Crutches and Spice, Imani Barbarin really said it perfectly in her tiktok here: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRvBXpWo/

She points out how Democrats not fighting against the rise of fascism, how they are in lockstep with it despite claiming to be "against it," is them helping fascism along. She really speaks truth here.

This is why Americans cannot rely on Democrats to save us. They won't, and they haven't. They are okay with fascism because it serves the interests of the elites they serve.

We need to keep calling them out on it. Fighting to tear down the system that oppresses us, and work together to build a better future.

Voting isn't gonna stop fascism. It's not enough, and for some of us, our right to vote is being stripped away. More must be done.

We need to clog up the machine and stop all harmful bills from being passed in any way possible.

We need to engage in protests everywhere and not back down.

We need to boost up truth-telling newspapers who try hard to get the truth out about all of this. Share the reality and talk to one another to get others that truth. We need to campaign with others to build something better for when we finally tear down these oppressive systems.

We need to rebuild community care that includes Covid mitigations and accessibility.

We need to sabotage these people's ability to weaponize systems to harm us, to stop them from saturating us with misinformation and lies. (This includes the AI/chatbot engines that are being used by Big Tech to flood us with shitty and lying articles that make it harder and harder to find the truth when we search for it). We need to call out and boycott and protest outside newspapers like New York Times for their complicity in eugenics and genocide against disabled folks, trans folks, people of color -- NYT purposely set up all discussions around Covid and trans people so that the right could blatantly lie and have their lies be treated as equal to the facts. That goes beyond negligence. That is outright evil, and NYT upholding that it's trying to be "impartial?" That's them admitting they don't give a shit of the impact that anti-trans and ableism has done to KILL people.

We are powerful together. Don't let these fascists tear us down or get us trapped into thinking we have no power to stop this, that we are doomed.

We are not doomed. We can stop this horror, but we got to work together to do it. We got to fight against the despair, the denialism, the fear, and instead, rebuild that community care. We are not alone. We are strong together. Remember that.

#AntiFascist #DemocratsAreComplicit #AmericaPolitics #Fascism #WeKeepUsSafe #WeAreTheFire #Abolition #Accessibility

I forgot I put this on my playlist. It's one of the few Eurovision songs where I wept when I heard it. The singer who wrote this had a loved one pass away from Covid: https://youtu.be/7e3GiXy7SLc

What gets me about the lyrics is the "Unforgiveable" part. Considering how most of the world has decided that mass death and disablement is acceptable in order for capitalism to reap in more profits at our expense, this lyric holds new meaning.

It's absolutely unforgiveable that so many countries refuse to change how we live so that we can save lives rather than let people die and languish with LongCovid with little to no care.

This is part of a worldwide spread of fascism. To desensitive us to mass death and disablement. These capitalist assholes want us to look away from the death and destruction they have wrought. They want us to blindly follow their orders to work endlessly and consume blindly.

No liberation can be achieved if the movement fails to fight against this normalization of mass death and disablement from covid. The tools to protect our communities from this highly deadly and disabling disease exist - some of it we can make ourselves (such as do it yourself Corsi-Rosenthal air filter boxes). But to do that, we MUST cooperate with one another and reestablish bonds of care.

Capitalism has alienated us, yes. But we don't have to live that way. As much as the elites and super rich in our society is trying to tear apart all and any cooperation to better control us, we must fight that by rebuilding community care.

We protect us, but to truly protect each other we MUST engage in safer ways of meeting. Leftists have largely been failing at incorporating pandemic mitigations into their in-person activities, and that must change if we are to fight this battle and win.

One of my favorite disabled authors wrote this magnificent guide on how we can safely meet and engage in community care: https://www.tinyurl.com/longwintersurvival

The @PeoplesCDC created a wonderful guide on how to safely meet in person as well: https://peoplescdc.org/2022/11/17/safer-in-person-gatherings/

So my challenge to ALL Leftists: Use these guides to fight against the normalization of mass death and disablement. Show that you truly are for liberation, because if you fail to do any pandemic mitigations, then that means you've sided with mass death and disablement which is a form of eugenics. Don't do that. I know y'all can do better.

Fight this. Mask up. Test for covid often. Abide by these guides and change our way of being. Yes, it's hard, but the fight for liberation has never been easy. Time is running out. The time to act is now.

I'll finish with a poem I wrote concerning the intersection of oppression we face:

https://reshapingreality.org/2021/04/24/12186/

We Are the Fire

By Aidan Zingler

Words pull push, agitate, infuriate
I’m the fury of the world not seen.
I beg, I cajole, I reason, I ask
I’m the pain of the dead not seen.
Time is running out, time is running

Black Lives burn bright and extinguish,
Stars howl their sorrow at their loss
Disabled flames smolder and fade,
Stars ignite their pain at their loss.
Indigenous fires frozen and scattered,
Stars blaze their fury at their loss.
Time is running out, time is running.

Should I be praying? Screaming?
Words sputter and fall silent.
Should I be running? Marching?
Actions lay the bricks, one by one.
Time is running out, time is running.

Can’t you stay with me tonight?
Can’t you march with me tonight?
Can’t you speak with me tonight?
Can’t you listen with me tonight?
I’ve been running and screaming,
the void itself weeps and howls,
the fury of the universe cuts deeps.
Time is running out, time is running.

I can hear them calling me at night.
The voices of the dead, the murdered.
They rise and march, they speak through us.
We stand, we chant, we weep, we march.
The wind blows our message to all ears.
We will not be silent, we will not cease.
Time is running out, time is running.

Words connect and build a bridge,
We’re the fury of the lives not seen
We demand, we tear down, we build
We’re the pain of the dead not seen.
Time is running out, time is running.

Time for us.
Our hearts on fire.
On fire for justice.
On fire for abolition.
On fire for a future free of oppression.
Time is running. We are building.
We are more than dust and sand.
We are the past, we are the future.
Let’s go.

#CovidIsNotOver #Covid #Liberation #Abolition #SeeYouSafer #MaskUp #Leftists #Organize #WeAreTheFire #CapitalismSucks