This shame-inducing weaponized gratitude is the true ugly purpose of "taxpayer" mythology and the Tax-To-Spend moral framework.

The point is to shame powerless and marginalized people into not demanding justice, because justice is deemed to come from "other people's money".

always a weird thing about which to complain when we have harvester combines doing the work that hundreds of people and animals once did and robots in factories doing the work that dozens of people once did.

and that is especially true in a society that pressures everyone to be competitive.

I held out for a long time before finally getting a smartphone, and, prior to that, it felt like everyone else was getting ahead of me at so many things.

Two very bad people right there

Amazing analysis

Tracks. This came out recently in Seattle: komonews.com/news/local/s...

There’s also something here about why a lot of people are contemplating having kids, running a few rough numbers, and going “oh, hell no, absolutely not”

Almost every day the fascist stories are accompanied with stories about record anxiety and stress and uncertainty and loneliness and hardly anyone wants to connect the obvious dots.

Fascism is a collective breakdown. People are struggling and there has to be relief.

It is admission that is only possible due to some combination of protests, threatening to withhold votes, and actually withholding votes.

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