“After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle.”
I’m not defending her or anything but honestly, what do you expect? She’s a mainstream American politician. She might be better than most but if any politician at this point ran on a platform of not deporting anyone then they’d instantly be seen as too radical and “idealistic” by the media and the general public. I mean it took us a very long time before most people got on board with the idea that having a health care system similar to basically every other first world country wasn’t too radical.Â
The context for this was that a 95-year old Nazi war-crime suspect who happened to live in the district for which she is running for Congress was finally deported (he was actually ordered to be deported 2004 but no country would accept him until now, when Germany finally agreed), and the GOP attacked her for it, and then when she clarified that yes, she still wants to abolish ICE but some deportation will be necessary, like the deportation of Nazis suspected of being war criminals, the left attacked her for that, because that makes her a cop.
jeff bezos is perfect. I’m so glad that he exists. he’s just as evil and scummy as every other billionaire, but unlike a bill gates or a steve jobs or, yes, even an elon musk, he spends absolutely no time cultivating his public image. no one believes that he’s a genius inventor or that he’s a benevolent philanthropist or he’s going to save the world. they just see their asshole boss or shitty landlord that they hate in him. and no one can say that he’s insignificant or marginal; he’s the richest man on the planet, now set to become the world’s first trillionaire during the covid pandemic. this man is a cartoon caricature of a billionaire. he’s the monopoly man brought to life. a man with no redeeming qualities who openly profits from suffering and misery. he is so useful as a tool to radicalize people because he distills the contradictions and inequities of capitalism perfectly. he’s the marie antionette of the 21st century.
I saw an article called “Make Peace With Your Unlived Life” and it really made me stop and think. So much of our lives is mourning for what we didn’t become. It’s a waste. We didn’t waste any opportunities. What came and went was not meant for us.
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