I love how the entire market is based on vibes, that makes me feel safe. This is an excellent system. There is nothing we can do that would be better.
Also, everyone pointing out that we’ve been in a recession is insane.
Only the one true god JP Morgan can guide us. 🫡🙏🏻
“We”
I feel so included!
We got nothing! We’re broke! Can’t do it.
Maybe next cycle, if you vote! It’s your fault, you know; you didn’t vote for enough of us and now we can’t do anything.
Perhaps if you donated? (14/14)
There’s always some extra money for a new plane or a warehouse or somebody’s flight to Italy, but when it comes time to fund Medicaid, well golly gee, look at all these senators showing off their empty pockets on the tv! (13/14)
If we wanted those things, we would have them by now. Or at any other period in history when we decided we didn’t want “other” people here. (12/14)
But if we defunded the entire military apparatus tomorrow, if we had zero undocumented residents in America, if we never gave a single cent in foreign aid again, we would still not have universal health care, affordable housing, mental health treatment, or any other economic safety net. (11/14)
We just don’t have the political will to do it.
This is why populism takes hold. This particular tune is the same song that we’ve seen throughout American history - all that “America First” garbage keeping folks trapped in that binary. (10/14)
We could give all undocumented people the same benefits Americans receive just by virtue of walking across the imaginary line and we’d still have plenty left over to actually take care of people in this country. (9/14)
But the reason folks don’t have good jobs or food or a mortgage isn’t because of undocumented people taking resources. (8/14)
It isn’t actually binary. Those in power would prefer you think so, because then they don’t have to do anything about any of it. The status quo is great for the kingmakers. (7/14)
That’s it, that’s the whole reason.
It isn’t because there isn’t enough money, or because you have to choose between a foreign country’s defenses and food on your table. (6/14)
The reason we point to drugs and opiates and complain about the unhoused instead of creating real, affordable housing is because we don’t have the political will to do it. (5/14)
The reason we say the problem is trade agreements and overseas manufacturing and refuse to make existence affordable is because we don’t have the political will to do it. (4/14)
The reason we say “it’s about the mental health, not the guns” and then refuse to fund mental health is because we don’t have the political will to do it. (3/14)
The reason we don’t have universal health care isn’t because we dump a ton of funding into our military. It’s because we don’t have the political will to do it. (2/14)
I totally get why people have binary thinking on this topic, but, at least to me, this is the easiest messaging problem in the world to crack (1/14)
“We should take stakes in companies when people need something,” Trump has said. If this is socialism, it is socialism without a proletariat, central planning without a plan.” Excerpt From “A Horseshoe Theory of Trump” Gilad Edelman The Atlantic
@giladedelman.bsky.social This particular section of your article can just as easily be explained with the word “fascism.”
A bit baffled why you’re trying to shoehorn definitions here. Horseshoes are unnecessary. Fascism has always been in bed with capital.
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “A National Call to Action: White People Against ICE! Our Role in Showing Up in Solidarity” - sign www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
Please please take a minute for this! It helps us to center disabled folks in our work and is so important, especially now since this bill may wipe us off the map…
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “Keep Every Neighbor Safe! white people organizing our own against anti-immigrant racism” - sign up!
Writing words for my own sanity again - I have @sophiegilbert.bsky.social and her brilliant article in the Atlantic this week to thank for my current primal scream into the void.
On white womanhood and proximity to power:
I cannot WAIT to read this after reading her incredible piece in the Atlantic. Some of the best writing I’ve read in a very long time.
Read this today and holy shit. Can’t wait to grab your book! What an incredible assessment of our generation and our processes of unlearning the cultural damage done to all of us.
I appreciate how incisive and analytical you are while remaining accessible! Not easy for writers to do! 🙌🏻
Some thoughts on the role of religion and its relationship to the endless complaints of young men.
As usual, I try to not go full historian here and work to make my writing as accessible as possible.
Today I had to write a bunch of public relations nonsense for the dumbasses in DC that reads like “We help the poor cripples achieve the American dream! And stop waste and fraud somehow! And BOOTSTRAPS!!! Workforce development!!!!!!!”
Anyway yeah things in America are going great and this is fine
@repjasmine.bsky.social I just want to say, as a hot wheels myself, I approve your message. Fuck Greg Abbott, we don't claim him or his wheels, and he's a disgrace to the disability community.
Keep doing what you're doing, because we need you. 🖤
This has made me feel like I am in a weird fog for a while now, and I didn't even realize it was happening, but I think despite the INSANELY VIVID DREAMS (gtfo out of my brain, weird horror movie shit, delete from RAM) I am finally starting to feel like myself.
Which is to say, baseline cynic.
I haven't exactly meant to disappear from social media for a month (🫢) but I've been working on getting my meds adjusted and am, after about 18 months of titrating, FINALLY off my SSRI and on the lowest dose before I'm done done. (Once it's at this level it no longer contains SSRI meds.)
