Although Raffi has gotten much too big to do this any more, he stillĀ tries.
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Oh That Game
365 Days of UNF: Day 177
Captain of the Incels is Feeling Triggered
Mirror Mirror On The Wall
Who Wants Cake?
Boys and Their Balls
Boys Will Be Boys
Another Diversion from the News
A Little Respite
Oh So Relatable, Especially After Yesterday
From Greg Fallis:
Iāve resisted hate. At least Iāve tried to resist hate. I told myself that hate is a pointless, futile emotion, that it only gets in the way, that it warps the process of thought, that it clouds judgment and leads to bad decisions. Iāve told myself that hate harms the hater more than the hated.
I still think thatās true. But I donāt care anymore.
It was difficult at first, but I came to accept the fact that I hated Donald Trump. I donāt need to list all the reasons for hating him ā youāre probably aware of them, theyāve been pretty clear for most of his life. But man I resisted admitting to myself that I hated him. Actually hated him. I still hate him, of course. Hate is fucking hard to turn off. But that doesnāt matter, because I have no desire to stop hating Trump.
One of the problems with hate is that once you get the hang of it, itās easy. It gets harder to resist. Trump taught me to hate. Today I hate Republicans. Right now, as I sit here and type this, I hate Republicans. Not just the Republicans whoāve voted in ways I disagree with, not just Republicans who hold public office at any level, not just the Republican Party ā right now, this moment, I hate every person who voted for any Republican in the last five years, Make it ten years. I donāt think this hate will be as persistent as my hatred for Trump; I suspect this generalized hatred will subside over time. But right now, at this particularly painful point in time, I hate them.
Theyāre all complicit, every Republican, every one of them. The epidemic of gun violence in the US, thatās on Republicans. The erosion of civil rights and liberties, thatās on Republicans. The rise in hate crime against Asians, Jews, Women, Black people, trans people, Muslims, gay folks ā thatās on Republicans. The rise of asshole billionaires, thatās on Republicans. The health care desert that so many people live in, thatās on Republicans. The collapse of representative democracy, thatās on Republicans and I fucking hate them for it.
Iāve learned to hate. Iām ashamed of it, but there it is. Iāve become a hater. I hate that theyāve taught me to hate. I feel diminished by that hate; I feel tainted because of it. I hate, but Iām still resisting being hateful. Itās bad enough to hate, to act on that hateā¦at that point, youāre probably lost. I know itās possible to come back from that, but it wouldnāt be easy.
Working to defeat Republicans, however, isnāt hateful. Itās just necessary. If your foot becomes infected and gangrene sets it, you donāt amputate your foot because you hate it. You do it because itās necessary for survival. Republicans are political gangrene; they are necrotic tissue on the body of representative democracy.
Thatās where I am now. Right now. Today. I hate Republicans. But thatās not the reason I want them removed from political power and authority; I want them removed because thatās the only way to salvage democracy in the United States.
Fuck Republicans.
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