’t the case is …
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Thought I invented the term “Occam’s Racism” a while back. Did a quick search and found out it was already a thing. But in my opinion it should be much MORE of a thing.
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Sigh.
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Seriously.
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Mmhmm
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YES
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