IIRC Pushback against "Unsafe at any speed" was the literal origin of the conservative think tank as a political movement. I think Behind the Bastards did an episode on it or maybe Stuff you missed in history class?
My personal oneStraight passing queer guy here, personally advocating for the young women and trans women in my life to arm themselves and helping teach when I can. Rights shall not be infringed upon without great pain to those who try
It's because they're offering easy answers to complicated problems. No one wants to listen to me explain for 45 minutes why something is an issue that dates back three decades and will probably require three more decades of fixing, they just want to feel good now.
It's why I feel so conflicted. It's targeting those "the only moral abortion is mine" types in the only way they'll feel it. How wise do you get an old Conservative man to understand how important abortion is without someone "innocent" (assuming they weren't complicit) suffering from the consequences? I guess it's punishment in a more Biblical sense than moral consequence, but they need to feel the level of pain they inflicted on people and then be met with the same "God's plan" bullshit as they watch someone they care about suffer. I just don't think they'll ever understand otherwise
My biggest weakness and most toxic trait is wanting to see bad people face consequences. That person weaving through traffic at high speeds without a turn signal, with no concern for the safety of everybody else on the road? Please drive off the road, crash, do something that drives home how selfish you are acting, and I hope it's expensive.
Politician campaigning on hate and saying that religion punishes 'wicked' people? I hope a loved one suffers some horrible disease and dies in pain.
Vote for an anti-abortion law? Watch your wife or daughter die of something entirely preventable. Refuse to provide exceptions for rape? Do unto others and all that, you know?
Nazi/christofascist/white supremacist? Worm food. Slowly.
I fix things, that's my whole driving purpose in life, and basically the only thing I'm particularly good at. I have never been very creative, I suck at writing , I'm not a great artist or sculptor or musician. It causes me so much pain and frustration to not be able to fix something, and so much rage to see people deliberately breaking things, doubly so when they delight in the suffering it causes.
I struggle to consider myself a pacifist as the paradox of tolerance is a difficult thing to have to come to terms with and I'm fundamentally a flawed human being, but I so fundamentally hate the presumed human cost of "just doing business". I am filled with a searing, incandescent rage at all times, fueled entirely by the hypocrisy of liberal ideology and the cruelty of conservatives. I'm burning up and trying to avoid melting down just getting through the day, surrounded by people who seemingly willingly refuse to understand nuance on hot issues or that complicated problems oftentimes require complicated solutions. I'm tired, boss.
I work best under stress, but working under stress too long makes me want to die. Wanting to die for too long makes me stressed... See how this spirals? But at least I'm good at getting work done.
As long as the state stays red, they'll always have equal say in how our government works. That's the plan, it's a slow hostile takeover because representation doesn't correlate to population. It's how Wyoming has the same voting power as California, even though California's GDP is measured on a global scale more accurately than a national scale. The more educated people leave to blue states, the more say red states have in national politics.
As long as the state stays red, they'll always have equal say in how our government works. That's the plan, it's a slow hostile takeover because representation doesn't correlate to population. It's how Wyoming has the same voting power as California, even though California's GDP is measured on a global scale more accurately than a national scale. The more educated people leave to blue states, the more say red states have in national politics.
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The Internet didn't so much get less racist as it simply got sanitized because they realized that they weren't extracting maximum dollar from non-white users. The hate simply got pushed further down into the dank miserable depths to fester while the rest of us get to pretend that racism isn't still a massive problem because black people are a marketing demographic now...