America Primer 1
In my previous writing, I declared that from each according to their ability, so now I must put up or shut up, as the proverbial man said.
So let me catalogue exactly what is happening in the fascist-occupied States of America and exhort once again for a Brigada Buenaventura.
Note: some of this may turn out to be non-factual later. It is impossible to find the truth in this country now.
In the two-plus scant weeks since seizing power, Donald Trump has signed document after document declaring things illegal. Many of them are beyond sensible.
Things such as demanding that schools stop investigating or punishing rapes. Let me be as clear as I can, as I am not bound by the milquetoast liberalism of so-called new ethics.
He has declared that institutions are not to investigate rapes that happen within their halls. [Source]
In addition, he has declared that there are only two genders, though in a poorly worded statement that defines all people as female. Of course, this is an executive order rather than settled law. [Source]
These dictations from a dictator whose election is becoming more questionable by the day from a numbers basis—voter suppression being the culprit rather than necessarily something having to do with the machines—are being accepted somehow as laws in and of themselves.
This evil is attacking trans people and has ordered the expansion of Guantanamo Bay (a site noted for its relation to terror and human rights abuses) to house deported people. People who can go nowhere else. And if history rhymes, we know that shipping people off away from the imperial core and then still having to remove them somehow arrives at only one solution. [Source]
In addition to this, unelected Elon Musk, with no confirmation or authority, is literally breaking into government buildings and stealing data. Declaring that commenting on this or noting the names of his young Elon Musk psychotics is committing a crime. [Source]
For some reason, when he broke into these facilities, he was not shot on sight. For taking things, for literally just acting like a bully who does whatever he wants, nothing has happened yet. Who are these people so opposed to these Musk Youth that they do not punch them, restrain them, and remove them from the building?
Decorum once again allows tyranny to waltz into the building.
It is not doxing to name the names of those who commit crimes in broad daylight, so let me name these fascists: Marko Elez, Akah Bobba, Luke Farritor, Ethan Shaotran, Edward Coristine, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger.
If they have done nothing wrong, in their own logic, then they have nothing to fear.
What else can we catalog? What lies?
Putting off the so-called tariff against Canada for thirty days?
Watch that get extended or not; we've lost Canada as an empathetic ally, and I don't blame them. [Source]
In my day job, I am expected to teach children how to be moral, what the right thing is. How bitterly ironic to be teaching Dr. King's early lessons because if you read them—actually read them—they are full of rage and anger that is contained by his humor and belief that these things will pass all too slowly, but pass they will.
The biggest mistake, the mistake that everyone made, I have mentioned many times before:
Not calling out the exact shit-assery that we've let people's brains be rotted with.
Too many Americans are too comfortable with too many Nazi ideas still.
And anybody saying that shouting is the wrong answer had better fucking re-read the source texts. Tension is good. It is productive. It requires shouting in the face of a Nazi that they are a fucking Nazi.
Because otherwise, the other people, the lame moderates, don't understand that it isn't okay.
This is the first entry in my Bertolt Brecht-style War Primer.
This is the America Primer.
As there was an Abraham Lincoln brigade, and the international: Brigada Buenaventura, si us plau.
Before I was done posting this, it was reported that Trump is now saying the US wants to take over the Gaza Strip. It's not like the US wasn't already throught it's investments in Israel already there, but this is even worse. This only benefits hatred and Antisemitism as well as anti-Arab sentiment. This only benefits war. I can bear no more witness today, one must take their time to survive.