The Bastille was stormed by mostly women that couldn’t take it anymore.

The men inside the prison probably thought they would die there. They probably thought whatever action landed them there was for nothing and they were doomed to rot.

You don’t know the full effects of your actions until long after. Do your best to make the world a better place. Organize, connect with your friends, family, and neighbors. “The revolution” is not a single event that saves us all. The women that stormed the prison didn’t know they were going to overthrow the I government.

We all have to do our best to care for each other.

The one thing I’ve learned the most from lemmy is that I need to spend time offline building community in realspace.

I’ve rejoined my church, connected with local political organizers and started going to the range.

We just need to end the filibuster.

Americans need to feel the consequences of their votes and stop relying on gridlock to save them.

People created art and music for no profit as far back as the records go. If there was no profit motive, people would still make porn. There wouldn’t be as much porn, but there would totally still be porn to be found.

Until the US military gets fried and the dollar collapses the rest of the world will care.

That day may not be far off, but it not here yet.

Edit- sinking the navy would do it.

Ranked choice can be done state by state. Alaska, maine, and New York City elections are ranked choice.

The electoral college can be nullified by state by state adoption of the popular vote compact.

That’s only a few states short but all the blue states have signed on, so it needs support from red states which is a much heavier lift.

They will be fucked for exactly 2 election cycles. 2026 and 2028. 2030 will be a red wave year. Calling it now.

Voters have memories worse than goldfish. Dems will be a shoe for the white house in 28 but will be lucky to hold it in 32 unless something historically tragic in the scale 9-11 or COVID happens in 31.

It’s short for “I would have told my kid”

The ability to fall asleep in 10 minutes flat.

Scuba rhyming with bubba is peak.

Philip is the English spelling of the name.

I assume Houston Street is named after a man that pronounced his name House-ton. Houston the city was named for Sam Houston, the first President of the Republic of Texas. He pronounced it Hews-ton, so that’s what we call it.

You and me both, there have to be at least dozens of us.

The irony is burning hotter than the white prosperous.

Calling for schools and healthcare instead of tanks and bombs is not tankie crap. Tankies want the other side to have tanks, instead of the US.

Eww.

Leopards snacking on the left after feasting on the right.

It’s always the ones you most suspect

I assumed the mom was speaking.

Freedom to toil, freedom to starve, freedom to suffer without medicine or medical care. Freedom to freeze on the cold and bake in the sun.

True, and I do think we need to expand our imagination to include outcomes that don’t rest on Israeli hegemony.