Learning to survive in a hostile world.
Pronouns: they/she
Kill the concept of "RT does not equal endorsement."
Don't share content if you don't endorse it.
Don't spread it. Let it die.
Do not give it a platform.
So, I watched Das Rheingold over the past two nights, and my takeaway was:
If the mother of the Norns makes a special trip to warn you that you are about to make a big mistake... it's best to heed the warning -- even (or perhaps ESPECIALLY) if you're Wotan.
Have you ever thought about how many felonies Jessica Fletcher commits in an average episode of Murder She Wrote?
Like, she ALWAYS commits at LEAST B&E and Burglary; usually also obstructing an investigation.
And yet, she never faces any consequences.
Likewise, anyone in the country who isn't white, regardless of background or immigration status, is considered to be 'illegal'.
His white nationalist rhetoric has been turned up to eleven since at least the '80s, and I'm confident that it's been even longer.
Ever since The Apprentice, tho, he's just kept moving to a bigger and bigger stage, with a larger and larger audience to radicalize... and more and more power to wield.
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Can we talk about his '52% of the female vote' quote for a moment?
It's easy to see this as a gaffe or a slip, but it's really not. He has consistently demonstrated that he only counts white people.
His vote share among WHITE women was 52%. That's all the women who count, to him.
This is just a continuation of his 'millions of illegal voters' narrative, in which he considers any voter who isn't white to be illegal.
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It's a clear message to everyone:
To the resistance (and all PoC, disabled folks, Jews, Muslims, artists, queer folks, etc):
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
To the neonazi alt-right:
It's okay to come out of the shadows now. We've got your back!
To the centrists:
Wow, what a strange coincidence. Clearly this is not a REAL set of signals. We just need to vote and everything will be fine.
The state of the world currently feels like the opening preamble to an RPG:
Evil has arisen, and taken control. As a result, the entire world is in peril! And yet, in the shadows, pockets of resistance remain in hiding.
From their ranks, a hero arises to avert destruction.
Will you be that hero?
*cut to character creation screen*