I’m downloading my data so I can save some precious memories and deleting my account. I will also delete my Instagram and WhatsApp accounts.
And if my tax dollars continue to be used to fund this insanity in schools, I will immigrate somewhere wise enough to at least have the sense to not pretend amongst themselves that what is happening right in front of them isn’t.
Domestic Terrorism - White House or Securitate? via @YouTube
People need to realize that this isn’t going to be solved politically.
This war.
Calling this misinformation is a tactic used by Stalin as well. If you don’t see how dangerous a time this is and won’t listen to those of us who know this history PERSONALLY and aren’t hearing what people from Eastern Europe, Venezuela, are screaming from
the rooftops…if you continue to ignore it and expect that someone will suddenly wave a magic wand and this will disappear before it gets MUCH worse and by much I mean…you will ask yourself why you didn’t push back more when you had the chance and more vulnerable will die…
Dissidents left frameworks to help us. They left plays, art and lectures. They left letters and bodies.
The choice to listen to their wisdom, or not, is ours.
“We are approaching the brink; already a universal spiritual demise is upon us; a physical one is about to flare up
and engulf us and our children, while we continue to smile sheepishly and babble:
“But what can we do to stop it? We haven’t the strength.”
“We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul,
all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants—anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence. We have lost our strength, our pride, our passion.
“We have been indoctrinated in political courses, and in just the same way was fostered the idea to live
I need to add one more thing. I recently read some tweets by a man who teaches at NYU medical school. He teaches ethics. He teaches ethics at the same school I paid thousands and thousand to attend - the only school I wanted to attend.
And what does he do? He mocks,
the unvaccinated. He belittles us. He thinks it is ethical to scoff at bodily autonomy and he feels it is just to teach this to his students.
How did we get here?
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor
Im gonna get personal for a moment. There’s a lot to be afraid of. There’s a lot to feel angry, betrayed, hurt and even ashamed of.
But there is one thing that I think about every day.
Im an only child. My parents are in their 80s. Leaving their home is not an option so
as I share this personal fear please don’t say to me “just leave.” Please. It’s complicated, but it’s not a choice I can make. I won’t leave them behind to these wolves. So…what scares me?
I have a rare condition called CRPS. I got it after a surgery on my ulnar nerve (basically the funny bone) a few years ago. I was lucky. The same day I was going to go see the surgeon for a follow up to what had been a very successful and easy surgery I picked up a plant…