GlyphNov 9, 2024

To restate something I already posted, because I need to read it again, and maybe some of you do too:

The *reason* that the upcoming administration is bad is not because the blue team lost, but because the red team is going to use power to disrupt our lives and cause pain.

Therefore *all* resistance is, at its root, "living and helping others live un-disrupted lives". Fighting for blue-team wins is a tactic, not a goal.

Show threadGlyphNov 9, 2024

Therefore, in addition to adversarial activities devoted to thwarting the fascists' goals of chaos and suffering—and don't get me wrong, we will need tons of adversarial activities—you will have to have and help others have joy and prosperity and productivity and agency.

That is the *point* of it all.

Show threadGlyphNov 9, 2024
It feels weird to be in a liminal place of privilege and uncertainty, like a preemptive survivors guilt. Certainly, I will not suffer the worst of what is to come. Will I suffer? Probably, but it's impossible to know how much. But I will not help anyone by putting on a hair shirt and pretending at being more marginalized than I am. Far from it; every moment I spend in despair is a moment that I *can't* be engaged in resistance. At least joy might recharge me for more resistance, later.
Show threadJames 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺Nov 10, 2024
@glyph Yeah that's really nicely said.
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@freequaybuoy thanks for saying so.
Nov 10, 2024 at 12:57amIceCubesApp