Friendstacy comments on Authoritarian Rule

 i'm not trying to change your mind. how could you possibly agree with my point of view, with it being so different than yours? but I am very grateful for the opportunity to discuss these things. the way I see it, dominance is aggression, aggression is violence even if it's not physically injurious (but there's always that threat of physical injury, isn't there?) If you have a chain of command, with some people above other people, you have rule based upon authority. the very organization of society into heirarchies of command is what makes it authoritarian. we have to start there, at the foundation upon which sits all the premises that attempt to prove freedom invalid.

Saturday, January 9, 2021

it's not just the last four years
it's the last 400 years
denial got us where we are today
the warning signs were always there
it's time now to stop ignoring it
stop making excuses for it
and finally put it to an end

January 7, 2021

my heart hurts so much right now
i don't know what happened yesterday
the president incited a riot
and the rioters were allowed
to storm the capital building
how does this even happen?

"not all trump supporters"
just doesn't cut it 
"not all men" are rapists
and not all of hitler's supporters
wanted to kill jewish people
but that's not the point.
you have aligned yourself
with violent racist nationalists
(there is no denying that anymore, either)
who can't let go of the mentality
that says "might makes right" 
now you have to call them out
because the whole world
thinks you are just as bad as they are
can we burn that stupid red hat
or will we let this tear our family apart
the same way it's tearing our country apart?
because in the end, we all have to live together
and figure out a way to get along