Genuine question, what happened that changes their minds?? I’ve got too much news coming at me from all angles and I can’t keep up 🙃

Blue Planet II is genuinely one of the only things keeping me going, bc how cool is it that we exist on the same planet as a fish with a see through head, in a body with a brain that can marvel at fish with a see through head?!

This is so accurate. My relatively privileged mom often struggles with being the only liberal in a family full of progressives because she just can’t fathom the idea that capitalism is the problem, not the solution. The woman read Atlas Shrugged at a pivotal point in her life and never looked back

Plus the things we are apparently working on, which largely seems to be sacrificing our values to move more towards the right, are actually just doubling down on the exact things that we should have identified as mistakes

The way I see it is we for sure needed to acknowledge the ways we fucked up, but then actually start working on those things to create a stronger coalition going forward. I think we’re getting a little stuck in the flagellation phase and it’s hurting us

Like… start collecting coins sir, human lives are at stake

One of the worst Supreme Court cases on campaign finance (the result being more money in politics of course) was brought to the court by some rich dude who said politics is his “hobby” and I feel like that says it all

That is true!

And be prepared. I try to be succinct, but in my heart of hearts, I am very long winded lol. There’s just so much to say 🤷🏼

And be prepared. I try to be succinct, but in my heart of hearts, I am very long winded

But just saying “we should be less empathetic to certain kinds of people”? Miss me with that shit.

We’re mad and upset and disgusted and we deserve to be and we should be. It’s just about channeling those emotions the most effectively, ya know? I know there’s only a small chance anything at all would work, but I think we gotta at least try. Okay rant over lol

This can take the form of a lot of things, but I just don’t think telling them they’re bad over and over again is effective. A program that pays for therapy is actually probably just about the only chance we have at changing behavior

I also agree that just having the same conversations with people is not helpful. There’s nothing to be gained there and if anything I think it’s harmful, there need to be consequences for your actions so you feel guilt about them and are less likely to do it again