I legitimately do not understand how this is the most important thing to focus on for these fucks. People are struggling right now and some cannot afford to even live paycheck to paycheck and these assholes are worried about pride flags. Someone please make it make sense…
They’re making culture war noise because they have no solutions for actual problems. They’re using the hatred and bullshit to distract their base from realizing whose actually hurting them.
We are talking about it aren’t we? No one is talking about the comptroller in his district making sure the bills get paid, garbage gets picked up, teachers don’t strike, and that weird smell coming out of a pothole is looked at by sanitation.
When I was about 11 I was doing something wrong and the teacher yelled my name. And it clicked that this was the only time he had said my name in who knows how many days. It actually stopped me for a moment. I saw it clearly. If no one ever saw me doing something wrong no one would know I was there.
I have never forgotten that moment. The stunning realization of where I stood with people around me.
So yeah here we are talking about someone who effectively none of the human race would notice if he dropped dead. For a politician fame is currency.
I legitimately do not understand how this is the most important thing to focus on for these fucks. People are struggling right now and some cannot afford to even live paycheck to paycheck and these assholes are worried about pride flags. Someone please make it make sense…
They’re making culture war noise because they have no solutions for actual problems. They’re using the hatred and bullshit to distract their base from realizing whose actually hurting them.
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Oh they have solutions, but they are solutions that favor the incremental luxury of the few over the needs of the many.
But yeah the culture war smoke screen is old reliable.
Going after vulnerable minorities is kinda what fascists do.
Let me help you with that:
HATRED = VOTES.
Your understanding relies on the assumption that politicians are elected to help people rather than generate distractions and profit.
The cruelty is the point.
We are talking about it aren’t we? No one is talking about the comptroller in his district making sure the bills get paid, garbage gets picked up, teachers don’t strike, and that weird smell coming out of a pothole is looked at by sanitation.
When I was about 11 I was doing something wrong and the teacher yelled my name. And it clicked that this was the only time he had said my name in who knows how many days. It actually stopped me for a moment. I saw it clearly. If no one ever saw me doing something wrong no one would know I was there.
I have never forgotten that moment. The stunning realization of where I stood with people around me.
So yeah here we are talking about someone who effectively none of the human race would notice if he dropped dead. For a politician fame is currency.
It’s all they can do to rile up and mobilize their base. The only thing that matters to them is winning elections.