myrmepropagandist
I understand why people post these things. And I understand why some people might choose to leave the US. It can seem overwhelming.
But I also think about my parents and my grand parents.
This country has always contained "unwanted" people, demonized people. Like an irritating grain of sand.
And to some real extent most of the things worth celebrating about the idea of America are the direct result of such people.
Lichen Lich
@futurebird @cwebber There was a movie called A Day Without A Mexican that touched on this idea.
myrmepropagandist
I sometimes day dream about what it would be like if all of us disappeared. Gone, in an instant to some other plane of existence.
Every inconvenient woman, every gay person, every disabled person, every "illegal," every over-serious academic and expert, just all of us gone. Not even a "goodbye."
Who would be left and what would that do? Would they even survive the week?
Climate Jenny 2.1
@futurebird @cwebber There’s an alternate version of this in which all the people hoping to be raptured are, in fact, raptured — or they vanish, anyhow — and the Earth becomes like a paradise again.
llewelly
@futurebird @cwebber
before livejournal was sold to the russian mafia (like the usa government ...), I stumbled across a livejournal account that had started a fiction series that was an alternate left-behind series that was somewhat like that; the rapture took people of color, scientists, lgbtq folk, feminists, and so forth. It got very grim, very fast, mainly because the food industries all collapsed quite quickly. Then the author decided they couldn't continue.
Dave
@llewelly @futurebird @cwebber sounds like The Other End by John Shirley
Gabriel N
@futurebird @cwebber a new and interesting version of “The Leftovers”
Tom
@futurebird @wtrmt @cwebber https://www.citizenx.cx/img/comics/tn/btaf_atlas_shrugged.gif.html
myrmepropagandist
Gonna legit rewrite "Left Behind" but it's about rich people finding out how to pick strawberries.
:: Something was wrong. A change in the in the quality of the sound. The light through the penthouse window spoke of dawn, but things were missing: a distant roar of airplanes, the subsonic rumble of the subway, human voices on the street below. Normally, workers would call to each other bringing up the mail. But that morning Park Avenue was silent.
Morgan ⚧️
@futurebird @cwebber I doubt they would, which is why I think we all *should* leave for about a week, maybe a few just in case, and then come back 😂 not that I can afford to do that either
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
@raphaelmorgan Strike it is, then
John Anderson
@futurebird @cwebber Assuming they did, they'd scramble for new divisions and bases for their hierarchy.
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