a lot of people in my community (okay maybe five or ten that’s a lot to me), formerly conservative people, have downgraded me from friend to acquaintance because i pointed out how “it” (whatever it was. the issues i was most outspoken about were homelessness, healthcare, immigration, and gun violence1) impacted them. and they sat and festered with it.
1views evolve. i still think that a home with a gun is infinitely more dangerous than a home without a gun, but i think that a nation threatened by fascism is better protected by an armed citizenry than an unarmed citizenry. and you really want the antifascists to be the armed citizenry. if you’re gonna be drinking poison, choose the one that tastes like cinnamon.
There used to be a phrase “Everyone’s a democrat until it’s their money”.
Strange, how the number of Democrats seems to keep climbing as the tidal wave of inflation and debt drown people.
That said… now might be a good time to Read Settlers and consider how a colonial economic model naturally predisposes reactionary politics among agents of an imperial power. Because, extracting money from the natives is how Republican policies work. The only question is whether you’re on the outbound or inbound side of the pipe.
There used to be a phrase “Everyone’s a democrat until it’s their money”. There’s also the phrase “Everyone’s a republican until it impacts them”.
a lot of people in my community (okay maybe five or ten that’s a lot to me), formerly conservative people, have downgraded me from friend to acquaintance because i pointed out how “it” (whatever it was. the issues i was most outspoken about were homelessness, healthcare, immigration, and gun violence1) impacted them. and they sat and festered with it.
1views evolve. i still think that a home with a gun is infinitely more dangerous than a home without a gun, but i think that a nation threatened by fascism is better protected by an armed citizenry than an unarmed citizenry. and you really want the antifascists to be the armed citizenry. if you’re gonna be drinking poison, choose the one that tastes like cinnamon.
Strange, how the number of Democrats seems to keep climbing as the tidal wave of inflation and debt drown people.
That said… now might be a good time to Read Settlers and consider how a colonial economic model naturally predisposes reactionary politics among agents of an imperial power. Because, extracting money from the natives is how Republican policies work. The only question is whether you’re on the outbound or inbound side of the pipe.