If not now, when?

[redbird]

I got this in email:

if you ever wondered what you have done when Adolf Hitler took power in Germany or Francisco Franco in Spain or Augusto Pinochet in Chile, well now you know. You would do exactly what you are doing now. If that’s going into the streets, then great. If that’s complaining about protestors or whining about liberals or whining about the left, then that’s what you would have done in 1933, 1937, and 1973. Only you can stop Trump. So do it.

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/01/keep-protesting

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[redbird]

I actually looked up the German citizenship rules a couple of months ago; it turns out I'm not entitled to automatic German citizenship, because that's patrilineal. My father's parents were born in what was then Russia, and is now Ukraine; the family story is that my paternal great-grandfather had spent some time in German rather than be drafted in Russia, hence the German family name, but I doubt that would be useful here even if provable, and I'll take even Trump's U.S. over Putin's Russia. My mother could reclaim German citizenship, having been born there, but I doubt she wants to.

I don't know whether I'd have a fast track, but that might be something to investigate further, some night when I can't sleep, or day when I have no other work that needs doing. (I'm fairly sure neither Andy nor Adrian would, but in this sort of calculus, he's at less risk than Adrian or I, being neither Jewish nor LGBT.)