there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
Two more deaths in ICE custody were reported this week, including a refugee who died after an untreated toothache.
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Although, honestly, the thing that confuses me most is watching people who are playing in an intensely collaborative fashion talk about how competitive they are being, and it is a lack of self-awareness that I find stunning.
It is this weird cross between a collaborative project and mutually assured destruction, and you never know which game your partner is playing at any given moment, and they change from one style to another without warning.
Honestly, one of the things I find baffling about American Car Culture is the fact that driving is one of the most collaborative things people do on a daily basis. We agree to pay attention to things like painted lines on a road to keep us from killing each other. it's magic.
IF Gavin Newsom is on a ballot
THEN me and many others will refuse to vote for him
THEREFORE instead of bitching at me and others like me
YOU should take the *years* you have and make sure that doesn't happen if you actually fucking care
BECAUSE my position is immutable
Tech bro oligarch: The AI is... real... sentient.... it's feeling real feelings... we must do everything we can to protect it and give it rights
Also tech bro oligarch: Human females are basically cattle made to push out as many babies as possible, all of which I will neglect
I guess my theory is that Harris actually did run a perfect campaign, and the problem is that the consultants are just plain wrong about what a perfect campaign is. I don't think it is that politics are different, actually, but I do think that the consultant class are wrong about how it works.
When I was in high school, we were prepping for the inevitability of the metric system. I'm still bitter all that work went to waste.
fractally, autocarrot!
Good lord. That's fractal stupid.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the fractions but in ourselves.
What do homeless people need: Homes
What do hungry people need: Food
What do poor people need: Money
It's not that hard.
Um, what did I miss?
Also murder! I dunno why oligarchs like murder, but evidence suggests that they like it a great deal.
I'm also fond of the Brazilian resistance slogan "No one lets go of anyone's hands." It is wonderful and fine to care about the travails of distant peoples. It does not supplant the need to reach out to the people you can actually touch, your neighbors. /9
I was extremely wrong. It is not that people farther away matter less, which is what I had thought that meant. it is that people here, at hand, must find ways to rub along together, that the best support is the hand you can reach, the hand that is close. /8
I don't think there is a more radical statement of democracy than "We keep us safe." I was a hard sell on the whole concept of "neighborism" that we are, in Minneapolis, practicing right now. I didn't understand why geographic proximity mattered. /7
I am coming to understand that the strength of a democracy is directly related to the breadth of the franchise. The more voices, the more diverse those voices, the more robust and resilient we will be. By, of, and for the people, motherfuckers. /6
Now a whole-assed adult, I want to go back and ask him, "But, what's all that money in the treasury _for_?" Why are we not, collectively, using it to make people's lives better? What better use could it possibly have? (I mean, yes, we could murder school girls in Iran, I guess.) /5
My civics teacher, oh so many years ago, was arguing that a robust social safety net was the equivalent of bread and circuses, and that if you just, you know, let anyone vote, that soon the treasury would be depleted providing for all those worthless layabouts. /4
Here's the thing to understand about "bread and circuses". It wasn't voted on by the populace for the populace. It was decreed by the ruling classes to keep the underclasses from burning the city down and crucifying their rulers. It was a solution to the problem of the people not having a voice. /3
I am coming to understand, bone deep, that the strength of a democracy is in the diversity of voices. Radical inclusion makes us smarter and better. The more we expand the franchise, the better things will be for all. It makes the project of self-governance more complex, but more resilient. /2
When I was in 8th grade, my civics teacher said that one of the great problems with democracy was that the populace could just vote themselves bread and circuses. As a resident of Minneapolis, I would like to shout "bullshit" from the rafters. /1
This is the way.
With eyes! Him eyes so big!
The Orange Dreamcicle is objectively the best ice cream truck treat. I feel your pain.
We're missing out on the blood moon eclipse here in the UK, but the way this stone glows makes me think of galaxies.
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Collage of small green stone turtle exploring various flowers in the rain.
Right, while I'm away fighting meds and sprucing up the flat for inspection, can I interest anyone in a tiny adventure?
ko-fi.com/turtleofcalm...
Over 150 different wallpapers, photographed out and about in Hampshire. Singles are $2, or grab a bundle and get a discount.
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Senate comity is going to destroy our country. These people are all in a little club together, and they care more about each other than they care about the people they serve.
