I definitely remember this 35-year-old actual cover of Time Magazine. This is exactly what Trump and his fellow white nationalists and anti-Black, anti-Brown racists are reacting to, and with unmitigated cruelty and zeal. #racism

The phrase ‘living wage’ itself concedes remarkable territory: we’re literally debating whether working full-time should be enough to earn survival.

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.

In a way the tone is almost as frightening as the substance. The dissent writes like it understands the stakes, and what kind of regime we're on the precipice of becoming. The majority writes like it's hearing a case about whether rollerblades can be taxed as vehicles.

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When the GOP tariffs kick in, every retailer should post two prices on their goods, showing the price with and without the Republican/Trump tariffs.

"I was fine with the rape and the fraud and the endless lies and the misogyny and the racism and the homophobia and the transphobia and the corruption and the police brutality and the caged babies and the terrorism and the attempted coup and the autocracy and the ending the rule of law and the threats to invade neighbouring countries and the building-a-golf-resort-on-top-of-a-genocide, but now he's giving Wall Street the jitters, so I'm not so sure about this guy any more." #USpol

Someone remarked that during the 2020 BLM protests, you could (briefly) convince white Americans that cops needed to have their funding and powers reduced, but that within a few weeks of the propaganda machine going brrrr in the media, most of them reverted to a pro-cop stance as if none of that ever happened. And I think it demonstrates how few people have concrete beliefs outside of what affects them personally and how easily white people fall back on white supremacist belief structures.