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On a backbone trail in Bryce Canyon

One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.
-Omar El Akkad

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Staying silent might keep your hands clean, but it stains the soul in ways blood never could.

All this energy for Kimmel, I hope you have the same energy for this: @lastweektonight.com

I hope y'all talk about how serious this is and how it could impact the entire civil rights movement this weekend.

They are literally canceling culture

I think, and if you don't mind me being philosophical for a minute, that as much as I'm not going to downplay the danger the far right poses, we can't lose sight of the objective truth that this is a gathering of weak, failed men.

I'm amazed how thin the boundary is for many people between "I think" and "I know"

An alarming number of people in positions of power seem to be completely unable to distinguish good from evil as long as the evil is spoken in a reasonable tone of voice by a white man in a suit

Until folks listen to (and value the lived experiences of) the most marginalized people, nothing will change

I remember those days. No one does righteous fury like a newborn.

Exactly this.

A lot of liberals these days are acting like Mormon missionaries.

They get ready to go out into the world, hyped up by the community they identify with in their quest to Spread The Good Word. They'll arrive, expecting to be treated a hero due to how their friends and family talked.

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I have plenty of anger to go around.

(Out of curiosity, why add the racist element?)

I'll give you points for creativity, because in all the insults I've had hurled at me, you're the first to imply that my child doesn't even exist.

There were more people who refused to vote than there were people who voted for Trump. Had those people voted for Harris, what do you think would be different about the world today?

Being held accountable for your terrible political choices is not genocidal.

I have no idea what you're trying to say here but I'm sure it's very scathing and will make me see the error of my ways.

Well done.

No, dear, I meant that I'm not going to shut up even a little bit.

This kind of shit doesn't hurt my feelings, it just makes you look petty.

I'm going to keep fighting for your rights, but I'm not letting anyone off the hook. End of story.

Not even a little bit.

You yourself are supporting genocide. Two of them, actually, because not only did you fail to do anything meaningful to stop the Palestinian genocide...you actively enabled the American genocide of trans people.

Do you think there has been no cost for that "opposition"? Did it yield the results you wanted?

I'm raising a trans child, a child who is now at great risk because of your "principles." You don't get a pass from me for deliberately making the most harmful choice available just because you too are trans. All that does is add a layer of betrayal to your foolishness.

Ok, sugar. Whatever you say.

You can keep telling yourself that but you are absolved of nothing.

Nope.

You chose everything that is happening right now.

By refusing to vote for Harris you literally voted him into office.

As the cis mom of a trans kid, I wish ill on JK Rowling. I wish for JK Rowling what JK Rowling wishes for trans kids. She is a hate-filled small-minded heartless troll who should not be allowed in polite society.

It seems bad to let Congress decide who is and is not a person!