They Are Coming for Your Freedoms -- JoJoFromJerz

[erronis]

https://jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/they-are-coming-for-your-freedoms

State Violence, Manufactured Lies, and the Dangerous Comfort of "Not Yet"

(Video on JoJo's site.)

Republicans want to decide what books you can read, what history your kids can learn, which medicines you're allowed to take, what surgeries you can have, what gender you're permitted to be, what sports you can play, which bathroom you can use, who you can love, and who you can marry.

They want to tell you how many dolls and pencils your kids can have and how much food they can eat.

They want to own your library, your classroom, your hospital bed, your bedroom, your remote control, your kitchen table, and your front door.

They want the right to break into your home, disappear your neighbor, take your children, beat you, execute you in the street, and then tell you--while the sound is still ringing in your ears and the image hasn't faded from behind your eyes--that what you saw is not what you have seen.

They want you afraid: afraid to record, to document, to criticize, to stand up, to speak out, to organize, to protest, to protect, to utter words they don't like. They want to own the page, the pill, the joke, the chant, the kiss, the very pronoun in your mouth and the weapon on your waist. They want to decide where you can go, what you can say, and which of your rights they can take away.

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I'm glad she's calling out the Repubilcans. Anyone left in that "party" is guilty. I'm sure there are plenty of people who don't identify as "Republicans" who also have the same desires.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. She makes the case by linking together what seem isolated policies

The culture war is a war of control and abuse.

[Skittles]

2. anyone who doesn't speak out at this point is complicit

I'm betting more and more repukes will leave to, you know, "start that second chapter". Heaven forbid they act like actual PATRIOTS.