“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com
I think it’s really disgusting that no one just forced their way into the DoE building. This niceties and idea of civility is what allowed Musk and his cronies to enter important properties to begin with. You can’t play nice anymore against facism. You have to fight back.
Vito Russo:
"We do not have the responsibility of making gay life look good to straights so that they will accept us. I am not at all interested in promoting a cleaned up image to a straight world which is twice as corrupt and ten times as sick."
They are running off a playbook already written out for them. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
One of Trump’s picks wants to issue a unilateral ban on transgender people access to bathrooms in private businesses. People think this is ridiculous, but Nazis had laws about when Jewish people could buy food. It’s not about pissing. It’s about fear and oppression.
Slapping the chest is what helped with the itchies
