I fear the former may not be possible without the latter, no matter how much I dislike it.

I feel this in my bones. I don't want to know my neighbors, but I do want them to have all their other needs met by a cooperative system. Tragically, I think that for people like me, the most immediate critical work is maybe to address what pushes us towards that feeling.

Anyone who

1) likes Gavin Newsom
2) said it was “too early to worry” about who’s running
3) believes, like Gavin suggests, that the Democrats lost the election for being “too woke”

Is: wrong

It is a huge problem/failure that as a society, we're more invested in guaranteeing people's right to opt into death than we are in securing the material needs they require to live without duress. The reason for it is obvious: it costs capital basically nothing to allow people to die. (3/3)

is used as a cudgel to encourage people to die to save "needless" expense to their families or to avoid pain they lack the resources or medical care to spare themselves. (2/3)

I support the right to die, but I concede there is nuance to this. Where I feel people on the "pro" side of the issue are more likely to think of bizarre outliers (where families forced individuals to endure suffering they no longer wanted) the unfortunate reality in many places is that it (1/3)

And that's the optimistic outlook...

Ok so I definitely think I walked past you at the Frankenstein showing yesterday evening. Steph and I were on our way out during the credits, did a brief double take but thought I misjudged. You may have heard me obnoxiously coughing and trying not to die after swallowing a Skittle incorrectly.

Could be the CoD...could also be that one of our two mainstream political parties straight up endorses Nazis, doing the Nazi salute, etc. Thankfully the other political party doesn't, except I'm now being lectured that excluding a person with a Nazi tattoo from said party is a "leftist purity test"