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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • Yeah, they could have managed things the slow and steady way to improve people’s lives while they were stealing from them, but they were too goddamned greedy.

    To some extent philosophical arguments about what’s right, what’s fair, and what’s feasible are just academic. There’s just a limit to how much the lords can squeeze the peasants before a revolt happens, and we’re getting close. Our situation is pretty close to as bad as it’s ever been and papering over it with meaningless programs that barely help anyone aren’t enough to relax that pressure. One way or another it’s is going to be let out.

    We no longer have any illusions about the robber barons just being benign people who were smart or lucky and prospered in a functioning system. A few of them know they need to give back and give back quickly, but most are just thinking about how much more they could take and people see that.




  • Blame the lady bits, not anything about their platforms or campaigns. It’s the centrists’ chosen excuse so the only thing they did wrong was being woke. It’s just a bonus that it also disparages the most powerful rising progressive presidential candidate while the centrists’ champions are all white men.

    Trump (barely) lost in 2020 because he was president and his grievance-based messaging fails when he’s the one in power and everything is getting worse. 4 years later everything is getting worse under a Democrat and his successor refuses to say anything should change, so it works again.