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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.
Remember that on April 5th at 11AM Eastern/10AM Central you can join me for the Critical Thinking Witches' Collective's April Brew virtual event! Attendance is free, and you can register here!
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I’m asking myself what Jim’s game would be if he is attempting to bait Lynn into posting the full e-mail. I wish Admiral Ackbar were here. Traps are his specialty.
The best I can think of is getting Bork Con itself to promote “Bork Con Sucks”, funneling everyone with a grudge to Jim’s group. They would be resources for a propaganda war against Lynn and Bork con. That feels like the Plan B play but not the Plan A.
What sprigs to my mind, if they post the original email… is there any proof that’s the original? Or does it become a ‘he said, she said’ argument?
I suspect the previous posters have pretty much called it. The whole point of the email was to cut ties between Bork Con and Unagi Con By addressing or even acnowleding Jim’s post they’re defeating that. I assume Jim next step if the full email were posted would be a deflection with a complaint about how Bork Con was trying to censor his personal social media.. or something. Likely the best tactic for Lynn is to focus on Bork Con and promote the positive. The sort of crowd drawn in by flame wars probably don’t make for good goers. .
They might not even need to make a defense response. If Lynn sent that e-mail to the whole Unagi Con staff (which I think she did), then everyone on staff has seen it and will know that the version Jim posted is leaving out crucial information.
Maybe a lot of them don’t care or share Jim’s grudge, but I don’t think it’s likely that the entire staff would be fine with it. If that’s the case, there might be a staff member or two who will jump ship and release the original e-mail themselves because it’s gone too far and now the whole con is paying for Jim’s actions since they lost access to Bork-con’s equipment.
Even Garner may be able to post an independent response as a former staff member and highlight why he left, though that could be taken either way since he left to join Bork-con.
I forgot to mention that I can see them looking the other way for a direct attack at Lynn given he railroaded her, but some might have an issue with letting that animosity bleed into harassing a whole con and their staff. Everyone draws their own line.