Author/Artist/WebDev/Antisemitism Education The four horsemen of the current apocalypse are anti-Blackness, antisemitism, misogyny, and queerphobia. I exist to make Patriarchal people uncomfortable & this place is VERY Patriarchal.
I've visited Dachau. I expected ghosts, but it was so sterile, and that was worse. That's what the Nazis wanted, and that's what Trump and his cohorts want. And that's why we have to stop then. My clearest memories: a photo of a man's face exhausted by pain, and the stones of the yard.
Recently, I read one of the first dystopian novels-- PUBLISHED in 1937-- Before Austria was annexed. Before Kristallnacht. Before WWII. 12 years before Orwell would pen 1984.
Set 600 years in the future Third Reich Empire.
This book has a lot, I think, to teach us about Project 2025 and Trump.
I know we know about JD Vance, but he's also working to make divorces harder to obtain, and says that people in "violent" marriages should stay married and not get divorced.
So.
and the most common cause of death of pregnant and immediately postpartum people is
MURDER
because it's such a common time for abusers to kill.
So ALREADY it's a huge additional cause of death given all these new abortion bans. Add more barriers to divorce?
God help us.
this is particularly alarming in light of his intention to make abortion unobtainable - pregnant people are at increased risk for partner violence, and reproductive coercion and abuse is common among people seeking support during pregnancy.
Women being abused is fine with Republicans. Children being abused is fine with Republicans (once they're born). Men having "dominion" is the whole fucking point.
I know we know about JD Vance, but he's also working to make divorces harder to obtain, and says that people in "violent" marriages should stay married and not get divorced.
So.
It's really such a good meta example of how the way these guys see everything as a competition for dominance poisons every interaction. It's inconceivable that the people around you *aren't* looking down on you, so everything *must* be a grievance.
The thing that gets me about the JD Vance sparkling water thing is that scoffed at the very idea of it, and then *literally spit it out* and loudly complained about it. He frames it like "these elites hate me because I'm not fancy", never considering that maybe it's just because he's a dick about it
J.D. Vance is a a cruel, opportunistic huckster. He cosplays as a Midwestern good ole' boy despite being an Ivy-league vulture who genuflects at the altar of sociopathic tech douches like Peter Thiel. Vance is WORSE than Trump, because Trump at least has no beliefs beyond self-aggrandizement.