My bottom line catch all is that political and partisan association based on Benevolent State Administration, doesnt really perform above a coin flip in electoral space, and always falls short in administrative space, which speaks to a narrow theory of politics that cant choose better than it does.
Nah, and the journey through life provided a way of looking at it, where the ever shifting sense of it betrays a precise lack of it. 'Back to normal' in 2022 meant 2019?
And a lot of answers are gonna be tied to a seminal event in teens and early 20s if we are thinking about societal/civil normalcy
But also social media is never gonna solve its underlying societal sclerosis, no matter how high they build the Tower of Babel with fancy new tools and controls
I finally joined bluesky to get more of a pub feel, especially with current events around ICE, because as much as I like Masto....its a collection of clubhouses. That has been wracked by an arms race around protecting your clubhouse from other clubhouses, among other things. No pub vibe.
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
And especially none around how the big bad putdown state that must exist limply repelled a coup in the instance, but didnt deliver the state from fash takeover by the coupers, so theres legal and political default on top of force default...
I can keep going on the stacked inanities to reconcile...
'Going loud n spicy is gonna get us killed' annoys me another way in that the spectre of getting crushed is entirely 'my brother in christ, you built and clapped for the state that could crush mass movements with violence, even as recently as 5 years ago very directly and loudly'. No reconciliation
Other context here, not especially related to your point or experiences, their drive-thru locations are apparently the current cash cow, so a lot of customer chat is not there.
Although for experiential context, I literally have never been chatty with a person at Starbucks other than to complain about the line together, like people go there in Seattle to post up on their laptop and not socially interact with their surroundings. This speaks to 'homebodying the 3rd space?'
The bitter thing is, there's this entire shell game of 'people who aren't me need this thing that I personally would never do' and then it never gets done, and I'm stomping my foot over here about a kitchen we could use if people didn't feel cringe setting foot inside a church for their own reasons
Can confirm raised in the Unitarian tradition. Not for me after a certain point but never had to take a unit on comparative religions in my life because that's mostly what the Sunday School part was about.
A lot of loyalists will insist that a political party is just a stochastic shot in the dark that doesn't mean anything earnest, but damn your mangy hide if you don't think it matters and has an effect. There's nothing in the vision other than 'better not lose' and then losing in absurd ways.
