I'm Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Myelin.

This is Bobby. Happy New Year, everybody.

Hope 2020 brings you more good tidings and positive vibes than 2021 did.

It's become almost just like a meme at this point where every time another year comes by it's like man that fucking year sucked like

fuck this shit um you know i don't know it's like sort of the collective cynicism depression of

all of society sort of expressing that i think um and i tend to be more cynical in general so like

i almost find it like amusing that other people are feeling like that someone brought up the point where it's like this new trend of just getting

mad at years yeah instead of like class consciousness yeah it is funny though how there's so many

like weird like remember how for like years we were like dude why does it seem like

whenever the liberals have adopted anything that's like a legitimate rhetorical point it's very

easy to just like act like it's now suddenly bad and to believe that well if they're adopting it

and must actually be something that helps the establishment.

And then to write off the entire concept

of race solidarity, you know, again,

because McDonald's puts up like a black square.

And we've talked about this so many times.

And yeah, I mean, the whole delegitimization

of identity politics as either a distraction, which in part it is because it's utilized by the ruling class to superficially tokenize, weaponize, these very real issues that do have deep meaning.

I mean, obviously, like, you know, trans rights, for example, this is a liberatory philosophy that's tied into other identity politics, that's tied into class struggle and oppression.

So it's annoying and it's a problem, right?

And it's going back to that whole knee-jerk reaction to liberals, really, is what it comes down to.

January 6 is one of those issues where you do notice sort of a strange reaction to it on the left,

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