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it took me over 7000 words to say the same thing

And I feel vulnerable admiting that I like the "ripped straight for the headlines" approach it takes. These people are doing a real evil and people like then are getting away with it in real life!

But the "vulnerable" part still remains; someone I respect might yet rip the approach to shreds in a review and then I'd get to feel like a stupid baby rube who liked the wrong thing for the wrong reasons.

I still feel bad for liking the prequels even tho I was a child when I saw them and my main reason for loving Attack of the Clones was the clones lol.

heh totally timed this to be on a monday

People talk a lot about "what radicalized them" and in reality it's likely that many things radicalized you gradually until you looked around and realized it.

But the earliest memory I have of realizing "something is not right with this" is of me as a child, freaking out about what I wanted to be when I grew up. As a fucking nerd, my first instinct was research and I started reading and watching and listening to anything that had to do with work and jobs and labor... And welfare. I was curious as to why people "didn't want to work" (I grew up in a very centrist, neoliberal family), or how to avoid unemployment (I was also an anxious child)

And I remember reading (or hearing?) some guy talking about welfare and saying something along the lines of: It's not that there isn't work available. Look around, there's plenty of work to do! The streets are full of potholes and the schools are falling apart and there is plenty of work to do! The problem is that nobody is paying for that work to get done. Even if it's necessary. So it won't get done. And people that could do that work, that want to, cannot, because they need to get paid.

And I though that was bullshit. Except I must have been like 10 so I wasn't swearing yet.

Now looking around I see the other side of it as well: people do want to work. People do dream of labor. But it's labor that serves us and the people around us, so it's not the kind of labor we're allowed to dream about.

People dream of having time and space to garden, to paint, to bake bread, to build furniture, to make clothes, to program open source projects. But we need to get paid.

And I still think that's bullshit.

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