"How can we give up? We don't have the right to give up. ... Somebody's going to be doing this, and you, your kids, and your kid's kids, will be living with the implications of the choices they made. Wouldn't you rather it be you?"

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Yes, everything is falling apart and being torn apart. But that means you have many opportunities to build what comes next, and to play a meaningful part on the correct side of history.

This is the time to build. For everything that is destroyed or degraded, new growth must replace it. Facebook will no longer fact check or moderate content. New spaces will, and must, rise to replace it. Maintain strong connections with people you know. Share only information that you trust.

Kirk fought the Gorn. The Gorn was bigger and stronger than him. He fought the Gorn to the death because he was forced to. He did not cry or cower. Only in the final moment did he show mercy, and only then was he declared morally superior by the alien who set it all up.The MAGA movement is the Gorn.

I am unaccustomed to tweeting. I always was back at the old place too. I don't presently have much to say. Calls to action and appeals to hope. Now is the time for community building and unity in the face of onslaughts against our well-being and pursuits of happiness.