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chingatello@aussie.zone 3 weeks agoWe certainly live in dark times. The times only get darker if we cannot joke about them.
No one has a monopoly on horror.
No one should make you feel like you cannot joke about those horrors.
It is not tasteless to joke about the horrors that exist, and have existed. It’s tasteless to pretend they didn’t exist, don’t exist.
I want you to forgive yourself for making light. We NEED light.
The dead have already suffered. The dead do not command us. The dead do not control us.
Live for the living. Laugh for the living. Laugh for yourself. Laugh for me. Laugh for us. Laugh because we need laughter.
Here is one of my favourite jokes:
A holocaust survivor dies of old age and goes to heaven. When he gets there he meets God and tells him a holocaust joke.
God says, “That’s not funny.”
And the man says, “I guess you had to be there.”
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I’m fucking scared. This tide has been growing there and here, and certain things have been more mask off since the annoying orange took power in 2016.
Fascism doesn’t come openly. It comes to ‘clean up’ your country, give you more jobs, do something about those awful people. Drop the price of eggs and petrol/gas.
That’s how it happens. People focus on the promises of a better quality of daily life, think ‘surely these extreme things would never happen’. And then you’ve lost Roe and Wade and some very loaded and ominous proposals are being made.
And fascism creeps. It doesn’t limit itself to one minority, or one country.
Ugh. Sorry to make this cosy thread all dark. It would have cost me nothing to have kept my yap shut
chingatello@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I think it would have cost you more than you think to remain silent. I am glad you are sharing these fears. The cozy places are the best places to share our fears, because they are the places we feel safe.
There’s a quite famous poem about not speaking out until it was too late, not speaking out until there is no one to speak out… Better to speak, I think.