What are we but a collection of memories? Not much. A body, some desires, occasional suffering and joy.
The memories give context to everything else. Change them, and you change everything.
This is why my chronic illness is so terrifying. It's in my brain. Literal brain damage. It's being treated, but I wake up every day with a low lying terror that I have forgotten something important.
"We can hurt the bad people until they tell us what we need to know to be safe."
It's nonsense, but it can feel true.
Tay sway has been media trained since she was a child. She's a product and she knows it. Roan was playing on a keyboard in the park not that long ago and she hasn't figured out that she will go crazy trying to manage her fame like she is.
This is either some wild optimism or accelerationism.
Gay rights activists got started in the 1970's and in the 80's they got homosexuality taken off the list of mental disorders and in the 90's it looked like Hawaii was going to legalize same sex marriage and then the conservatives took notice and passed the defense of marriage act and Bill Clinton signed it (yes, a Democrat) and then Iowa and Massachusetts courts legalized it at the state level in the 00's and for 10 years we watched court cases and ballot measures go state by state and then in 2014 we got obergefell.
Republicans did not get us marriage equality, Democrats did. Republicans opposed it at every step. Even obergefel would not have happened if Clinton had not won and picked some SC justices. Clinton had a Republican house and Senate and he was more concerned with avoiding a government shutdown. Defense of marriage act was a Republican bill. Don't ask don't tell was a compromise with Republicans. Obama repealed don't ask don't tell after Dems took the white house and both houses of Congress.
It matters who is in charge, every year, every election. And the Republican hasn't been the progressive option since teddy Roosevelt left the Republicans to form the bull moose party.
So acting like we need to punish the Democrats for not opposing netanyahu by electing Republicans is literally throwing Palestinians and poc and queer people and poor people under the bus for your own self rightiousness.
I also misread your comment as pro-trans, but we DO need more trains! So keep bringing it up, you are doing good work.
Income, life expectancy, healthcare access. Union membership. Cali home prices are unaffordable because people want to live there and are willing to pay for it.
Abortion was illegal for 70-120 years depending on the state. It was 50ish years from the progressive era and the beginning of birth control to the ruling of Roe. Overturning roe was a 50 year political project by the right.
Sometimes it takes a lifetime.
Assuming this is a centrist take is part of why she is pissed off. She isn't endorsing because she opposes genocide and Dems treatment of trans people.
Dems are too far right for her and people are acting like she is saying trump has his good points.
She needs to get off the internet. She has more dumbasses and trolls now than she had total fans 2 years ago and she doesn't know how to handle it.
They are just declaring their neighbors illegitimate and marching in like Putin.
I genuinely agree that the 2 state solution is not remotely likely.
But without it, an apartied state is the best case scenario. More likely, someone is getting genocided, so however unlikely, it has my support.
Electoral politics ends with the presidency. It doesn't start there. Bernie worked for progressive causes for decades before running in 2016. He worked his way up from mayor to Congress to Senate. His near miss in the primary in 2020 pulled Biden to the left on several issues.
If you want to end support for Israel, and I agree we should end support for Israel, even if they stop the war tomorrow. Then you should be writing letters, going to county Democratic meetings and finding candidates to run for state legislature that share your beliefs.
It's a genocide. They are taking their sweet time about it. It will take a few generations rather than a few years or weeks or months, but the end goal is clear, no more Palestinians in Palestine. it's been a genocide since the 2 state solution was abandoned.
I can say that unqualified judges generally cause the corruption more than the qualified ones.
Hijacking a plane wouldn't be enough. Plane highjackings were nothing new. They were even common back in the 60's. Conventional wisdom was you cooperate with the highjackers. They have to land eventually.
Nobody anticipated suicide highjackers.
If they skip the election it is a huge win. Change takes time.
The dudebro to anarchist trans girl pipeline is a widely observed phenomenon.
Capitalism would be in trouble if we were in charge.
He can't hold a thought that coplicated in his head.