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In reply to the discussion: Arianna Grande couldn't find a whole dress to wear? [View all]ADX
(1,622 posts)...only sounds like something from a Hollywood screenplay to those who have never put their very lives on the line for a cause greater than themselves. It's all good to sit at your keyboard and bitch about everything that isn't exactly to your liking but what have you actually gone out and really sacrificed in order to bring about any real change? I'm not talking about signing a petition, knitting pussy hats, or carrying a sign in a protest march, I'm talking about seriously putting your ass on the line. Ever been arrested and jailed for taking a stand against "the actions taken by your government that employs people like me to carry out the dirty work?" Have you gone hungry because you donated most of your money to feed the homeless and destitute? Have you gone down to the border and walked into the desert, dodging the Border Patrol in order to help bring terrified, bedraggled refugees across the frontier? Have you adopted a Black or Brown baby?
Of course you haven't and you're not about to either. Everybody wants to be a revolutionary until it's time to do revolutionary shit.
You're content to sit back and enjoy your creature comforts while you shake your fist at the sky, cursing everything and everybody that doesn't fall in lock-step with your myopic, hyper-partisan view of what you think the world in general and this country in particular should be. That might work for you but it sure as fuck doesn't work for me and I'm grateful to have experienced the things that I have and learned the things that I did so I know how to employ those tactics and protocols effectively going forward. Look around and read the tea leaves, sport; there are people out there who would label you a traitor and take what they consider appropriate action against you merely for posting what you did above. When that happens, it'll be "people like me" who'll be there to defend you and come to your rescue, no matter how snarky you want to be right now. Remember that.