#BUT THEN

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Today, the country indeed looks alien. The America many of us believed we knew now appears stranger in retrospect: The anger and resentment we may have thought was pitched at a simmer turned out to be at a rollicking boil. And one of liberals’ most cherished shibboleths from 2016—that Trumpism is a movement for aggrieved white men—unraveled in the face of a realignment that saw the GOP appear to give birth to a multiracial working-class movement. A second Trump presidency is the result of this misjudgment.

Democrats are a coalition party of the center-left

The Left has traditionally been associated with egalitarianism, which is by necessity concerned with the masses, the common people, the working class, but also the dispossessed, the marginalized, the disadvantaged

The modern Democratic party traces its roots most directly to the New Deal coalition of the 1930s, which it understands to have been a robust working-class and labor-rights movement

They also see themselves in the 1960s cultural revolutions and their repudiation of hierarchy, itself generally seen as the position of the common person, the masses, but also the dispossessed

The party takes its name from Andrew Jackson, great champion of the Common Man, at least as understood at his time, but it goes back to Thomas Jefferson, famous for declaring that "all men are created equal," and now excoriated for failing to live out that egalitarian principle

The Democrats are a party for the people, understood as capaciously as possible, the party that repudiates narrow nationalism and jingoism, in favor of spreading the benefits of American society widely, in opposition to favoring the privileged few

Why am I reminding you of all these things that you already know?

Because they believe so deeply that they are right in every way that matters, or at least incomparably superior to their opponents, they cannot begin to imagine repudiation from the very people in whose interests they thought they were acting, let alone in favor of the very person they swore was an existential, even murderous threat to those very same people

I think to appreciate the sensation, you might imagine a thief broke into your home, and then your family kicked you out in favor of the thief; someone broke in to ravish your spouse and they called the police on you; a sex offender told your children explicitly what he wanted to do them, and your children fought you to get out of your arms so they could crawl into the van knowing full well they'd never see you again

The shock is so existentially horrifying, such a betrayal of reality itself, that it would require rethinking all your most basic assumptions about the political order, human beings, and worst of all, yourself. Why would they do such a manifestly insane thing? Is there something I don't know? What did I miss? What did I do wrong? What do I do now?

Democrats cannot meaningfully internalize that they are the party of the privileged and the elite, by their own philosophy they are themselves the enemy, they write a blank check for the most lurid excesses of anti-colonial violence and call it "exhilarating" without dealing with the fact that given their assumptions, in this society, they are the power and not the resistance

But it's hard to ask yourself these kinds of questions and most people don't have the nerve for it, and so what we see instead, in another little paradox of human nature, is they're going to blame not the ravisher but the spouse

TL;DR, self-examination is hard, so now Democrats hate Latinos

[elizabeth-mitchells]

CINDY??????????

[lxnarphase]

toji in suspenders please hear me out PLEASE HEAR ME OUT

[lexiconisfunny]

Ppl who constantly talk about themselves in a negative way are just as much of a narcissist as people who constantly talk about themselves in a positive way.

I never want interact with a narcissist again. Unfortunately, I’m a narcissistic and I interact with myself everyday.

[inkandpaperqwerty]

It's been four months. They've been studying, experimenting, and solving the occasional murder along the way. But it's finally time to get Ed back to his own world... and then to start coping with whatever comes next.

Through the Gate Chapter 11 // Work is Now Complete

AO3 // wattpad // fanfiction.net

[driftwoodsix]

folklore is still such a good album. pisses me off

[chaotic-orphan]

lmao i’m confused what the hell did flynn think would happen when he brought his hero friend back to his psychopathic villain family? 😭

I don’t think he thought Hero would be this vitriolic about it. Like genuinely, he was like:

“and Hero and I can spend more time together and she’ll love the room and she’ll love ME more, and I can finally get this secret off my chest and we can be together forever! And maybe… just maybe, she’ll see my side eventually and forgive me. Well, maybe not forgive but at least she won’t be dead. At least, if she’s still alive, she can still hate me. There is a possibility we could work things out…”

Oh Fucked up Family whump, my beloved🫶🥰

[m4yyday]

why is it so lonely on tumblr sighs

this is crossed out bc it is lonely outside of tumblr as well

[malthusiana]

me after opening the first fic I thought of reading

[perfectly-uncapable]

cant get over how much i actually liked heartstopper s3...caught me off guard fr

[rueclfer]

I am early to meetings and things but not by choice, if i could be late to things on purpose i would. But my biological clock just makes me early. I hate it. Being early shows i care more than i should, which i don’t but thats the impression it gives 😭 and then people have the audacity to ask me to stay behind late too. No?? Thats enough torture. I wanna go home?? But when ppl cancel plans i lowkey get so excited. -💋

EXACTLY like i just cant handle being late i need 10 minutes to sit in my car and prepare myself for whatever

[magicrealisms]

perhaps I love dogs so much because they’re the only ones capable of loving me.

[dammarchy211]

I was thinking that I’m not too sure what kind of scientist I’d even consider Sasha to be. Like I could probably point out PhDs he might have. And such. But overall I wasn’t too sure. Until the answer of “kind of scientist that doesn’t exist in the real world because psychics aren’t real” came to me

[epiphainie]

what do you think about bucktommy breakup in season finale 🎤

(not an anti ask, i mean as a breakup makeup plot)

ngl you got me in the first half, you were about to be blocked immediately

now i do love me a breakup/get back together storyline and would love to see it in the future but i think s8 finale is too soon. in my perfect world they only move in together by the season finale because the show takes its time establishing them

[basslinegrave]

okay okay one more ttiv post. last one today i promise. thinking about how i dont like it as a continuation after ttg/tdph.. i feel like ttiv is quite in character with the banter etc mostly, but tdph with how serious and dark it is its perhaps more ooc than ttiv ever would be in the franchises context, but tdph is easier to look at as snm media somehow. does it make sense? not to me cause i prefer when theyre very unserious and more jokes than angst so its kinda funny how the one media that has more darker tones at times is seen as the best by many. so then i understand having ttiv after its like a full 180, but the full 180 was done for tdph first i would say

[gingerissues]

The moment when you realize maybe you're not as gay as you thought.