Cover of the NYT Mag - and the artist IINM is Basi Butler
One thing we're doing tonight is mini-focusing on Aaliyah in part because someone in the TL pointed out how he'd forgotten how good she was.
In addition to which, WRT song choices for her here, it really does appear that it's almost like the U.S. is ambivalent about whether or not it “wants” to be an autocracy or a democracy (in part, apparently, because there are people “in the middle” who are conflicted about how much they are subconsciously addicted to classing people hierarchically and, as a result, have rationalized for themselves that they think autocracy “may not be that bad” when anybody who's really dug into the history of white supremacist oligarchic autocracies - which have always, ALWAYS historically failed – already knows it's infinitely worse than that, and not just for the “bottom castes”, which is the part on which the people “in the middle” seem to kind of have a slippery conceptual grip).
At the same time, those of us who do believe in democracy are determined to “try again”, instead of to go “back and forth” with the indecisives, because we already know it would be unthinkable should the majority (and we ARE the majority) decide instead because of all the (white) noise to give up.
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