the left doesn't laugh at itself anymore you know there have been times when leftism had connotations of *playful* social rebellion
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now it's all taboos and strictures and dire warnings and pearl clutching and Earnest Seriousness
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which are those do you think?
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are you old enough to remember the 70s? [I am not.] seems like there was an earlier wave of left hyperpoliticization that . . .
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evaporated in by the early 80s. I wonder if there was a common cause between that wave and the current one. Also maybe matches
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maybe the left just needs a crushing total defeat and the ensuing decade of desolation to be okay again it's been a good run tho
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ugh, I'm sorry. I hope I haven't minimized past and present Right awfulness in the last few tweets. And yeah between current
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R dominance and looming pension bombs and advancing automation, unions in trouble. I hope it doesn't get personal like that :(
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ahaha yes but also I wasn't putting it on! the abuses of the right through the 60s/70s were nuts and I sympathize.
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you know I have Illuminatus! on a shelf five feet away and I haven't read it, I should get on that. weirdly, along some axes ...
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I feel less insecure after the election. p much every ideology freaks me out and my city is far left, so if they're powerless--
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