They've torn apart my relationship with my family. That's my doing, I guess. Transition strained things and I drew a line.
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And I called out a family member for contributing to the surveillance state. I'm sorry I did that.
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But jesus these politics are polarizing and I'm simply unwelcome because of mine. Yet I can't sit silent while it all goes to shit.
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False binaries create winners and losers and right now I'm on the losing side--the side that doesn't want an autocracy.
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And that shit tears apart people. Raise your hand if you haven't lost a relationship with a friend or family member over this.
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I'd give anything to be able to talk to my folks and tell them about what's going on in my world, get advice on things.
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I'm 100% convinced that I end this administration dead or in jail and not a single thing has assuaged that fear.
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We're not even 4 months in and he's fired everyone investigating him. What's month 18 gonna look like? Month 31?
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When I look at my peers, the queer community, and I see how their support structures have eroded, too, and I reconcile this with the news...
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it becomes abundantly clear that these issues are completely linked. That's what authoritarianism relies on. It's not just explicit power.
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It's the implicit ability to entangle social support around the authority and to remove undesirables by turning them to castaways.
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They don't need legislative action--though that's coming, too. They just need to create an us vs. them mindset. And that's already happened.
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