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caitriI am so. fucking. sick. of people posting "We're fucked" and "I told you so" etc. etc. etc. Yes, today was a bad day. You know what you do on bad days? You regroup, you plan, and then you go back out.
It doesn't escape my notice too that the vast, VAST majority of these posts are from straight white people, mostly men. Like, guess what, kids, CHANGE IS HARD. REVOLUTIONS ARE DIFFICULT. Just because we face dangerous times doesn't mean you roll over and indulge in self-pity.
Like. Did we NOT memorize all of <i>Hamilton</i> for a purpose? Or was that just reveling in our own enlightenment? Revolutions are worthwhile, so long as its other people fighting? Fuck. that.
<i>Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you....
Raise a glass to the four of us--
Someday there will be more of us!
telling the story of tonight....</i>
Reading books about the Holocaust as a kid, I always imagined what I would do. I hoped that I would have the bravery to do the right thing. I still do. Right now I do what I can, which is sharing resource information where possible, donating to the ACLU, and giving my representatives an earful. I am hella lucky to be living in a progressive state. If everything goes to shit, I have every intention of making that work for me. If it comes to it I will hide people. If it comes to it I will lie, cheat, and steal for the Resistance. If it comes to it, I will give my life for my ideals, because that is what is necessary.
These are dark days. But every darkness passes.
<i>It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something....That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.</i>
It doesn't escape my notice too that the vast, VAST majority of these posts are from straight white people, mostly men. Like, guess what, kids, CHANGE IS HARD. REVOLUTIONS ARE DIFFICULT. Just because we face dangerous times doesn't mean you roll over and indulge in self-pity.
Like. Did we NOT memorize all of <i>Hamilton</i> for a purpose? Or was that just reveling in our own enlightenment? Revolutions are worthwhile, so long as its other people fighting? Fuck. that.
<i>Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you....
Raise a glass to the four of us--
Someday there will be more of us!
telling the story of tonight....</i>
Reading books about the Holocaust as a kid, I always imagined what I would do. I hoped that I would have the bravery to do the right thing. I still do. Right now I do what I can, which is sharing resource information where possible, donating to the ACLU, and giving my representatives an earful. I am hella lucky to be living in a progressive state. If everything goes to shit, I have every intention of making that work for me. If it comes to it I will hide people. If it comes to it I will lie, cheat, and steal for the Resistance. If it comes to it, I will give my life for my ideals, because that is what is necessary.
These are dark days. But every darkness passes.
<i>It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something....That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.</i>
