Me and Death hang out sometimes

makes me just think of this poem by Caitlin Seida

The far right has been trying to find a way to criminalize being queer & legally treat trans people as a violent danger to society, especially children, for years. QFP equating LGBTQ+ rights with the intifadas, a series of terror attacks so frequent they have to be referred to as eras, that included repeated instances of strapping bombs to children, isn’t just handing them ammunition, it’s giving the right a whole damn armory, gift wrapped, on a silver platter.

Leaving aside the stupidity of "Globalize the Intifada isn't a call to kill Jews/it's an innocuous word and I'm a good person and it's exotique" discourse, they stuck a red triangle on the banner. That's what Hamas uses to mark its targets, at this point it's a more socially acceptable version of the swastika because when you see it in the wild or on social media the person wearing is just a Nazi/Hamasnik. By sticking it on the banner proclaiming intifada it doesn't just pollute LGBT activism with the various intifada suicide bombings and bus bombings and stabbings, it explicitly ties the LGBT civil rights struggle, which was ongoing for decades in the form we recognize it today, to a single distinct terror group with a hate symbol. But hey, it's trendy, right? You're being a good ally, right? This never ends well.

I don't think I can ever forgive Maine Democrats for not immediately tossing Platner out as soon as his tattoo made national headlines. They cost us that Senate seat because they valued their own whiteness over everybody else.

I mean...