i just... am so sick of these posts that are like "Just a reminder that it's OK to do nothing and take care of you and your own" like holy shit can you imagine saying that to the "Good Germans" during the lead up to the holocaust??? Can you please imagine how it feels to see "it's OK to do Nothing" to people whose lives and families are being affected by this??? It's not OK to do Nothing. That's called being complicit. the Good Germans didn't even KNOW about what was happening. We Do.
@shel So because I'm autistic, and terrified of crowds, and unable to use telephones for more than a few minutes without screaming in frustration, I'm worse than nazis? That's what you're fucking saying with this. You are saying that because I'm not as socially capable as most people I'm evil.
@keiyakins I'm also autistic and afraid of crowds and I'm only good at telephones cuz i worked at a call center living under the poverty line cuz nobody else would hire me.
and i don't know how you got "Worse than nazis" from my post. You're not worse than the nazis. You're worse than the germans living in nazi germany who knew what was happening but did nothing.
@keiyakins and despite my autism, and anxiety, and being trans, and having disabilities, and having no fiscal safety net no blood family to fall back on, despite all of that
I blockaded a DHS office and went to jail. and guess what
You can do shit without going to jail or being in crowds
@keiyakins Like the guy who used an HTML scraper to pull every single ICE officer off of LinkedIn and posted their names and faces with their titles and cities.
Like the people who late at night poster around town the faces of ICE agents in the area
The people who sabotage ICE vehicles while nobody is looking
@keiyakins the people who archived the ICE roster before DHS could take it down. the people who find out where ICE detention centers are. the people who provide rides to undocumented members of their community to help them avoid getting pulled over by ICE. the people who repair breaklights. etc. etc.
@keiyakins you're underselling your abilities to help out.
If you do nothing you're complicit. If you seriously assess your own personal situation and you really seriously can't do anything
you're still complicit but u have an excuse.
@shel I mean... I write and discuss and try to build up the ideas when I can. I made a backup of that data set. I think my representatives are probably sick of hearing from me. But being unable to drive and stuck living in the fucking suburbs with no mass transit blocks pretty much every avenue that involves leaving the house. And it felt like you were trying to say it's not okay to consider my limits, to take some time to maintain enough health to not snap. I probably misinterpreted you.
@shel I agree that doing *nothing* isn't okay, but at the same time, people can only push their soft limits so hard before they run into a hard one.
