It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.

We aren’t machines, we don’t learn like them - we learn by being bodies in the world, by moving. Can’t forget that because shortcuts are being forced on us…

what if you never got out of that basement? what if you carried it in your pocket for the rest of your life

We think of fear as purely negative, but fear feels "good" to the extent that it explains, it clarifies, it removes the complicated, difficult work of sifting through truths, feelings, communicating, thinking. Negative affects are powerful (just look at how the fash draw all their power from shame)

Fear is seductive. It is powerful, it is explanatory, and we have learned to trust it, often at great cost and through trauma. Fear is a warning system, a message from your limbic system, it is one piece of information not a transcendent truth, and if you spread fear to others do the fascists' work