amandapalmer:regarding this comment. here’s a public service announcement:**IF YOU COME ACROSS AN AM
amandapalmer:regarding this comment. here’s a public service announcement:**IF YOU COME ACROSS AN AMERICAN ARTIST, WRITER, JOURNALIST OR MUSICIAN RIGHT NOW WHO HAS NO POLITICAL OPINIONS AND/OR IS AFRAID OF TALKING POLITICS, BE VERY CONCERNED.**go back to germany in 1935 and tell paul klee, bertolt brecht and the other poets, musicians, painters and novelists that “politics” had nothing to do with their “real lives”.“life stories…”? “things about my child….”?these ARE the stories of my life.if i thought that donald trump was going to have no effect on my life story…the story of my child…the story of my 300 million american brothers and sisters…i’d shut up. really i would.it’s a good time to drag this evergreen quote out:“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Socialist.Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”-from Martin Niemöller, 1892–1984, who was a prominent Protestant pastor / outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps.are you ready to speak?are you ready to listen?because it’s about to get very, VERY loud.and it must, because if we don’t speak now, we will regret it.love,amanda(and to drive the point home….this was typed and cut and pasted while literally breastfeeding a baby.) -- source link