alt-text: there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. my rent went up $150. I’ll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone isn’t charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion themself a punk rock revolutionary, but they’re not wearing a face mask, and that’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. The CDC just announced there are no more speed limits on highways, and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. The NYPD farmer’s market only sells bad apples, have you heard that one? Listen it’s warm today, too warm for March. But I don’t have time to think through the implications because there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop.
ITT: people angry at the suggestion both parties are fascists on opposite ends of the spectrum
Opposite ends of what spectrum? Where are the left leaning candidates in America?
Bernie.
Bernie is a Social Democrat. He still wants Capitalism, he's a centrist at most.
How many left leaning policies has he passed?
I think you mean "voted for", he isn't Congress, and therefore doesn't pass bills, unless you suggest that only passed legislation makes someone one particular political wing, in which case, I'd argue that seems like a deeply flawed understanding of government.
My point was that there's no left wing representation in any meaningful positions of power in the United States. Obviously.
Was it obvious? Because it seems "obvious" to me that you moved the goalposts. If someone points to a senator or representatives at the federal level, you'd point to the lack of left-wing legislation they passed. That's goalpost moving. Would you like me to point at non-federal positions so you can say they aren't meaningful in spite of their passing of left-wing policies that affect my state or city? Also, I'll give you a hint, all of those politicians are NOT one of the two major parties.
The point is that one party is definitely different from the other, especially if you're queer, pregnant, able to become pregnant, a child, elderly, working, or a racial minority.
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