The problem with that "First they came for" poem is it makes a lot of unlikely assumptions. For example it assumes they would ever come for me
The problem with that "First they came for" poem is it makes a lot of unlikely assumptions. For example it assumes they would ever come for me
uneasy about the phrasing βextreme disabilitiesβ firing around the media at the moment, as if it implies, if you have a βnormalβ disability that theoretically permits work in ~some~ capacity, even if it depletes your energy & every second off is spent recovering, then thatβs fine
The more I see about this case, the more I understand it as performative cruelty to generate headlines. So far our democratic institutions have found themselves either willingly compliant with it or being played like fools.
In short, a trans person denies being trans out of fear of being harmed. Gets outed. Is immediately threatened, harmed and almost murdered
Cis people: βThis is proof trans people have to out themselves always at all times!β
idk man how does anyone ever have time for anything
What do these freaks want us to do?
I'm so glad someone else had the exact same Hollow Knight experience I did. No regrets, fun game, but just couldn't be fucked to see it through
This is also very true in the UK - no one is angrier about Sadiq Khan than people who live many miles from London and have absolutely no intention of ever going there.
grappling with the implications of The Claims Adjuster turning out to be a hot Italian tech bro gym rat who went to Penn, seems to have had a pretty gnarly back injury, retweets anti-woke nonsense, and has read not one but two books by Steve-O
I think he might actually be the hero of this story and you're veering close to villain territory