Successful democracy movements in the modern era basically require student movements to be successful. Liberal institutions like universities and newspapers, as well as the Dem Party itself, have to learn from this

i tried to explain this to a lot of liberals after 2020, that i think the working from home media and info economy class really underestimate how much of the class of workers who had to keep working through the pandemic really realized no one cared if we died and no one was going to help us.

imo a lot of the apathy about the current crisis is people going "so what, it's not like i was getting anything out of 'america' anyway"

there are more democrats in texas than there are in almost any 'blue' state. there are more republicans in californica than there are in almost any 'red' state. but to both groups one of those two states is completely irredeemable and the people who live there don't deserve basic rights.

Why must I, the protagonist of reality, deviate from my base preferences to accommodate the existence of other human beings? Clearly this is the fault of the profit motive

“Capitalism forces you to wake up at 7am against your body’s natural rhythms” no that’s Taylorism and if you don’t like living in a society that coordinates effort to ensure a better outcome for all then I don’t think you’ll love the alternatives