"but what if socialists target me for my background/heritage/upbringing" like no offense to anyone who takes this angle but: can you read the fucking room right now and see what is animating this sentiment, and why people feel that way? not everything is about you or will blow back on you

as always: i recommend using an RSS reader if possible; Substack sucks but i don't have money to move to a good platform. incidentally, if you would like to help me afford that (and living more generally):

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(as always, i recommend using an RSS reader to follow—Substack sucks and this only uses it because i can't splurge for Ghost or an alternative)

anyways, join DSA so you can help districts upgrade from mere "good progressive Democrats" to "genuine, principled socialists who agitate for working class interests and build the American proletariat's class consciousness"

act.dsausa.org/s/3933.ZVrq08

the error of logic here is almost comedically simple: where do people want to live? and the answer is the "cherry-picked places" where housing prices are high, because the correlation between high-demand places and job opportunities/economic advancement/general productivity is overwhelming

because Texas's map is specifically being struck on racial dilution grounds i think this really puts the screws to the Supreme Court, also, because there's basically no way to thread the needle between "California's map is invalid, Texas's isn't" that won't be obvious bullshit

the median white person in Alabama almost certainly still supports (a softer, more plausibly deniable form of) segregation and is just straight up a racist in polite, all-white company, and these political beliefs are demonstrably less frequent among non-Southern white people