printers
lumber from home depot
Any big box store, for sure. That shit will even warp days after you get it home.
The rental property market
Internet Service Providers. Not a one of them is “good”… So you just gotta find one that doesn’t constantly try to hit you with made up new “fees”.
Employment
US elections
Live action anime
McDonalds
Airlines. When JetBlue was new they were genuinely enjoyable to fly. After a few years they realized they only needed to be the least worst option, and now they suck like everyone else.
Because too many of us who had selfish political actions, and for decades kept saying “both sides are bad” while the side nearest facism kept acting in bad faith.
Democratic elections have always in the end been about picking the least-bad option. And, like it or not, elections and their consequences shape the rest of the world.
It’s true that “both sides are bad” is what led us to being closer to fascism than ever.
But you’ve got it backwards.
The “less bad” party being able to count on securing votes simply by being “less bad” allows for the “more bad” party to lead the march, and the “less bad” party to follow while still being “less bad”. This creates a slow march towards fascism while maintaining the illusion of choice in the population instilling passivity as they can always just “vote for less bad”.
No they fucking haven’t.
The uniparty thing started with like Clinton… Throughout our history, we had choices. Very meaningful ones. Maybe not the ones we wanted, but we had different courses for the county. It was always towards something
Click through some of these. This was the first rise of a fascist movement in the US, one that went on to influence Germany.
Did we hold the line and insist everything is fine? Fuck no, if you click back you’ll the Republicans held everything, the other two candidates had zero chance. Click forward and you get the largest wave of progressivism in our history, it took generations to tear down those safety nets, and they’re still not completely gone
That’s where we are now. Harm reduction doesn’t win, movements win.
Picture the clearest example in human history, where one side was absolute villains and the other a superman-esque obvious good guy.
Then explain to me how the good guy is not the “least bad” choice.
