Yeah, same. I feel a lot differently about just showing up on the Warsaw Pact’s doorstep and taking advantage of other peoples’ revolutions now than I did when I was 12, even if it was theoretically and practically possible for me to do so. I still wish I could stroll into the Soviet Embassy tomorrow with a terrified crying rant about fearing for my life and the lives of my immediate family as a known communist in the West, every time something happens in the States that looks like the Reichstag Fire.
Fuckin liberals. A day late and a dollar short every time.
Oh, tell me about it. I was actually shocked when my mom called Trump a fascist after the 2024 US election. My expectations of liberals, especially here on Turtle Island, are genuinely so low, that I expected her to be still denying it was fascism up until there were concentration camps and Aktion T4. And even then, I doubted she’d compare it to the Nazis. But she compared the guy to Hitler, not one week after the election. And I was just. So glad she could see it. Because liberals never see anything. It’s such a crazy low bar, and I still wasn’t expecting any liberals at all to clear it. Especially not ones I know personally who are extremely politically unconscious and disengaged.
Yeah, same. I feel a lot differently about just showing up on the Warsaw Pact’s doorstep and taking advantage of other peoples’ revolutions now than I did when I was 12, even if it was theoretically and practically possible for me to do so. I still wish I could stroll into the Soviet Embassy tomorrow with a terrified crying rant about fearing for my life and the lives of my immediate family as a known communist in the West, every time something happens in the States that looks like the Reichstag Fire.
Oh, tell me about it. I was actually shocked when my mom called Trump a fascist after the 2024 US election. My expectations of liberals, especially here on Turtle Island, are genuinely so low, that I expected her to be still denying it was fascism up until there were concentration camps and Aktion T4. And even then, I doubted she’d compare it to the Nazis. But she compared the guy to Hitler, not one week after the election. And I was just. So glad she could see it. Because liberals never see anything. It’s such a crazy low bar, and I still wasn’t expecting any liberals at all to clear it. Especially not ones I know personally who are extremely politically unconscious and disengaged.