We can participate in democracy and be flawed while also having non-negotiable. No nazis. No racists. We aren’t abandoning trans people. Triple the minimum wage. Universal healthcare. Reproductive freedom. Etc etc etc. Stand for something! Appeasement accomplishes very little.

It’s not just that video is too slow. It is that. It’s also not my own understanding happening. I also truly believe that the mind and life I want to have does not happen through watching but does through reading. Wild that this is even a little bit provocative but I suspect that mostly just online

It finally hit me. This woman snarkily told me that she likes advice because other people’s mistakes helps her not repeat them. And it dawned on me that yeah that is what reading does too but without the annoying navel-gazing from strangers.

Then I was like ohhhhhh you don’t read a lot.