Against Extinction

Against Extinction

Notes on building The Movement HOW much blood has already been spilled to ensure the bloated, noxious appetite of the American Empire, to ensure the survival of white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism, the cis-hetero-patriarchy, borders, mass incarceration and detention?

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The question of what is it like to live under an autocratic dictator? has gone from a desire to understand my family to a desire to understand what will happen now. The fear I feel is as immense as the nonchalance my family feels: they don’t see the dictator in Trump. I don’t understand how they don’t feel imperiled by his rise, which is also the rise of white nationalism. I’m angry that they are first generation immigrants who want to close the door behind them. He’s obsessed with China, I said to my father regarding Trump two weeks ago, meaning, Don’t you see how that endangers you?