EXACTLY!!!!

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Don't forget that we were still fighting for same sex marriage for half the decade, too. And we had to push the most progressive president we'd had to date left to get it. We were fighting tooth and nail to get public support for ACA, too (remember the "death panels" and single-payer sections????)

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Not to mention we were blamed for every market failure including housing when all of that shit failed because the ruling class wouldn't accept anything other than "number go up". The "No take, only throw" approach where they won't pay us but expect us to buy

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YEAH. The optimism was in rebellion to all the fucked up shit. If social media had been stronger back then, Occupy Wallstreet would have made a better impact. We also started taking on scientology first too. We lacked crucial organization tools

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Like, IDK, we did 90s costumes, and that era was incredibly optimistic compared to post-9/11 and we never made fun of the positivity? The stuff where they danced a little too close to "Oh, man, that's actually kind of really racist," sure, but not just innocent fun? We just tried to recreate it

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