WonkTV: Let's Discuss The Jacksonville Shooting, Maybe Boo DeSantis Some More
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OT, DC Circuit Court Judge Tanya Chutkan has set the Trump DC trial date for March 4th.
Super Tuesday is on March 5th.
Works for me.
There is a dehumanizing and toxic effect of our culture on everyone.
Our capitalism dogma is that if you are not a winner (rich, powerful, popular, with attractive arm candy) you are a loser without value. People of wealth are praised, coddled, lauded as the best, the smartest, the worthy) everyone else is a worthless cog. Dominate and be worthy and everything you want to be or be dominated and be a weak loser who doesn't deserve shit.
Too many boys and men get sucked into toxic ideologies that make them feel special. That tell them that they were born special and are special, but the reason they have problems in their lives, the reason they aren't a "winner" isn't the damn fucking system built by rich assholes to keep them and their progeny from ever having to work a day in their lives or do anything to make the lives of others better, but women or non-white people or gays, Jews, etc.
Toxic masculinity, toxic capitalism, racism, and misogyny overlap a lot.
We're losing too many people to them. And then they can buy a fucking, goddamned arsenal to take out their frustrations and hatreds on innocent people.
We fucking built this and this is exactly the sort of sick fucking "product" we should expect from the system.