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Well, I may have put the boot in over on tumblr.
BUT.
What's happening in US politics now has been slowly happening over forty years. Vote by vote by vote by vote by election by election by year by year by decade by decade by decade by decade...
Exhausting? GODDAMMIT, YES.
Frankly, here in Australia, I'm not happy that I'm very likely to die with fewer of the rights that I was born in this country with. That a kid who was born when I was twenty has fewer chances than I did. That kid who was born in the last five years has even fewer chances than that. NOT HAPPY JAN! But I'm damn well going to fight it - I have personal skin in the game, even if I don't have generational skin.
We were born in the fuck-around era, and we're entering the find-out era. It's not going to be pretty, but there is hope; just less of it each year.
But I'm not ready to lay down and die yet.
BUT.
What's happening in US politics now has been slowly happening over forty years. Vote by vote by vote by vote by election by election by year by year by decade by decade by decade by decade...
Exhausting? GODDAMMIT, YES.
Frankly, here in Australia, I'm not happy that I'm very likely to die with fewer of the rights that I was born in this country with. That a kid who was born when I was twenty has fewer chances than I did. That kid who was born in the last five years has even fewer chances than that. NOT HAPPY JAN! But I'm damn well going to fight it - I have personal skin in the game, even if I don't have generational skin.
We were born in the fuck-around era, and we're entering the find-out era. It's not going to be pretty, but there is hope; just less of it each year.
But I'm not ready to lay down and die yet.
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And then turned around and got angry when Black women and other women of color said, "Yeah,y'all. Save yourselves and we'll do the same."
Also, for everyone screaming about how we're in Gilead: they always forget that the people of other races and sexualities were killed or sent to the equivalent of work camps in the book. They were already erased from the narrative.
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As though their running down of HRC in the name of "but I prefer Bernie's policies" and "she's just like the establishment" didn't persuade some people it was better to opt out entirely rather than get their hands just the teensiest bit dirty.
It's easy to forget 'other races and sexualities' when they're neither. But "and there was nobody left to speak for me" comes to mind...