If ever there was a time to read the fucking room and not trot out any "tee hee, all this banning trans people from existing is the death throes of inevitably doomed fascism, they know we'll win" horseshit....
History is not a season of prestige TV, it doesn't have an arc. If justice was inevitable, fascism wouldn't resurge.
History is the project of making human sense of A Bunch Of Stuff Happened, and if there's anything to be learned from the fash, it's that human Stuff Happens because people make it Happen. And that's why people need to actively break the fash; because there is no happy shiny narrative law of the Long Arc that bends history fucking anywhere, this isn't a Saturday morning cartoon where the bad guys axiomatically lose; what are you, five? You want justice, someone's gonna have to fucking build it
When people tell stories, they always create narratives. So when we tell the stories of history, that is to say, when we write history, we create narratives out of the chaos of events.
But that doesn't mean that real life naturally follows narratives; only that we will retroactively create a narrative later.
So what's the story that we want to be telling ten years from now? The story of how we nearly had liberation until they crushed us beneath their big and powerful boots? Or the story of how they tried to crush us but we were clever, strong, and united; and so we outlived them. The story is being written right now with our actions. The narrative comes later.
The arc of history, if it tends toward justice, only does because of the hordes of people who join together to tell it to get bent
