Not a Lie if They Make You Do It

"Lie. It's not lying if they make you lie, if the only truth they can accept is their own."

https://sharonmurphy.net/personal/notalie/

#personal #choice #ComingOut #CompulsoryHeterosexuality #heteronormativity #lgbtqia #obligated #transgender

So it’s gone from #immigrants to the #LGBTQ and #women to #kids to…now…well, even right down to everyone and *anyone* who has *anything* to say about the GOP *online*.

Sorry, the Gestapo would like to keep a file on you.

You’re about point out how this is #unconstitutional, prima facie, as it obviously is — hello, the First Amendment.

True, but also…well, this is how #fascism works.

It doesn’t just break the law, it #perverts the law. The Nazis were masters of this. They didn’t break the law to annihilate the Jews, they changed it so doing was not just perfectly #legal, but something you were #obligated to do.

So moments like this are trial balloons. They’re *not jokes* and they’re *not stunts*. What they are is #practice.

Sure, this particular variant of the bill might not pass muster. *But the fascists don’t give up*.

They just try again and again until, at last, something gives. That something usually gives because they #stack the #courts, and #corrode the #justice system from the inside.

They tried for half a century to get rid of #Roe — and eventually, with the help of a Supreme Court so corrupt it’d make a banana republic blush, they #succeeded.

https://eand.co/welcome-to-the-gops-vision-for-an-authoritarian-america-2ee888b3fee1