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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I don’t have a lot of hope. For anything useful to survive in this country, we need progressives to take over. However, I’m afraid things would have to get much, much worse before that could happen.

    I’m doing the whole peaceful, “No Kings”, protests, but unless they really, really grow, it isn’t going to go anywhere.

    Despite what seems to be the case, I don’t think the right is winning solely because of racism. President Pedophile won both the first time and, bafflingly, the second time because he promised to make things better.

    It was a lie, but it was a lie too many people were desperate to hear.

    Giving hope is a winning strategy, but it needs to translate into results.

    I’m not really hoping for the Democrats to win. I’d like to see the right (both Democrat and Republican) lose. I’d like to see a real progressive option emerge. What we need more than anything is people to run. However, the people who actually care about the people are mostly also struggling to survive.

    I do think there’s a better chance of a progressive revolution in the Democratic party than there is in the Republican party. These kinds of flips have happened several times before. I’d like to see it happen again before it’s too late. However, we (the people) have to get a whole lot nastier.












  • It’s run by the USDA (US Department of Agriculture). But you’re otherwise correct, so I’m assuming that was a typo.

    It’s not just a social program to feed the poor and disabled. In fact, that’s just a side effect of the need to ensure that someone buys the food that the farmers are producing.

    Both ends of the SNAP pipeline get fucked. A truly distressing portion of both ends also voted for it.

    I suspect Walmart will be fine. They might close a few stores, fire all the employees, and put the final nail in the coffin of some communities they’ve been slowly killing for years, but they’ll still be supporting fascists and enslaving Americans long after this episode of history has been forgotten rewritten.