• gobbles_turkey@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    You Are Here, YOU are the Clown

    Our politics feels so empty, evil, and all of us locked out of it completely, so I’ll take that “clown” label and wear it proudly. At least its some vague proof that me and my voice exist at all. Some days I wonder if I’m merely a roadside shrub dreaming that I’m human. Or maybe I’m livestock. Will ponder.

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      Our politics feels so empty, evil, and all of us locked out of it completely, so I’ll take that “clown” label and wear it proudly.

      “There are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize — I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to — segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.