Sounds about right that it took 20 years. It takes the government a really long fucking time to do reasonable and sane things. And the more reasonable and sane, the longer it's going to take. Just look how we started a war against Iraq fucking five minutes after a bunch of Saudis crashed planes into things, but we still don't give hungry children food in school
Plus I'm in an illegal state, and broke federal law to bring my medicine here. So it's been 20 fucking years and it's still not done yet. Oh, and Roe is now overturned, Israel is still killing children, and there are shitty car-brained developments still going up.
I guess what I'm saying is, what is the alternative?
If you're a Nicaraguan whose family got killed in the 80s by contras, or a Honduran whose kid got taken away in Arizona who still hasn't seen him and probably never will, I think it probably sounds pretty silly for someone who could have worked to make the system that's trying to destroy them behave more humanely to say "Yeah I could have, but it would have been a bunch of work and taken time, so I didn't. I just got discouraged and decided it was all the same."
I don't think it will happen in 20 years, or 200, if you're waiting for "the government" to do these reasonable and sane things. That's just the nature of the beast; they will not. But, they're amenable to working for change. If your dad was political then you and he are probably well familiar with it... yeah, the people on the evil side more or less never stop and they have some advantages. It sucks. But again, what's the alternative? Just wait for it to get worse until they start coming for you directly in an immediate and physical sense?
That's why I'm so frustrated: There isn't an alternative to this shitty, broken, infuriating system. We have to vote blue as fast and often as we possibly can just to keep from backsliding completely. Any gains we make are gonna either be wiped out with the next session of Congress, or they're going to make something else even worse in the event we miraculously make something better. If I honestly thought being active in politics did anything but give me heartburn, I'd do it.
But it's going to collapse eventually, as all things will, and that gives me a little bit of peace.
That’s why I’m so frustrated: There isn’t an alternative to this shitty, broken, infuriating system.
He knows it. He loves it. He's gloating.
mozz wouldn't do that to me. They're good people, despite our disagreements.
Sounds about right that it took 20 years. It takes the government a really long fucking time to do reasonable and sane things. And the more reasonable and sane, the longer it's going to take. Just look how we started a war against Iraq fucking five minutes after a bunch of Saudis crashed planes into things, but we still don't give hungry children food in school
Plus I'm in an illegal state, and broke federal law to bring my medicine here. So it's been 20 fucking years and it's still not done yet. Oh, and Roe is now overturned, Israel is still killing children, and there are shitty car-brained developments still going up.
I guess what I'm saying is, what is the alternative?
If you're a Nicaraguan whose family got killed in the 80s by contras, or a Honduran whose kid got taken away in Arizona who still hasn't seen him and probably never will, I think it probably sounds pretty silly for someone who could have worked to make the system that's trying to destroy them behave more humanely to say "Yeah I could have, but it would have been a bunch of work and taken time, so I didn't. I just got discouraged and decided it was all the same."
I don't think it will happen in 20 years, or 200, if you're waiting for "the government" to do these reasonable and sane things. That's just the nature of the beast; they will not. But, they're amenable to working for change. If your dad was political then you and he are probably well familiar with it... yeah, the people on the evil side more or less never stop and they have some advantages. It sucks. But again, what's the alternative? Just wait for it to get worse until they start coming for you directly in an immediate and physical sense?
That's why I'm so frustrated: There isn't an alternative to this shitty, broken, infuriating system. We have to vote blue as fast and often as we possibly can just to keep from backsliding completely. Any gains we make are gonna either be wiped out with the next session of Congress, or they're going to make something else even worse in the event we miraculously make something better. If I honestly thought being active in politics did anything but give me heartburn, I'd do it.
But it's going to collapse eventually, as all things will, and that gives me a little bit of peace.
He knows it. He loves it. He's gloating.
mozz wouldn't do that to me. They're good people, despite our disagreements.