last call

[mellowtigger]

I've said it before (in 2022 April, 2022 June, and 2023 June), but here is the last call: Get out of there while you can.

I've been promoting Minnesota as a good destination particularly for the giblets (gay, intersex, bisexual, lesbian, everyone else, transgender, and straight allies), but this recent story makes clear that nowhere is safe. Two transgender women in Minneapolis were harassed, struck, then beaten after they defended themselves. It's perfectly rational to expect the violence to escalate now and through the next 4 years. We have Project 2025's goals and Trump's stated promises. Don't expect anti-immigrant actions or anti-homeless actions to stop there. They're already planning courts-martial too. Remember the poem with "First they came for the socialists..." and all that boring history stuff that followed. Everybody's stressed, and too many people are looking for someone that they can be "above" on the pecking order as authoritarianism rises.

The true believers are emboldened already. It only starts with Neo-Nazis in the streets. Trump has a lot of campaign promises to keep.

So... last call. Get out of there, wherever you are, and move to someplace safer. Update your resume, get your passport, contact family or friends in safer locations to ask for help with a move, make whatever preparations you can.

Comments

[wispywillow]

I hate this timeline that we're on. And though I have no love of guns, I'd recommend people think about carrying as well.

[mellowtigger]

Yes, that's also a rational preparation. I opt to keep a can of wasp nest spray at my bedside. It offers precise aim from a distance. I can blind anyone inside my house at night.