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Tomorrow, April 1st 2025, we have a massively important State Supreme Court election here in the state of Wisconsin. It will decide the balance of the state supreme court, and it's vitally important that we get Susan Crawford elected. Elon Musk has literally poured millions of dollars into Brad Schimel's campaign, and we are fighting for our lives here. I've already voted, and if you haven't yet and you live here... make sure you do.
But no matter what happens tomorrow, no matter what the result is, the fight is far from over. ICE agents are grabbing people off the streets, our public institutions are being systematically destroyed, and our international and diplomatic relations with historically close allies are just, honestly, fucked right now. Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and trans and queer rights have been under steady attack by the right. As a nonbinary person and member of the trans community, I'm genuinely scared for a lot of my friends right now.
But we fight. We stand up. We survive.
If we accept defeat, we are handing victory to those who want us dead. By living and fighting, we carry on to the next day and then the day after that. I know I posted it right after the election last November, but there's a pretty famous Joe Hill quote everyone should keep in mind: "Don't waste any time mourning. Organize!"
Go out, hug your friends. Build a local community if you can, and get involved in your local politics. Make sure you call your Reps and Senators every day if you can, and for pete's sake fucking vote.
We can make it as long as we don't stop fighting.
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Probably better punch Jim, too.
I’m actually kinda loving the unlikely alliance between Lynn and Garner. May they develop a better understanding of each through the punching and mutual dislike of Nazis.
What would Jim do anyways? Kick Lynn out of the con? Well probably but I think he knows that Lynn has done much to save the con from going extinct. Plus I think Lynn could have helped explain her case to Jim by saying the con goer was also breaking the law by violating a restraining order against 2 of the staffers. Of course could retort with the fact that hitting someone isn’t right either but Lynn also has other bullets in her chamber too. She also has the hate speech policy, and the fact she knows the con goer from Bork Con staff and knows he is flat out an asshole. So yea this whole thing is a mess that probaby would be best sorted out a week or two after the con.
Probably quietly angle things toward getting her out eventually, but that’s about it, unless she pushes it further. This appears to be how he does things as shown so far. Had a boss like him for a while.
He’s been reasonably good at that so far – it’s too bad that his motivations here are crap. Err – to to be clear his “Nazi crap isn’t that big a deal” motivations. His boss motivations are reasonable enough here, it’s his attitude toward the triggering incident that needs slapping.
Well, when the elections come around for the next year’s staff, I bet Lynn can persuade the staff to vote Jim out as the Con Director/Chairman. Although Lynn could also say “F**K It* and leave the staff and let them do their own thing.
I agree that it would be best for the con to wait a few weeks and have a serious discussion about this and what to do about it.
I mean Lynn does have a violent history at cons so this could be seen as her just punching another person. That isn’t a great look no matter how much the people punched deserve it.
Considering Jim seems to hate confrontation he would probably back off if more than one staffers back Lynn.
All of that is valid and I’m also someone would rather sort stuff until after everything is done. I think of the Convention being a like a forest fire, bare with me here, it’s a literally an event that requires all the staff and volunteer help and there is not need for the “firefighters” to be arguing with themselves over something they did yesterday. I mean if there is some proven incompetence on the staff, then by all means get rid of them, but this is more like two of the firefighters disagreed with the Chief’s instructions because it clearly went again the most ethical way of handling things and so they do it the way they think was the right way even though it went against the Fire Chief’s orders. Sure the Chief could chose to address the decisions these firefighters made, but that would be inappropriate of the time because right now there is still a fire put out, which hypothetically it’s the con. I know it’s not the best analogy but I was picturing this whole event as something to prioritize over a petty dispute that can be sorted out after the convention is over.
I like that Garner is showing that he may be an asshole, but he’s not *that* asshole.
Seriously? Keeping to a lie when the lie is unsupportable? Lynn’s best clue this was a bad course of action was when Garner backed her up.
My RW alignment is lawful-good. I would have told Jim everything and accepted responsibility. He seems very willing to work around people’s personal quirks, which may include a hot temper such as Lynn’s. But for that to work, trust has to run both ways and Lynn just showed it doesn’t. That’s a big deal.
Jim was wholly in the wrong though. They had an attendee violating their con’s stated policy in a way designed to make other people feel uncomfortable and threatened. Jim actively ordered Lynn to overlook that. Right there he proved he’s clearly incompetent at handling this situation.
Lynn and Garner handled it, on their own, and are now just making sure Jim doesn’t have another opportunity to make terrible decisions around this issue.
As Lynn said, “When you see a Nazi, punch a Nazi.”
Otherwise, you get this:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/10/27/pittsburgh-police-report-active-shooter-near-synagogue/1788556002/
So keep punching Nazis. Pittsburgh will love you for it.