Regardless of how vapid and nihilistic this argument is, it’s demonstrably wrong! The republicans have been a party of single-issue voters my entire life, while the democrats have consistently courted every piece of shit bigot in the country. WHO IS IN POWER RIGHT NOW?!!

They have already dropped 200,000 tons of explosives on the people of Gaza.
Do you realize what that means?
It is the equivalent of 13 nuclear bombs like the one that destroyed Hiroshima.

And yet, the world remains silent while an entire population is being wiped out.

Two fucking years 💔

@ericmgarcia.bsky.social had a pretty great thread on this

bsky.app/profile/eric...

The problem with this argument is that this is exactly what we’ve been doing for at least 2 generations now, and all it’s done is create a 1-way ratchet toward ~all this~.

Why do you always think a tactic that has repeatedly failed will work out *this* time?

the way to do that is to create as many systems of care as possible with orbital pathways into these systems that pull as many of us as possible away from the black hole of power at the center of this galaxy looking for every reason to seek the wanton destruction of every trans particle in existence

A republican was civil to me once (looked at me with sad eyes and mouthed “I’m sorry” as he voted for a bill that would send me to a torture camp if I ever tried to pee in a public restroom 🥺)

Sorry, still trying to guess how you define civility.

Is it when you systematically reform the supreme court over decades in order to deconstruct every civil rights gain made over the last 100 years?

You mean the people seig heiling on the convention stage? Or maybe just the people pretending those were just awkward waves?

Or maybe it was just the people shaking their heads sadly while they smash that yea button for every fascist vote on the senate floor?

You mean the party violently deporting immigrants, forcing women to carry unwanted pregnancies, forcing people of color out of positions of power, forcing trans people out of public altogether, promoting genocide, promoting fossil fuel in the face of a global climate crisis?

free gretchen again

Seriously, there’s no great plan or policy that’s gonna come along and save us. It’s just people building shit

Friend, look around you. Does it look like the people trying to build consensus are going to protect us? What democratic norms have they built? Who are they serving? Maybe you, but certainly not me.

Nah, that’s just the world you’ve settled for. The work isn’t finished, sure. But while you wait for someone else to come finish it for you, I’m gonna keep building

That is exactly how the real world works. If it were up to the electorate, we'd still have Jim Crow and I'd be getting beat by the cops every time I left the house wearing a dress

No, you build a better world now and don't wait for the fucking electorate to decide you deserve to live a dignified life

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

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One of the cool things about the internet is that you can literally have multiple conversations about slightly diverging topics without fucking any one of them up

there's been a tangible gap in the timeline since you've been gone, but I'm glad to hear you're good 💜

Hey @moderation.bsky.app what the everliving fuck?! Who the fuck is this targeting of Palestinians serving right now? Is this seriously what you wanted to do with your life? Do you wake up every morning wondering how many rugs you can pull from under people trying to survive a genocide?

Aw, it’s nice that straight people have their own website

reading this and considering who won the popular vote in the last election: 🤔

Hey @mcbride.house.gov,‬ how am I doing? Am I voting hard enough to survive yet? Ok, just let me know when we win the next election cause I'll be too busy ruthlessly surviving to notice