Well France apparently just collabed between everyone else to kick a far right party out of the chance to take power, it can be done if enough people want it to be, folks
1. Trans ppl can now serve in the military.
2. Plan B is now OTC.
3. 12 MILLION more ppl have healthcare
4. Vastly improved access to paid leave esp. when needing a safe place to avoid domestic abuse
5. C'mon.
6. Restored April 25.
7. Major expansion of wind & solar.
8. Boyfriend loophole closed
I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless
I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
[giant boom happening every fifteen minutes at the lake]
my mom: just do the ones that look pretty. these are bad
me: it’s 7:30. sunset is in an hour and a half
grandpa: they didn’t beat the british at concord with whistlers and roman candles
OK so while we argue on this site about who should replace Biden Twitter is burning up with WHY DOESNT THE MEDIA COVER TRUMP SEXUALLY ASSAULTING CHILDREN WITH EPSTEIN we really need to stop the discourse on here being so completely led by a handful of white elite dipshits in ac offices
There are many people on here who will sneer at people for celebrating July 4th and others who will tear their clothes and declare there's nothing about America worth celebrating right now and I'll be too busy making a bear roast and homminy to listen to them.
What gives me hope are the normal people trying to save things. People running for school board against moms for liberty freaks, college kids protesting, local newsrooms investigating corruption etc. They inspire but also make me pissed off at the powerful people/institutions that won’t defend them
columnists can lay out the conditions under which they would be satisfied, but i didn’t vote for a fucking columnist and i do not look to them for leadership
how I think I’ll perform at work the friday between fourth of july & the weekend / how I actually perform at work the friday between fourth of july & the weekend