The 2nd Amendment, in practice, only exists for white straight Christians.

I own a firearm. I am not a white, straight Christian, but I could pass for one.

Irrelevant.

My son, who is trans, and who depends on his parents for support, would find it relevant.

If you pass, you’re by definition not going to experience anti-trans violence, which is the discussion at hand.

Fuck you.

Try writing more than a single flippant sentence, …

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Irrelevant. If you pass, you’re by definition not going to experience anti-trans violence, which is the discussion at hand.

My son would find it relevant. Fuck you.

I can pass.

I’m about to be a broken record.

• People who vote for fascism are called fascists.
• A large majority of the electorate either voted for fascism, or couldn’t be bothered to vote against it.
• Popularization of reality denial in favor of believing what makes you feel a certain way has been going on for decades.
• “Understanding” Trump voters is like “understanding” flat earthers, plus bigotry. The root cause is that they’re fucking idiots.

All of this sanewashing and wanting to “understand” boils down to one thing: refusal to accept that America, and Americans as a whole, aren’t “good.” The assumption behind it all is that, well, if this is what the electorate said, there must be a good reason for it, right? America doesn’t really want the fascism that they were openly promised and then voted for, do they?

Yeah, they do. America wants fascism. That’s where we are. Hanging your hopes on that enough of the people who couldn’t be bothered to vote against it are going to suddenly grow spines and put up a successful opposition to it is useless, unless you are personally willing to be part of that opposition, and in a more active way than just protesting or calling elected officials or signing petitions.

Resistance isn’t futile, but it’s going to be expensive. You will be better off getting prepared now, because shit’s about to get real.

Spirit passengers should expect a “restructuring fee” on their next ticket receipt.

He got the memo, but he ate it before anyone was able to read it to him.

Philadelphia.

“Refuse.” “Declare.” “Unconstitutional.”

Yeah, those “saying things” tactics have worked so well to ensure that criminal acts are swiftly and appropriately addressed in the face of the new paradigm of “do whatever I want and dare anyone to stop me.”

Do you think the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police would allow military action to take place in their jurisdiction?

What are they going to do to stop it?

It’s not an on/off switch. Of course the military will be less efficient and more error-prone; that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be able to do anything.

Need to put down a big protest in St Louis? Send in troops with live rounds, none of that less lethal bullshit. Maybe it takes a couple days longer to get them there, maybe there aren’t quite as many boots on the ground as you wanted, maybe they get deployed in kind of dumb ways.

They’re still far better armed, far more cohesive, and far more replenishable than the protesters they seek to trample. The military would still win, they don’t have to be perfect, they just have to be better enough than their opponent.

Now imagine if the opponent isn’t “protesters,” but “these brown people we’ve conditioned you to feel animosity towards, and they’re iLlEgAlS!” Those brown people aren’t even loosely organized into a protest, and as long as the troops aren’t popping “my” people (yet), the public pushback is going to be weak as fuck.

“Donald, it has to at least look like we gave you some oversight.”

They don’t necessarily need to be competent. They only need to be loyally fascist and willing to deliver criminal orders. Firepower “trumps” competency in a whole lot of short-term scenarios. Beyond that, they only need a sufficient number of servicepeople to execute those orders. Even if most servicepeople refuse to obey, the US military is such a massive organization that there will be more than enough who do.

A best case scenario is one where one part of the US military stands up with force against the other part, and the fascists lose, followed by a military coup.

Doesn’t matter. A fascist at the head of government, whose party is in line behind him, controlling all branches of the federal government, having enough military support, can shush as many opinions as he wants.

He’s already demonstrated over and over that he will do whatever he wants, and dare anyone to stop him. To date, not only has nobody stopped him, or applied a single real consequence, the electorate has seen fit to increase his power.

Republicans used to be strongly opposed to Russia, too, how’s that working out?

If it gets that far, then we know what to do. Take pictures, document, build national level outrage.

Defend yourself and your fellow human beings.

Prepare to resist

I’m going to try and write on my brain to turn those thoughts entirely on the people who decided I shouldn’t get my meds anymore.

They sure think it is. Were they chased away by an angry mob? No? Have any of them even been identified?

I dunno, maybe not welcome, but certainly tolerated. “Your hate is tolerated in our city.”

I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. On my current dose, I’m pretty good. Less? I very quickly go back to the state that brought me to where I needed to get on this medication. I am much better off staying on this dose until the end of my days, and frankly, so is everyone who has to interact with me.

That said, “not being free” made it so that I couldn’t stay on meds when I was in my twenties. The several other obstacles I dealt with over the decades mostly had to do with insurance that I had.

“Well look at me. I’ve never needed these drugs [He does], and I’m totally fine [He’s not]. WTF, people?”

Uh yeah, no.

I once thought it might be an idea to try and back off from 100mg sertraline to 50mg sertraline and on day two I wanted to strangle people. You can take my SSRIs from my cold dead hands.