Most of you probably follow me because I'm a voice in TTRPGs, and I'll get back to talking about that soon, I promise. But there's something about me you need to know.
My father was born in Germany in 1940.
My daughter was born in 2018. 1/10
My father spent the first dozen years of his life living under right-wing authoritarian rule and its aftermath … and I'll be damned if I'll allow that to happen to my daughter.
Everything—EVERYTHING—takes a backseat to that for me.
So this year's elections mean a lot. 2/10
Gamehole Con @KeithAmmann@dice.campMost Americans—though, frankly, fewer these days than ought to—understand, at least in an abstract sense, that Nazism was bad.
That knowledge isn't abstract for me. It's family history. It's concrete and PERSONAL. The resurgence of Nazi thought, rhetoric and tactics floods me with rage. 3/10
But beyond that, I'm a secular humanist. I'm a Chicagoan, a city boy. I'm a writer, an artist, a freethinker. I believe in the power and value of diversity. Right-wing authoritarianism is and always has been a multidimensional threat to me, my neighbors, and my dearest friends and colleagues. 4/10
Right-wing authoritarianism threatens my Black neighbors with police violence, my Latine and Arab neighbors—even those with full citizenship, even those BORN here—with detention and deportation, my Asian neighbors with scapegoating, my queer neighbors with the dissolution of their families, my Jewish neighbors with a reprise of horrors past. It threatens us all if we dare to speak out against it. 5/10
As human beings, we're social animals, not solitary, like spiders. Ubuntu ngumuntu ngabantu: A person is a person THROUGH other people. We're all part of one family; we have to take care of one another.
Right-wing authoritarianism rejects this truth. 6/10
Right-wing authoritarianism holds that I and my family and neighbors and friends and colleagues aren't part of their family, that we deserve no consideration, no rights, no voice. To hell with that. I won't be nobodied, and none of us should accept the nobodying of others. We are all somebodies. 7/10
So when I go off on politics instead of games these next two weeks, it's because I have to do my part to defend these truths, to persuade as many people as possible to reject a movement whose only "truth" is that we don't deserve rights, dignity or even existence if we aren't part of it. 8/10
Trump and Vance? I guarantee you, no matter who you are: You are not a person to them. You exist to be used, to be profited from if possible and cast aside if not. And unless you're a straight, white Christian who toes their line, most Republican office-seekers see you the same way. 9/10
#VoteHarrisWalz on Nov. 5—if not because you support them, then because, like me, you reject the alternative. Give my daughter a future in which her humanity is recognized. Give my neighbors a future in which their humanity is recognized. It's better than fighting World War II again. 10/10
Strong endorse. No notes. Very much, all of this ^^^
Ditto. By mail
Voted early in GA! 
@KeithAmmann I really appreciate this thread. Well said. And I hope Harris Walz are the next presidential team. It matters a lot to us Australians.
@KeithAmmann Hat off to you, sir. Very well put.
Wish you and your country all the best for November 6.
@KeithAmmann no notes, except that I just voted early for them in DuPage 
@KeithAmmann if you're a straight, white Christian, too, but they may be taking it for granted then.
@KeithAmmann can I suggest a slight nuance to 'conservative evangelical Christian' (or maybe 'bigoted exclusive nominal Christian', recognising that there are some good conservative evangelicals out there); some of us more liberal-lefty types who believe in things like, I don't know, love, inclusion, the intrinsic value of every human being, and the beauty that comes from the diversity - despite the Christian faith that roots us in those beliefs - aren't welcome at the MAGA altar either.
@luxet You can suggest that if you like. My best friend falls into that category. But I already added in all the nuance I care to right now.
@KeithAmmann that's fair, and I respect it.