Brit @britvulcan@mspsocial.net

Hey,

Head's up.
If you want to recommend something to me, just mention it offhand and something you liked about it.

The more you push the more i'm NEVER EVER GOING TO READ IT.

Sorry. It's a brain thing.

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Re- #introduction

I have some more followers now and have mostly settled into my mastodon self.

Generally I post about #uspol , #mnpol , #localpol regarding the MSP area, #zoning and #urbanism , #socialism but from a pro-market and pro federation of peoples/larger groups are fine actually perspective and mental health stuff about #adhd #anxiety and #arfid or #pickiness with food and sensory issues.

Sometimes there are dog pics and home renovation stuff. Enjoy!

Going to college didn't make me a liberal, but generational student loan debt helped make me a socialist.

NO:
Biden
Beto
Tulsi Gabbard (hi senator) - good domestic policy, terrible foriegn policy, and giant homobhope. Big nope.
The vast majority of white men - 1/2

Welcome to mastodon! You already have a large following, that's great! However, mastodon is kinda a wild place. There's a lot of shitposting and lewds. (also great!) It's not terribly sfw most of the time and our method of getting rid of nazis is decentralization, individual instances hosting themselves through patreon funding, and volunteer moderation. This means that nazis can live on their own instances and we can block them off from the rest of us.
#dftba

Hi, we are in full on anxiety mode. I hate it. Not sure what to do about it. (Is work related) urrrrgh. Is making my executive dysfunction reallly bad.

https://medium.com/@teamwarren/my-plan-to-strengthen-our-democracy-6867ec1bcd3c

That feeling when you have 12 hrs to get like 2 weeks worth of work done.

So, I get why people need queer only space. It is critical that we have spaces for queer folk to be queer and let down their hair. I also.. just really want to be able to bring my straight partner sometimes? Cause I'm bi? Cause ya know, it's nice to be able to celebrate your relationship when other people are celebrating the shared queerness. But I don't feel like it's ok for me to show up in that space with my relationships. Cause this shit: https://twitter.com/gaytowns69/status/1142569920384917504?s=09

When you go to get tacos and they are out of flour tortillas, and you can't do corn cause it triggers your food un-superpower.

Doggo spent a lot of time cuddling with me today. It was great.

ps. this interview is reallly cementing my Warren/Castro preference. They have similar but not the same stances on things and as the VPs job is often the presidential whip (like majority and minority whips in congress) having someone who also gets why big tech needs to be broken up would be a huge boon to a Warren presidency.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/politics/big-tech-democratic-candidates.html?mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=698A488117BBA39A6B6A70884DFDBB46&gwt=pay

New york times just released 18 questions to all of the candidates as like micro interviews. I found this one with warren particularly compelling in understanding her position on foriegn policy

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/politics/international-trip-democratic-candidates.html?mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=F686EFA09F2392D4A096A2707E22B69E&gwt=pay#warren

Better clip

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/video/poverty-in-america-gets-rare-airing-at-democratic-candidate-forum/vp-AAD34Jm

See especially 19:42 for why I was yelling at biden about personal space yesterday though the camera angle isn't as good here.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?461798-2/poor-peoples-campaign-presidential-forum-joe-biden-andrew-yang

I have finished spamming the TL for now.

Harris is the last one left.. and i think i'll get to it tomorrow/ or not at all. Let me know whether anybody wants me to keep going. :)

Thanks for reading!

Again, Bernie understands what the issues are. But.. he states it as "we will fix this problem" with.. no policy or strategy. We are going to build a grassroots revolution. But .. what does that look like? What are our demands? I am a person who needs details.

Q: poor is a 4 letter word, how to eradicate poverty

Bernie: FDR. Economic rights are human rights. Being free means you have a job that pays you a living wage. Go to the doctor without going bankrupt. education regardless of income. freedom means drinkable water and a clean climate. etc etc. ( limited actual hows)

Bernie: we need to make it easier to vote, not harder to vote

Q: Florida voting restoration, will you register voters around the country

Bernie: Acknowledges Andrew Gillium and ACLU worked hard, and the legislature are cowards for trying to push this back. The best way to defeat donald trump is to register people to vote and get people involved in a way we've never seen before. You can bet your last dollar we will be registering voters

Q; incarcerated voting rights, voter supression

Bernie: Governors who supress votes are political cowards because they know if [people] are allowed to vote, the GOP will lose. As president, if you are 18 and a citizen you have the right to vote in this country. Incarcerated citizens have the right to vote.

Q: poverty debate and gerrymandering

Bernie: Poor people have given up on politics because they never hear the issues they care about being discussed. We have to bring those issues ... goes into an aside on life expectancy disparity between rich and poor is 15 years.