My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, PΓ₯lestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away
I am enjoying watching the righteous white allies in Minnesota explaining that ICE agents detaining people are white supremacists who are kidnapping everyone thatβs not white
Child goes out for a snack and is stopped by ICE.
Child doesnβt have his papersβ¦ because heβs a child.
He just wants to go home, but ICE tells him βNoβ.
Is this what you voted for? Masked men grabbing kids off the street for not having papers?
Women have diseases like PCOS, PCOD, fibromyalgia, endometriosis which significantly reduces a woman's quality of life with no treatment and women are told to just deal w it but yes let's cure male patterned baldness & erectile dysfunction.
This is the single most important book for understanding our current era. Ray Bradbury foresaw, in 1952, how we would voluntarily abandon literacy for mass entertainment and how that entertainment would be used to enslave us. Every single thing he envisioned has come to pass.
people say βwomen arenβt paid less, they just pick empathy careers.β okβ¦ but who decided nursing and teaching are worth less? like weβll pay a sales guy 150k to move numbers around, but pay a nurse pennies to literally keep people alive, or give a teacher crumbs and wonder why future generations are failing every test. itβs not that empathy based work is less valuable itβs that weβve normalized underpaying it because itβs βwomenβs work.β
its clear to me that the goal here is to keep escalating until something gives and people push back. and then use that as a means to implement martial law and engage in mass repression. Minnesota is a testing ground.