• a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Disappointed in the comments here so far. There’s a cardinal rule of improv that also works well for many other things in life, politics included: “yes, and”.

    This is a great change that will save folks money and make the country just a little bit fairer. Celebrate that, and then use the momentum to push for more. This builds alliances and a shared vision, instead of devolving into petty squabbles around direction.

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      8 months ago

      Full disclosure: Trump bad! Biden GOOD!

      You’re disappointed but personally, it’s hard NOT to feel a great deal of schadenfreude when:

      the guy who, for his entire career, has openly accepted bribes in exchange for legislation that is economically violent toward his own constituents now presumably wants the exact same constituents he sold out to vote for him

      and is using small, meaningless crumbs to gain that vote when he could have just NOT ENABLED A GENOCIDE.

      If this situation doesn’t make you a true believer about there being no hope, I honestly don’t know what will. I lost hope in 2016 and have just been laughing through the bullshit since then. It’s exactly as real as pro wrestling at this point.

      no yes