Rewatching Bo Burnham's Inside.
I'm never ever gonna get over how everyone watched this and wrote essays and how even liberals were watching it and how white people STILL posted tiktoks about how THEY were socko (a clear representation of PoC experiences in liberal spaces) and now people are like vote for Joe Biden!!
Like I???????
these people could literally have the problem blasted directly into their fucking brains and treat it like a personality for a month and they would STILL yell at me when I say our government is the problem and that we need to address it from outside their white comfort zone. That their comfort zone is in fact holding progress back.
I frfr can not believe the reality I've found myself in as a disabled native
'What can I do to help?'
'Read a book or something, I don't know Just don't burden me with the responsibility of educating you. It's incredibly exhausting'
'I'm sorry, Socko. I was just trying to become a better person'
'Why do you rich fucking white people insist on seeing every socio-political conflict through the myopic lens of your own self-actualization? This isn't about you. So either get with it, or get out of the fucking way'
'Watch your mouth, buddy. Remember who's on whose hand here.'
'But that's what I- Have you not been fucking listening? We are entrenched in a way- (starts to put Socko away) Wait, wait, no please! I don't wanna go back, please! I can't go, I can't go back. Please, please, I'm sorry!'
'Are you gonna behave yourself?'
'Yes'
'Yes, what?'
'Yes, sir'
'Look at me'
'Yes, sir'
'That's better'
Like what level of dystopian is that this was Everywhere just a few years ago and STILL people are saying shit like 'i think the brown ppl's expectations should be more realistic cuz we definitely need to vote to keep killing them overseas to save the white gays on us soil'
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Texas Republicans banned local governments from mandating water breaks for workers, Florida Republicans are trying to ban local governments from mandating heat protection for workers, and Kentucky Republicans are trying to repeal the state's mandated lunch and rest breaks for workers, and somehow Republicans are still getting away with presenting themselves as "the party of the working class"
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me: ok this is clearly having a negative impact on my mental and physical health so i'm just gonna ease off the politics for a bit and try to relax-
republicans: so head's up you're gonna have to spend the rest of the year checking your registration info because we decided we can just walk into the polls and get your registration removed if it's sus (see: not registered republican) lmao
me:
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sometimes i’m having a nice time with my dad and for a minute i forget what an absolutely god awful person he is but then the next time he opens his mouth the absolute worst thing you’ve ever heard comes right out and he 100% believes every word of it
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To watch privileged prognosticators consistently invoke poor people of color to defend their abortion stances, then, is quite a spectacle. If we took the time to actually listen to these populations-if we actually centered their views and experiences- it would directly challenge Roe's abortion-friendly policies. (Handed down from on high, of course, by a group of privileged and overwhelmingly white men.)
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“ The most extreme possible agenda is now being assiduously (some might say ruthlessly) pursued by those around President Sock Puppet, and Americans are bearing the brunt of radical economic, racial, and cultural warfare that is tearing us apart rather than bringing us together.” <— Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
(From my blog archive)
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The Greatest Generation would be so heart broken to see that the American youth is now promoting the very thought and propaganda that they fought and gave their lives to keep OUT of America.
Back when I was studying World War II in high school I never would’ve dreamed that my beloved United States would be embracing and pushing the same exact propaganda as the Third Reich.
Had we lived in Nazi Germany many of you would’ve sold out the Jews and the Christians who stood up to Hitler and it shows.
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