Dwindling attention spans, amplified by the way we consume content now (tiktok, youtube, doom scrolling, cherry picking headlines and not reading articles...) has completely warped our ability to process impending threats. We look at the price of ketchup and gas now, and remember how moderately less expensive they were five years ago, and completely forget the hellscape that was the Trump years. Empty store shelves. Hoarding sanitizer and toilet paper. Masks. Remote learning and having to work while also keeping children logged in and engaged. The Jolt-Cola cavalcade of scandals for four straight years. Biden is boring. He's getting the job done. He's enacting policies that won't yield full benefits for decades. He got a LOT done in four years. But people needing immediate gratification for every conceivable need willingly burn it all down every election, always knowing they'll have another chance to do it again next election. Women think back lovingly on their pink knitted hat marches and long for the community and social media opportunities of doing it all again... AFTER the election.... IF Trump wins. Until then, they're too busy making TikToks, posting their Shein hauls and designer smoothies on socials. As Charlamagne the God said of the black vote going to an outlaw like Trump, "game respects game". There's also the fallacy of "we live in a blue state, this won't affect us" thinking. Mankind is doomed and we're too stupid to step off the tracks despite the vibrations, lights, bells and horns.
I've been trying to get people to march on SCOTUS for months, man. Sadly I have about 400 follows and less than ten paid subs.
I'm in like the bottom half of writers here and algorithms ensure very few people who don't already agree with me get to see me, so...you keep ringin' that bell.
Sorry, Bob, is... is something stopping you from organizing protests? The ones on the campuses are taking place because their educational institutions have investments with weapons manufacturers and Israeli businesses, and the urgency comes from the obvious ethnic cleansing campaign that the Israeli government is proudly perpetuating *right now.* Moreover, Trump already *does* have opposition in the form of Joe Biden. What would protests accomplish that the Biden campaign couldn't on their own dime?
We need to be on the streets, FFS! If this fucker gets back in, he will shoot up the Women's March.
Dwindling attention spans, amplified by the way we consume content now (tiktok, youtube, doom scrolling, cherry picking headlines and not reading articles...) has completely warped our ability to process impending threats. We look at the price of ketchup and gas now, and remember how moderately less expensive they were five years ago, and completely forget the hellscape that was the Trump years. Empty store shelves. Hoarding sanitizer and toilet paper. Masks. Remote learning and having to work while also keeping children logged in and engaged. The Jolt-Cola cavalcade of scandals for four straight years. Biden is boring. He's getting the job done. He's enacting policies that won't yield full benefits for decades. He got a LOT done in four years. But people needing immediate gratification for every conceivable need willingly burn it all down every election, always knowing they'll have another chance to do it again next election. Women think back lovingly on their pink knitted hat marches and long for the community and social media opportunities of doing it all again... AFTER the election.... IF Trump wins. Until then, they're too busy making TikToks, posting their Shein hauls and designer smoothies on socials. As Charlamagne the God said of the black vote going to an outlaw like Trump, "game respects game". There's also the fallacy of "we live in a blue state, this won't affect us" thinking. Mankind is doomed and we're too stupid to step off the tracks despite the vibrations, lights, bells and horns.
Wish I didn’t see things this way as well
We're all over here protesting via essay on Substack.
Whatever happened to those folks with the baby Trump balloon? 🤔😉😊
I've been trying to get people to march on SCOTUS for months, man. Sadly I have about 400 follows and less than ten paid subs.
I'm in like the bottom half of writers here and algorithms ensure very few people who don't already agree with me get to see me, so...you keep ringin' that bell.
They’re a little busy with the protesting of genocide that Ben is being a dollar store Glen Greenwald about.
100% Surreal Times!
In the voting booths
The only protest that will really count will be the one we make with our VOTES.
Well, sorry, but at the moment we’re a bit preoccupied with all those campus fascists…
Simple, look here:
https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/looking-at-the-gates-opening-to-the/comments
Sorry, Bob, is... is something stopping you from organizing protests? The ones on the campuses are taking place because their educational institutions have investments with weapons manufacturers and Israeli businesses, and the urgency comes from the obvious ethnic cleansing campaign that the Israeli government is proudly perpetuating *right now.* Moreover, Trump already *does* have opposition in the form of Joe Biden. What would protests accomplish that the Biden campaign couldn't on their own dime?