Allison Hantschel

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:05 UTC

I really have lost my former tolerance for "we're doomed/fucked/it's all over/they've won" takes at this point, in that they're the most dangerous attitudes one could possibly have when confronted with a truly existential political threat (which we still DO have levers to address).

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Allison Hantschel @athenae.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:12 UTC

Reposting today because reasons. Also the July 4th Parade just became a fuckin' protest.

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Allison Hantschel @athenae.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:13 UTC

The newspaper company model: We made the product suck, and blamed the customers for hating it!

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Allison Hantschel @athenae.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

In their defense, the other day I was like why are all smoothies cold and sweet, this is bullshit, we should have savory warm smoothies and then was like ... I just invented soup.

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Allison Hantschel @athenae.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

You can't brace yourselves against what's coming. But you can stock up on flour and sharpen your axe.

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Allison Hantschel @athenae.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:32 UTC

A lot of you are pretending that you can be cynical enough that this won't hurt so much. Believe me when I tell you that is useless. You care enough to post LOL WE'RE FUCKED, you care enough to go buy six bags of apples and put them in your community fridge.

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Allison Hantschel @athenae.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:30 UTC

Re-commit yourselves to the First Church of Helping The Fuck Out and go see if somebody needs their grass cut. Here. Here's foster kids who want, like, a box of crayons, or a hat, or laundry detergent, cripes: www.onesimplewish.org/wish/wish-gr...

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Allison Hantschel @athenae.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:27 UTC

We do this no matter who's in office all the time anyway and so all we have to do now is keep doing it, forever, as long as we're alive. I wish it was quick and easy and we could just *vote* and be done but sorry, motherfuckers, we aren't in this for peace.

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Allison Hantschel @athenae.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:26 UTC

You and I and everybody else in this are too tired to engage with this bullshit anymore? Fine. Make sure you vote, and then look over your fucking back fence and ask the people you see if they're okay.

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Allison Hantschel @athenae.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:25 UTC

If you do not know where your local food pantry is, you're gonna find out. If you do not know who is ministering to the tents you drive past, you're gonna learn. If your kid's school has a fund for kids in need of coats, you're gonna donate, even if it's five bucks.

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Allison Hantschel @athenae.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:24 UTC

That's all we can do. That's all we have ever been able to do. We're gonna march and we're gonna vote and we're gonna yell with whatever voices we have, but mostly? We're gonna bring the sick old lady down the street some soup.

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Allison Hantschel @athenae.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:23 UTC

Here's what we're gonna do. Most of us. Instead of rage-posting memes and speculating about stuff we have no way to know or control. After today, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna plan for our most vulnerable friends and neighbors. We're gonna take care of the people on our left, & our right.

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Allison Hantschel @athenae.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:00 UTC

Of all the weird bullshit Trump spewed last night, the one thing I haven't seen anyone mention is when he told Biden, "You didn't stop Israel." Are we supposed to infer from that that Trump wouldn't have let Israel attack Gaza? I thought his whole thing was to nuke the entire Middle East.

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