The last thing one of my classes is going to see before Spring Break. (Los Angeles unit in “Literature of the American West”).

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

I much prefer the substance of the political debate here on Bluesky to what I experienced at the other place, but the tenor? Getting strawmanned by left-wingers is no less exasperating than getting strawmanned by right-wingers.

Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.

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