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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Because of America’s greatest fear, that if we do something that benefits people, we might accidently help the wrong people. People who aren’t even white.

    You just explained how unions fell apart, pensions stopped being a thing, schools lost funding, college education went up, and social safety nets disappeared.

    I constantly come back to this quote from LBJ

    “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”




















  • I think countries should be more alarmed that they are as susceptible to Russian far right propaganda as they are. Inside all these seemly progressive and democratic countries lies large groups that want to subjugate minority citizens or those who think differently to the point they’d give up their own freedoms

    Europeans are getting a serving of humility. When I was visiting Europe just after Trump was elected there was so much, “that could never happen here”. That kind of thinking is naive and dangerous