#healthy politics

[illegal-prime]

Normalize updating laws and regulations that are no longer fit for purpose.

Normalize working with powerful enemies to find a solution where everybody wins.

Normalize mutual compromise.

Normalize collaboration over opposition.

Normalize civil discourse on divisive issues.

Normalize good faith and the principle of charity.

Normalize discussion of specific social, political, and economic issues.

Normalize advocacy for specific and implementable policy reforms to to tackle said issues.

Normalize imperfect solutions.

Normalize civic engagement.

Normalize public sector action.

Normalize incremental success.

Normalize improving society instead of destroying and rebuilding it from the ground up.

NORMALIZE PROGRESS!!!

[nothing-impt]

Screw you. Pancakes your Polites >:(

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*tries to organize my thoughts*

*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*

*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*

(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next

[wydalenylod]

WHY DOES ENGLISH SPEAKING INTERNET NOT HAVE A POPULAR MEME ABOUT EATING BABIES. WHY CAN'T I JOKE HOW ODYSSEUS SHOULD'VE TAKE THE INFANT WITH HIM AND USE IT AS EMERGENCY FOOD WITHOUT PEOPLE GIVING ME WEIRD LOOKS

[lindseyarchive]

[theconservativecowgirl]

How Trump and Obama acted at Jimmy Carters funeral is how politics should be. Civil, able to joke and laugh with each other, and viewing them as a friendly competitor rather than an enemy. And it's not just one side treating the other like and enemy, it's all sides against the others.

[bumblingbabooshka]

I think Sarek and Amanda Grayson both lowkey seeing their children as little experiments in different ways is undeniably bad parenting BUT .... I mean you talk about matching each other's freak .... Like imagine for a second Sarek is like "I am going to show that Humans are just as good as Vulcans by molding this Human child and my half Human son into the perfect Vulcans - This will show that despite what society thinks of as their genetic inferiority, they're just as good as any Vulcan." and Amanda's response to that is to think "Sarek is wrong...Michael's humanity MUST be preserved...so that I can show her all the love and affection I can't show Spock and maybe through their sibling bond all my unspoken and unexpressed love can trickle down to him through her." What are you both DOOOOING!?? You guys are NUTS like PLEASE just TALK to each other and compromise about how you're going to raise your children!! [Love the drama though] So I'm imagining in my head that Sarek is severely pressuring both Spock and Michael to act as perfect Vulcans their entire lives with him or else they're failures not only in his eyes but in all of society's (because he's an ambassador and raising these children is tied irrevocably with his work as such) WHILE Amanda is secretly trying to funnel her humanity and love for Spock through Michael and as such failure to receive, express, or internalize that love is failing not only your mother but also the entire Human race. Damned if you do damned if you don't! Who do you want to disappoint more, kids?

In 'Point of Light' Amanda says that she gave Michael all of the love, joy, and affection which she wasn't "permitted" (we must question the use of the word - what stopped her from directly giving Spock this love? I'm not saying there wasn't pressure for her not to, I'm saying the word 'permitted' absolves her of any personal choice or failing in a way that's interesting to me) to give Spock and though this is on the surface level sweet and probably meant to be interpreted that way, I submit that it must be kind of fucked up to hear that your foster mother was maybe only so kind and caring to you because she felt she wasn't allowed to act that way towards her "real" son. Michael Burnham as a tool for both her parents, however unintentional, is very interesting and I'm not sure it's something canon considers (haven't watched the show, I just like imagining things). The feeling that you have to be grateful to these people for not only being your parents but being YOUR parents. For taking you in and giving you a beautiful life - you have to pay them back, you have to make them especially proud of YOU. Because they didn't HAVE to, did they? Because you're not their "real" child. In the end, it's always Spock - isn't it? The love your mother gives you is Spock's love and if only one child can enter the Vulcan Science Academy then it has to be Spock. You're the appetizer your father serves before the REAL main course and your mother's stuffed doll which represents the thing she REALLY wants to hold and you know they genuinely care about you. That's the worst part. Because you know they care and they didn't mean to hurt you and the voice in the back of your head keeps telling you that any hurt they've dealt you pales in comparison to the debt you owe them and they love you, they love you, they love you, they love you, they love you [repeat as often as need be: remember the debt]

[phoenixyfriend]

I've been thinking about how it might be useful, if not necessarily entirely fulfilling for whatever it is that I need out of them, to ask politicians how they would define a healthy economy, as opposed to just asking them how they would try to ensure a healthy economy.

