Oberon Storm
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Post by Oberon Storm on Feb 23, 2017 19:59:40 GMT
You also have to ask how many of those tea partiers came back this time for the ACA.
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wisp
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Post by wisp on Feb 23, 2017 20:23:37 GMT
People are flooding town halls to demand that ACA not be repealed or replaced unless it's with something that provides more coverage and benefits than ACA. Civic engagement is through the roof in my neck of the woods, anyway. Our representative Yvette Clarke had a town hall and the line stretched down multiple blocks and many people were turned away because there was no more room. I couldn't find any documentation of numbers in how this compares to the town halls that the Tea Party took over in 2009–2010 but to me this seems much more massive. This makes me super happy to hear. I've been really slack about doing my civic duty because I've had to put all my energy into all that personal business. Civic engagement can work like stagger breathing in a wind ensemble if enough of us participate when we are able to!
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Leo
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I don't believe in the moon, I think it's just the back of the sun.
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Post by Leo on May 10, 2017 1:38:32 GMT
Trump's letter to Comey about le firing:
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Post by SteveT on May 10, 2017 20:00:46 GMT
That second paragraph does less than nothing to assure me that the Russia investigation is bogus.
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Selena
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Post by Selena on Jul 27, 2017 0:52:03 GMT
So lots of things have changed. I have not been posting regularly in this forum. Or on Facebook. I talk a little in our political sub-group in Discord, but even then we only chat in short bursts. I find the ongoing political theater so incredibly draining. The Orange One. Congress dramatics. Liberals. Conservatives. Average citizens and their overzealous, polarizing views that make general conversation difficult. I've found that taking a break from social media was helpful in keeping my mental batteries charged. Most of the non-LA members on my newsfeed just reblog heavily biased (on either side) political memes instead of actually writing out thoughts. I keep resisting the urge to strangle. In summary: I am watching all, but don't have much energy to talk about it. Also everything about politics is consistently embarrassing.
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wisp
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Post by wisp on Jul 27, 2017 2:31:40 GMT
I had to unplug completely... Facebook, Twitter, news, etc. That was actually why I haven't been on Discord too - for a while there, politics was coming up a lot and I couldn't deal with it and work at the same time. I feel really irresponsible for not following what's happening right now, but I can't function well enough with all the anxiety that all those clowns keep causing me. >.>
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Masamune
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Post by Masamune on Jul 27, 2017 3:50:15 GMT
If it helps, we gave politics a separate channel on discord. We mostly just talk media, games, and random life shit in the main discord channel.
But I gotta step back every now and then. Like, I don't want to stop being outraged at what's happening, but it happens on a daily basis in such quick succession that it's so hard to keep being angry. I just want to be able to relax and ignore everything, but I know that's not good either. So mostly I just try to limit how much I peek at political stuff anymore.
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