Yesterday was the deadliest in U.S. history, a situation created by Republican leadership, who continue to actively fight against any remedy, while our media covers the president's unlawful attempts to overturn an election as a "gambit"
I see the cause of our "political divide."
I see the cause of our "political divide."
The idea astonishes, that there still exist opinion pieces suggesting those directly responsible for a rolling series of the deadliest days in U.S. history should face no consequence. The belief that a few people matter and the rest do not has never been more nakedly exposed.
Killing people because you want them dead is divisive.
Abandoning them to a virus when you could save them is divisive.
Making them die of cancer when you could give treatment is divisive.
Making them starve when you have food is divisive.
Yelling at the people doing it is not.
Abandoning them to a virus when you could save them is divisive.
Making them die of cancer when you could give treatment is divisive.
Making them starve when you have food is divisive.
Yelling at the people doing it is not.
Lying is divisive.
Forcing people to live in your lie is divisive.
Convincing their friends and family that the lie is truth, until they no longer resemble themselves, is divisive.
Creating a media ecosystem to launder lies into truth is divisive.
Insisting on truth is not.
Forcing people to live in your lie is divisive.
Convincing their friends and family that the lie is truth, until they no longer resemble themselves, is divisive.
Creating a media ecosystem to launder lies into truth is divisive.
Insisting on truth is not.
Corruption is divisive.
Profiting from your office is divisive
Breaking laws you still enforce upon others is divisive
Making law enforcement a profit center for the demolition of human lives is divisive
Seeking to punish corrupt actors and demolish corrupt institutions is not.
Profiting from your office is divisive
Breaking laws you still enforce upon others is divisive
Making law enforcement a profit center for the demolition of human lives is divisive
Seeking to punish corrupt actors and demolish corrupt institutions is not.
Racism is divisive.
Supporting neo Nazis is divisive.
Allowing white supremacists to infiltrate law enforcement is divisive.
Murdering Black people with impunity is divisive.
Promoting white supremacist language and neo Nazi slogans is divisive.
Refusing to accept it is not.
Supporting neo Nazis is divisive.
Allowing white supremacists to infiltrate law enforcement is divisive.
Murdering Black people with impunity is divisive.
Promoting white supremacist language and neo Nazi slogans is divisive.
Refusing to accept it is not.
Corporatism is divisive.
Allowing the ecosystem to be destroyed is divisive.
Letting corporate interests consume human life is divisive.
Making profit the only metric of success and value is divisive.
Insisting on making the needs of human beings a priority is not.
Allowing the ecosystem to be destroyed is divisive.
Letting corporate interests consume human life is divisive.
Making profit the only metric of success and value is divisive.
Insisting on making the needs of human beings a priority is not.
Fascism is divisive.
Systemically disenfranchising millions is divisive.
Attacking free and fair elections on every level is divisive.
Supporting an authoritarian's attempts to overthrow an election is divisive.
Purging a fascist party by any means necessary is not divisive.
Systemically disenfranchising millions is divisive.
Attacking free and fair elections on every level is divisive.
Supporting an authoritarian's attempts to overthrow an election is divisive.
Purging a fascist party by any means necessary is not divisive.
Thousands of citizens are murdered every day by their own government, who could do what other governments have to meet this challenge, but they don't, because there's no power and money or hate or harm in it.
THAT is divisive.
They should be destroyed. That's not divisive.
THAT is divisive.
They should be destroyed. That's not divisive.
Anyone supporting this government is supporting the murder of thousands a day, the dissolution of democracy, the promotion of white supremacy, and the abandonment of millions of sick, hungry, and suffering people.
THAT is divisive.
They should be shamed. That's not divisive.
THAT is divisive.
They should be shamed. That's not divisive.
We know that we exist in a culture dedicated to abuse and enablement of abuse, because in a time of shocking abuse creating deadly divides, the only thing that is treated as "divisive" is any attempt to check an abuser, or any attempt to establish a healthy boundary.
And divisive shit like this (one example among many) should be jeered with such complete unity that any person daring to suggest such a divisive thing never shows their face again.
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What we are experiencing is atrocity. Anger—not equanimity—is an appropriate and necessary and moral response to atrocity.
Your outrage is healthy. It unifies you with the dead and the abused.
Unity with atrocity is divisive.
Complacency in the face of it is itself atrocity.
Your outrage is healthy. It unifies you with the dead and the abused.
Unity with atrocity is divisive.
Complacency in the face of it is itself atrocity.
We must stop accepting this grotesque and abusive practice, of making it a first requirement of civility, that people of who suffer needlessly should be compelled to apologize to those who cause their suffering, for the sin of not suffering quietly enough.
Your anger is healthy.
Your anger is healthy.
We must stop accepting this grotesque and abusive practice, of making it a first requirement of civility, that people of good will should be compelled to accept unacceptable things.
Outrage is healthy, in a time of outrages.
Our anger is a healthy response.
Outrage is healthy, in a time of outrages.
Our anger is a healthy response.
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