This July 4th a family will skip the fireworks.
Because gas is $4.24 a gallon and the drive is not worth it.
Another family will skip the cookout.
Because ground beef is $10 a pound and hot dogs went up again.
Another will spend the holiday applying for jobs.
Because the layoff came last month and rent is due.
America is worth fighting for.
But first we have to be honest about what we are fighting.
I think the hardest part of the current political climate is realizing how many people are actually just evil. Not misinformed or uneducated... just openly and happily enjoying other people's suffering.
COVID-19 might have been 6 years ago, but it affected us deeply. Nobody remained the same. Time feels faster. The energy feels different.People are colder & more detached. Careers paused, some lost their identity. some are still stuck. The world we knew never really returned.
we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen
If you live in a country that sends poor people to jail for using drugs, but doesn't send rich people to jail for raping kids, you live in a shit hole country.
Why do streaming apps make it a scavenger hunt to find the show I was just watching? The "Continue Watching" row should always be the very first option. Period.