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{{dc|C}}{{start|alm and cool, this morning’s quiet brings a nice respite | {{dc|C}}{{start|alm and cool, this morning’s quiet}} brings a nice respite from my hectic week, though the Putins of the world are doing their best to ruin it.{{refn|Why does [https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/24/hitler-czechoslovakia-sudeten-putin-ukraine/ Putin’s invasion of Ukraine] remind me of the beginning of the [[w:Blitzkrieg|Blitz]], though we’ve seen this coming for years?}} I feel guilty sitting by my comfortable fire and having my coffee while the world becomes more hostile many others. I have some issues myself, but in comparison, they are trivial compared to what [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/24/russia-putin-shatters-peace-europe-ukraine-invasion Ukrainians are going through].{{refn|Listening to Putin blather on about ''Nazis'' and ''genocide'' and ''liberation'' sounds like ’Rump. They both live in a fantasy world, yet the ''real'' world is now going to pay for it they myopic delusions. My feeling Tuesday was similar to that dread I felt about two years ago reading about this rapidly spreading virus in China. Check out [https://getpocket.com/collections/war-in-ukraine-essential-reading this essential reading].}} Or [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60514226 identity seekers in Florida].{{refn|And shame on you, [https://popular.info/p/florida-politicians-behind-dont-say Publix], for supporting this heinous bill.}} Or [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/science/texas-abbott-transgender-child-abuse.html trans youth in Texas].{{refn|The real child abuse comes from bigots and religions zealots, like the American Taliban that currently govern Texas.}} Or [https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/kentucky-senate-passes-anti-crt-bill-would-dictate-how-u-s-history-can-be-taught-in-classrooms teachers across the country].{{refn|[https://www.ajc.com/education/georgia-legislators-educators-square-off-over-critical-race-theory/U5A7N3AWONDIZO7OFFMG4PLZFQ/ Georgia is not immune] to this absurdity, either. ''All'' education in this state is under attack. We faculty are the “woke” enemies, and maybe [https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/02/16/critics-fume-sonny-perdue-closes-in-on-georgias-university-chancellor-job a new chancellor] can finally make us compliant.}} Or [https://abc11.com/black-history-month-durham-public-schools-crt-critical-rce-theory/11530409/ facts under attack] by [https://badgerherald.com/features/2021/04/05/history-in-its-entirety-how-whitewashed-history-education-leave-much-of-history-students-out/ whitewashed narratives disguised as history]. Maybe I’m just getting the bad bits. How can I filter those out? Why do we fight so hard to be such overbearing assholes? Maybe all these little Putins are the obsolete ones, and the world would be a much better place if they just fucked off. How far will these tyrants pull us to the right before we say enough? | ||
Like those I mention above, I just want to be left alone to do my thing. Why is that so difficult? | Like those I mention above, I just want to be left alone to do my thing. Why is that so difficult? | ||
Latest revision as of 16:00, 26 February 2022
Saturday Morning covid-19: day 700 | US: GA | info | act
Calm and cool, this morning’s quiet brings a nice respite from my hectic week, though the Putins of the world are doing their best to ruin it.[1] I feel guilty sitting by my comfortable fire and having my coffee while the world becomes more hostile many others. I have some issues myself, but in comparison, they are trivial compared to what Ukrainians are going through.[2] Or identity seekers in Florida.[3] Or trans youth in Texas.[4] Or teachers across the country.[5] Or facts under attack by whitewashed narratives disguised as history. Maybe I’m just getting the bad bits. How can I filter those out? Why do we fight so hard to be such overbearing assholes? Maybe all these little Putins are the obsolete ones, and the world would be a much better place if they just fucked off. How far will these tyrants pull us to the right before we say enough?
Like those I mention above, I just want to be left alone to do my thing. Why is that so difficult?
What a week.
notes
- ↑ Why does Putin’s invasion of Ukraine remind me of the beginning of the Blitz, though we’ve seen this coming for years?
- ↑ Listening to Putin blather on about Nazis and genocide and liberation sounds like ’Rump. They both live in a fantasy world, yet the real world is now going to pay for it they myopic delusions. My feeling Tuesday was similar to that dread I felt about two years ago reading about this rapidly spreading virus in China. Check out this essential reading.
- ↑ And shame on you, Publix, for supporting this heinous bill.
- ↑ The real child abuse comes from bigots and religions zealots, like the American Taliban that currently govern Texas.
- ↑ Georgia is not immune to this absurdity, either. All education in this state is under attack. We faculty are the “woke” enemies, and maybe a new chancellor can finally make us compliant.
