We drive by roadkill each day…how often are we unknowingly passing up proof of chupacabra or Sasquatch. The evidence we need to believe in the supernatural, pulped and strewn, unrecognizable across the pavement.
The horse race reporting doesn’t help either. Every candidate win is a “Mandate” for their whole platform according to the press, instead of being the start of a coalition effort
The whole discourse is the intersection of multiple issues, all of which are uncomfortable but necessary to grapple with: 1. Chappell Roan is using her vote and voice as she wants and is her right 2. She speaks to an audience that does not regularly engage in politics 3. Because voting culture sucks
Instead, voting is closer to a marker, an exchange of power that can be called in or revoked based on the conduct of the recipient. A vote is consent, and as consent can be renegotiated or denied at any time — if you pay attention between elections! But the consumption model wrecks this.
I don't feel like the national media is conveying right now what a catastrophe is unfolding in western North Carolina.
I hope the inventor of this is cursed to be haunted by the voice of his lost love, forever telling him how much better her life is without him.
Write a horror story in 3 words: "Incredible Facetime sex" OK, now write a horror story in 6 words: "Incredible Facetime sex with Bobby Kennedy"