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Goyim love to say things like, “How did people let the Holocaust happen?” And there are a lot of possible answers to that question. Some believe that the average citizen of the Nazi Empire simply didn’t know about the camps. Others say that the average citizen opposed the regime, but they were deterred by their government or the fear of being killed. And some believe that it was some kind of perfect storm or one-time-glitch, that those people from that place just happened to be uniquely predisposed to evil, and that it can never happen again.

This is almost always accompanied by some variation on the phrase, “If I had been there, I wouldn’t have.”

Not even a hundred years later, Jews across the world are being targeted for destruction by both White Supremacists and Jihadist Islamists. Both weaponize the same ideologies and tactics that the Nazis used, and both happily embrace the Nazi legacy. Both are emboldened, not disgusted, by the nearly unprecedented increase in antisemitic hate crimes. They are openly calling for our death in our streets and our subways and our political offices.

And yes, in some countries, they are met with opposition by the average citizen. In some countries, decent and caring and inclusive people stand up for us. And in some countries, they win. But not all the time. When they lose, you have to reconcile with the truth:

The Holocaust didn’t happen because the average person in Eastern Europe failed to stop the Nazis. The Holocaust happened because the average person in Eastern Europe was a Nazi. And if the average person is a Nazi in any other nation, at any other time, it will happen again.

And let’s be clear here about what exactly the US Presidential election results mean. Because as of current writing, this was not a spoiled election. There is no swing state that Harris would have won even if she had gotten all of Jill Stein’s votes. And this wasn’t a close race. Donald Trump is on track to win every swing state. This wasn’t even an Electoral College issue. Donald Trump won the popular vote.

As of writing, under 65% of eligible voters turned out for this election. And 51% of those voters chose the white supremacist felon who praises Hitler and said he’d be a dictator on day one. Which means that about seventy percent of the population of the United States either voted for a fascist, or is comfortable being complacent with fascism.

The average person in the United States is a fascist.

American trans pals, life is going to get hard. We know that. I could write a long post about strategies for coming years, but I feel like that will only create decision paralysis here on Day 1.

So, some little things to do today and tomorrow towards becoming a more resilient person:

I can't promise we'll be ok, but we can try to set ourselves up so we bend instead of breaking in this storm.

Everything feels awful right now but it isn't really. We still don't officially have a winner, but regardless of how the presidential election ends up, I wanted to take a minute and find what lights I can in the 3 a.m. darkness. Here's what I know:

* Kentucky overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to undermine the public education system by offering private school vouchers:

* Delaware has elected a transgender woman to the House of Representatives, the first out trans person of any gender ever elected to congress:

* For the first time in history, two Black women will be serving in the senate at the same time, and they are only the fourth and fifth Black women ever elected to the senate:

* New York State has passed a constitutional amendment enshrining the rights of pregnant people (including the right to an abortion), LGBTQIA+ people, the disabled, immigrants regardless of legal status, and other at-risk groups:

* Democrat Josh Stein has beaten self-avowed Nazi Mark Robinson to become governor of North Carolina:

That's everything I know off the top of my head. It's not many bright spots, but it's not zero. I'm going to try to find more and I'll add them to the post. It's the only thing I can think of to do that isn't sobbing and throwing up or looking up Canadian immigration rules.

If you know more good news, I encourage you to add it in reblogs.

* Nevada has amended their constitution to guarantee abortion rights, overturning a state ban:

* Colorado has passed amendment 79, guaranteeing the right to an abortion, with more than a 20 point spread between the Yes and No vote:

* Maryland Question 1, also focused on reproductive rights and abortion, has passed as well: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/maryland/issue-1

* Likewise, Amendment 3 has passed in Missouri, overturning a near-total ban to add reproductive rights to the state constitution:

* Arizona Proposition 139 to protect abortion rights also passed:

Every glimmer helps.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

* New Jersey has elected the first Korean-American senator in history:

FUCK THIS COUNTRY

before it was "don't vote lol" and now its "its not my fault its white republicans!" its both of your faults actually fuck you.

you were so brave and confident, now you want to deflect? come on now

A lot of people think not voting washed their hands from the personal guilt of voting for an imperfect candidate. In reality, they were complacent in the election of an objectively evil candidate. They have blood on their hands.

