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8. Actually the trump admin was my wake up call
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 06:02 AM
Yesterday

I had been enduring the encroaching and creepy ways of tech resigned to it since anything like real fascism was far enough away

And I live in the Global South where there is old and new fashioned corruption, but I still didn’t know what to do and it seemed too histrionic maybe.

I don’t know. I..find it confusing as this lame woman who wouldn’t know more than 10 people online or offline.

But around April 20, 2025 when it was ..when people started just vanishing into gulags and I was tiredly thinking of yet again deleting all traces of ever having existed or something..

Because I have been seeing tech bending rules for a long time and as a marijuana user with no ties to the industry but annoyance at having to pretend that a tacky creepy surveillance state means I will go sober and rule following wrt rules I consider not just bunk, but even creepier if marijuana legalization is coupled with sleazy healthcare industries our to exploit that. It’s why I need to post in the Cannabis forum about my experiences in mental healthcare navigating so many things.

I read this column at the time by Andrew O Hehir and it gave me courage and I thought no. This is stupid. I am not doing this.

I’ll catch you later Rhiannon. I have to go post in both sexual harassment and in the cannabis forum.

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