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your cynicism is being Weaponized to demotivate you from attempting any kind of change. It is being used as a method to get large sections of the population to give up in advance. Cynicism is poison.
November 12, 2024 at 10:47 PM
your cynicism is being Weaponized to demotivate you from attempting any kind of change. It is being used as a method to get large sections of the population to give up in advance. Cynicism is poison.
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After every US election, we get lectures suggesting that if we were nicer to Nazis they wouldn't be Nazis. I mean, they're threatening the very survival of a lot of us, and it's supposed to be uncouth of us to mention that in mixed company. Wrote about that in 2020: lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
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November 13, 2024 at 4:21 PM
After every US election, we get lectures suggesting that if we were nicer to Nazis they wouldn't be Nazis. I mean, they're threatening the very survival of a lot of us, and it's supposed to be uncouth of us to mention that in mixed company. Wrote about that in 2020: lithub.com/rebecca-soln...