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[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I always thought it was weird that lefties got behind this guy when I remember him years back on the Colbert show bragging about the public-private partnerships he had pulled off. Like it was good he had helped his town and all, but it wasn't in anyway Left.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130306219

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Idk imagine living in Pennsylvania

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Somewhere Zizek's ears just twitched.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Rather not. Did my time in Jersey.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In my case; It's just really hard to track down the political histories of every "progressive" that pops up. I need to remind myself; The only curse that Pandora managed to capture before it could escape the box was Hope.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

ive never understood that

are we free from hope? Like, able to stop feeling it? Or do we only have hope because it's still in the box?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Somehow it never clicked for me that hope is meant to be curse too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I interpret it as hope being a passive acceptance of the other curses. if you're hoping you've already given up. It's kind of a 'take heart, fortify, rally, you don't have to fall back on hope, these evils can be conquered" thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

amerikkka is a prison. Ancaps will tell you with a straight face that it's not government or taxation as long as it's not officially either.