The vase has been smashed in on the other side and never repaired, spilling out all the precious things we pour into the top of it into pockets full of blood, since long before either of us was alive.

That it has been finally swept to the floor in disgust by an impatient man is another matter.

Your heart may be in the right place, but your ideas and political currency aren't, if you are looking forward to a return to enjoying the spoils of imperial plunder once all of this is over.

We must rebuild ourselves, not our sentimentality about our nationhood. We did this. This is now history.

That's a really relatable fear. Not only do I share it as it pertains to other people, I feel the poison coursing through me. I'm so suspicious of everyone's motives and very sensitive to intent. I'm good for making food and medicine, and I have love for everyone - but I'm ill, and it's contagious.

Yep. The moment Kermit says or does something to rouse her ire, she will download the entire skillset of the franchise.

I'm sorry your lived experience has been bad. I have the supreme privilege of having never met a Bernie bro who was like this and am completely aware that it is in fact luck and privilege; allies come in enemy flavors and shapes sometimes and enemies in ally shapes and flavors, too. We get fooled.

For most of my life, this has been a nameless hatred. Nihilistic dismissal has never struck me as powerful, appropriate, or good. Well said.

Nice timing. Just got online for the first time today to spread this message around a little bit. That was easy.

Mutual aid. Go knock on some doors nearby and introduce yourself if that's possible. If not, seek out your local chapter of Juggalos. They are helpers.

You have to either be hard to the point of inflexibility, or you have to drag the conversation deep into Socialist territory and let your *opponent* defeat the parts of it *you* don't like.

Centrists have become such rabidly propagandized anti-Communists that they've forgotten how to politick.

Each act of violence is precisely as shocking and horrible as it ought to be, even if there are no healthy minds left to be wounded by it.

"class-conscious", not to put too socialist of a point on the matter.

I believe the 0.01% has declared class war upon the only-kind-of-screw-you-I'm-rich on down, though, so I don't feel like I'm being unreasonable here.

We all just feel abused by a powerful entity that is holding all of the cards & has a great reputation that it earned through deceit. If you speak up about it at all, you'll be silenced by would-be allies who are terrified of going unheard AND losing status by speaking radically or earnestly.

So much happens so fast anymore that I don't think anyone's keeping track of how badly the narrative's fallen apart over the last few years. By the time any of us gets done downloading the day's multitudal crises, it's too late to study theory or talk solutions; we just want to scream and be heard.