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Understand the mistakes of the past or you'll keep repeating them into the future. The US progressive movement will make no progress until it understands that Obama was a corrupt mass murdering monster.
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Almost all of the people who keep civilization functioning do so without recognition or acclaim. The few people at the top who show up to take credit for attainments in commerce, media, politics etc., are standing on the heads of millions of people, most of whom they've never met.
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When I was in a financially abusive relationship with young kids, Christmas was the worst time of the year for me. Trying to scrape together enough Santa presents so my sweet children didn't worry they'd been "naughty" is just one way capitalism tortures those who are struggling.
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I thought I'd get more comfortable with the attention this job gets me as time went on, but I'm actually getting more and more reclusive. Lefty commentators are expected to do interviews and videos and podcasts and stuff, but I just want to write and make art and keep to myself. The expectation that I should do other things besides what I'm good at reminds me of an old Mitch Hedberg bit:
"When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, 'OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?' "
I'm just gonna focus on cooking.
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