It’s true I don’t have a formalized plan in place for replacing the fascist murder squads that currently gobble up over half our cities’ budgets, but I do feel that “get rid of the fascist murder squads” is a solid idea even without a plan.
Correct, and it's in service of the position "actually the fascist murder squads make me feel safe."
Honestly don't get how you watch the last decade unfold and not realize that we have a serious pressing and extremely dangerous problem of rising white supremacist fascism, or that the institution of policing isn't at least one of the primary—if not THE primary—vectors for it.
Worth noting nobody had to ask what I meant by “fascist murder squads.”
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One thing I never want to hear again in my life is that we can’t do something because the American people “will never go along with it.” If we’ve learned anything it’s that a huge mass of American people will go along with pretty much fucking anything.
To be clear, I don't mean Trumpers. I mean the middle mass of Americans who simply don't want to be perceived as taking a stand, so as to avoid having to defend a position.
We know they'll shrug and go along with atrocity, but I suspect they'd also go along with good things.
Anyway, we're going to have to enact necessary and much-needed solutions to pressing problems without the support of people who will never go along with it.
Either way we need to be done with using the idea of opposition—whether real or perceived—as a reason not to begin.
My feeling is the way that you fight McConnell is to refuse to even entertain compromise, tell the news every day the plain truth that it's because Republicans have demolished all trust, and then refuse to count any Republican "Y" votes for the popular bills you pass 51-50.
The Republican Party is a fringe lunatic org committed to white supremacy and lashed to a pathetic aging TV star grifter who through incompetency and malice stole a year of our lives and watched 500,000 Americans die, and if you can't make that THEIR problem I just don't know.
Sinema is an excuse. Manchin is an excuse. Everyone can be pressured. Figure out how. That's the job.
If he defects, then that's bad and Biden needs to switch into "veto-everything" mode, but you can't refuse to play because you're afraid you'll lose. Time is too short.
I’d like to thank the comments for keeping this a sandwich-positive zone, with no sandwich fights or sandwich shaming. All sandwiches are welcome here.
The rest of my top 5:
2. Cubano. Flawless victory. 3. Bacon egg cheese. Most important sandwich of the day. 4. Veggie hummus. Healthy choice, massive taste. 5. Grilled chee. Classic perfection.
Regular reminder that conservatives are just as intent on enforcing "politically correct" language and narratives as anyone else, it's just that their version of "correct" means erasing a diverse and growing list of types of people from acknowledgement and existence.
Societal norms exist as a natural irreducible result of a society existing. We decide what's appropriate to say, and to whom. It's a collective thing. It changes over time.
Ours changed.
We used to have far less inclusive and more toxic norms. Some people think that was better.
They think it was better, by and large, because they were included in our exclusive norms, which benefitted them materially.
It's easier to succeed when so many others aren't allowed to be; if the existence of others is policed by social norms but the existence of you isn't.
We are gathered here, friends,” he said, “to honor lo Hoon-yera Mora-toorz tut Zamoo-cratz-ya, children dead, all dead, all murdered in war.
It is customary on days like this to call such lost children men.
"I am unable to call them men for this simple reason: that in the same war in which lo Hoon-yera Mora-toorz tut Zamoo-cratz-ya died, my own son died.
“My soul insists that I mourn not a man but a child.
“I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays.