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FlashMobOfOne

@FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org

Artist, theatrical performer, roller derby announcer, and former derby skater in the Midwest.

Single, childless, and married to my my freedom and sense of adventure.

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You could be right, but I wouldn’t want to have to sell Biden’s record to people who are paying more than double for groceries since he got elected. Wages, where they’ve increased, haven’t kept up with cost of living, and that’s going to be a big deal in the election.

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In another year we’re going to reelect Trump, sadly.

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To be fair: Democrats also did absolutely nothing to get their SCOTUS nominee confirmed when Obama was president, though since we saw them exploit the Roe leak to make a cool $80,000,000, we kinda know where their priorities were anyway.

After four years of Trump, I’m not buying any excuses that the president is powerless.

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No, it won’t. That is how change has been sold for the last 40 years, and people are not only being paid significantly less, housing is quickly becoming too scarce for everyone to obtain too.

If meaningful change happens, it will because people revolted.

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Pressure must be applied from many sources for real change to occur.

Yet without a real, existential threat, nothing meaningful is going to change. Hell, we just saw Roe go up in smoke while Democrats had the presidency AND Congress. Their response to this massive loss of liberty was to fundraise.

Nothing is going to change this trajectory except the Marsha P. Johnson school of brick throwing.

FlashMobOfOne,
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Thank you for your opinion. I appreciate it.

FlashMobOfOne,
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I’m not judging. I’d have done the same in his shoes.

FlashMobOfOne,
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THere’s some truth to that.

FlashMobOfOne,
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No one motivated by partisanship is going to hear and properly assess any critique of their candidate.

It’s why Trump supporters are losing a ton of money on his scams and why we have a brain-dead creep in the White House now.

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Obama changed the military’s criteria for civilian deaths so he could pretend his numbers were lower.

I don’t know that I’d call it an opinion. Civilian deaths are an eventuality we have no choice but to accept, especially here in the US, where we’re making war in six, seven, or eight countries at once and it’s normal.

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You’re right. It’s more like 1983, when we poured money out for Saddam Hussein because his guys were going to fight Iraq for us.

That worked out well.

But, in the end, it doesn’t matter. There’s a blank check for war and I’d just love it if people cared about the extent to which we neglect our own people in service of it.

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