I’m poor as dirt but I’ll drop them some money in May.

To quote Freddie Mercury: The Show Must Go On

That’s me.

I mean I still have an [M] on my ID card and have the usual boy-bits and features, but I never really cared — or fit in — when I was expected to do well in sports or defend myself against bullies. I always wondered why dudes were expected to wear drab or identifiable sports colors, or the same uniform tuxedo.

But today I am not a man. Man-null. The boolean opposite of man. Enby or agender when I can tick those boxes.

I’ve long turned in my proverbial man card.

The definitions of manhood I had as a kid turned out to be simple adulting by the 90s (everyone is expected to do accounting and housework and late shifts). Everyone not in the ownership class (or their police contingent) are expected to act maturely and be responsible.

Exemplars of men include Donald J. Trump, Matt Walsh, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Tate…

…my MAGA loyalist, FOX-news–watching father.

I want to be as unlike these guys as I can.

I have no gender.

You want to know why? Check out Behind the Bastards two parter on Reinhard Heydrich, noting his time running the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) in Berlin. TL;DL Heydrich eventually just made a list of people the party didn’t like (based on what he didn’t like) down to transients, people with mental illness, and people with jobs he didn’t approve of.

This is not our first rodeo.

< rant > It is still a right-wing propaganda show.

No wait, its Newsom’s show, and he’s inviting far-right pro-autocracy bigots, and acts like he’s one of them.

It appears Newsom has repeatedly announced he’s been seduced by the dark side of the force.

As today’s CR vote showed us in the US, the Democratic party is complicit, and Gavin Newsom can’t think past his political career to see they’re going to imprison him as an enemy of the state before there is ever an election again.

After the election we realized the Democratic party had two options: Go hard left and serve to restore government service to the public (thereby walking away from lobbyists and plutocrat money) or fade into irrelevance. It seems they like money so much they’re willing to risk getting long-knifed by OG right-wingers.

It wouldn’t be the first time the left-wing parties went Neville Chamberlain. It seems that other nations’ voters are also choosing far-right parties over neoliberal parties, if those are the only choices they are given.

If we’re going to stop the MAGA movement, autocracy and the holocaust they are oh-so-eager to get started, we need to start getting neighborhood nets and mutual aid orgs going.

(Sadly, I suck at social stuff so how to do that is beyond me. My current plan is to make a whole lot of Tollhouse cookies and give them to neighbors stating this situation.)

You may want to check your own elected officials and how tight they are with lobbyists and other agents of the ownership class. AOC and Bernie Sanders seem to be trying to build a resistance coalition but yeah, Newsom decided to keep the One Ring for himself.

Maybe I have other elected officials that might be useful.

Were using shouting and protest posters for now, but you may want to know where your supplies are for making molotovs. May it never come to that.

< /rant >

Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger: That is not - no, that is contrary to what the Chancellery has been told. I have directly been assured - I have - that - purge the Jews, yes, but to annihilate them - that we have undertaken to systematically annihilate all the Jews of Europe - that possibility has personally been denied, to me, by the Führer!

Reinhard Heydrich: And it will continue to be.

Conspiracy, 2000, based on the translations of the Wannsee Conference, 1942, Berlin

What happens if I reject my gender, since social paragons of that gender are people like Matt Walsh and Donald Trump?

All the things I learned were masculine in the 1980s turned out to be general adulting.

There are three things I know that look like that.

~ The Fat Man configuration of an atomic bomb

~ An internal confinement fusion reactor

~ A magnetic bottle with which to store extremely reactive substances, such as strange matter, a black hole or antimatter, none of which anyone actually has in enough quantity to be dangerous and require a magnetic bottle. But we still have the containment chambers.