Jul. 3rd, 2025 10:28 pm
The Big Ugly Bill Passed.
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numb3r_5ev3nI didn't really have any illusions that it wouldn't, but I called my congresscritters anyway.
I kind of feel like whatever happens, I resisted this in the little ways which were available and allowed to me as an American. My conscience is clear. I'm planning on making Malicious Compliance my habit going forward.
I feel like May Leitz is kind of a philosopher for our times. Everyone has this idea about what they're going to do when generational evil is staring them in the face. But when the generational evil of our lifetimes surfaces, there's nothing we can do. it's like we're tied to a chair, and we watch.
Also: I think I picked the perfect time to quit all Web 2.0 Social Media, frankly.
Back last summer, I begged someone who was planning not to vote in the November election to understand that voting is basically the one of the few times we are actually allowed a voice, one of the few instances in which we are allowed to actually affect anything. And I was called a dumb shitlib because of it. I wonder how that person, how all of the people who were proudly voicing that opinion back then, are feeling about that now.
I mean, going from what I've seen online (before I quit social media) this person has probably just doubled down since then. Which is why I'm echoing somethingsabotabby and I agreed upon in a previous post: whatever else happens, we've earned Being A Little Shit About It to the folks voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party, and the people who enabled the Face-Eating Leopard through their inaction. As a treat.
I mean, we're all probably going to be visited by The Leopard in one form or another. But the ones who voted for it, assuring themselves that the Leopard wouldn't eat their faces, or the faces of their friends and loved ones? And the ones who abstained from voting, smug in the assumed moral superiority of their inaction? Yeah, they deserve it.
(The Leopard is practically a Tulpa or an Egregore at this point.)
I don't blame people here in the USA for maybe not wanting to celebrate the 4th tomorrow. But my sister just had gender confirmation surgery, and she is getting the hell out of dodge before things get much worse. That's something to celebrate. And I still get to spend time with my friends, for the time being.
I think we all just need to adopt the "gargle my balls/here is my bag of fucks" attitude going forward, especially when faced with MAGA, ICE, or other Trump Gestapo Goons. Our best defense is to give them, their bigotry, their egos, and their fascist posturing, exactly the lack of deference and respect they deserve. These people deflate when we refuse to play along, when we refuse to fear them, when we mock them openly.
Current Mood: "There are no men like me." "There are always men like you."
I kind of feel like whatever happens, I resisted this in the little ways which were available and allowed to me as an American. My conscience is clear. I'm planning on making Malicious Compliance my habit going forward.
I feel like May Leitz is kind of a philosopher for our times. Everyone has this idea about what they're going to do when generational evil is staring them in the face. But when the generational evil of our lifetimes surfaces, there's nothing we can do. it's like we're tied to a chair, and we watch.
Also: I think I picked the perfect time to quit all Web 2.0 Social Media, frankly.
Back last summer, I begged someone who was planning not to vote in the November election to understand that voting is basically the one of the few times we are actually allowed a voice, one of the few instances in which we are allowed to actually affect anything. And I was called a dumb shitlib because of it. I wonder how that person, how all of the people who were proudly voicing that opinion back then, are feeling about that now.
I mean, going from what I've seen online (before I quit social media) this person has probably just doubled down since then. Which is why I'm echoing something
sabotabby and I agreed upon in a previous post: whatever else happens, we've earned Being A Little Shit About It to the folks voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party, and the people who enabled the Face-Eating Leopard through their inaction. As a treat. I mean, we're all probably going to be visited by The Leopard in one form or another. But the ones who voted for it, assuring themselves that the Leopard wouldn't eat their faces, or the faces of their friends and loved ones? And the ones who abstained from voting, smug in the assumed moral superiority of their inaction? Yeah, they deserve it.
(The Leopard is practically a Tulpa or an Egregore at this point.)
I don't blame people here in the USA for maybe not wanting to celebrate the 4th tomorrow. But my sister just had gender confirmation surgery, and she is getting the hell out of dodge before things get much worse. That's something to celebrate. And I still get to spend time with my friends, for the time being.
I think we all just need to adopt the "gargle my balls/here is my bag of fucks" attitude going forward, especially when faced with MAGA, ICE, or other Trump Gestapo Goons. Our best defense is to give them, their bigotry, their egos, and their fascist posturing, exactly the lack of deference and respect they deserve. These people deflate when we refuse to play along, when we refuse to fear them, when we mock them openly.
Current Mood: "There are no men like me." "There are always men like you."
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