This is how the mine wars started

Poorer, sicker, and stoopider

See? Nine minute touchdown drive. Grandad’s football.

worried about football going too fast and confusing you?

have a werther's and sit down, son

we're about to enjoy the gentleman's game

As a teen or young adult in the 1990s you had constant encounters with people in their 50s-80s who were combatants, victims or perpetrators during catastrophes of the mid-20th century

That direct link to realities of Nazism and other forms of oppression such as Stalinism or colonialism is now gone

What a beaut

Lordy that’s bleak, no food, Raid because you’re not screened in, having to watch the acc on a baby sized tv, no self respecting leftist could live that way

The road to anti fascism lies in big boy solidarity and if it takes fucked up Chicago food to make it happen then we roll

Reading “To End All Wars” by Adam Hochschild, feels relevant

Anything that makes you ask “why does America do this?” it’s bc of racism. Tipping, anti-vagrancy/loitering/foraging laws, credit scores, tying health insurance to a job, bar exam… if it might make a Black person happy, healthy, or successful, give it an obstacle course