Well, any hope I had for 2026 being less terrible than its predecessor has had its brains dashed out against the rocks of reality. ICE/CBP goons have already murdered two people in Minneapolis, and effectively laid siege to the city with the full backing of the Nazis running the federal government. There must be a necromancer among their ranks, because someone is keeping the rotting corpse of Donald Trump upright and mobile while dead-eyed ghouls like Stephen Miller call the shots, desperate to bring the country to the precipice of whatever white supremacist Götterdämerung they've been fantasizing about since the adolescence they've never grown out of. 2026 is already a cascade of warning signs that life in the United States will get much worse before it gets better.
However, as many smarter, more astute, and less cynical people than me have (I believe correctly) noted, and which the resistance to tyranny we've seen from regular folks in Minnesota and elsewhere continually shows, people aren't taking this shit lying down. All hope is not lost; it's just hard to find amidst all the chaos and terror.
I started this post shortly after Alex Pretti was killed, and never really got anywhere with it. I'm still not in the mood to write about this kind of shit, but I'll go ahead and publish it anyway. My next posts will probably be about 魯迅 Lu Xun, whose book 野草 Wild Grass I bought in Beijing in 2011 and only now really started reading, and/or the 四弘誓願 Four Great Vows (AKA Bodhisattva vows) of Buddhism.
Até breve, folks.
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