Mamdani won by 16 points, froze rent for 1 million apartments, opened city grocery stores, balanced a $12 billion deficit, and knocked out seven corporate Democrats in one week — turns out voters want to be governed, not managed.
Some people spent so much of their lives trying to survive that they never got the chance to learn how to swim, speak a foreign language, play an instrument, travel, or simply explore life beyond work and responsibilities. That’s a side of poverty we rarely talk about.
We really CANNOT have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We cannot have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We cannot have peace because it threatens the weapons industry. Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business.
SERIOUS QUESTION: You don’t find it weird that not a single billionaire wants to end world poverty ?? Doesn’t it strike you as bizarre that no one with that kind of wealth wants to be the hero who actually solves the world’s biggest problems when they literally could ?? Isn’t that suspicious ??
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
Idk but Michelle Obama telling Barack “You told me all those years ago that you couldn't promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. And, of course you outdid yourself and managed to give me both." is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard someone say to another 🥹
I respect you so much for waking up this conversation. A lot of friendships are hostile and competitive because there is this need for a friend with a little bit more experience to look down and consistently lecture their other friend just for existing and experiencing life in-
I just learned that if you are neurodivergent the best way to get respect out of neurotypicals is by being aggressive and mean because they perceive those type of people as high value & kindness as low value. Where as neurodivergent ppl view kindness and empathy as high value and aggression as low value.
Everyone actually hates capitalism, and it bothers them every day, but they don’t realize they hate capitalism, so they end up complaining about each issue separately as if they are unrelated problems with no underlying cause.
Eu sou a favor do aborto simplesmente porque acredito que toda criança só deve vir ao mundo sendo querida e toda mulher só deve ser mãe estando feliz com essa ideia.
fentanyl does kill. stop taking these pills, stop doing coke. sam levison did a lot of fucked up shit this season but the thing he got right is how fentanyl is taking everyone and everything n he took a major tv show to highlight how bad the problem is getting
the “looksmaxxing” epidemic was the closest thing males have ever experienced to the beauty standards women are upheld to all their lives and it literally made them all insane