pickles in stock :)

I pull up my slide show. The first slide says “I do not want to financially support the Church of the Latter Day Saints in any way”. There are murmurs of agreement and approval from the room

It's really awesome how a vast majority of self-identified liberals conceive of liberalism as this smol bean birthday boy ideology of Let's All Get Along Together and frame it as this brave and kind yet tragically neglected voice of empathy and reason rather than, y'know, the dominant ideology of the capitalist world system that has caused countless wars, overseen colonialism and settler colonialism and neocolonialism, eviscerated state systems to create free market carnage, toppled countless popular governments through interventions on trumped-up charges of illegitimacy, and produced a climate catastrophe of near-apocalyptic proportions by putting its hands up while corporations torch the world.