Politics

I don't need to be sold on the possibility that the Coalition will make things worse — I know that they will. If you care about courting progressive votes, we need to be sold on the idea that Labor is going to make things better.

What a fun time to be alive.

Every awful thing done because Trump, and his enablers, demands it of you is still an action on your conscience, in your name, and on your soul.

Not everyone is operating from a place of fear — enough are, certainly, but enough are just chickenshit, or self-serving, or gleeful collaborators.

Erasing queer history requires more than deleting text on a website, but capitulation here will lead to more extensive reality retcons.

They don't make Nazis like they used to.

I'm not really sure how the situation in the US right now can be described as anything but dire.

May we live in interesting times.

Two excellent pieces of writing about disappointing dudes who could have been so much more, and one repellent demon overshadowing both.

The historic examples of fascism I learned about are always framed in a good vs evil kind of way that really failed to show how selfish and self-serving it actually all is.

Facebook was never good at fact checking anything, anyway — quelle surprise — and on the subject of choosing to actively disengage.

"It takes time to persuade people to abandon their existing value systems. The process usually begins slowly, with small changes."