If you’re struggling to make enough money to pay the rent and put food on the table, you probably don’t care about Kamala Harris’ photo or fashion magazines in general, and you may not care one way or another what Lana Del Rey thinks. To working-class people, criticisms like this appear to come from out-of-touch cultural snobs with too much time on their hands.
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The insurrection at the Capitol was an act of war, at the direction of the second president of the Confederate States of America. That would be Donald John Trump. This isn’t another civil war. It’s the same one that supposedly ended 150 years ago.
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What has happened is the same thing that happens in a parliamentary government: The Republican Party as we knew it in the 1980s through 2004 has become too weak to hold power by itself. So it has been forced to form a coalition with a “minority party” called the KKK, the Proud Boys, and other white nationalist/Aryan groups in order to stay in control.
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Coded messages carry clear intent to those for whom they’re intended, but disguise that intent to everyone else. We are the “everyone else” listening to Trump’s coded messages. They aren’t intended for us. They’re meant for white nationalists and other insurrectionists.
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On Wednesday, a bunch of you stupid white guys with stupid flags, yelling stupid sayings in service of a stupid man broke into the Capitol building on a murderous rampage, intent on destroying my country. You’ll notice one word is repeated numerous times in that sentence. Stupid.
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All this talk about healing and unifying the country is no better than a placebo if we don’t address the disease at the root of it all. Taking a placebo when your sick may provide some (apparent) relief from symptoms, but it’s one of the worst things you can do, because it keeps you from doing what needs to be done: aggressively treating the underlying cause.
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