So, we’re getting four COVID tests….per household.
~takes very, very long sip of Baerlic’s NUGS! IPA~
I swear to fuck, the only sin this country considers valid is poverty.
Which is pretty messed up, when you take in the larger picture, and notice that poverty is a policy choice that we’ve made.
I’m not talking about being poor-anyone can be bad with money and end up broke. That’s a temporary problem-or it should be.
I’m talking about systems that keep you from being able to access assistance if you need it, or that rich people have decided that you’ve gotten enough of, the skyrocketing cost of housing, the suppression of the minimum wage, the inability to tax wealthy people so things like healthcare and education programs are property funded.
And so on. Hell, even the systems that are available are so opaque to use that people go without that help! You know; the things that ensure you stay poor if you are, or horde wealth if you have it. It’s all just world fallacy bullshit.
But people are so into their myth that even when they have an experience that shows them how the deck can be stacked, they insist on holding to the beliefs that put them in a position of privilege. I get some of that; it’s good to be the king, right?
I just thought that one of the whole points of America was that we didn’t do…kings.
At least the beer is good-lighter mouthfeel and malt input makes for a spotlight of the hoppy bitterness, which is almost but not quite as bitter as my heart is toward the richest nation on earth.
Today’s second pint goes to the Portland Rescue Mission.
A pint for Dionysus 