Be them cops, school shooters, #McCloskeys #ProudBoys or 17 year old #KyleRittenhouse types there are an alarming # of mentally ill white males in this country. Think the US #warmachine military budget, video games, or #Hollywood are blameless?
America is rich and soulless.
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“The person that you want
Lies so close
To the person that you aren’t”
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“Whisper my love.
What scares me isn’t losing you,
It’s losing me”
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I used to think that if I didn't stray from pure react I'd remain intact.
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When you write to hear yourself it doesn't matter if anyone else is listening.
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Who wants to live only one linear life?
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Just as art is a negation of status, education needs to be a revolt against culture. Our children should not be educated in what “won” history. They should be taught what the winners took.
The single greatest lie, myth, misunderstanding, and conspiracy theory, all rolled into one, is that labor - what we do with the majority of our lives - should be valued in purely economic terms.
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Y'all not paying enough attention to #capitalism. Why the growing wealth and income gaps? Why doesn't our pay leave us with any money? It's because capitalism is exploitive by nature. It profits off of other's labor. It can only keep more profit for itself by cutting costs. Labor is capitalism's largest cost.
I see it in the practice of law. The pay for lawyers has decreased significantly over the past 20 years. I am working for a living wage. And it's not upper middle class. It's in the lower end of livable wage. I don't have any luxury in my life from being a lawyer.
Luxury - excess - is reserved for those who exploit.
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