There’s no meeting in the middle with folks who are trying to make a white ethnostate.

I’ll debate with my friends about lots of things: is it worth adding a new tax? Is the needle exchange program appropriately measuring their numbers? Does it make more sense to build a homeless shelter next to the other one in the tenderloin to keep disadvantaged folks next to their peers or should we build it farther north so we balance people across care facilities.

These are the things we debate.

Things like, “do trans people deserve human rights?”, “are concentration camps okay?”, and, “are we cozy with state sanctioned extrajudicial murder?” are not up for debate. The answers are “yes”, “no”, and “no”, and if anyone disagrees with that fuck them. They are a waste of my time and emotional energy. They will never be convinced.

I’m triaging. My friends and family and community need my limited energy. They deserve it.