I love that people are largely turning against social media and AI

"But what about us brain-dead slobs?"

"You'll all be given cushy jobs!"

There are a lot of big questions at play here, but the most fundamental might be: what is the point of college?

You will be visited by 3 spirits.

You will be visited by 3 spirits

One for whom the majority of supervising board politicians do not ride transit and do not care about it being functional as long as they get credit for supporting transit (and keeping people concerned about cost quiet enough).

"People are always telling me how pretty I am, but I don't let it get to my head. I'm insincere and condescending back to them, then make fun of them in my book."

This is why strategies that focus exclusively on material conditions (or protecting democratic institutions) often fail to break through. People have to be convinced that they do not deserve oppression and neither does anyone else.

If there is a beginning point to unraveling this, I think it lies in not assuming you can just ~discourse~ your way to getting ppl to have the scales fall from their eyes & vote how they "should" & I think that a large part of "how do we fix politics rn" operates from that fallacious belief.