2019 Holiday Special

[Your Friends Are Not HR Kate Takes](https://thebaffler.com/kate-takes/your-friends-are-not-hr-wagner)
Decade-in-Review
- Boy, this decade kinda sucked, huh?
- https://newrepublic.com/article/156066/decade-liberal-delusion-failure-obama-presidency
  
  If liberals want to get the next decade right, after the previous one in which we repeatedly failed to save the world while telling ourselves we were doing so, we will need to stop nudging and begin fighting.
- Updating soundboards
  
  https://twitter.com/redlightvoices/status/1208024126213877760
Despair
- What is it?
  - Complete loss or absence of hope
- What do we do about it?
  - Don’t put all your eggs in the electoralism basket
    - Where can YOU make a difference?
    - Find orgs and communities you can contribute to
  - Imagine and hope
  - Democracy is the only moral option
    
    https://twitter.com/LibertyHangout/status/1206712276411191297
    
    https://twitter.com/LibertyHangout/status/1207147112481394688
  - Find any candidate that
    - Is building a grassroots movement
    - Is training people how to organize
    - is modeling organizing
    - join them and get to work
    - Bernie Is the Candidate Who Can Beat Trump. Here’s Why.

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