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Jupiter’s northern hemisphere l NASA Juno l 2019

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The political party that legalized running over protesters is appalled at this climate of political violence.

zilnas

The political party that incited a violent insurrection at the nation's capital and then pardoned all the perpetrators is appalled at this climate of political violence.

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a comb for two lovers

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Luis Xertu (Mexican, b. 1985, Mexico City, Mexico, based Rotterdam, Netherlands) - Two Men on a Branch, 2024, Paintings: Plants, Acrylics on Canvas

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Morning light

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we used to have sitcoms about people, usually school age children, complaining about how the world was going to end and then some grandparent level character would give them the "first time?" speech and then tell them about how everybody goes through this. then comes the discussion about having a limited perception and how they need to expand their life. then everybody chills out and the episode ends.

of course that experience isn't going to happen to people who tell all the old people they should die and then doom scroll while refusing to leave the house. put down your failed ideology and build a social skill.

zaprowsdower27

I got the speech from my parents. I commented when I was in my early twenties (in the stone age, about fifteen years ago give or take) about how pointless everything felt because the right wing was already on the rise and blocking any effort to make things better and the environment was falling apart and why bother doing anything when by the time we could get a majority big enough to make a difference we'd have passed a dozen points of no return.

Their response? Something along the lines of, "When I was your age, rivers regularly caught on fire and I would have said the same thing about how doing anything was pointless because we surely would all die of nuclear war before anything could be done. Now the rivers are mostly swimmable and nobody assumes nuclear war is an inevitability. There's always hope."

#hope

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rabbitindisguise

This is the same kind of thinking of folks who are upset with the Democrats not "doing anything"

They did stuff people take for granted because "they're obviously smart ideas, so they probably already existed a long time ago." That's all it is.

Also, I want to add to the list:

Birth control (1936)

Abortion (1973)

Domestic violence becoming a crime (yes, really)

The suffragettes (1903) were decades ahead of social work (late 1900s), so women weren't doing that either

The first woman was elected to the house of representatives in 1916 (Jeanette Rankin)

In 1922 Florence Ellinwood Allen is the first woman elected to a state supreme court

Women are granted the right to serve on juries (1947)

The use of contraceptives is completely legal for married couples (1965)

No fault divorce (1969)

Sex segregated "help wanted" signs banned (1973)

Housing and credit discrimination based on sex outlawed (1974)

Public schools are no longer allowed to discriminate based on sex without justification (1982)

clockworkcanary

We take some of these so completely for granted that we have trouble really believing that some people are currently trying to roll things back.

Abortion is under attack, with birth control the next admitted target.

Some people really do want to get rid of no-fault divorce. (Murder rates went down when we got no-fault divorce because someone’s death was no longer the only way out.)

Our current administration wants to eliminate DEI, which is just diversity, equity and inclusion. What they want is to push out anyone who disagrees with them, or is not a white man. It’s re-segregation, but they don’t want to call it that…yet.

They want the Gilded Age back, with the hugely unequal and stratified society, the lack of worker and environmental protection, and women dependent on the men in their family again. The wrecking ball they are taking to our government is supposed to return us to a better time, and people assume the fifties, but, no. They want to be robber barons and tycoons.