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Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social |
I’m sure other people have already posted about how the rest of the world is also not it, but like, are you a person who looks at the people around you and decides to fight for them, to sustain for them, to build resilience with them, or are you a person who sees yourself/your family as an island?
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Crooked Emily
@wrenispinkle.bsky.social
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I’m so glad to see someone say this, because why is the answer to just give up, anyway? If you have the means to relocate abroad you’re exactly the kind of person that has reaped benefits from living in this country and you should be at least trying to help us fight for it
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Eric Blair
@protecttruth.bsky.social
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so important! And billionaires have used modern media — social media, but also mass media — to atomize us and get us to focus on selfishness. Fighting that, IMO, is the problem of our time.
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Christina S. Ho
@christinasho.bsky.social
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I get it but also read it differently for people who come from immigrant or diasporic families, who have already been displaced from communities.
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Paul Allen
@paulallen.ca
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True and deeply significant. I wonder how you feel the Bluesky company, platform, and followers have/could have better rallied around you during your difficult times lately?
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wembley
@bananashirt.bsky.social
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i mean, it honestly depends. not to catastrophize, but i would never tell folks in danger of being rounded up or killed in a progrom that they should fight instead of flee. hell, i wouldn't tell Latin folks *we put in cages* to fight for their neighbors, i'd tell them to save themselves if possible
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Guinea
@guineaprince.bsky.social
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When the man I love left Florida, it was to preserve his life. He'd be dead twice over now. For sure, there's community building and rallying support, but that ability and safety to is itself a privilege. We all take advantage of what privilege we have, and should use it to lift others.
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John C Wheeler
@barleyscotch.bsky.social
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There's a 3rd possibility: You realise that you are completely outnumbered and aspire to more for your family's lives than fighting a war of attrition. I spent my first 35 years in the US. That was enough. There's no shame in choosing a different social context which better suits one's own values.
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers
@clbergpowers.bsky.social
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I know it's not the same and this feels really similar to the conversations I have with folks about personal choices for school for their children. Even folks that support good policies for public schools often opt out of the communities they claim to fight for.
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@123xyz.bsky.social
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"are you a person who looks at the people around you and decides to fight for them, to sustain for them, to build resilience with them...?" I am such a person. I am proud and loyal Californian and think it's time we started preparing to defend ourselves from hostile federal forces.
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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They hyper individualism behind the impulse to simply exit all together forever is probably deeply American, but it’s not just if you are a person who could otherwise be building community to sustain us (and everyone could be that) like so many people before opted to do under worse circumstances.
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Tom Higgins
@interestedparty.bsky.social
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People are people, whether they are around me or not.
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