Mastodawn

Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.

And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.

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Faraiwe

@inthehands courage is not the absence of fear; absence of fear in face of clear, present danger is foolishness. Courage is being scared, and still doing whatever needs done.

Why does this add up? Because there are no heroes. They are not coming to save us, swooping from the clouds. We are each others' heroes.

Also because the villains are also like us. And there are more of us.

Keep trucking!