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Everyone I know is fine, and that’s sort of the problem– Buffalo is a very segregated city, and the attacker had researched to find the Blackest area code in the city, which is served by only one grocery store, which is understaffed so there are always long lines to check out, and so he knew he had a bunch of sitting ducks guaranteed right there for his mowing-down pleasure. There was nothing mentally ill or unpremeditated about it, he drove in from halfway across the state expressly to do this thing he’d done several practice runs for and he absolutely knew he could achieve.
And no one I know was hurt, because I live in an almost entirely white zipcode, and work in another almost entirely white zipcode, and the bus lines don’t even come directly to my zipcode from that one.
Which is now served by zero grocery stores.
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almost there, i have a chapter to post and got distracted and then went to post it and realized there were more edits i had meant to do and oh it’s going well here yes but it’ll be up later
meanwhile my coworker who earlier was complaining that the school wouldn’t let her send in her sick child is now out sick herself so RIP, we definitely all are exposed now.
i’m not going anywhere or seeing anyone. i guess it doesn’t matter. there’s nothing i can do now.
anyway. sigh. wearing my new six-layer homemade mask. dude ordered some KF94s online. we’ll see. I’m just sort of defeated, at this point. we’ve given up everything but work, and now work has betrayed us, and we have to keep coming in anyway. Nothing has meaning. No one will help us.
I’m so tired. (Your picture was not posted)
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With apologies to Mary Oliver – the soft animal of my body is doing just fine, but the sharp animal of my mind is running out of places to sharpen its claws (Your picture was not posted)
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i really want to emphasize that if anything, this is the beginning of a fascist movement in the united states and not the end of one. people often look at what fascists did once in state power in order to define what fascism is. this a flawed approach and ignores the characteristics of the fascist movements in their infancy, which is far more analogous to our current situation. both the italian fascist party and nazi party were formed in opposition to liberal democracy and parliamentarian politics. they were necessarily against the existing state and drew a great deal of support from this, because people were frustrated with capitalist liberal democracy and felt that it was inert, corrupt, and ineffective. once in power both italian fascists and nazis never actually destroyed the capitalist state and instead molded it to their own interests while working with capitalists, but the opposition to traditional politics and establishment politicians is a key aspect of the early ideology of fascist movements.
some people in the notes are mad that i didnt mention white supremacy. white supremacy is inextricable from fascism- but this is a post not a dissertation, and its a post about only one characteristic of fascism which is frequently overlooked and should be paid attention to because its happening in front of our eyes. this is a serious development in american right-wing thought that mirrors the historical development of european fascism even before they had totally consolidated their racial politics. look at what right wingers are saying. this is an actual shift from general reactionary and white nationalist politics to fascist politics
theres a lot of talk about forming a new party– again, a significant development that points to a more organized and pointed fascist movement. the nazi party was a new party formed against the other political parties of the weimar republic. of course the republican party is racist (so were the 20th german conservatives) but theyre still bound by general rules of political respectability and at the end of the day, their interests are the interests of the state and they dont want radical right-wing change that would destabilize the state. just look at the reactions from republican politicians about DC right now. a new party would be able to be as openly white supremacist as theyd like, and while im sure theyd be just as supportive of capitalism as the GOP, they would not have to conform to the usual trappings of american politics
some people also took issue with me saying that this is the beginning. i say this for specific reasons about the history of fascism and not to diminish the right wingers that already exist or the history of american racial and colonial violence. the united states is a reactionary country founded on violence, but fascism did not exist until the 20th century and i dont think the united states should be retroactively categorized as fascist. however, there is a cyclical relation between the violence committed under liberal democracies and the violence enacted by fascists. american colonialism, slavery, and imperialism influences american right wing movements today in the same way that italian and german colonialism influenced italian and german fascism. and in the same way, i would not characterize german colonialism as fascism, even though they used the same tactics in their colonies as they did in concentration camps. (the first german concentration camps were actually in africa, not europe) i mean that this is the beginning because it demonstrates specific ideological characteristics of fascism that were not as prevalent before. this is the eruption of a growing american fascist (or whatever youd like to call it because maybe fascism isnt the exactly right term for the united states) consciousness, much greater than small groups of disorganized reactionaries and racists (Your picture was not posted)
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in today’s briefings about the new State Of Fuckedness of the various local municipalities, our county executive accidentally misspelled https://twitter.com/markpoloncarz/status/1329221816397803523 the name of our town https://www.tonawanda.ny.us/, and so Dude and I have been sitting across from one another on the couch repeating the name increasingly incorrectly, and the latest iteration of it is that we live in the “TOM A TOMAWAMMA” so we’ve just been repeating that back and forth to each other in shriller and shriller tones.
