I too was getting high on the Kamala Vibe, for me it shifted at the convention when they refused to let a Palestinian speak. I'll still vote for her, because now that there's a chance to defeat Trump once and for all, I'm committed to it. But I'm sober again, and I'm angry at what we are allowing to happen to our sisters and brothers in Palestine.
Woof. I also listened to Brat on Fire Island on my own vacation from reality this summer. That week ended the day Biden stepped down. I haven't listened to it since. It feels like this short lived era that's now over.
There's still is a part of me that's just like, can't we just have this? Can't we have this silly fun album about partying without thinking about all the horrible shit in the world? Apparently not!
I get your sequence of emotions -- just about exactly what I felt, and what any of the millions of non-fascist POWs on the death march into the Fourth Reich were surely feeling.
As for Kamala at the DNC, in ordinary times she would have lost me at "the most lethal," but the thing is, she's got to get her ass elected, she knows Team Trump is going to nail her to the wall for "weakness" -- which, of course, goes with being a woman and a "liberal" at that.
So, yes, she's got to defend. A little bullshit prophylactic sabre-rattling goes a long way -- maybe not on Fire Island, but definitely in PA, MI, WI, GA, NC, AZ, NV. If you don't believe me, take a road trip -- preferably a slow one, by bicycle -- and get to know the swing states. Then tell me if you can find a better way to thread that needle. A pacifist -- which I suspect we both are -- is not going to get elected even in a non-fascist America.
Let's not knock Kamala for not being that -- to do so is just a gift to that same Trumpian Far-Right that had us by the throat and is searching for all the help it can get now to get us back in its grip.
Is it bullshit if she is going to continue the same foreign policies we've seen from every administration for the last 50 years? Seems like she's just being truthful.
True, but the only viable candidates saying they're going to change that are "America First" isolationists like Trump -- and, aside from stuff like withdrawing from the Paris Accords and the Iran Nuclear deal and sucking up to dictators, I don't remember any effort to cut military spending under Trump. So I guess he's the one who's bullshitting. It will be interesting to see, if Kamala is elected, whether she has to act extra "tough" and "lethal" to prove that she's "up to the job."
Voting is morally evil. Also you don't get to call yourself a pacifist while voting for the continuation of the American empire. If all of you left-imperialists stopped voting for one year, it would end, but instead you want to keep it going for another four. How many wars do the pacifists want to start next year, I wonder.
Don’t leave the scene. We’re the ones who can make our country. Push harder for Palestine, school teachers, first time home owners, the next generation of music lovers, and everyone else.
I too was getting high on the Kamala Vibe, for me it shifted at the convention when they refused to let a Palestinian speak. I'll still vote for her, because now that there's a chance to defeat Trump once and for all, I'm committed to it. But I'm sober again, and I'm angry at what we are allowing to happen to our sisters and brothers in Palestine.
>allowing to happen
you're literally voting for it to happen, shut up
Cool story bro
Yeah, free Palestine, I say.
Wow, this one blew me away
Same. Like almost single tear-level. Woof.
Woof. I also listened to Brat on Fire Island on my own vacation from reality this summer. That week ended the day Biden stepped down. I haven't listened to it since. It feels like this short lived era that's now over.
There's still is a part of me that's just like, can't we just have this? Can't we have this silly fun album about partying without thinking about all the horrible shit in the world? Apparently not!
okay fuuuuck yes thank you for putting words to this!!!
SUCH a great description of the vibe shift from early summer to now. maybe it's not as drastic as we'd hope, but it's there!
So good
They didn't let a pro-ceasefire speech fly at the convention.
That's pretty shameful, tbh.
I get your sequence of emotions -- just about exactly what I felt, and what any of the millions of non-fascist POWs on the death march into the Fourth Reich were surely feeling.
As for Kamala at the DNC, in ordinary times she would have lost me at "the most lethal," but the thing is, she's got to get her ass elected, she knows Team Trump is going to nail her to the wall for "weakness" -- which, of course, goes with being a woman and a "liberal" at that.
So, yes, she's got to defend. A little bullshit prophylactic sabre-rattling goes a long way -- maybe not on Fire Island, but definitely in PA, MI, WI, GA, NC, AZ, NV. If you don't believe me, take a road trip -- preferably a slow one, by bicycle -- and get to know the swing states. Then tell me if you can find a better way to thread that needle. A pacifist -- which I suspect we both are -- is not going to get elected even in a non-fascist America.
Let's not knock Kamala for not being that -- to do so is just a gift to that same Trumpian Far-Right that had us by the throat and is searching for all the help it can get now to get us back in its grip.
Is it bullshit if she is going to continue the same foreign policies we've seen from every administration for the last 50 years? Seems like she's just being truthful.
True, but the only viable candidates saying they're going to change that are "America First" isolationists like Trump -- and, aside from stuff like withdrawing from the Paris Accords and the Iran Nuclear deal and sucking up to dictators, I don't remember any effort to cut military spending under Trump. So I guess he's the one who's bullshitting. It will be interesting to see, if Kamala is elected, whether she has to act extra "tough" and "lethal" to prove that she's "up to the job."
Voting is morally evil. Also you don't get to call yourself a pacifist while voting for the continuation of the American empire. If all of you left-imperialists stopped voting for one year, it would end, but instead you want to keep it going for another four. How many wars do the pacifists want to start next year, I wonder.
this was an absolute pleasure to read 🫡
Don’t leave the scene. We’re the ones who can make our country. Push harder for Palestine, school teachers, first time home owners, the next generation of music lovers, and everyone else.
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