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gwynnion

@gwynnion@mastodon.social

Formerly from Twitter and Mastodon.lol. Trans, bi, she / her. Writing, dreams, politics, science, metaphysics.

Blocking and muting you is the easiest thing in the world if you mouth off at me.

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Tax the churches, millionaires, and billionaires until they stop funding fascism.

"MEET FARRIS WILKS, KINGMAKER OF THE TEXAS GOP

Wilks is an elder at an idiosyncratic church that reportedly doesn't allow women to speak during worship. He also pumps millions into Texas Republican politics."

https://www.texasobserver.org/meet-farris-wilks-kingmaker-of-the-texas-gop/

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When politics keep moving hard right, the center is just a slightly less shitty conservatism and eventually, fascism lite.

Doubly so because most "centrists" are merely conservatives who want to be seen as smarter than they are.

"I'm not some dumb redneck! I'm a serious thinker! I'm still a bigoted piece of shit. But I make more money than you ever will, so there."

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On immigration, TikTok, China, and Gaza, Biden is doing basically what Trump did or tried to do and a lot of people are suspiciously quiet about it now when they were angry about it before.

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Nigel Farage deserves a lot worse than a milkshake thrown at him.

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I really don't understand the servile boot lickers who don't want politicians being protested, humiliated, confronted, or even just criticized because "norms" or whatever. These ultra-powerful millionaires with armed security need to know how much we hate them somehow.

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Companies that bought a metric shit load of Nvidia processors want you to know how very badly you need a virtual assistant who spies on you and makes stuff up in order to justify it.

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@gwynnion I couldn't stop laughing, while in the waiting room of a health clinic, when I got to the part where Ben is stuffing dollar bills down the owlbear's pants. 🤣

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@timberwraith I felt bad there wasn't a lot of Ben in this book but I wanted it to definitely grab your attention. LOL.

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@timberwraith I'm really proud of how hilariously surreal the Flying Garbanzo Bean scenes are despite nothing magical or supernatural taking place. 😄

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@timberwraith Well, I wanted to do a young Alice and Jude bit and I thought it was a sweet story of how they first started dating and sharing dreams.

I ended up framing the entire book around them and the evolution of their lives and relationship. They're at the beginning, middle, and end.

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@timberwraith Riley is also a gender bent version of an old friend of mine. Doctor Claw is just funny, though. But cats are another recurring theme. 🤔

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@timberwraith Riley is partly based on an old frenemy of mine who used to call me "little sister" and was always pestering after me in high school.

So maybe there's a reason she reminds you of my brother? LOL.

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@timberwraith I really like the Nisha-Rihan duology for telling the story of how "the Old Republic" era ended, effectively, and how bleak and tragic it was for the people swept up in it.

Even if Rihan himbo'd his way through the early phases of the fall...

I love Tangent and Rao! But it was fun revisiting Bob / Agrajag's moon. In the past, it still has a second moon that eventually became the ring system Ben saw in the future!

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@timberwraith Yeah, the second moon fell into Bob / Agrajag's Roche limit and was torn apart!

Which gives you some idea as to the amount of time between the two stories.

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@timberwraith I try to avert the "sci-fi authors have no sense of scale" trope but there's millions of years baked into the story's history.

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@timberwraith A lot of modern sci-fi and fantasy stories feel very small in comparison, don't they?

I want that sense of deep time. But also, I want that frisson of familiarity when we visit the past, which gives a sense of the cyclical nature of the cosmos. "This has all happened before..."

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@timberwraith We grew up with the Pale Blue Dot and "COSMOS" and the idea of the vastness of space as something humanity could tiptoe into whereas since the end of the shuttle and the drawing down of the space program, most people haven't had a window on the universe beyond sci-fi, which tends to portray things as very small -- everything is about these few characters and their problems, like in "Star Wars."

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@timberwraith Navigator was structured so it started "small" with the war between Alice's world and the Five and gradually opens up into bigger and bigger spaces out in the multiverse.

With Katherine as a warning shot about what's really out there. LOL.

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@timberwraith Yeah, but she's kinda their friend now? LOL.

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He's now hiding under my blankets.

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Most Americans wouldn't care if Trump went to jail. Most would agree with it. Almost everyone else would shrug and accept it. The only people terrified of this outcome are other corrupt rich white people who think elite status means they get to break the law with impunity, too.

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We've already seen Trump's personal "army" on January 6. It's a bunch of middle aged tech bros, used car dealers, and sleazy lawyers who can afford a lot of guns and military style fetish gear, most of whom don't want really to get shot or sent to jail on his behalf.

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At some point, it became Democratic orthodoxy that we must never judge candidates or expect better from them because every election is the most important election in history, a continual crisis where we have to pragmatically make tough choices in order to avoid an even worse outcome.

And fine, okay, but the crisis never ends, does it? The people who run on stopping the greater evil never do, nothing is done about it, our options get worse, and it feels like we're being taken advantage of.

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Of course, elections are important.

Of course, we should want to defeat Trump and Republicans.

But it starts to feel like the candidates foisted on us would prefer to keep us in a state of panic so we don't ask too many questions about them.

There is good reason why we should decouple their personal ambitions and the stakes of an election from our principles and policy preferences.

They need to KNOW when we disagree with them and that it's up to THEM to win elections by doing what WE want.

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Because candidates who stake out common sense moral positions that actually help people tend to do better in elections for one thing, even if it's not a guarantee for various reasons, whereas candidates who continually whiff at solving problems and support the status quo start to acquire a certain stink.

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For example, it will be Biden's fault if he loses this election because of his unflinching support for genocide or because he doesn't care how a bifurcated economy is affecting people.

People keep telling him he's fucking up.

He doesn't care.

That's a him problem.

And yeah, we'll all suffer for it. Which is why we're so pissed.

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If you're a Democrat and a majority of Democrats want you to do X, and especially if a majority of Democrats and "independents" want you to do X, you'd better have a FUCKING GOOD REASON to risk losing an election to a fascist by refusing to do X.

And when X is "don't enable genocide," there is no good reason.

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