While it’s a more complicated issue than just this, you can in part attribute the overton window shifting rightward to a bunch of people being white knuckle mad at stupid buzzfeed headlines they read from 2015 And just never letting go of it, and letting it exacerbate To its logical conclusion

Yeah that is the pipeline it would seem. Yer right in that it can be really socially consequential. It always surprises me people’s predilection towards calibrating their axiomatic or political convictions based on who is annoying them on the internet At any given time.

I guess I just get taken off guard because I feel so culturally insulated sometimes because I’m just like, a weird artist bitch thats in their own little cultural space. Like I swear I’m gonna wake up one day and people are gonna be like: “having brown Hair is a cultural red flag now“ or sumthing

the most recent example is like, matcha? It’s just wack and gay to like matcha now I guess? Cause douchey people like it? Idk. like Why matcha over everything else? Douchey people drink chai too. And just coffee in general lol. just Surprises me the hyper specific things people will adjudicate on

Wow it’s already so beautiful

alright I’m done frothing about politics now. Pardon our dust. I’m just so fucking mad lol.

When I was in college it was inconceivable that leftists and socialists would have even this much political economy within the party. The gears of change are shifting inevitably if not very very slowly.

And you see it with aoc, with zoran, with Katie Wilson and platner.

If there’s any consolation I can offer it’s this: as more time goes on even people of the median disposition are becoming more aware and more dissatisfied with the status quo. As that happens alternative approaches to politics will become more popular and politicians that have principles with them

Treat these democrats like Schumer, Fetterman, king, kaine, Durbin, Hassan, Rosen, Jeffries Etc etc like what they are. The enemy. If the democrats are willing to sell you down the river for Israel money than guess what? They hate you just as much as the republicans do.

And when I say paid opposition I don’t mean paid opposition in that the republicans directly legislate the movements of the Democratic Party. but that the democrats are beholden to the same donors that have aligned interests with the republicans so they pay the democrats to be fuck ups.

But it’s cool guys. The democrats are negotionating with the knife wielding maniac. They said that after capitulating to the knife wielding maniacs every single demand the knife wielding maniac may possibly maybe consider stabbing you in the ass instead of the balls. good work dems! Go team! 🫏

not in the deepest pools of my boundless imagination could I conceive of a political coalition as uniquely cucked as the democrats. Bred in a lab to be genetically predisposed towards weakness. give them a gun to shoot a knife wielding maniac and they will shoot you And then themselves in the face

then again, important to not be totally closed off to life’s many possibilities too. sometimes it’s worth investing in a situation even if the weather forecast is scary looking.

Sometimes in my experience the heart is well versed in frivolous attachments. I know that sounds cynical and despite my glib candor, I am very much a believer in love and I think being too risk averse is bad. But sometimes you gotta look yer heart dead in the eye and go “buddy..what are we doin?“