Ex Viscera

I keep seeing these posts about reacting to the election results starting with "When I woke up on Wednesday..."

Baby already I'm jealous of you. I took two shots of NyQuil and still didn't get a single second of sleep, as has been the sacred ritual for every single election since 2016.

I know it is futile to try to approach anything right-wing with logic or reason, but I do hope that, if this "male loneliness epidemic" continues, we see conflicts between some different far-right factions start to manifest. Like it is an undeniable fact that with every passing year, fewer people in the United States consider themselves to be religious, despite the drastic over representation of evangelicals in governing positions.

And it is also an undeniable fact that many of the ideals Christianity/evangelicals espouse are in direct conflict with those of the alpha bro movement. There is nothing more gay and beta than subscribing to a faith that demands you literally submit to a higher power, selflessly devoting yourself to a god who is a dude btw. I genuinely think, if this isn't already happening, these alpha bros are just a few year away from starting to fuck each other as some spartan masculinity ritual, while obviously still becoming more homophobic. But I'm just so curious to see the end game of these completely opposing ideologies.

Being realistic, Christians twist any hateful shit they come across to fit within their belief system, so I don't actually think something like this will be as big of an issue as I hope it does. But can you fucking imagine a Get Z far-right incel US Representative from California duking it out with a Boomer Baptist from Tennessee in a committee hearing over whether we should require school children to devote their lives to Jesus in elementary school?

It's really historical events like this that mess up my mindset with where queer people exist in the world. Like.. whether you like it or not there has always been a balance between the "our place is at the fringes of society and we should be happy and comfortable with that" and "the ultimate goal is to be accepted and integrated into society as a whole" perspectives. Where we should exist is an ongoing debate, but it's only after elections or world events like this were I'm just like fuck dude we really can't ever rely on any government or majority demographic to give a shit about us. We only have each other and we have to carve and fight to create our own space every day, and we shouldn't ever give a fuck what anyone else has to say about it.

Obviously as a cis white dude I'm fortunate that this is the only time I need to think about this, those with compounding marginalized identities have to face this tenfold. But it's just jarring how quickly this shit can just slam perspective into you. The moment you get complacent you are violently reminded that most people wouldn't think twice about selling off your human rights for literal peanuts.

Maybe art will really pop off in the next generation

I know it's the worst thing in the world to become politically disengaged right now, we should build up our communities and organize. But there's nothing I want more right now than to trade in my phone for a flip phone, delete the Internet, and isolate myself.

I work for a health insurance company and I asked today if we cover medically induced, election-related comas and they said no.

Sophie's fucking choice over here. Should I fuck the ethnically ambiguous demon or the old man.

If it makes y'all feel better every night I send psychic lances into Donald Trump's lungs and liver.