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Businesses can discriminate based on sexual orientation again (303 Creative v. Elenis), Student Debt Relief killed (though we knew that would happen), and Required Affirmative Action for college admissions struck down. Those are the three big ones in the last week I remember.

From Dressed to Kill, arguably their best special.

Western hegemony propaganda is a hell of a drug. I’ve believed all sorts of racist and fascist lies at one point or another in my life. It took plenty of time and introspection to see through all the garbage. Glad you also made it out.

It’s what happens when fascists roll through town and decide they can improve art.

For examples in history, Black Reconstruction by DuBois is an excellent source of “if you let the fascist be fascist right after crushing them in a civil war, you’re gonna have a bad time.”

Red skin, white masks also tackles this, though I believe it focuses on Canada instead of the USA. Same issues, different borders. It’s next on my reading list.

That doesn’t surprise me, I meant more to say that the book, to my knowledge, is focused on the Canadian side of the border (I’ve only read the preface though so it could be that I’m just not yet far enough in if the US ones are addressed)

3000 miles away or whatever

Fun fact, the closest distance from mainland USA to China is still over 7000 miles, the lower 48 is around 3000 miles coast to coast. (Don’t worry, I totally understand the rest of the comment, I just figured I’d provide additional context to point out just how preposterous the original joke is)

Edit: correction in italics

Chumbawumba agrees with you and so do I.

I can’t help with everything, but I can provide you with some possible hope. I have lived more than one of your bullet points in my lifetime. One thing I can tell you is that if you do end up with the life crippling medical debt, it can actually become a sweet release (hear me out, it isn’t all sunshine and roses but it can end well).

My youngest was conceived while I was uninsured and the state that I lived in heavily means tested medicaid so I couldn’t qualify because my parents made too much (though my child’s mother wouldn’t qualify to be on their plan). Even with near perfect cesarean delivery, that was one hell of an expensive pile of bills that I couldn’t come close to affording. I started to get hounded by bill collectors regularly until I finally told one of them threatening legal action to go for it and hung up. I figured it was another empty threat but it wasn’t and I got served a month later.

I was able to get the money for the bankruptcy lawyer (this is the hard part) and suddenly a whole ton of bills were just not an issue anymore. My credit score actually improved, ever so slightly, from the discharge.

It did take me damn near a decade to fully recover in terms of credit score and finding better work but I was able to get a high interest auto loan to get a bigger car that fit the whole family and was more reliable than my previous vehicle afterwards and also eventually relocate to an area with better opportunities.

Hang in there comrade, maybe see if any mutual aid exists in your area. I know it is difficult, but it can get better if the cards happen to fall just right.

Also, I totally understand dealing with reactionaries and fascists within your family. I don’t talk to the vast majority of my extended family because they’re either neo fascists or pompous liberals. Find yourself a group of comrades and make them your new family.