I had spent years street protesting the war in Iraq, and had grown tired of trying to build community and organize in a college town.
So I moved out into a deep rural (and red) part of the country and got a job working in Public Health. This was well before covid and I just started working with grant money to help people retrofit and upgrade their septic systems.
It was a government job and it did more good for more people than I think any damage I did to police or federal property.
And from there I kept working and seeing benefits of public health and infrastructure. There's a lot to the state and government that I don't like, but public infrastructure is the valid basis of a state.
I’m fairly certain this was the original goal when the country was founded and the idea of states rights, but at some it feels like things got flipped on their heads.
Psycholonials features very heavy clown imagery, including direct references to the Insane Clown Posse. This is a continuing trend in most if not all of Hussie's work, and should worry all of us.
I feel this. I used to work in a 1970s era courthouse building. Dimly lit and filled with archive boxes. Winding deadend corridors. My cubicle was undeniably my private workspace. Only office environment I kinda miss.
The quad-plex half-cubicle shared workspace that office moved to was garbage. A leading factor in my eventual departure actually. Work environment means a lot. Nothing beats remote work though.
It can also be shorthand for apolitical. Like the kind if people with zero political knowledge or engagement beyond knowing they aren't conservative like their parents or hometowns were.
That's closer to it. The local permitting jurisdictions get nothing out of approving or denying applications. They get held up for two reasons: the proposal is incomplete/unapprovable by law; and political intervention from an outside entity. Maybe the mayor or a commissioner, sometimes a director of an agency or organization. That's where any bribery or other such shenanigans would take place. Not the permitting office.
That looks more like Jeff Coltin's contribution to what Mandani said. Mamdani did the very politician thing and said 'there are many ways'. Jeff is adding in the discouragement and the 'but' to Mamdani's quote.
That was just CounterPost.
Also Winter Orb and Icy Manipulator.