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I'm disappearing for a while. My nervous system can't handle any political input right now. I'm not dead. I haven't died by suicide. I am deleting all social media off my phone in the hopes of getting my anxiety under control.

In the meantime, I am going to steal a very encouraging motto from shitty-person Tim Allen. "Never give up. Never surrender."

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Banging on the walls chanting "OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR ACA THRU JAN 15" like some deranged town crier. Election results aside, you have options to access healthcare as a RIGHT through the ACA. NO one can dismantle the Affordable Care Act in less than 4 years, so SIGN UP! GET YOUR CARE! USE THE SYSTEM!

You have options RIGHT NOW that will be stable thru the next year, the one after that, and I'd be shocked to see them shrink even the year after that. That means RIGHT NOW you can get signed up for next year to gain 100% covered preventative care (your annual check ups, pap smears, dental cleaning, vision check). You have the option to get checked and screened as you need, do NOT be dissuaded from exploring ACA choices. They are SOLID, LEGISLATED, and WORK BEST WHEN PEOPLE USE THEM.

I can't change most things around me, BUT I CAN tell everyone I know that THEY CAN GET LIFE SAVING CARE. THEY CAN GET PRESCRIPTIONS. THEY CAN GET PREGNANCY CARE. THEY CAN GET CANCER CARE. AND THEY WILL GET THAT CARE!!!!!!

SIGN UP BY DECEMBER 15, 2024 FOR COVERAGE TO BEGIN ON JANUARY 1, 2025. ENROLLMENT AFTER 12/15/24 WILL HAVE COVERAGE BEGINNING FEBRUARY 1, 2025.

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this, too, i will survive but i really wish i didnt have to

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Goyim love to say things like, “How did people let the Holocaust happen?” And there are a lot of possible answers to that question. Some believe that the average citizen of the Nazi Empire simply didn’t know about the camps. Others say that the average citizen opposed the regime, but they were deterred by their government or the fear of being killed. And some believe that it was some kind of perfect storm or one-time-glitch, that those people from that place just happened to be uniquely predisposed to evil, and that it can never happen again.

This is almost always accompanied by some variation on the phrase, “If I had been there, I wouldn’t have.”

Not even a hundred years later, Jews across the world are being targeted for destruction by both White Supremacists and Jihadist Islamists. Both weaponize the same ideologies and tactics that the Nazis used, and both happily embrace the Nazi legacy. Both are emboldened, not disgusted, by the nearly unprecedented increase in antisemitic hate crimes. They are openly calling for our death in our streets and our subways and our political offices.

And yes, in some countries, they are met with opposition by the average citizen. In some countries, decent and caring and inclusive people stand up for us. And in some countries, they win. But not all the time. When they lose, you have to reconcile with the truth:

The Holocaust didn’t happen because the average person in Eastern Europe failed to stop the Nazis. The Holocaust happened because the average person in Eastern Europe was a Nazi. And if the average person is a Nazi in any other nation, at any other time, it will happen again.

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Okay, I get people are angry and scared for a lot of extremely good reasons but those posts that are like "we survived one Trump presidency, we can survive another" are not trying to erase the people who DIDN'T survive, they're trying to keep people from fucking killing themselves right now.

A lot of very scared people are currently struggling through relapses, depressive episodes, breakdowns, and suicidal thoughts at the idea of another Trump presidency. If you can't say anything about that without making them feel more hopeless and terrified, then keep your mouth shut.

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I would say I think Ill get a lot of hate for this but we all know Jewish bloggers get like 15 notes so—

You know who else's fault Trumps election is?*

You—

The "leftist" who went so far off the deep end

Burning US flags, vandalizing Jewish spaces, supporting terrorists such as Hezbollah, ISIS, Hamas, the Houthis etc.

Acting as if the US was and is the singular most evil —after Israel of course— in the world.

Demanding and expecting that Palestine be the sole cause anyone cares about, as if no other cause is valid or worthy anymore, as long as a war thousands of miles away continues to rage.

You are at fault.

Because of your insanity and hatred you've pushed the right that much more. You've shown that lots of organizing on the left is a farce and won't accomplish much, giving moderates a reason to vote for the crazy they know and have survived before.

*even if you voted for Harris! and especially if you didn't.

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dear ketanji brown jackson, elena kagan, and sonia sotomayor

please stay alive

sincerely

people who have read the handmaids tale

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If you voted for Trump, block me.

If you voted for RFJ, block me.

If you voted for Jill Stein, block me.

If you chose not to vote because you didn't think Harris was "good enough", block me.

I'm dead serious.

I only want to interact with Harris voters and people who couldn't vote (due to citizenship, age, felony record, etc.)

If you chose to put Donald Trump back in the White House, it means you do not care about my life as a disabled person, as a trans person, as a Jewish person, and a person who can get pregnant. Fuck you.

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Trump is an old sick man. He will probably not live out his term. We will have Vance for president. I am so angry and scared and disgusted and sad that I don't know how to get up this morning.

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i don't know what else to tell you except to be brave and to be kind. take it day by day. go outside and watch the clouds paint the sky. call a friend.

we are still here, and furious. you are still here, and that matters. you can still do and make and be something important. i promise. stay alive. it matters, and you matter. i know it is easy to succumb to anxiety and exhaustion and defeat.

communities can start with tiny ideas. google "dnd groups near me" or whatever your interest might be. google "volunteering near me." google "support groups near me." start journalling. start a discord. start a book club.

when you close your eyes and hear macbeth, answer his prayer: it's better still to be.

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Woman are fucked.

Anyone with a uterus is fucked.

We are all fucked from a public health standpoint if RFK Jr is actually part of the administration.

LGBTQIA+ people are fucked.

Palestinians are fucked.

Jews are fucked.

Immigrants are fucked.

People of color are fucked.

The lower and middle classes are fucked.

People with student loans are fucked.

NATO is fucked.

Ukraine is fucked.

Cannabis users in illegal states are fucked.

Those looking to see Trump face justice for his crimes are fucked.

The climate is fucked.

The world our children will inheret is fucked.

The future of American Democracy is fucked.

America is fucked.

The world is fucked.

If you stayed home I hope this is what you wanted.

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To my American Jewish family

I'm sorry.

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@ my international friends and followers: I'm sorry. We tried. We really, really tried.

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i genuinely love how american jews have been blamed for every american social ill under the sun by leftists over the last year, including american racism, election disruption, and climate change, and then still showed up to the election booth to fight trump. mad, mad love for my people right now

EDIT because this is gaining traction: the people who showed up to an even higher rate than Jews were Black people. Kudos kudos kudos, and remember that a) the fact that Black and Jewish Americans made substantially different votes to the American mainstream IS important and b) don’t fucking blame them for why the U.S. is what the us is

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The people who encouraged no voting are suspiciously silent on my dash tonight. Please, tell me. What's the plan. If you tell me both parties are the same I will scream we have a republican everything now. Did it work?? Did you do it??