And the decision to not see that for the act of violence it is on every one of the citizens of this country, including yourself, is a folly that puts all of our necks closer to the blade. 11/11

So the powers here can generate more wealth. If trans kids can't get medical care because someone doesn't like it, there's absolutely nothing stopping them from deciding not to like heart surgery if you're under 6'. Or cancer treatments if you're over the retirement age. Or anything, ever. 10/?

And to generate wealth for the already wealthy. The humanity and fairness and kindness you think is held in the constitutional rights is a lie to keep us loving this place and quiet when atrocities happen. To make you feel ok about sending your children to die in other countries 9/?

From the practice of sending criminals to the continent when the country first started, to slavery, to the lines of the poems on the Statue of Liberty, there has been NO OTHER goal for the design of this nation but to steal land, dupe or force desperate people into giving cheap (or free) labor, 8/?

And the second this game they've been playing stops working, the second you don't make them enough money, or disagree with something they say, or get in the way of more power for them, they're going to come for you, too. That's not freedom. That's not democracy. 7/?

So I can absolutely see why a straight white man who owns a home would take for granted his rights and the state of the so-called democracy and freedoms we supposedly have. But you have to wake up. If they can take rights from anyone, or deal them out like prizes, they can take them from you. 6/?

A threat to any of us is a threat to us all, we are too numerous and too angry to beat back down. They divide us and raise some of us up because they are afraid of us. They know what they're doing is wrong and they do not care as long as they can get us to look at each other and not them. 5/?

That only keep you fed and clothed to shush you. You are only important as long as you do what they want and when you don't they have a way of threatening to take back those "promises" you think you can rely on. They have made us think we're different because when we see we're the same & that 4/?

And manipulation. If the United States stands on anything, it is the willingness to lie, cheat, murder and steal to get what it wants. And to think you're immune to this treachery because you've always been exempt from it is to deny your own humanity and overinflate your importance to the powers 3/?

That is willful folly I can not abide. In the history of the world, 249 years is not very long. In the history of a family, 1920 only goes back 3 generations. 1965 only goes back one or two. And that's JUST voting rights. If the constitution was ever PROMISING anything, it was unequal treatment 2/?

I can understand why a straight white male homeowner would feel secure in his constitutional rights. But the choice to not look at those of us whose rights have been dealt out in crumbs ONLY AFTER it benefits the powers financially, and see how much that promise of rights has always been a lie, 1/?

Grow up. There's a much bigger bully here we need to deal with and he's just telling you the other kids' snacks are better so you spend all your time and energy trying to take it away from them and don't turn around & notice he's got a gun to your back. 6/6

Everyone in the world starts out a citizen of wherever we happen to get squeezed out of our moms. Just because your mom didn't have the means or knowledge to go on vacation somewhere better when you were due is no reason to throw a tantrum & try to make the luckier kids give you their snacks. 5/?

The cognitive dissonance and sheer audacity it takes to look at the children of immigrants and say they don't deserve the benefits of public school while you, the child of immigrants, pack your kids lunches & put them on the bus without a second thought is so mind blowing it's almost hilarious. 4/?

The cognitive dissonance and sheer audacity it takes to look at the children of immigrants and say they don't deserve the benefits of public school while you, the child of immigrants, pack your kids lunches & put them on the bus without a second thought is so mind blowing it's almost hilarious. 4/?

Except in that case they'll be more correct because we've been hostilely occupying this country since before it was a country and continuously steal from indigenous people and cultures to serve our own whims. 3/?

Somewhere an alternate Europe is trying to figure out where to put a bunch of white folks with no connections to the countries they were returned to and who don't speak the language and a bunch of brown folks are telling their friends how that's good bc we're all thieves and criminals 2/?

There's an alternate universe where revoking birthright citizenship goes all the way back and turns into the successful completion of the land back movement and that brings me a little joy. 1/?

If someone figures out how to get me to be motivated to clean and organize my life on my days off like I am when I'm looking for reasons to call off work please lmk. I'll give you a cookie or something. Like a good one, from a bakery or a grandma.