Slack

Slack abounds. It’s dangling over here and over there too. We all know how it go there. Did you create it or will you pick it up? Those are the options.

Trending Fonts

All fonts on trend today look like they’ve had an ax taken to their corner bits or the extender parts look a little jacked.

Find the Thing, Always

Don’t bury the lead. Don’t miss the turn. Get the big idea. There’s always the thing. That’s what you want. All the other stuff that’s filler, don’t pay it mind. Put your attention on the thing.

Coast to Coast

Most of the video calls taken these days involve people from across the country; DC to LA, NYC to SF. Just the way I like it.

Break It Down: BOTH SIDES

The “Both Sides” argument moves in as reassurance we have a national dialogue one could call functional. It’s cover for everyone to look at our politics and say, yep, everything is okay. Both things are not true.

If the extremism of the right is just the other side, then it’s not that out of the ordinary. If the lying, cheating, and gaming is talked about in the same breath as normal political hyperbole then the lying, cheating, and gaming must be normal too.

Whataboutisms dull us. Our efforts to make imaginary scales balanced weakens us. When we soften language as to not offend those sliding into authoritarianism we give the tyrants cover.

Not calling a fascist a fascist is leading us to fascism. An insurrectionist vs a politician is not the same. We can act like it is right up until the final boot on our necks or we can open our eyes.

When politicians say “both sides” they’re trying to justify unacceptable behavior. When our media leans on “both sides” it’s a lazy disservice. When citizens find “both sides” to be the answer to maddening questions we let the madness fester.

If we are on a quest for balance, “both sides” must be the way, we tell ourselves. When we do this, we stop demanding policies to help address our modern, very American problems. Problems that are fixable, but only if we act.

And when we don’t act, once again, the fascists win.

Warning: Both Sides

Put simply, “BOTH SIDES” is motherfucking weak sauce.

This project is a response to the laziest pizzaburger of all political arguments: the dreaded “BOTH SIDES.”

You’ve heard about gerrymandering, yeah? It’s not an OK practice. And there have been times when Democrats have abused the system. But there is not a political equivalent to the Republican side. The Republican side has fully embraced gerrymandering as a cynical, baked-in national strategy to hold onto power, democracy be damned. It’s not about representation to them, it’s about cheating.

We’re about to enter into another seemingly yearslong slog of a presidential race where a politician is going up against a insurrectionist. Again, NOT THE SAME.

There will be assholes out there who can’t see the difference. Well ya know what? FUCK THEM. They are idiots. But they can’t be written off. Right now today, they have to be put in their place like the weak sauce motherfuckers they are.

We can’t let self-proclaimed lovers of pizzaburgers (which no one actually is) off the hook. They belong on the hook until they bleed out. They are what’s wrong with American politics. If the “BOTH SIDES” crowd didn’t exist neither would Donald Trump.

If you didn’t vote for Clinton in 2016 or Biden in 2020 then you voted for Trump, dipshit. Quit being dumb, America doesn’t have ranked choice voting. Unlike gender, our elections are BINARY.

So please, enjoy this nonsense of a project that was incredibly fun to make. In it you will learn the difference between an insurrection and the very real American issues our system as a whole is guilty of: no universal healthcare, defaulting to ruthless capitalism, ruining the planet, screwing workers, the problems with corporate media, national warmongering, etc.

But don’t you dare for one second think this really isn’t about gut punching anyone who doesn’t vote Democrat up and down the ballot since Republicans are backing a lying, cheating, insurrectionist snake oil salesman all wannabe GOPers seem to be very keen on emulating.

SO yeah, thanks for playing, comrade.