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I’m not gonna contest that there’s an unfortunate number of countries where it’s illegal to be LGBTQ+. However it’s not “just a handful” where it’s legal, stop talking out of your ass.

Go look for yourself if you want to see where it’s actually illegal. Not on my short list of vacation spots. https://www.humandignitytrust.org/lgbt-the-law/map-of-criminalisation/

“Hey everyone, I’m a trans gamer wh-”

:gets flagged, demonitzed, and mass reported:

Yes, some people are that sensitive. No, I did not just exaggerate. I would never wish for your identity to be boiled down to a “sensitive societal issue”. It should be a non-issue. They are wrong for doing this.

According to JD “Couch-Fucker” Vance, I transitioned at 32 years old to… get into Harvard or Yale? Or become a DEI hire? I already have a degree and was already gainfully employed. I actually lost rights and privilege transitioning. I’m just a woman, simple as that. Maybe if he finally comes out of the furniture store and embraces his true self, he could get past this? This man is fucking dangerous and creepy as fuck.

No, I’m not gonna give you mine

Strands #242
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Got slightly hung up on some of the adjacent consonants in the top right, but not too hard.

He’s hanging out in the passenger side of his best friend’s ride, trying to holler at me?

No. Clearly the solution is to continue to abandon anyone outside the US because they don’t matter. /s

Good to know our American citizens mean fuck-all to you then.

But more directly: HOW are you going to work on it? Who is gonna do that? The capitalist/imperialist who you’ve pledged your vote to unconditionally?

It’s not unconditional. If you root yourself in reality for a few minutes, you’ll see we have three choices:

• Mask-off Fascism
• Imperialism/Neoliberalism that appears to at least kinda court progressives.
• Burn it all down, fucking the most amount of people in the process.

Which are you picking? I don’t see any actionable grand solutions or saints coming from you and your ilk. I do not have answers on how to fix it, and I doubt :checks watch: 6 days before the election is enough time to figure it out.

To be abundantly clear, I do not like these choices. None of them. The only one I can stomach is the second one, and there does not appear to be any viable alternatives right now.

Ask me more about my life story! So far you have this:

• I’m a trans woman.
• I engage with trolls.
• I like sarcasm a lot.

As for your sports team context, if I played this like sports, I’d turn the TV off. Unfortunately, I was kidnapped and placed on the field in a cage, and if one side wins I get shot. The other side wins and I get to hang out in the cage some more. There’s a small contingency in the crowd calling to burn the stadium down with everyone on the field (including me) and half of the crowd going down with it. /m

Oh, also, apologies about missing all of the tone tags. /gen

Then I guess a bit of critical thinking will need to be applied. My comment was very obvious sarcasm.

/nbr, /ay but also /nay

Are you worried because someone might think me, a trans woman, is advocating for the internment of everyone who is not a white cishetero male Christian nationalist in favor of trains running in time? Cause… Me too honestly.

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I get that the state of the US is abysmal, but if anyone is taking that comment seriously I hope they choke on a shotgun. /srs

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Do you honestly think people would take my first comment seriously? /gen A simple perusal of my post history shows how much I fucking loathe Trump and republicans and I’m starting to get sick of hearing solutions to our government that amount to “stop compromising and burn it to the ground” without any regard for the consequences or reality. /lh

EDIT: That last portion after my question was /nay, just to be clear. There’s others in these comments who are basically saying that because everything sucks or kinda sucks we need to end it, even if it hurts other people. /gen

But it’s fun and he keeps clapping his little flippers!!!

(Also you right)

Trump has praised Hitler multiple times and is clearly a fascist. It makes sense that people compare him to Hitler, given the latter is the defacto example of extreme fascism.

The fact you made the comment that you made on this post tells me “good faith argument” isn’t in your repertoire.

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“Wow, that’s a lot of words.”

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“Shame I’m not gonna read any of em .”

Anyway, all joking aside… This system is problematic and needs to be worked on. But I promise you the fix is not “abandon our most vulnerable citizens and our sovereignty for my mental picture of a utopia”.

Then I guess a bit of critical thinking will need to be applied. My comment was very obvious sarcasm.

Are you worried because someone might think me, a trans woman, is advocating for the internment of everyone who is not a white cishetero male Christian nationalist in favor of trains running in time? Cause… Me too honestly.

I get that the state of the US is abysmal, but if anyone is taking that comment seriously I hope they choke on a shotgun. /srs

The evidence is up your ass, where you pull all of your opinions from.

Haha! Yeah, fuck lgbtq people, disabled people, people on medicare, black people, hispanic people, non-christians, and the poor. Put them in camps. They just bitch and moan anyway. I’m sure there are other people calling this a dangerous election who just say it every year, stuff them in the camps too! We gotta make them trains run on time!

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Go back to jail, grandpa. No one cares about you.

Trans folks have been getting targeted heavily by the right for years now. They can be represented separately and the overall pride progress flag can also be present considering all of the other groups contained within and what the right says about them as well. Two things can be true without detracting from each other.

ITT: Tankies that think the only solution to a non-utopian outcome is to burn everything to the fucking ground.

I wildly disagree with this take. Both parties used to be a form of “reasonable”, with differences generally around a few wedge issues, budgeting, and government size (at least outwardly). Since the Tea Party became a large voice, the Republican party has embraced conspiracy theorists, fascists, bigots, and christian nationalists. This has steadily pushed their rhetoric to absurdity. They can’t even admit their guy lost in 2020! They’ve recently been claiming that Democrats can control the weather and that Biden’s accomplishments or failures are Kamala’s, despite the fact that the Vice President as as position does next to fuck-all regardless of who is in power. I think it’s entirely fair for anyone with more than two lead-free braincells to rub together to point at the circus and question why it was running our country.

Additionally, Democrats are campaigning on a lot more than just being reasonable. Kamala is talking about child tax credits, first time homebuyer credits, fairer taxation, and even marijuana legalization. As a party, the Democrats have consistently been the better of the two when protecting our rights and promoting equity with minorities in our country. Sincerely, I’d literally sooner piss on a Republican than vote for one because their party is using people like me (trans woman) as a scare tactic and are legislating us out of our medical care, rights, and comfort.

What you see as a “squeaked out” win in 2020 is actually a predictor of what happened in 2022. A complete blowout where Democrats won way more seats than was expected of them. And a lot of that was because they’re the only “reasonable” party left. I don’t think that’s a losing position. It would take them actively spitting on the center-right or center-left of this country to make them lose the support they’ve garnered by trying to keep our heads above water and fascism out of our country’s government.