we’re going to fix this. i don’t know how yet. and it won’t be easy. and it won’t be short term. but we’re going to fix this, so read to a kid. make them remember reading time as the best part of their day. make them love the things AI can’t twist: physical artifacts

he talks about peace, but it’s obvious from the context he means the kind of peace hitler meant: the kind where everyone is dead at the end of the grand all consuming war

maaan… how the fuck are people this uninformed about who donald trump is and what he’s about? did all these people think supporting him would curry them favor, and make their people safer than if a less insane candidate took office? like, i geuinely don’t understand how you hear what this motherfucker says and not realize his whole entire deal i hating people who aren’t cishet white men. like i can get my friend who the first ever election she voted in in our country was 2016 when she grew up with different formats of propaganda, but he was president for four years, and this go around he’s been more mask off, and the people saying he’s dangerous have been more direct in their messaging.

like… how are people this illiterate beyond just reading comprehension? like, why don’t you got anything comprehension, what is this?

well i guess the grand joke of the right’s “war on men” is that all the worst men won.

also there’s a difference between an imperfect coalition and a compromised coalition. you may not be religious, but the organizations closest to you might be religious. it’s far better to talk with open minded elca lutherans than close minded patriot front goons about what to do next. understand that there are many kinds of fascist and many kinds of anti-fascist. even the deepest red counties have people who who voted for harris because they have seen firsthand the dangers of christofascism. project 2025 is deeply unpopular and a disturbing number of people still don’t realize that voting for trump and against project 2025 was not and is not an available ballot option.

here’s the thing: this will never be over. not until the entire world over is free. every rise of authoritarianism has given us stories of heroes who resisted. you can hear their echos all throughout religious stories, songs, and secular media. they all tell us the same things: as long as we make art to pass down to the children, no authoritarian can ever rule forever, not even the ur-farscist, the political strongman who crops up every 80 years to lie to us about how he will free us.

right now, start telling the word truths about itself in places the right wing doesn’t know how to reach. writing by hand in a journal, creating poetry, singing songs, writing in the streets with chalk. these are all things you can do while you’re still looking for someone to organize with that help pass on the truth of the world to future people.

also, look for marginalized people in your community. they have been living with this terror all along. they know:

1. what to do
2. what you can do that will help
3. the kinds of things people new to this do that they think is help that actually isn’t

in other words: they are veterans of this 10k year long war. they have inherited stories you have never heard, and they still have hope even as things get worse for them.

i believe in you, and i believe in the power of everlasting peace, one where there’s room for everyone at the table and everyone gets a plate before anyone gets seconds

thanks. you too. i see the failures as being mostly relating to misunderestimating the power of the right wing propaganda machine, even as the world over has gotten more authoritarian

didn’t mean to spread any misinformation. i still see in what you’ve sent me that latin men lag behind latin women by a significant margin voting about evenly between trump and harris

you get a star

smooth bore though, so who knows if you’ll hit literally any of them

no one hates immigrants more than an immigrant who made it

i’ve heard that quote a few times. but i think it’s on the whole sadder:

no one hates the poor more than a poor person who thinks they made it

right? mozilla, you gotta focus on making a good web browser right now. not a more gimmicky web browser

i think there’s so much discourse about this since Latin men voted, on the whole, for trump. there is a non zero number of people who, if trump implements his border control plan, voted for their own deportation

people with accents, too. doesn’t matter if you’ve been here for ten years: if you sound different, someone will report you to ICE

look for elca run soup kitchens, as well as anything run by a local community action center. avoid the salvation army and anything run by any church you already know to be trouble. if you do go, spread counter propaganda to their misinterpretations of the bible: come prepared

Opt out of as much of their levers of power as you can. Deny them your eyes and your money. Use your eyes to look around you and see where you can push counter propaganda in your local community. Use your money to help the people you are in community with. The christo-fascists use money to “help” the homeless with soup kitchens that force people to renounce what they know to be true before being served. Mutual aid is not just about harm reduction, it’s about freeing minds. Serving someone food is an act of liberation. It’s an act of a true and powerful love that’s been written about by theorists and philosophers for millennia. It’s even at the core of who Jesus was at his core, it’s just the christo-fascists misinterpret which group of people in revelations they are

he’s not a vp candidate, he’s on several ballots as full on p candidate, and is lined up for a cabinet position if donald trump wins

the electoral college values different things than the will of the populace

vaultwarden

and we’ve been trying for decades to reform our system for a better voting system. first past the post elections force strategic voting. that’s the kind of elections we get. the only place where vote shares matter is for distributing public campaign finance funds.