“America” has always been a bipolar sort of thing, and anyone who attempts to celebrate American history must do so selectively.

So, yes. We ought to call these fascists un-American. Not because they truly are, but because we wish them to be.

I’ve seen a trans “fuck around and find out” flag with the alligator before, that was pretty awesome.

America means civil liberties. Being patriotic means protecting them.

It’s a quite hypocritical statement considering how much hurt was caused in the name of star spangled banner but I still believe the US will truly be the land of the free one day. What good is love and peace when it’s exclusive?

Forgive me, but trans people are a small minority of the United States, in which they should be protected. But the problem here is that America is distracting us with identity politics as the Democratic Party runs interference. Joe Biden and Trump were pushing the same foreign policy and now we’ve almost wiped out a whole group of people in Gaza. Through the good cop and bad cop method, Trump is trying to distance himself from Israel and pretend he’s unhappy with Israel. But the weapons will continue to flow and pretty soon, America will drop another nuclear weapon on a civilian population. Google “which path to Persia”. America is an imperialist empire and fascist are the useful idiots of empire. American empire is on the decline and it will cannibalize itself and try to create as much infighting as possible to justify the ramp up of the surveillance state. This is probably why there’s so much investment in cop cities and prison colonies in other countries. Vote blue no matter who? Hell no. Grab the popcorn and keep your head down. It’s going to take a while for liberals to really get a clue. Many will be conscriptsed. China is a capitalist country. Russia is a capitalist country. The trans international security state is trying to bleed all money from every country’s tax bases as they ramp up each country’s military industrial complex. Artificial intelligence will be used as a censoring tool and a dragnet for intelligence companies/departments. And at the end of the day, if you lower the bar, it’s really just about spreading fear. Broad strokes… Possibly a false flag, but remember those that are trying to keep us safe are the ones that do the terror… We’re all slaves inside of a capital system.

I think we can forgive, but to forgive we must also assert our values and not let them get tossed aside. I think they were wrong to drop gender identity and nonconformity protections, and that the response of withdrawing support by other organizations was the right move. They weakened the entire argument by capitulating, and that does not deserve support simply because of a shared end goal.

It’s important to understand that US legislation on such issues frequently occurs only once. There often isn’t a second bill to fill in the gaps left by the first one, as lawmakers will simply claim that the issue was addressed and there’s no need for new protections. Over time, the protections can be increasingly ignored and disrespected by the courts, until even a constitutional amendment isn’t able to accomplish what it originally intended. There is no standing still, as a lack of sustained progress means regression. Slow and steady progress was always a lie concocted by cowardly moderates to protect their own power.