President Joe Biden took to the White House lectern Friday to tout the healthy economy – strong job creation, lowering inflation and increased workforce participation and job satisfaction. - US News, Sep. 1, 2023

And

"I think we will see a big pickup in growth. We may not see it in the winter quarter...but I’m hopeful that we’ll see it in the spring,” Larry Kudlow, head of the National Economic Council, said on Fox Business. “It’s a fundamentally healthy economy,” he said, touting the 3.5 percent unemployment rate and “tremendous wage gains.” - The Washington Post, Jan. 30, 2020

In both cases they are offering a few signs of a healthy economy, the things that are quantified and measured as indicators, like unemployment, inflation, and wages.

But... wouldn't 'the ability to buy or rent a living space, and food security, for as many people as possible' make more sense?

Yeah, low inflation is the sign of a good economy, but what is the healthy economy actually doing? The jobs being created, are they actually full time and paying a living wage?

Fuck knows how many times a person at the podium has referenced the stock market as a signifier of the economy's health, and we all know that's barely relevant to the lives of us normal people.

I guess the question I'd want to ask politicians is "if the economy's health were measured in percentage of people who are able to afford housing, food, and other essentials on a full-time job with no government assistance, is the economy actually healthy?"

Low inflation means jackshit if the minimum wage is still no inflation. Job creation means something, but not if it's so far from your home that you spend most of your paycheck commuting. 'Tremendous wage gains' don't mean much if you're looking at an average that includes the CEOs and allows their paychecks to skew the data upwards.

How many of your citizens can afford housing, groceries, and medical care on a full-time wage, without government assistance?

[usastudio]

[b1tch-b1nary]

its okay to punch Nazi's!!!!!

[democratthatlovesguns]

Federal Funding for the Most Vulnerable Americans

If you ever questioned if Trump really thinks the disabled and others he considers "losers" should just die, to allow the "superior" American race to thrive ... You have your answer. He is doing the worst impression of Thanos mixed with a Spartan ever.

And just to be clear, when asshole pieces of shit like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Kevin O'Leary talk about Americans having to bear through tough times for a brighter "America Great Again" future, AT NO POINT DO THEY PERSONALLY INTEND TO BEAR ANY OF THE PANGS THEY SO "SINCERELY" BEG OTHERS TO BEAR. THESE PIECES OF SHIT WILL MAKE RECORD PROFITS AND EXPERIENCE UNIMAGINABLE INCREASES TO THEIR PERSONAL WEALTH, WHILE THE IDIOTS THAT VOTED FOR PIECE OF SHIT IN CHIEF CONTINUE TO BE TOO PROUD TO ADMIT THEY FUCKED UP.

[somepsychopomp]

Wolf hybrid Odysseus who grows up wanting to stick his nose into people’s mouths so he can smell them and “greet” them as he’s instinctively inclined to. Only for little Ody to be reprimanded by his parents for behaving inappropriately with his teachers/nurses/etc.

The only exception is his childhood friend Polites. When they were very young and first introduced to each other, Polites yawned and Odysseus couldn’t help but stick his nose into his new friend’s mouth.

Polites not only took this in stride but reciprocated, thinking his new friend was funny and weird but in a good way.

Polites was also positively enamored with Odysseus’ soft puppy ears and his squishy toe beans. He didn’t think they were strange or off putting, only curious. As they played together, he even tried to run after Ody on all fours the way his new friend liked to, but for some reason, it was a lot harder for him.

Their parents looked at the wolf boy and the regular boy chasing each other in circles and thought, “Well, as long as he’s happy.”

[smaeemo]

Starting all my emails with “so unfortunately,” because its an unfortunate day and an unfortunate time to send emails

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

hate having to block other women on radblr but if you cant be constructive instead of condescending and immediately resorting to personal attacks i dont need your input

[jacksproject2025]

Happy birthday to me and congratulations to America on OUR new lease on life—WE’RE BACK. 🇺🇸

[cryptdfish]

“white mourning.”