- Housing
- Student Loans
- Medical Care
- Child care/The cost of children (assuming that's something you want to do not making a value judgement)
- Education
- Wages/"JOBS™©®"/"THE ECONOMY™©®"
- Inflation/Cost of Living/Value of currency
- Just the political issues we all face but are the best "hot button" issues
All that sort of stuff. I'm not minimizing stuff like Palestine of course, but I don't recall in the seemingly endless 2020-2024 election campaign. I don't really think I heard any sort of real "kitchen table issues". I feel like even the most basic political issues have been obfuscated or ignored. It feels like these very political issues have been removed from the sphere of political discourse.
I don't know what my larger point is, but it feels strange to think that for example I haven't heard a single mention of something like higher education costs for example. This isn’t just a dunk on Democrats either, though it is worth saying “get fucked losers”, but I think since about 2020 I haven’t heard a damn thing about healthcare or housing in a real political way from the big two or the media in general.
Again this isn't to meant to minimize any other real problems either, not trying to "this is more important than that", just saying I haven't political people talk about politics all the while not being able to escape the political dimension
At Bluesky for my main account - I'm not following anybody. Instead - I use feeds I made at skyfeed.app. I want to know the current lib zeitgeist. 2024 is the new 2016.
I alphabetized the list so it's easier to reflect on...
When I consider that list in their post-election posts/comments - those topics have hardly come up. The only exception is angry posts about people not voting for Kamala due to inflation, etc. They'll say stuff like "People complained about eggs and now we get fascism." I literally had to mute words like "egg" and "eggs". Hate scrolling is only good if you can least laugh once in a while at how clueless or hopeless people at a site are. I was getting angry at such stuff. Will they still be making egg jokes years from now? I think so.
Just like 2016 - libs are incapable of introspection. They don't try to sympathize or empathize with common people. Instead they are really angry that the public failed the democrats. And if you point out this a horrible attitude - they hate you.
Post-election there's been an insane explosion of highly popular Twitter libs. When it comes to politics there's a sea of Orange Man Bad crap. I want to tell them: I agree - Trump's administration will be a horrorshow but why can't you can't even manage a veneer of solitary with ordinary people?
I had to start [cough] liberally using the mute function and I also started blocking political accounts. I didn't block a single political account pre-election. There was no need. I could just scroll past and smirk or smile at how bad the posts were. But now I have clean my feed. Trump Derangement Syndrome is at 11. I don't need to see one zero effort post after another that are still highly popular. It's trenchant commentary like...
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I think because egg/eggs is easy to use in a joke and it's punchy because it's a single syllable. A "They voted for egg prices!" joke allows libs to skewer the people they like least. Who is this "they"? Maga? Traditional republicans? Non-voters? People who don't vote often enough for the democrats? The poor? Etc. And it's a sort of Freudian slip that some dems can't resist. They are actually saying it's stupid for people to vote based on their own circumstances and their own material conditions. Gee - why would people do that???
I saw an egg meme with two gigantic black trucks in a driveway. It was very strange. I don't remember the text. Ninja edit - this...
To be fair the average American eats something like 300 eggs per year. Not a joke
That's so many eggs wtf
Their politics are so devoid of politics. I still to this day cannot name a single GOOD thing the DNC can point to and say "we did that". I can point to bad stuff for sure, but zero things that make my life, or the lives of people I know (or perhaps don't know) better.
I think about that one all the time. Part of the big reason I think this leftist shit works is because it forces you (the rhetorical you of course) to see others like yourself. Even if I'm not them, or I don't rock like they do, I can at least see how their conditions will be my own. I want them to prosper so I can too, because I certainly know as they suffer I will too. Solidarity with others (within reason, we aren't trying to link up with the people doing the harm of course) is like only way out. These libs man they don't want solidarity but they also don't want whatever is coming, like what the fuck man?
Bluesky libs and libs like them have their own uber-lib version of solidarity and it's "building coalitions". And - of course - the concept means people should do exactly what normie libs and the democratic party want.