I started this as the lead in to this week’s coming reflection and news post - and may keep it there yet, but it deserves to stand alone.
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I’m going to be blunter than I have been in a long time:
the US presidential election result - and EVERY PERSON WHO ABSTAINED OR VOTED FOR THE WINNER - means this world is facing several years of calamity, and quite possibly disastrous wars.
Tr_ mp is making statements that can reasonably be interpreted as advocating for invasion of sovereign nations - and that is something the USA has a largely dreadful history (and some good) on as it is, let alone when it has someone unstable as its chosen leader.
The rest of world is now being forced to grow up, and face up to the neoliberal rot of the last few decades - the sort of rot that people like Robert Reich have been warning against for decades - and the reality of tolerating violent despots like Putin - whose tyranny and rapacious imperialism the Ukrainians are, as Timothy Snyder is so eloquently pointing out , FIGHTING AGAINST ON BEHALF OF THE WHOLE WORLD.
And then there are the mass atrocities in Africa (I particularly note Sudan and the DRC) and Palestine (and note that the ICJ and ICC have made preliminary decisions [see here, here, here, and here] which carry weight and should be heeded) that the world is ignoring - those in particular are litmus tests of decency, and there are police and authority figures around the world who, as with Israel, are going to realise one day just how wrong they were ...
There are, incidentally, many people in Israel and Jewish people elsewhere who are opposing what is being done in Palestine.
But there are political figures and parties and influential organisations who are acquiescing to the vile evil of anticipatory compliance or the curse of centrism - and will never recover from the damage they are doing.
On the other hand, some are meeting the challenges of these times by standing up and fighting back - telling truth, refusing to comply or give in to bullying, and defending human rights and democracy as best they can.
And on that, I have settled on my views about pardons for people Tr_ mp has threatened:
those warriors will be needed on the battlefield, not in jail: PROTECT THEM AND THEIR CAPABILITY TO FIGHT BY PARDONING - AND ACCEPT THOSE WHO LEAVE RATHER THAN BE PART OF EVIL
I have come to this partly through writing a poem, “I need ...”:
I need ...
my Fierceness
my Warrior Spirit.
Too long and too oft
have I gentled and
gentled been,
but war is on us
and deeds fell and foul are nigh
and needs must be fought,
and I must Fierce again be.
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(Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear)
Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).#PsychicABetterWorld and candles for Viva La Résistance à Tr_ mp! and may all that I do be of value and actively BPM used for and by the nonphysical BPM
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