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First time a tragedy, second time a farce. My mom has been sending me these pre-written harangues to vote for Bomb-ala and this is all I can think of. The Democrats have already thrown Palestine under the bus. They have already thrown the people, families, and children at the southern border under the bus. Do you honestly think they are going to care about queers when it's no longer expedient? Seriously?
Comrade, if you're going to use this poem, please do not omit the original first line.
"First they came for the Communists, And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist."
Thank you, edited. I could not remember the exact wording and the first verbatim quote of it I could find was this one and did not contain the line. On retrospect I see it was from the US Holocaust Museum so of course.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists
The right wing reactionaries are always looking for minority to blame and attack...
The left wing reactionaries are always looking for some minority to feed to the right wing reactionaries to keep from being attacked by them.
Simple as.