"There is no America, just a complicated system of PR and political logistics that allows a very small cabal of bureaucrats to fight over control of the world’s most deadly compilation of Excel spreadsheets." The country, it is bad, but the Discourse, it is so very good.
"There is no America, just a complicated system of PR and political logistics that allows a very small cabal of bureaucrats to fight over control of the world’s most deadly compilation of Excel spreadsheets." The country, it is bad, but the Discourse, it is so very good.
Does anyone believe otherwise? There is no “essential” America, where a singularly great leader, knowing all of the collective truths of every aspect of a vast and complex and technologically advancing society can fix everything on his or her own, and then somehow individually negotiate the maddeningly various experiences of 300 million people. That America has never existed, and it never will.
That’s actually the America that the MAGA fucks want—a “great leader” who says “I alone can fix it,” and who has been given carte blanche to “fix” whatever the fuck “it” is that’s “broken.”
Biden is clearly not up to the task of the hubristic claim that “he alone can fix it,” but that’s ALWAYS been the case: NO ONE CAN FIX ANYTHING ALONE, and in a country as fucking schizoid as ours, it REQUIRES spreadsheets and bureaucratic negotiation and a shared sense of the value of ALL human life.
Biden (and his many, many, MANY aides!) have shown that they give a shit about humans, regardless of their gender or identity, and those of us who also actually give a shit about other humans should be a little more clear-eyed about the fact that the presidency is a TEAM effort, and the team Biden has is exactly one shit-ton more appealing than the gathering of ghouls that are hovering over Trump’s demented head.
"Biden (and his many, many, MANY aides!) have shown that they give a shit about humans" is a strange thing to say while Joe Biden is funding a genocide. Palestinians are humans, after all, but Democrats don't seem to give a shit about them. Just like they don't seem to give a fuck about the working poor and have absolutely nothing to offer them in exchange for their vote. These don't seem like the actions of a political party that has to win an election in November. It's bizarre that Democrats don't think they have to do anything to earn votes from the electorate, and that they think people owe them their votes because "Trump is bad". Yes. Trump is bad. You still need to earn votes to beat him. This bullshit where the Dems have no ideology at work besides "let's just be Republicans but slightly less shitty" is a proven loser, yet it's all they ever seem to be working with.
Ugh, I remember trump saying in 2016 that only he alone could fix it and I immediately thought of Immortan Joe. Which is incidental, because if he wins again, we'll probably run a higher risk of running out of water...
"There is no America, just a complicated system of PR and political logistics that allows a very small cabal of bureaucrats to fight over control of the world’s most deadly compilation of Excel spreadsheets." The country, it is bad, but the Discourse, it is so very good.
“The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.”
Etc., etc.
Does anyone believe otherwise? There is no “essential” America, where a singularly great leader, knowing all of the collective truths of every aspect of a vast and complex and technologically advancing society can fix everything on his or her own, and then somehow individually negotiate the maddeningly various experiences of 300 million people. That America has never existed, and it never will.
That’s actually the America that the MAGA fucks want—a “great leader” who says “I alone can fix it,” and who has been given carte blanche to “fix” whatever the fuck “it” is that’s “broken.”
Biden is clearly not up to the task of the hubristic claim that “he alone can fix it,” but that’s ALWAYS been the case: NO ONE CAN FIX ANYTHING ALONE, and in a country as fucking schizoid as ours, it REQUIRES spreadsheets and bureaucratic negotiation and a shared sense of the value of ALL human life.
Biden (and his many, many, MANY aides!) have shown that they give a shit about humans, regardless of their gender or identity, and those of us who also actually give a shit about other humans should be a little more clear-eyed about the fact that the presidency is a TEAM effort, and the team Biden has is exactly one shit-ton more appealing than the gathering of ghouls that are hovering over Trump’s demented head.
"Biden (and his many, many, MANY aides!) have shown that they give a shit about humans" is a strange thing to say while Joe Biden is funding a genocide. Palestinians are humans, after all, but Democrats don't seem to give a shit about them. Just like they don't seem to give a fuck about the working poor and have absolutely nothing to offer them in exchange for their vote. These don't seem like the actions of a political party that has to win an election in November. It's bizarre that Democrats don't think they have to do anything to earn votes from the electorate, and that they think people owe them their votes because "Trump is bad". Yes. Trump is bad. You still need to earn votes to beat him. This bullshit where the Dems have no ideology at work besides "let's just be Republicans but slightly less shitty" is a proven loser, yet it's all they ever seem to be working with.
Ugh, I remember trump saying in 2016 that only he alone could fix it and I immediately thought of Immortan Joe. Which is incidental, because if he wins again, we'll probably run a higher risk of running out of water...