The “if you voted for Trump unfollow me” posts are returning, but given then general makeup of your average tumblr user I think there’s a different message I’d like to give.
If you didn’t vote because “both parties are the same” or “it won’t make a difference” or because Kamala wasn’t the pure and perfect leader that you wanted or you “didn’t want blood on your hands”, honestly whether or not you follow me doesn’t make a damned bit of difference. But I want you to look. Take a good look at the despair around you right now. And every godforsaken thing that follows I want you to fucking look. Look and know that you could have helped prevent it. We still haven’t recovered from his last four years, the world hasn’t fucking recovered, and now we’re staring down the barrel of god knows how many more years and a river of fucking blood to come along with it.
But your pride and your principles were more important to you than the actual real fucking world we live in.
I hope, if nothing else, that you can take this in. I hope you learn. I hope you grow. I hope you find it in you to realize that in this country they soak our hands in blood the second we take our first breath and the only thing that matters then is what you fucking do with them. What you fight for. Who you fight for. Who you defend.
I hope you wake up. And you step up. And you fucking fight.
But until then. Don’t you fucking dare look away.
(I was on the fence about indulging in a little cold hard reality, but I’m doing just this one here because it’s important for people to see the consequences of their actions)
I’m seeing people, including content creators, who were loudly advocating that people abstain from voting because of Palestine. And now they’re crying and sad because the Bad Guy got elected. Who’da thunk? But you stood on your principles, right?
Also, I’m looking forward to seeing accelerationists start the Grand Revolution any time now. Cuz this is what the plan was, right? No? Too worried about your safety and the safety of your family now?
And forget about running away to another country. Only privileged Americans who grew up not having to apply for a visitor’s visa to visit another country would assume they could just up and move to another country with no language and no in-demand skills and no contacts.
Don’t look away.
You can’t run away. You’re stuck here with the rest of us.
Time to lie in the bed you made.
And as much as I’d love to shut out the annoying people, I have to work with them because as much as I like to be right, I prefer to win.
Tomorrow, we start the work. And we don’t stop until the work is done.
amhrancas 