When I was in high school learning about Nazi Germany, I wondered what it would be like to live in those times. To have neighbours disappearing, and nobody does anything about it. Now I know.
I am not your neighbour. I am not on your continent. Even if all of the world’s militaries combined to try and stop what is happening in the US, they still would not be able to match the might of your country’s military. What would you have me do? Focus so much on your pawblems that I ignore those of my actual neighbours?
My friend committed suicide. She hanged herself. I don’t know why. I hung out with her the day before she did it, and she seemed happy. She had plans for the future. I only found out weeks after she did it.
And I think if we didn’t have a worldwide rising tide of fascism coming from America, there would be less trans girls killing themselves. I don’t know your story, I don’t know if this means anything to you, but what I care about is creating a world my friend would have wanted to live in. Because I have trans friends all over the world, including in America, who are still alive and who need my help. They need everyone’s help.
And you think I’m American because I care about my American friends? Because I think of them the way people a hundred years ago thought of their neighbours? Because I have a sense of empathy and I’m worried about what the Americans are sending over here?
We have fucking proud boys in my city, counterprotesting left wing rallies. If you don’t care about that, and can’t imagine caring about it, then you’re either very white and very cisgender, or… I don’t have the words.
Maybe don’t blame the people that follow a healthy amount and decided to do something when the election date came rolling around. Just a reminder, 80 million didn’t care enough to vote, and higher turnout just about always works against Republicans.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” When making the vast majority of a platform political content doesn’t work, you don’t solve that by doing it even more. Wanting to pull away from politics to improve one’s mental health shouldn’t be seen as criminal, but maybe when people see so much of it that it affects their mental well-being, they get turned away from caring entirely (which is not my case for the record).
When I was in high school learning about Nazi Germany, I wondered what it would be like to live in those times. To have neighbours disappearing, and nobody does anything about it. Now I know.
I am not your neighbour. I am not on your continent. Even if all of the world’s militaries combined to try and stop what is happening in the US, they still would not be able to match the might of your country’s military. What would you have me do? Focus so much on your pawblems that I ignore those of my actual neighbours?
My friend committed suicide. She hanged herself. I don’t know why. I hung out with her the day before she did it, and she seemed happy. She had plans for the future. I only found out weeks after she did it.
And I think if we didn’t have a worldwide rising tide of fascism coming from America, there would be less trans girls killing themselves. I don’t know your story, I don’t know if this means anything to you, but what I care about is creating a world my friend would have wanted to live in. Because I have trans friends all over the world, including in America, who are still alive and who need my help. They need everyone’s help.
And you think I’m American because I care about my American friends? Because I think of them the way people a hundred years ago thought of their neighbours? Because I have a sense of empathy and I’m worried about what the Americans are sending over here?
We have fucking proud boys in my city, counterprotesting left wing rallies. If you don’t care about that, and can’t imagine caring about it, then you’re either very white and very cisgender, or… I don’t have the words.
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I hope you keep that promise
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Not really how I read it, but that was just me.
It’s not a long comment, I’m not sure how else one might read it.
I read it as someone grieving their friend in maybe a way that I wouldn’t have done it
Maybe don’t blame the people that follow a healthy amount and decided to do something when the election date came rolling around. Just a reminder, 80 million didn’t care enough to vote, and higher turnout just about always works against Republicans.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” When making the vast majority of a platform political content doesn’t work, you don’t solve that by doing it even more. Wanting to pull away from politics to improve one’s mental health shouldn’t be seen as criminal, but maybe when people see so much of it that it affects their mental well-being, they get turned away from caring entirely (which is not my case for the record).
Yeah I mean I voted, what more can I do, I have to spend the rest of my energy keeping myself alive