So yeah, I live in Dayton. I mean, a suburb bordering right on city limits. I’ve lived in and around Dayton pretty much my whole life.
This shit has been surreal. You always think, in your most cynical moments, ‘yeah it’ll happen here some day’ – then that day suddenly becomes TODAY. And everything suddenly fucks itself up tremendously.
I know at least 2 people who were there. Not terribly well, but I worked with them for some time and one I got on with pretty well while we worked together. (The other one was a right-wing type who was active on something awful and loved griefing – be interesting if his ‘outlook’ changes, though I doubt it.) Neither injured.
I’m angry and sad and weirded out and frustrated and anxious and depressed, but I’ve also had plenty of (99% unrelated) laughs today, praise “Bob”.
Fuck guns and violence and selfishness and nastiness and death. Fuck hate. Fuck fear. Fuck the news. Fuck Mitch McConnell and fuck Wayne LaPierre and fuck Trump and all the ghouls and goons who perpetuate this moloch-worshipping culture of fear and seething hatred.
Fuck your spouse or partner. Fuck like rabbits.
I think it’s past time we have a general strike in the USA, for this and several other reasons. We should really be rioting in the fucking streets. Global warming. Treason in the White House and Senate. White nationalism, xenophobia, the normalization of bigotry in general. We’re going down hard and it’s gonna hurt like hell unless we act real quick.
But we won’t.
Tomorrow: 252