this also goes for people who encouraged others not to vote

seeing a lot of radfem rhetoric in the wake of this election so here’s a reminder that yes absolutely misogyny played a massive part in this election and trump did not win Because Of MenTM. he won because the political right in this country, including women, have been radicalized to the point of accepting or actively advocating for white supremacy and fascism.

there is a difference between 54% and 44% yes, but not as big as a lot of this rhetoric is trying to infer. lashing out at the men in your life or random men you see is not going to help. driving men to suicide is not going to help. not dating or sleeping with men is not going to help.

the problem is not solely misogyny. the problem is not MenTM. the problem is fascism. do not let people convince you otherwise.

yes, and also, women are capable of being misogynistic as well. me and my gf were talking about this last night. she saw so many women on tiktok talking about how a "woman can't be president." many women voted for trump also because of misogyny.

almost the same amount of white women voted for trump as white men.

Oh, fuck you

First of all, what stance on genocide? You mean her actual stance that the situation in Gaza is terrible and needs to stop? You mean that fucking stance, and not the one you probably made up or heard from a tumblr tankie?

Secondly, “I wish it were” yeah great job admitting you’re actually fine with Republicans winning as long as it’s for the Morally Pure reasons. But we knew that already.

Third—I’m not seeing Democrats blaming the pro-Palestine movement, but you cannot simultaneously say you wished Democrats lost because of your cause, announce that your movement is going to ratfuck an election against Democrats for a year straight, and then get mad if people blame you for Democrats losing! Again, I think I/P had little to do with this, but you can’t say “haha yes we’ll make you lose…..NOOO DON’T BLAME US!!!”

“We’re so mad that the car isn’t slowing down fast enough that we’re going to take the brakes off”

things we need to address:

reblog this version instead

here’s more

Like/reblog if you think that you don't need to medically transition to be transgender

My dream for the election is that it’s definitive. I want a 2012-style Election Day where everyone built it up beforehand to possibly be close but then the results start rolling in and it was like “Oh, nevermind. It’s obviously Obama. Everyone go to bed.”

I just want voters to put a stake right through the heart of Trumpism so that it crumbles to ash before our eyes. That’s the dream.

like to charge, reblog to cast

the only day you can reblog this

There’s never a bad day to reblog this

just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated. 

and you aren’t stupid for having trouble articulating yourself.

shout out to tim walz who essentially said “it’s none of my fucking business if a woman gets an abortion. but if they dont we’re making sure that kid is fed and housed and if they do we’re making sure they’re taken care of and surviving”

Happy Mid-Autumn & Sukkot to my fellow Chinese-Jewish households! 🥮🌿🍋🌕

Ah yes, because (((they))) are coming for you 🙄

copied from one of the replies:

Also I need to remind everyone that the poem in its original form is also really shitty, insulting, and ahistorical.

The Nazi did not come first for the Socialist and the Communists and then trade unionists and so one until finally they came for the Jews as the poem puts it.

No they started first with Jews and the Roma.

Jews have a long history of being politically left so because the Nazis came for the Jews this meant that any Jews who were Socialists, Communists, members of trade unions, and even anarchists all taken.

The Nazis also came for the disabled and mentally ill.

The purpose of all that they did and their number one target in everything that they did were Jews and the Roma.

That is why our children were in Concentration Camps, that is why our people including children were horrifically experimented, and that is why there men, women, and children from our peoples that were forced into sexual slavery.

Not the Catholics, the trade unionists, the socialists, the communist, and whoever else gets listed on that fakakta poem, no it was Jews and the Roma.

There is a reason why our people have intergenerational trauma from the Holocaust and why each have specific days to remember our victims.

The damage that was done we carry the scars still.

So that poem I hate it with such passion and I need people to understand that what Niemoller wrote is such an insult, it is slap in the face.

when put like that it's almost like the original was meant to appeal to the tankies

I’m slowly realising that almost nobody thinks that antisemitism is a real problem. They only think nazis are a problem (if that even), because they were conditioned to hate them.

But they don’t consider their own antisemitism to be antisemitism - they just consider it to be common sense, or justified political activism!

Whoomp there it is.