I have to remind my mother not to panic when my dad FaceTimes with his Russian penpals. She's like "They're the enemy!" Again, I eternally hate CNN for messing up my parent's brains.

I need one of these.

Why does he hate him so much?

He had such bad untreated diabetes. They already were cutting off some of his toes and he was only on his 50s. He kept brushing off advice from his doctor that he was on a course towards this happening. I'd like to imagine that in a world where people didn't feel pressured by finances to avoid taking care of these serious health issues, that he might have had the liberty to be more cautious.

But, you all know what, what was also sad was seeing the rest of our predominantly black kitchen staff break down into tears when they told him he wasn't going to come out of the coma his heart attack put him in. We were all talking about him making a recovery while serving lunch a couple of days after, the dinner cook has just come in. She is the sweetest lady any of you will meet, a real ally to any queer comrades, and she said to us "I'm going to give that guy the biggest mother f-ing hug when he gets out." And shortly after, the head of the facility came in and told us, and everyone started to sob and cry.

And to tragically refer back to my starting point, which was disparities in black homeownership, he had just bought a home.

That particular policy is disgusting to me. Like, I understand stuff like the 2008 mortgage collapse hit black Americans the hardest in part because the loosening of loan regulations were sold to bodies like the Congressional Black Caucus in the 1990s as a way to reduce inequalities in home ownership that date back to the New Deal.

This crypto scam is even more egregious because, at least with the mortgage thing, black families got something tangible- a house, even if for some it was temporary. Here, they don't even get to have that before the rug gets pulled from under them. Just an absolutely despicable way to treat marginalized communities. Selling them snake oil like that.

And then those neolibs are the same people who cynically told us that giving every person in this country healthcare was somehow racist. What do they know, have they ever seen a morbidly obese black coworker die of a heart attack on the job after doing two days of double shifts, no because they work at Institute For Instituting Policy Initiatives. These neolibs never have to see this stuff up close in everyday life and they probably offer thanks to whatever Moloch they worship that they don't have to.

I still call it Kiev because all the TV people switching words on a dime freaked me out. It's real shit when the entire media class just decides for geopolitical reasons the geographic name for a place everyone was used to using isn't usable anymore.

At least when I write fanfiction like this, everybody gets universal healthcare at the end.

Ridiculous considering that Xi is trying to make up for decades of underinvestment in rural China.

This is really emblematic of the Democrats full tilt to being the party of the old order after co-opting and shutting down BLM once it was no longer useful to their immediate goals.

I wonder what can give once they completely criminalize dissent? These restored Bourbons are going to make people do stuff like banquet campaigns just to talk about soc dem stuff.

Who knew the commercial aerospace industry was a Mafia. I thought that only applied to the military side of things.

Sensible policy like this goes right over the heads of the average American.

White Castle Doctrine