And if you push me some bullshit about "getting tough on crime," I will verbally slap you upside the head so hard, you won't remember your fucking name.
A benumbing sound that plays in the background of life. It's been there always. I hid it in the floorboards, suffocated it with insulation and alcohol just to cope with the insanity of growing up in and stubbornly refusing to abandon this war zone, my childhood home.
@royalpratt When they closed the bars in our neighborhood, it destroyed the economy. I believe this happened in the late seventies and early eighties, around the time I was born.
@royalpratt That, in combination with systemic racism in a commodified housing market and disinvestment from the city, forced Brighton Park into a devastating economic quagmire that it struggles with to this day.
@royalpratt If @LoriLightfoot is making it more difficult for mom and pop liquor shops to survive, it's because she wants to replace them with Binny's, or nothing at all.
@Thom_Hartmann@FrankLuntz is outnumbered. It's patently obvious the riches and power of a manipulative, narcissistic and callous set of families is ill-gotten and illegitimate. Capitalism has a clear history that's intertwined with human captivity, genocide and widespread deceit.
@Thom_Hartmann@FrankLuntz Roughly a third of Americans, @FrankLuntz, identify as Capitalists, and also, roughly a third of Americans believe COVID is a hoax, Trump is still @POTUS, and the January 6th coup attempt was an elaborate walking tour of the Capitol.
@Thom_Hartmann@FrankLuntz@POTUS However, @FrankLuntz, roughly two-thirds of Americans believe you're full of shit, and we're pissed. You're not going to smooth that over with clever wordplay. You could coordinate to kill us all, but that would make you a fascist, and besides: you're outnumbered.