• Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    The conditions of the past are the context from which the present evolved. Forgetting this is how reactionary movements begin!

    Remember when things weren’t like they are now, wouldn’t it be better if we could wipe the slate clean and return to that?

    Hell yeah, I remember. I remember yesterday becoming today!

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        Girlbosses make their own coconuts, but they do not make them as they please; they do not make them under self-selected coconut trees, but under coconut trees existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead election cycles weighs like a nightmare on the hot button issues of the living.

        – Kamala Harris, Eighteenth of Brat Summer