12. Be kind and make small talk. I can't do that yet. I find myself looking through and past people. I wonder if they voted against my rights. How do you smile at racists and sexists?
Same @angrygrammy.bsky.social , same. I don't trust anyone I encounter these days...so it is REALLY difficult to be Friendly and make small talk to people who may well have voted for fascism. Ugh. 💙🧙🏻♀️🌀🤷🏻♀️
I'm not seeing it. Thoreau is not really all that deep. I imagine different people with differing upbringings bring different points of view to his work. A "true believer" with his follower personality will read it differently from a free-thinking person who holds her natural rights instinctively.
Start the #resistance in your city, gather friends and family. Organize a march or a protest.
Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen.
Teach the girls how to fight dirty. (YBMC)
Teach boys to respect/protect women.
There is no time to lose! Start NOW.
Just pulled out my copy, which I got during the first regime. Had hoped I'd not need it again in my lifetime, but glad to have such wisdom as we move into this next battle for our country. Blessed be, blessed WE. 💙🧙🏻♀️🌀🇺🇸
I feel you but for me, it lives on my bookshelf. I can’t face it right now but hope to be able to some day soon. I’m avoiding stress at the moment on the advice of my doctor - happily my blood pressure has plummeted into safe territory!
Amazing list. For example the current conversation is whether Biden pardons people like Liz Chaney or Cassidy Hutchinson who has done nothing illegal but are on hit lists. Or establish legal defense funds.
Timothy Snyder is by virtue of his academic training as well as a deep family history has unique insites into the fascism that has come to our shores. These are good ground rules to guide us as we fight back.
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Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen.
Teach the girls how to fight dirty. (YBMC)
Teach boys to respect/protect women.
There is no time to lose! Start NOW.
January 20, 2025.
Honor MLK&shut down Trump’s big day with a #STAYHOMESTRIKE ➡️Stay home don’t buy or sell anything&don’t watch his inauguration As if‼️
Trump has vowed to sign EOs:
Cutting ACA #SS& fed workers
Deporting US citizens
LETSGO‼️
ME: I am going to take away the entire orchard from the people! all the fruit and vegetable!
THEM: Would you consider to take only our apples and leave the rest?
ME: Okay. This time I will ... because I’m, ya know, for the people.
Even though the subject matter is dark, I find it a really helpful & hopeful little guide. Hope you will too, when you feel you can read it.