Everyone wrote their essays and did their studies and argued about "defund the police" and years later a man can still be held down by cops in the middle of the street as he begs for his life and says "they're trying to George Floyd me" and get tased seven times before dying.
@megwiemer I don’t think your issues seem trivial or superficial at all. I don’t interact with you a lot but just bc you’re so upfront about going through heavy stuff and it’s heavy! I admire that honesty a lot and think stuff sounds tuff but you’re also tuff stuff
The leaders of our party are not built for this moment. They're too old and too wedded to outdated ways. They still believe in institutions that failed long ago. They still beg Republicans to do the right thing, only to be humiliated again and again. We need generational change.
The issue is money in politics.
They’re allowing children to die because of the gun lobby.
They’re allowing the planet to die because of Big Oil.
They’re allowing people to go without healthcare and die because of the insurance lobby.
Inaction is bought.
I do personally believe the mass shooting epidemic is so particular to the U.S. because we live in a legacy of overwhelming propaganda favoring mass citizen armament for protection of land settlement and execution of Indigenous peoples. It's American to the core
companies programmed us to refer to art, music, video, and writing as "content" to make it seem like it comes from the website and not from a person who had to think of it and make it
we've been in this pandemic for TWO YEARS
by now i should be able to go to a fkn costco drive-thru and pay $5 for a cdc approved, federally subsized kirkland covid kit with like 30 kn95s, 20 at-home tests, 10 mail-in lab tests, a thermometer, and 5 yankee candles
If you were on @Delta flight 1540 Orlando to Salt Lake or flight 3651 @slcairport to @longbeach: my son lost a stuffed polar bear with a ton of sentimental value and we’re hoping he makes it home.
Pic of when they met 11 years ago:
It is a little hard for me to take the hand-wringing about non-violent protests outside the homes of Supreme Court Justices seriously when the Supreme Court itself ruled protests outside the homes of *doctors who provide abortions* is protected by the 1st amendment.