It’s these dumb hills they die on that are largely performative that alienate a lot of people. It’s why the “healthcare pls” meme continues to be relevant. They can’t actually challenge entrenched power or capital influence so they go for all this bullshit on the margins and sometimes those margins are where people are able to find things like vaping or weed or whatever that help them cope with the insurmountable systemic problems in their lives. Like banning giant soda. Soda is unhealthy. It’s actually kinda gross. But how about those corn subsidies? Those will continue. So now you can only drink 48 ounces instead of 64 ounces of high fructose diabetes juice. Won’t somebody think of the children?!
It’s these dumb hills they die on that are largely performative that alienate a lot of people. It’s why the “healthcare pls” meme continues to be relevant. They can’t actually challenge entrenched power or capital influence so they go for all this bullshit on the margins and sometimes those margins are where people are able to find things like vaping or weed or whatever that help them cope with the insurmountable systemic problems in their lives. Like banning giant soda. Soda is unhealthy. It’s actually kinda gross. But how about those corn subsidies? Those will continue. So now you can only drink 48 ounces instead of 64 ounces of high fructose diabetes juice. Won’t somebody think of the children?!