"I voted for you last time, and you still haven't fixed EVERYTHING! And now you want me to vote AGAIN???"
Yes. You have to vote every time. You have to vote for Democrats every time. It takes more than a year or two to fix everything Republicans have fucked up.
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And even after everything is fixed, you have to keep Democrats in office--EVERY office--or Republicans will break it all over again. Because that's what they do.
And then we have to start all over again.
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I recognize lots of voters are lazy and apathetic. They want to go back to not caring, and if they bother to vote at all, voting for some fringy fun weed-and-socialism candidate who hasn't got a change in hell of getting elected, but is a kinky fantasy to vote for.
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They want to go back to when "voting" was what you did to help decide who stays on the Island, or who becomes a supermodel, or who's Queen of the Prom--instead of deciding who lives and who dies and whether you can have an abortion and whether you'll even be allowed to vote.
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Democracy requires at least as much attention as your daily trips to Starbucks. Saving democracy better be at least as important to you as Squid Game.
Republicans used to insist their laws requiring women's clinics to have hallways of a certain width, or admitting privileges at local hospitals, or dozens of other absurd demands, weren't attempts to limit access to abortion, but only to ensure patient safety.
1/11
Now that it seems likely SCOTUS will overturn Roe, Republicans are flat-out blatantly outlawing abortions, making obvious what everyone knew all along--they were, of course, lying about the previous laws.
Pointing out their lies never, ever weakens their position.
2/11
Republican strategists, and Republican voters, know that everything a Republican says is a lie. (Every. Thing.) They know they contradict themselves constantly. They know they're hypocrites and that they have no facts and their statistics are unrelated to reality.
President Biden is reportedly working on a plan to cancel a significant amount of student debt for low-income or underprivileged people who attended HBCU's or public colleges.
This won't satisfy the rich white kids, but it's what he's promised to do.
By the way, we need a word other than "cancel" for what can be done. The debt doesn't go away; it's not "cancelled"; taxpayers pay it off. This is why it should apply only to lower- or middle-income people, not privileged kids attending expensive private colleges.
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Biden's plan (very likely) will only apply to federally-financed loans, not to money lent by private or commercial interests.
There are, by the way, already significant programs designed to relieve loans for economic hardship or because of predatory lenders.
3/9
Years ago, I wrote a science fiction novel, and started on a sequel, about a team of college students who create the first true artificial intelligence.
The tale dealt with what it is to be human, and with prejudice and slavery, with God and nature, love and hate.
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It also dealt with why the most successful technological innovators are so often assholes, unable to see their own failings and blindness.
Technology hasn't caught up to my novel. We're still far from any true artificial intelligence.
We're maybe far from any intelligence.
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But of course, this story (like all science fiction) isn't about technology. It's about our humanity. All fantasy and all science fiction is about us, right here, right now--because, obviously, we don't know anything else, and therefore can't write about anything else.
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Trump and his minions were terrified of a Biden presidency--not just because they wanted to stay in office so they could keep criming and acquiring more wealth, but also because they (rightly) feared an actual DOJ would prosecute them for their mob activities.
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So they committed an offense far worse than anything they'd yet so far done in their petty grifting crime spree. They attempted a vast and complex multi-pronged coup, intended to keep them in power so as to protect them from prosecution.
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They failed to retain power, but they've (so far) partially succeeded in evading prosecution for their lesser crimes. They're instead being investigated (and will be prosecuted) for the far more serious crime of seditious conspiracy.
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