From one Arab to another, this is exactly how I'm going to interface every time someone (mostly ignorant white ppl) wants to whimper about Kamala and how minorities didn't "do what they normally do" this election. 😍

Even most Americans can't wrap their head around this nonsense. Hence the need for literature like this.

And that's why you're a lot of fun at parties ya fuckin' misogynist.

Cory Doctorow came up with that term.

JFC it absolutely is business, you munch. The duopoly is in bed with corporations and has been for decades! They run the game, the politicians run the treadmill.

And then they'll comply with every demand, helping to thicken the plot.

Massive numbers of people mobilized horizontally to respond to the flooding. Despite their ties to the government, far-right groups have tried to hijack popular anger over the state's failures. This is the classic strategy of fascists and demagogues: create a crisis, then try to capitalize on it.

I think the correct question is: how did they survive me with my incessant pessimist-laden analysis of late stage capitalism being married to a strong critique of christofascism? I'm the person who makes Mark Fisher look like a joyful Disney character.

In speaking with family, who has largely tried to build themselves an ideological survivalist shelter via the Independent party because they realize Trump=public fallout, the most interesting mental gymnastics come into play when explaining this very thing: "Red or Blue, they don't care about you!"

The b side of that album is the usual "because we're not trumpers!" which requires the same block action.

"because we're good people with american values!" is what I hear the most. Meaningless drivel and instablocked.