Free speech

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Is Elon Musk a free speech absolutist?

He bought Twitter, then X’ed it, and then chose to use it

to X out free speech of the ones who would question

a billionaire’s drug addled dream and obsession.

He wants the whole world to do what he wills.

To wreak worldwide havoc and send us the bill.

And now he has bought from Don Trump, his crime boss,

Get Out of Jail Free Cards, at a minimal cost.

But their towers built high, from which all fascists fall,

will in time tumble down, as these fools lose it all.

Then we will regain authentic free speech.

Speak truth from the heart, and from this we will teach,

free speech is precious and no one should abuse it.

We’ll be, abuse free, true speech, absolutists.❤️

Holiday season

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I really don’t like the holiday season.

I just like the days that don’t have a reason.

No reason to clean or to cook for two days,

no reason to small talk a whole day away.

I don’t like the stress of high expectations.

Putting up, taking down, the fake decorations.

I’m sure that most people would call me a Grench,

who likes spoiling fun with my big monkey wrench.

I guess this began when I had to do

most of the work to prepare and get through.

It becomes overwhelming the older you get.

All the emotional energy spent.

Trying to please the family and friends,

that’s why I can’t wait til all of it ends.

That’s why after New Years I feel like a weight

is off of my shoulders so then I celebrate

the days I have left that don’t have a reason.

Until once again it is holiday season.

The Oligarch storm

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I couldn’t imagine, in my much younger days, that Orwell’s dystopian world was delayed

to forty years later, 2024, when we’d bear the brunt of the Oligarch storm.

We’re in the same cycle where Autocrats fall, with their Oligarch masters who paid for it all.

A cycle where people are done being hurt in culture wars made by elites to divert

the masses they rob to fill up their coffers. Stoke hate of the other, with no good to offer,

just suffering, pain, and mental distress. They don’t give a shit about us or what’s best.

So after we’ve suffered enough by their hands. We’ll all get together and make new demands.

Rights for all people with fair and just laws. Healthcare, housing, and food for us all.

Our inalienable rights will be the new norm, after we’ve weathered the Oligarch storm.

Civil disobedience

We’re once again called to Civil disobedience.

As Judicial power is not freeing, it’s impeding us.

When a rouge Supreme Court rules against rights,

we shouldn’t obey unfair laws made in spite

of our Founders’ intent, to improve and progress.

They wanted our future evolved, not regressed.

The constitution was meant to expand.

Originalists want to go back and to ban

inalienable rights, that they now ignore.

For fifty years settled, now settled, no more.

Body autonomy again must be won.

Without it, freedom can never be done.

Freedom to marry whoever you love.

Freedom to vote for your choice or for none.

Freedom to travel where you want to go.

Freedom to learn what you want to know.

Dr. King taught what we shouldn’t accept.

Laws that infringe on our rights won’t be kept!

“Color Blind”🌈

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A poem I read, said people of color, who protest and stand up for their race,

create more racism which carries it further, so should stop standing up and embrace

what the “color blind” say: “Skin colors don’t matter, we only see what’s deep inside.”

“If people of color would all get together and simply choose to decide

that racism’s over and everyone’s equal; stop saying their rights are denied,

then those stops by the cops that sometimes turn lethal would end when they start to comply.”

Why can’t they feel how demeaning it is to say racial abuse is their fault?

Do they really not see how obscene this shit is, if denied, it all comes to a halt?

Unconscious denial keeps racism going, and repesses white privileged shame.

They prefer “color blindness” and denial of not knowing they’re giving survivors the blame.

When we finally atone for enslaving black people and heal racist systems we’ll find,

without shame we’ll embrace diversity’s colors, celebrate we are not color blind.🌈

Where Phoenix’s rise!

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“Your body my choice!”, screams the deranged.

We’re hoarse, with no voice, screaming for change.

We’ve always been prey, still hunted for sport.

Made legal today by a rogue Supreme Court.

Women were wronged, Roe wasn’t forever.

For years the Court longed to kill it together

with marriage rights given to LGBTQ.

And the Civil rights fight we thought won, they’ll kill too.

So now we must grieve our world of delusion.

Our whole ninth amendment they ruled was illusion.

We must face this dark night and fully surrender

to know we have intrinsic rights, and remember,

they can’t give or take inalienable rights.

The Court we thought gave them then took back in spite,

must now face our Phoenix’s fire transformation,

burn nadir to zenith to forge new foundations.

So people whose rights are denied by false laws

can embody the truth, innate rights transcend all.

Create whole new worlds on the ashes of lies,

innately true worlds, where Phoenix’s rise!