I DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT INFLATION RIGHT NOW. I AM WORRIED ABOUT:

1) Fascism
2) An unelected billionaire destroying functioning federal government
3) the moves to genocide trans people
4) the moves to deport immigrants

GET YOURSELF TOGETHER, SCHUMER.

Actually, the number one issue on my mind is the hostile takeover and destruction of the US government, the shoveling of taxpayer dollars to the ultra rich, and the shift to white male “Christian” nationalism, but do go on.

Exactly. Reactionary movement always phrase their concerns in the most sympathetic light. "I'm not against school desegregation, I just want local parents to have a say in education!"

The idea that all of this was necessary is absurd and only serves to coddle power.

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The right has invented a woke guy to be mad at — and Chatterton has aided in their effort every step of the way.

What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.

This gave voters permission to vote for Trump or disengage from politics entirely. If the left and the right both have authoritarian tendencies, what does it matter if the guy who did January 6 gets into power again?

Second, the ‘threat’ of wokeness was a media fiction. Conservative and centrist publications spent years promoting ‘free speech on campus’ and ‘cancel culture’ as threats equivalent to the right’s assaults on democracy and minority rights.

First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college.

The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.

for decades the federal govt has bent over backwards to limit spending even on totally sensible things like office coffee, all so they can say your tax dollars aren't going to pay for coffee. and it was all for nothing bc elon is tweeting out conspiracy theories about non-existent fraud.