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kleinbl00  ·  1722 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Everyone’s a Socialist in a Pandemic

I grew up watching Reagan gut the fuckin' thing. I guess... this is what we get. For forty fuckin' years. Of abject craven selfishness.

I'm all about people pulling together. I still get teary over the mosque by my house that got firebombed after 9/11. Whole fuckin' neighborhood formed a circle around it. Started hanging out on the steps. Brought potted plants. For about three years you could see white guys hanging out playing chess in front of a mosque. This is what we do.

But goddamn it. The government is supposed to HELP you do it, not COUNT ON YOU to do it.