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yeah I did hear llamas and donkey, sometimes mules are good guard animals. Horses definitely aren’t, they default to flight when predators come around. I’ve mostly heard the llamas used for alpaca herds since they’re pretty similar species. I’m sure there’s some good ways to mix up animal species to keep out coyotes and make everything work well. I am pretty young (24) so its hard to tell how fast things will go to shit b/c I was so young on 9/11 I don’t remember much
(hugs you)
I was 21 on 9/11, or no, I’d just turned 22. I was supposed to have gone to visit a boy I was seeing in NYC for my birthday, in late August, but I couldn’t get the time off from my gas station job, so I rescheduled for early October.
Initially there was just this shockwave, and everyone was solemn and quiet, and nobody capitalized on anything, nobody said anything heinous– everyone was just shocked, and subdued, and solemn. We were afraid; we came together; we put aside politics; our television comedians wondered if anyone would ever make a joke again. (That’s real, that happened. I don’t remember who said it, so I don’t know how to Google it.)
My sister was serving overseas, in an Army base in Germany, and they put up barricades to protect the on-base housing from potential attacks– we just didn’t know who had done this, we didn’t know if there’d be follow-ups, and overseas military installations are always at risk, so it was a sensible precaution. The German civilians of the city came together and covered the barricades in flowers and sympathy cards. The international community was genuinely shocked and sympathetic; the world climate was very positive toward the US, there was a lot of outpouring of positive sentiment and support.
Even when we launched near-immediate punitive air strikes on Afghanistan, there was still a prevailing sentiment that it was justified. We had to take action, we were defending ourselves, we were leading a coalition to improve the security of the world. We were doing the Right Thing.
But Bush pushed through the USA PATRIOT Act within a month and a half. The fires weren’t out yet in Manhattan. (I visited that boy on October 10th. He hugged me hello at the train station. I said “what is that smell? what’s in your hair?” He laughed grimly and said, “you’ll see,” and took me back to his apartment in Tribeca. We got off the subway and I smelled it– smoke, but like, burning rubber, burning concrete, hot metal, death– and you could see the site from his tenth-floor kitchen window, bright lights on it all the time as they tried to salvage and stabilize the burning mass of rubble. The smoke got in your hair and your clothes and your furniture and followed you everywhere; you could never not smell it.)
I mean, a lot of Drumpf’s work is done for him. A lot of us folks who remember are still skeptical about Obama and are finding some of the don’t-leave-us memes a little excessive, because we’re so unhappy at how little was really done to roll back a lot of the excesses of the Bush regime. Obama extended some of the provisions of that act, which were supposed to expire– the bill was pushed through with the promise that once the danger was past, the un-American surveillance state parts of it would “sunset”, and they never have.
And now Drumpf is inheriting that infrastructure and precedent. So. I mean. I’m not the most paranoid of people; I leave my phone’s location services on, I put things in writing, I’m not involved in anything I think is criminal or seditious. But.
Part of how screwed we are is that that damage was never undone. There were 8 years to start repairing it, and nothing was done. The Democrats don’t really want to fix it. Once a government has power, it’s not going to give that power back.
So it’s our responsibility to elect people who can be responsible about that. And we haven’t. So.
yeah I did hear llamas and donkey, sometimes mules are good guard animals. Horses definitely aren’t, they default to flight when predators come around. I’ve mostly heard the llamas used for alpaca herds since they’re pretty similar species. I’m sure there’s some good ways to mix up animal species to keep out coyotes and make everything work well. I am pretty young (24) so its hard to tell how fast things will go to shit b/c I was so young on 9/11 I don’t remember much
(hugs you)
I was 21 on 9/11, or no, I’d just turned 22. I was supposed to have gone to visit a boy I was seeing in NYC for my birthday, in late August, but I couldn’t get the time off from my gas station job, so I rescheduled for early October.
Initially there was just this shockwave, and everyone was solemn and quiet, and nobody capitalized on anything, nobody said anything heinous– everyone was just shocked, and subdued, and solemn. We were afraid; we came together; we put aside politics; our television comedians wondered if anyone would ever make a joke again. (That’s real, that happened. I don’t remember who said it, so I don’t know how to Google it.)
My sister was serving overseas, in an Army base in Germany, and they put up barricades to protect the on-base housing from potential attacks– we just didn’t know who had done this, we didn’t know if there’d be follow-ups, and overseas military installations are always at risk, so it was a sensible precaution. The German civilians of the city came together and covered the barricades in flowers and sympathy cards. The international community was genuinely shocked and sympathetic; the world climate was very positive toward the US, there was a lot of outpouring of positive sentiment and support.
Even when we launched near-immediate punitive air strikes on Afghanistan, there was still a prevailing sentiment that it was justified. We had to take action, we were defending ourselves, we were leading a coalition to improve the security of the world. We were doing the Right Thing.
But Bush pushed through the USA PATRIOT Act within a month and a half. The fires weren’t out yet in Manhattan. (I visited that boy on October 10th. He hugged me hello at the train station. I said “what is that smell? what’s in your hair?” He laughed grimly and said, “you’ll see,” and took me back to his apartment in Tribeca. We got off the subway and I smelled it– smoke, but like, burning rubber, burning concrete, hot metal, death– and you could see the site from his tenth-floor kitchen window, bright lights on it all the time as they tried to salvage and stabilize the burning mass of rubble. The smoke got in your hair and your clothes and your furniture and followed you everywhere; you could never not smell it.)
I mean, a lot of Drumpf’s work is done for him. A lot of us folks who remember are still skeptical about Obama and are finding some of the don’t-leave-us memes a little excessive, because we’re so unhappy at how little was really done to roll back a lot of the excesses of the Bush regime. Obama extended some of the provisions of that act, which were supposed to expire– the bill was pushed through with the promise that once the danger was past, the un-American surveillance state parts of it would “sunset”, and they never have.
And now Drumpf is inheriting that infrastructure and precedent. So. I mean. I’m not the most paranoid of people; I leave my phone’s location services on, I put things in writing, I’m not involved in anything I think is criminal or seditious. But.
Part of how screwed we are is that that damage was never undone. There were 8 years to start repairing it, and nothing was done. The Democrats don’t really want to fix it. Once a government has power, it’s not going to give that power back.
So it’s our responsibility to elect people who can be responsible about that. And we haven’t. So.
