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I wish I could get people to care about health care and wages as much as they care about mean words.
Pretty sure you’ve described neoliberalism in a nutshell.
As Talleyrand once said: "An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public."
What, and give up purity testing? That would eliminate 90% of our recreational outrage and give us time and energy to actually do something. Can't have that.
Without my sexual identity and virtue signaling I wouldn't have any personality at all.
What's funny is it's literally a shared behavior across the entire political spectrum in America but each side pretends it's only the other side doing it.
But we're interpretive dancing at them SO HARD. what more do you want??
You make a good point. I don't give them enough credit for their performative politics.
God, this is cringe. Like, it's embarrassing to be on the same team as them.
It’s because we aren’t on the same team
Yeah, yeah.
That's also the conclusion I've reached.
I know, right?
Why are democrats so proud to be the lesser evil? Why can't we just be the good guys?
It's the consultancy class, mostly. Corporate money.
Being the lesser evil means never taking action. Never taking action means nothing difficult for Amazon ever happens.
Did they all just do a superhero landing? That shit is hard on the knees.
I thought they were Teebowing
Honestly a little impressed they were all able to kneel and get back up at all.
White American liberals in a nutshell
The same people who care more about mean words than reducing the disparity in the wealth are the ones profiting off of the disparity in wealth.
Everyone loves money, including gays, blacks, and women.
Were the "mean words" ever used against you?
Yes. Now get over it.
Bzzzt. Rhetoric.
Those topics are simple and easy to understand.
Understanding the long arc of the oppression of the labor class and the systemic design failures of US Healthcare is hard and the explanation won't fit in a TikTok.
Yeah, all the word policing kinda feels like a psyop because it's stirring up a lot of conflict without any real benefit. Controlling what words are ok doesn't make people respect the ones hurt by the words, and ultimately it's the disrespect that causes the hurt, the words are just the manifestation of that.
Like with disabled people, pretty much every word used to describe them has become an insult and any new word will just suffer the same fate pretty much the same day it gets popularized.
But the argument itself is polarizing, though in a way that makes the other side shut up about it until they can find like minded people. And might end up joining MAGA because they think it's about trolling people policing language and words like "woke" end up having very different meanings to the different groups (one side sees it as a respect for all regardless of background or capabilities, the other sees it as a drive for censorship) to the point where people supporting the other side seem "evil", which then means that as MAGAs wake up and see it is about more than just policing words, their opponents are more likely to tell them to fuck off than.
And that's not even mentioning the people who take the stance "my racism/sexism is ok because it's against the race/gender with more power", and the people who treat non-malicious acknowledgement of differences between genders/races/cultures the same as malicious ones and no fucking wonder there's strong opposition.
Do they still call this thread-jacking?
Don't be the vegan at the party, dude.
Nah, this is why it's important to make sure "vegans" are at your parties.