flyingsheeptoNews@lemmy.worldEnglish·9 months agoTrump: Civil War didn't need to happen, could have been "negotiated"(boingboing.net)external-linkarrow-up1458arrow-down130message-square128fedilink
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minus-squareMario_Dies.wavarrow-up21arrow-down4·9 months agolinkfedilinkThe other thing I hear from status quo warriors is “We want things back to normal.” No, we fucking don’t! Normal sucks donkey ass for a lot of people.
minus-squareFlying Squidarrow-up9arrow-down2·9 months agolinkfedilinkAnd they don’t want to put things back to normal anyway. They always want whatever the status quo is maintained.
minus-squareMario_Dies.wavarrow-up7arrow-down4·9 months agolinkfedilink“If normal was progressive and helpful, then we want whatever came before that” is the subtext. It’s moustache-twirlingly evil.
The other thing I hear from status quo warriors is “We want things back to normal.”
No, we fucking don’t! Normal sucks donkey ass for a lot of people.
And they don’t want to put things back to normal anyway. They always want whatever the status quo is maintained.
“If normal was progressive and helpful, then we want whatever came before that” is the subtext. It’s moustache-twirlingly evil.