Oh just looking at leftists fight with each other on Twitter
Movie is 41 years old and practically nothing has changed
I know we have issues too but looking in on that gives me smug as one of those impure liberals
The thing I've learned most about politics, especially on the left side, is you're never going to be 100% happy and if that's your goal you've doomed yourself to misery forever. I aim for like 70-75% myself. That's good enough and still a little high if we're being realistic.
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its not a dealbreaker but i just realized AOC is a massive hand-talker. she doesnt just have one hand-move, but she moves her hands all over the danged place.
(this is meaningless theater criticism with absolutely no serious implications)
biden doesnt move his hands a lot. harris moves her hands but the motion is very deliberate and not "wild." trump has accordion hands and loves to do the "ok" sign. obama is a pointer. bill clinton is a thumb pointer. hrc nods in 180 degrees.
biden's "tic" is this thing he does where he rubs the side of his nose. he does it in almost every speech. the trump equivalent is when he purses his lips and tilts his head as if to say "what i just said is amazing and you should applaud it."
There are some people on the left who practically salivate over the idea that Democrats should throw anti-bigotry aside. To be perfectly honest I think a lot of them have never really spoken to a black person. They've spoken at one, but not *to* one.
Their take is basically: Can we just stop talking about racism and misogyny and transphobia and the rest? Let's just talk about Medicare for all and UBI and that will solve *everything*.
The people who think this way are fucking stupid.
And they always insist when Republicans make some populist noises they've magically "outflanked the Democrats." Look, the Democrats are generally too attached to means tested neolib bullshit, but Josh Hawley sounding like Bernie isn't an actual movement on the right.
Duquan rolled over and hit the alarm. His vision was still blurry, but he looked at the calendar on his wall. There it was, in black and white. December 21, or B-Day as everyone had started calling it.
He didn't feel any different, and he wondered if it was a hoax.
Then suddenly, the skies darkened. It was if midnight had suddenly fallen. The sun quickly faded away, replaced by a black orb.
Duquan heard... what was that? Music?
"He was a buffalo soldier," Bob Marley quietly sang, off in the distance.
Lightning flashed across the jet-black sky.
Then, in the loudest voice anyone has ever heard, Martin Luther King said, "Rise, blacks, rise."
Duquan's hands began to blow and he felt a charge of electricity surge through his system.
There are people who keep insisting AOC must "wait her turn" and I remember how people said that about Obama and he never even served a full term in the Senate, thank God.
It also reminds me of how people used to insist NFL quarterbacks could only be good if they spent years and years holding a clipboard on the sidelines and nowadays it's mostly young guys who you just throw into the game and they sink or swim.
I dunno how AOC is gonna pan out. I'm inclined to think she has raw superstar talent, so who knows? But this idea that she shouldn't buck the status quo and should just sit in Congress with her mouth shut and hands in her lap is stupid and silly.