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  • It makes more sense when you fully understand what people mean when they say both sides.

    People who want to argue that point take it to mean “both sides are the same”. What it really means is both sides are complicit. It’s good cop bad cop. The good cop has to keep up appearances, to sell the illusion of choice and safety. While the bad cop takes all the heat.

    And if you want evidence, just look at how things have gone in the last 40 years. Republicans take 3 steps right, democrats take 1 step left. Well, do the math. That’s a net result of 2 steps to the right without recoarse. Now repeat for 40 years, and you have a situation where it’s literally gotten to nazi america tactics.

    The old barometer for how far they’ve gone is when they undid roe v wade. Now, thats so far in the rear view, that we’re at a point where unidentified government agents are kidnapping people on the street, without even confirming they have reason to arrest them, and at times killing them in the process.

    Let me repeat that. We’re at a point where government officials are now grabbing people off the street and killing them, without so much as a confirmation of their identity.

    But don’t worry, the democrats are going to wave their fingers in a “no no no” motion, real hard. We’ll all be fiiiiiiine! Well, unless of coarse you’re brown enough, or just mistaken for an opposing opinion.

    Yeah. Both sides.





  • I was 17 years old when 9/11 happened. 2 weeks away from turning 18.

    As everybody watched on that day, in horror, I watched from a slightly different perspective. I thought the draft was coming back. I can distinctively remember as it happened thinking I was watching the defining moment of my generation in real time as it happened. Like if pearl harbor had been televised live. And I was right about it being the defining moment, right about knowing war was coming, wrong about the draft.

    Instead the war went on for decades with no draft needed. And I watched Bush bumble his way though the presidency. It still baffles me that Bush won in 2004. People saw 9/11, saw 3 years of Bush’s response, and then said “Yes please, more of that!”.

    I genuinely thought we had witnessed the dumbest, and most evil president in history.

    …and then recently I was wrong again.