Omidă Cariatidă

Something bizarre but probably not surprising is how many radfems very clearly despise women despite superficially centering them. Like there's a kind of revanchist resentment stemming I think from their worldview that there are only two classes of people: a victim class and a predator class.

On the one hand, they self-righteously glorify the abject suffering they believe all women are perpetually doomed to endure at the hands of men. But on the other, they're seething with anger over what they perceive as women's "weakness," a sense that women are fundamentally too dumb, docile, and man-worshipping to carry out the mass violence they believe is necessary to ever overthrow their oppressors.

Anyway, this post was prompted by me accidentally stumbling upon a circle of mass shooter fandom blogs, and then getting whiplash realizing a lot of them were run by radfems.

I've been on the phone for the last two hours trying to calm my parents down about Trump winning. My mom is at breaking point and I'm really worried about her health. I know it's easy to dunk on older liberals who were blindsided by this and were really cheering for Harris (even though yes yes she sucks).

But like, my parents live almost entirely off of Social Security. Republicans have been gunning to cut Social Security benefits for ages. Even a small reduction would devastate them financially in their old age and growing medical costs. I don't have any reassuring words for my parents that this can't happen, even though I don't think Republicans would go so far.

My parents are also still paying off my brother's student loan debts as co-signers, and the only thing helping them was Biden's SAVE plan to keep the payments down. What happens if Trump dissolves the Department of Education? I have no idea. I can't reassure my parents that the debt won't go to some even more predatory collection agency that will start garnishing what little wealth they've saved for retirement.

And being in Romania, they're even more terrified of what a Trump-Putin alliance will look like for Eastern Europe. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I'm so angry at Trump and his followers. But I'm even more angry at the Dems for throwing their own voter base under the bus, for choosing to chase after Cheney and every grimy "moderate" Republican who was never going to vote for them anyway, for relying on "brat summer" tiktok memes while sidelining the progressives who would've carried her through doing groundwork in swing states, for giving a blank multi-billion dollar check to one of the worst genocides of our lifetimes, and for betraying people like my parents who in good faith put their hopes in the Democratic party.

How did I get food poisoning on election night. Was it not enough that I feel like metaphorically puking???

I've decided the only social media I'll permit myself to check this election day is tumblr, so however I find out the results will be however I find out the results

Regardless of outcomes, this coming election week in the US is going to be unbearable. I keep seeing people in my social media circles going on about the "threat to democracy," as if we ever had democracy in the first place. As if Trump didn't win in 2016 even though he lost the popular vote by quite a lot. As if the lesser of two evils in my adult lifetime thus far haven't been drone striker Obama, war hawk Clinton, and genocide-funder Harris. Every election, I've lived in a deep Blue state so my vote quite literally never matters anyway.

"Still wrecked from past Israeli raids, hospitals in northern Gaza come under attack again," AP News, November 3, 2024.