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I don't disagree We, however, are all in the same Storm, and those with excess resources can build bigger and better boats until they can dictate who gets a boat in the storm.

It's the opposite. The more privileged you are, the less likely you are to dismiss politics.

But most people who are really into politics treat it as a hobby or entertainment

That's a good point. We can hope the outcome of all of this is increased civic engagement. We'll stop bowling alone and start attending town meetings and the like.

Sometimes the other side isn't "nuh-uh" it's just an incoherent stream of slurs

Yes.

Nuh-uh vs. the fuck you mean, ‘nuh-uh’

Citizen vs consumer

Not me I'm trying to escape to Australia

Margaret Thatcher: “There is no such thing as society.” Most damaging words ever said in English?

LMFAO. Sigh.

😂😩

Not who won in 2020, who WAS SERVING AS PRESIDENT IN 2020. Republicans blame Biden for COVID, for BLM protest response, for a supposedly botched census, ans a thousand other things that happened while Donald Felon Trump was in the White House.

I think the most fundamental debate of our time concerns the role of _process_ as a check against individual human failures and frailties. "Due process" in all its forms is the only way I know of to compensate for individual irresponsibility.

Brilliant. The pioneering systems-thinker Gregory Bateson said much the same thing in the decade before he passed away in 1980.

“No responsibility. Only benefits.”

Nuh-uh