Vonnegut is a crucial early step in my own pipeline.

I think it makes some of us uncomfortable that the Chuds we spend so much time seething about are, on an individual level, one crisis away from being a winnable comrade. Doesn’t mean we should handle them with kid gloves. It’s the same reason we critique each other and ourselves. Correct ideas are only arrived at through social practice. and it is incredibly frustrating that Americans are so empathetically stunted that it has to happen to them personally for them to understand, but still. We don’t get to get tired of making the case for socialism.

It’s also worth remembering that all of your formative opinions being posted publicly and preserved forever is a fairly recent development in history and i would wager it has done more to harm working class solidarity than help it.

I don’t agree with every position this kid has taken or probably still holds, but I don’t envy the hurt he went through to get where he is.

o7 for having the heart and sense to know who his real enemies are unlike so many other young men like him.