Another blisteringly good piece by Tessa Fights Robots.
Ten years ago, Biden would have been a standard corporatchik president, somewhat racist, good for nothing but “normal,” happy to bomb other countries and to grace TV with respectable speeches—but still leaving regular people enough space to live and breathe. But now, in 2020, we are in a place where tech billionaires and their pocket politicians are no longer hiding their teeth behind the sweet tales of entitled consumerism. And frankly, everybody—regardless of political beliefs—should be screaming about it and holding each other’s hands. But Biden conveniently got some people excited or relaxed over the fact that he is #NotTrump—and, I fear, they won’t wake up until new fascism is straight in their faces. Until they can’t have sex without “papers,” or a soldier in a uniform shows up at their door step, taking their dad away to an isolation camp based on scientifically erroneous tests. Until it’s fully legal to poison their skies on unprecedented scale, possibly leading to an ecological catastrophe, not to mention a sharp decline in health—hello, new epidemic—or until they can’t travel without being digitally branded and abused.
Unimaginable? I wish!! As unimaginable as the fact that we now have the National Guard being deployed to New York airports, and the UK version of it almost got deployed to a British school to test children without parental consent, or that the people in the UK can’t have casual sex by law, or the tragic fact that some people are afraid to touch own family members because their legitimate anxiety from spring has gotten to their heads too deeply, and never left.