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Not only are you allowed to step away from the constant flood of global news, you NEED to. You HAVE to. Humans are not designed for having tragedies and horrors thrown at us constantly and with no break, we aren't designed to be overwhelmed with the awfulness of things happening across the world that we can do nothing about. Never giving yourself a break, and GUILTING yourself for even wanting one, is going to kill you. It is going to destroy your mental health, your ability to see any good in the world and in other people, and your motivation to do anything.

Burning yourself out by refusing to look away from horrible things you can't stop is not activism, it's just going to completely burn you out. There's a reason why individual leaders in activist movements focus on extremely specific things and not on everything bad happening in the world, and those are people with years if not decades of experience with caring for themselves while involved in activism. Show yourself some kindness and step away from the news feed.

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so. bad news. we have to keep going tomorrow. good news is that I’ll keep going with you

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While I see #transgender is trending for [checks notes]… [sigh] reasons, please make sure you don’t get lost in the fog of discourse, please apply some of that energy to push back against the administrative attacks. Seeing the juxtaposition of hammer memes and legislative fuckery sparked An Awareness in me.

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The periodic rally-purge mechanism (where affinity groups are self-assembled into a corral to be purged en masse) is predictable, and useful in some ways for organizing, but ultimately “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” and it is incumbent upon us to operate our political ban hammers to combat the clown car of authoritarian usurpation.

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The continuous push to roll back all democratization and human rights is unending, and human rights are a marathon relay, not a sprint.

This is an intersectional reminder btw. If you support trans rights, get out and support your siblings in the human rights causes, the feminism, anti-colonialism, anti-racism, anti-genocide, etc (non-exhaustive list).

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“Rights are for all, or else they are privileges in disguise.”

You do not have to dedicate your whole life to The Cause™ or The Struggle™ but set aside some energy and time as you can, and distribute it across your networks. There is no single issue, we are all entwined, in our loves and sorrows.

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The tactic of riling up a single-issue discourse attention is a technique to … [checks notes] oh it’s called “divide and conquer.”

Let’s skip the first part so we can work on preventing the second half.

“Yeah they had us the first half I’m not gonna lie, they had us. We weren’t defeated, but they had us. It took guts, it took an attitude… You’re gonna battle, you’re gonna fight, you’re gonna do it for one another, do it for each other, do it for yourself, you’re gonna do it for us, and you’re gonna go out with this win. … regardless of the scoreboard you’re going to be successful, because you put in all the time, all the effort, all the hard work, and you know that it’s going to pay off… you continue to get each other’s back… we realized that we were going to be alright… it’s a mindset.”