there is a mistake we can make when standing up for ourselves - we may want to hold firm to existing beliefs in a way that doesn't leave room to question how we might come to understand more - we can be good kind smart strong people - & be willing to learn and grow. ✌️🥰🎉

please human responsibly. 👍❤️

As an autistic person a big reason I am a leftist (but not one I usually think about) is because the right wing tends to be anti-autism — they see autistic people as a burden. That is why they declare us disabled even though autistics often outperform "everyone else" because of being autistic.

Part 15 on HOW TO FIX THIS:
Part of the solution to take back our country's having Democrats w money investing & creating a larger media platform than the giant one from the Rep party. Doesn't matter much if we have policies & real plans to better ppls lives if not enough ppl have heard about them.

14. According to God @godpod.bsky.social:

Leftists unite on Bluesky, block weirdos

Watch 30 Rock reruns a little less & support each other’s podcasts/videos

Thrice-weekly LPAC conventions to celebrate our leftist media echo chamber

Find leftist WWE wrestlers to run for office

Take country back

11. Understand/accept that WE (you & I) need to educate these people because...
12. Unfortunately, our education system's so dangerously precarious (red states, especially).
13. These poorly educated & uneducated are usually more vulnerable to disinformation, conspiracy theories & brain washing.

10. We need to understand/accept the difference between being awake (progressive, evolution) not woke (becoming extremists, polarized instead of open to listening, assertive and understanding that in life, sometimes things are relative and that we, not always, have the whole truth in our hands).

6. We need to understand and accept...
7. That unfortunately, we have a lot more work to do.
8. That we HAVE to unite and STAY united.
9. That you need to stop becoming each others enemies because we don't agree exactly one thousand percent on everything!

HOW TO FIX IT:
(suggestions accepted)

1. Pause news for couple of days.
2. Find some community support.
3. Accept how we feel.
4. Grieve it: cry, talk about it, journal, take some time to be angry, sing out loud, etc.
5. Focus on yourself, individually & personally. Do shadow work.

I put together a starter pack full of my favorite fighters for democracy. We’re gonna need them over the next 4 years.

Give them a follow ⬇️

go.bsky.app/6LfuEXu

It feels so good being here and not there anymore. #NotGoingBack

Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!