yes, very incisive commentary, we’re aware.
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and like since the election news is so stressful i’m avoiding real news sites so i’m getting ALL of this only indirectly through sarcastic Tumblr shitposts. It’s very chef’s kiss 2020
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so Farmkid has been on full remote this whole school year. They decided right at the beginning of lockdown to co-isolate with the family of Farmkid’s BFF, so the two of them are in a mini-collective, in the same class, and it’s worked out great, and my mom’s additionally teaching them Spanish since she was a Spanish teacher and they asked, and they’re really getting their social needs met and it’s unusually working out really well for them. So many people are not nearly so fortunate, and part of it for my sister was, “well, I have this level of support, so I’ll keep my kid out to leave room for the essential workers without childcare etc.”. Plus, the lady four doors down the street whose daughter is in Farmkid’s class is a vocal anti-masker on Facebook and was having parties all summer so like, yeah. No.
(She’s a transplant survivor on immunosuppressants so like. She’s gonna die. The PR machine convincing her she’s immortal should be shot by a fucking firing squad, this mother of a 6-year-old is going to die. It’s so upsetting. But she’s got a Trump sign on her lawn and seems determined to be first against the wall, the poor idiot.)
ANYHOW
The school sent out a thing, like, hey, remote kids, anyone want to reconsider? now’s the like re-enrollment chance, please let us know. Farmkid and BFF’s Mom talked it over and were like “no, this is mostly working and we’re both too scared.” So they mutually agreed: no, they’re gonna stay in their isolation pod doing remote work through at least the end of the semester.
So. Sister and I were out on a walk in the woods just now; Farmkid and her dad had gone to ride bikes around the school parking lot since it’s a sunny Sunday afternoon. There amid the golden leaves and oblique sunlight, Sister was picking up leaves and explaining how you identify the species, as that’s like, her favorite hobby (witch hazel has an asymmetric leaf base. aspens and poplars have funny flattened leaf stems as they go into the base of the leaf, instead of round, and that’s why they flutter back and forth in the wind so distinctively– you can ID a stand of aspens from a distance in a light breeze because of this feature. tulip trees have cat ears at the top of the leaf and you can make a cute mask out of the big ones). It was super idyllic.
Her phone started going off and she pulled it out, cursing at it, and then said, “oh fuck it’s the school” and then proceeded to accidentally hang up the call, “ah fuck every time!” but she got the simultaneous text.
“Oh fuck it’s the school,” she said. “ALL STUDENTS are 100% remote as of October 26th. What day is it?”
“It’s the 25th,” I said.
“Oh fuck,” she said. “Oh fuck. I am so glad I kept [Farmkid] remote.”
There’d been a confirmed case in the high school, but the school had said they were keeping classes open.
We found out from our mom, expert gossip, that it was A BUS DRIVER.
Oh Christ. Oh Christ.
Well, we’re isolated from all that, by design, but it’s bad news for the community. Time to hunker down.
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neolithicsheep just moved into a shed on tkingfisher‘s (that’s Ursula) back lot with all her livestock and it is absolutely riveting and you never know what is going to happen. Also I believe there’s merch about antifascist oxen somewhere in there. Not to be missed. It’s basically the only reason I can stand to check Twitter anymore. 
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