- Housing
- Student Loans
- Medical Care
- Child care/The cost of children (assuming thatās something you want to do not making a value judgement)
- Education
- Wages/āJOBSā¢Ā©Ā®ā/āTHE ECONOMYā¢Ā©Ā®ā
- Inflation/Cost of Living/Value of currency
- Just the political issues we all face but are the best āhot buttonā issues
All that sort of stuff. Iām not minimizing stuff like Palestine of course, but I donāt recall in the seemingly endless 2020-2024 election campaign. I donāt really think I heard any sort of real ākitchen table issuesā. I feel like even the most basic political issues have been obfuscated or ignored. It feels like these very political issues have been removed from the sphere of political discourse.
I donāt know what my larger point is, but it feels strange to think that for example I havenāt heard a single mention of something like higher education costs for example. This isnāt just a dunk on Democrats either, though it is worth saying āget fucked losersā, but I think since about 2020 I havenāt heard a damn thing about healthcare or housing in a real political way from the big two or the media in general.
Again this isnāt to meant to minimize any other real problems either, not trying to āthis is more important than thatā, just saying I havenāt political people talk about politics all the while not being able to escape the political dimension
At Bluesky for my main account - Iām not following anybody. Instead - I use feeds I made at skyfeed.app. I want to know the current lib zeitgeist. 2024 is the new 2016.
I alphabetized the list so itās easier to reflect onā¦
When I consider that list in their post-election posts/comments - those topics have hardly come up. The only exception is angry posts about people not voting for Kamala due to inflation, etc. Theyāll say stuff like āPeople complained about eggs and now we get fascism.ā I literally had to mute words like āeggā and āeggsā. Hate scrolling is only good if you can least laugh once in a while at how clueless or hopeless people at a site are. I was getting angry at such stuff. Will they still be making egg jokes years from now? I think so.
Just like 2016 - libs are incapable of introspection. They donāt try to sympathize or empathize with common people. Instead they are really angry that the public failed the democrats. And if you point out this a horrible attitude - they hate you.
Post-election thereās been an insane explosion of highly popular Twitter libs. When it comes to politics thereās a sea of Orange Man Bad crap. I want to tell them: I agree - Trumpās administration will be a horrorshow but why canāt you canāt even manage a veneer of solitary with ordinary people?
I had to start [cough] liberally using the mute function and I also started blocking political accounts. I didnāt block a single political account pre-election. There was no need. I could just scroll past and smirk or smile at how bad the posts were. But now I have clean my feed. Trump Derangement Syndrome is at 11. I donāt need to see one zero effort post after another that are still highly popular. Itās trenchant commentary likeā¦
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I think because egg/eggs is easy to use in a joke and itās punchy because itās a single syllable. A āThey voted for egg prices!ā joke allows libs to skewer the people they like least. Who is this ātheyā? Maga? Traditional republicans? Non-voters? People who donāt vote often enough for the democrats? The poor? Etc. And itās a sort of Freudian slip that some dems canāt resist. They are actually saying itās stupid for people to vote based on their own circumstances and their own material conditions. Gee - why would people do that???
I saw an egg meme with two gigantic black trucks in a driveway. It was very strange. I donāt remember the text. Ninja edit - thisā¦
To be fair the average American eats something like 300 eggs per year. Not a joke
Thatās so many eggs wtf
Their politics are so devoid of politics. I still to this day cannot name a single GOOD thing the DNC can point to and say āwe did thatā. I can point to bad stuff for sure, but zero things that make my life, or the lives of people I know (or perhaps donāt know) better.
I think about that one all the time. Part of the big reason I think this leftist shit works is because it forces you (the rhetorical you of course) to see others like yourself. Even if Iām not them, or I donāt rock like they do, I can at least see how their conditions will be my own. I want them to prosper so I can too, because I certainly know as they suffer I will too. Solidarity with others (within reason, we arenāt trying to link up with the people doing the harm of course) is like only way out. These libs man they donāt want solidarity but they also donāt want whatever is coming, like what the fuck man?
Bluesky libs and libs like them have their own uber-lib version of solidarity and itās ābuilding coalitionsā. And - of course - the concept means people should do exactly what normie libs and the democratic party want.