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November 6th, 2009 @ 3:48pm
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I really wish I could say I was surprised by the outcome of this election. Outraged, yes, but not surprised. When people are afraid, the person who is the best at stirring up their fear always wins, not the one who tries to explain to them why their fears are completely irrational at best. Picard is damn good at stirring up fear. Also at lying, but...that's par for the course when it comes to politicians.
The infuriating thing is the source of their fear. Supposedly mutants were responsible for the attack and crash in 2009. Whether this is true or not is a point I'm not going to argue. Instead, I'm going to point out the irrationality of attacking an entire group of people for the actions of a few.
...oh, wait. America's been doing that for years. In fact, we've even attacked people for their land, enslaved people, slaughtered people for their nationality, the color of their skin and even their sexuality. Let's face it: the USA needs a controversy, someone to hate. Mutants are just next up in a very long line. Who knows? Maybe if enough citizens realize how stupid this is before mutants all wiped out, the Powers That Be will apologize and those of the genetically enhanced variety will get to use the Mutant Card. "Oh, you're not hiring me? It's because I'm mutant, isn't it?"
But, to basically repeat what another blogger has said, nothing is going to change until mutants and their sympathizers stand up and fight for their beliefs and their rights. African Americans had a dream that came true. The LGBT community was here, queer, and guess what? Everyone got used to it. I am not by any means condoning violence where violence isn't necessary, but there is strength in numbers and...well, in mutations. This running scared bullshit has got to stop. We need to ban together - every last one of us - and come out into the open. If we're united, we can make a change.
Unfortunately, we won't do that. Our enemies don't need to implement a 'divide and conquer' tactic; we've done it to ourselves. We're all working toward the same goal - peace and happiness for mutants - but we can't agree on how to go about achieving it. Some of us believe this can only be achieved through the eradication of humans. Most of us have hope that we can gain peace without so much blood on our hands. For every step one side takes in their own direction, the other side takes them a step back. We try to prove that mutants aren't all killers and the Reds remind the world that we're dangerous. The Reds try to turn a political rally into a bloodbath in the favor of mutants, we're there to protect those we believe are innocent. At this point it doesn't matter who's wrong and who's right. We need to stop this God damn tug of war. The ball's in our court and if we don't make a play, we're dead in the water. ...I'm making sports analogies. Sounding like Christian is a surefire sign I should shut the hell up.
Just...whatever any of you do, be safe. Things are going to get a hell of a lot worse.
[Murphys]
While I think I know you well enough to know this will be mostly ignored, if you need anything from a home cooked meal to a very sympathetic ear, all you have to do is say the word.
[/Murphys]
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October 11th, 2009 @ 12:11pm
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I am roughly two months away from all of my children being adults.
I still can't leave them unsupervised for more than five seconds.
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September 24th, 2009 @ 7:28pm
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[Private.]
I have tried everything. Every last thing I could fucking think of to get him out of there. Them out of there. I can't do it. I've spent four years looking for my husband, and I can't find him. I don't know where they took him. There isn't a telepath, a tracker...anyone, who can tell me where to even begin searching. The only way James is getting out of there is if he does it himself. If he's even
Same for the rest of them.
I can't even handle what's left of my family. Jonah hates the world, and I don't blame him. Christian's an insufferable asshole. ...basically Liam Murphy without the boozing and the woman hating. Parker's the one trying to hold us together, to be some form of support and that's not fair to him. That's my job, not his. But I don't know how to do it. I can't bring myself to do anything.
Kylie says I'm Parker's hero. Yeah. Some fucking hero. I've failed. At everything.
I wish they'd taken me instead.
[/Private.]
Insert inspirational message here.
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September 14th, 2009 @ 6:52pm
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How did you know to get out of a world gone mad( ? )
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