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Jul. 5th, 2022 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingtycoonHere's the baby skunk that my neighborhood came together to help.
I think he was saved. I hope so. Brave little kids picked him up and carried him off in their cat tote. I called the phone tree for wildlife rescue. So many dead numbers & non-answers or people who gave up doing it. Weird that the state relies on volunteers for this stuff. At least that's how I feel.
The state doesn't offer much in the way of amenities. Mostly they pay poor people's hospital bills & keep highways running. Also prisons. It's not a good state but you get what you get. Not lying down of course. Been helping out here and there with marching, blocking the streets. It's all downtown in Cleveland where there's mostly agreement with the protestors. The other day I meet kid & her pals down there - brought my umbrella as it rained furiously & also dressed up as a regular. These kids that march are sweet & good but among them they've got a distinctive, let's call it, anti-establishment look, the olds & youngs alike. I figure, big & tall, I'll go to represent suburban dad looks with slacks & buttondowns. Representation? Add a little unearned authority? I dunno, I try to help & that's the help I have, chanting & walking - actually walking too fast. The sweet anarchist kids that organized it were trying to get us to slow down through intersections. I can't help it! I just walk that way. But hopefully any help is some help.
Meantime I just think this whole business is to fuck with poor people, like all the laws, it's just to make poor people suffer needlessly. No one in DeWine's circle is going to want for abortions right? their kids and mistresses can get on a plane & get it done.
Tim Hutton came by - still the heart of Akron, he's got news. Apparently this man the police executed there was a legitimate target- so the video evidence is exculpatory of the police? That's the feeling I get off of the consensus - Tim Hutton wanted to come see me to get out of Akron for it. It's going to be a hot summer is all I can say. If shooting a guy & handcuffing his corpse is somehow a justifiable action taken by the state's agents - I'm pretty sure we have to oppose the state completely.
Still, I think the people in my neighborhood came together to save a baby skunk - so that was good.
I think he was saved. I hope so. Brave little kids picked him up and carried him off in their cat tote. I called the phone tree for wildlife rescue. So many dead numbers & non-answers or people who gave up doing it. Weird that the state relies on volunteers for this stuff. At least that's how I feel.
The state doesn't offer much in the way of amenities. Mostly they pay poor people's hospital bills & keep highways running. Also prisons. It's not a good state but you get what you get. Not lying down of course. Been helping out here and there with marching, blocking the streets. It's all downtown in Cleveland where there's mostly agreement with the protestors. The other day I meet kid & her pals down there - brought my umbrella as it rained furiously & also dressed up as a regular. These kids that march are sweet & good but among them they've got a distinctive, let's call it, anti-establishment look, the olds & youngs alike. I figure, big & tall, I'll go to represent suburban dad looks with slacks & buttondowns. Representation? Add a little unearned authority? I dunno, I try to help & that's the help I have, chanting & walking - actually walking too fast. The sweet anarchist kids that organized it were trying to get us to slow down through intersections. I can't help it! I just walk that way. But hopefully any help is some help.
Meantime I just think this whole business is to fuck with poor people, like all the laws, it's just to make poor people suffer needlessly. No one in DeWine's circle is going to want for abortions right? their kids and mistresses can get on a plane & get it done.
Tim Hutton came by - still the heart of Akron, he's got news. Apparently this man the police executed there was a legitimate target- so the video evidence is exculpatory of the police? That's the feeling I get off of the consensus - Tim Hutton wanted to come see me to get out of Akron for it. It's going to be a hot summer is all I can say. If shooting a guy & handcuffing his corpse is somehow a justifiable action taken by the state's agents - I'm pretty sure we have to oppose the state completely.
Still, I think the people in my neighborhood came together to save a baby skunk - so that was good.
