J. C. Cantwell 🌻
Social Justice Bard. They/them. Gay; tired.
Joy is a strategy.
"Where does the Constitution live? On paper? Or in our hearts?"
- i'm not really a "blame the voters" person on main very often because i don't think it's helpful or productive at all, but, like, blaming the voters for [waves hands wildly] *all of this* is entirely correct. "how do we avoid that in the future?" is a totally separate question.
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View full threadSOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE GODDAMN INTERNET *sigh*
- bsky in its infinite and unalterable wisdom has given us the nuclear block; it is our part in the ongoing and everpresent act of Creation to use it wisely
- and now apparently when I say these things, it can only mean I think "Schumerism is the best we can do." I've decided that continuing to argue with/explain to people who demonstrably can't or won't read the actual words in front of them is a form of sunk cost fallacy.
- the game is never, ever, ever worth the candle
- skeleton key to understanding a LOT of motherfuckers tbh
- Man I am just a zealous convert but the "Dems should always be doing more!" Crowd that infects the Left already pisses me off. You're not doing shit. You're poasting in a friendly platform, tough guy.
- One thing I'm seeing a bit up is expecting a change that would happen after winning an election when we're still a year and half away from any such election in most states.
- this is the crux of it imo because their thinking is built around “elections do not and cannot matter, being told that democrats need to win elections in order to Do Something is insulting to my intelligence, they should just have agentic manly virtue, like the Republicans” and then I stop listening
