@sabrinadent DeSantis is a monster and he's not the only one. While at Guantanamo he lied to inmates to learn what hurt them most and then used that knowledge to make the torture worse. He sat with an inmate being forcefed with a hose to the point of throwing up and he laughed about it. He not only tolerates the suffering of others, he enjoys it. These people know exactly what they're doing. It's time to stop pretending the right just has a difference of opinion, they want you dead and they want you to suffer the entire time. This isn't a "both sides" thing, this isn't playground politics, this is about one side wanting you to suffer and using any means necessary to make that happen. And by "you" I mean everyone: queer folks, women, people of color, the poor, non-Christians, the wrong kind of Christians, they won't ever stop, they'll just move on to the next group when they run out of victims.

The only thing that can save us is radical empathy. Violence, yes, but only when necessary and only as an act of love, to defend others. Violence won't stop this before it's too late and neither will the ballot box. Empathy will. That's why that's what they've been trying to destroy for ages, that's why they're trying to create a culture war, why they try to create narratives that justify their power grab.

@leaverou @karger