Statistically, 58% of trans women that are placed in male units will be raped.
Here’s the call to action as to not violate rule 3:
“If you have anybody on the inside, make sure they and their attorneys have copies of all their legal paperwork. You can also spread news of this (but make sure to focus on facts and fighting rumors. I will always do my best to post updates that come directly from the inside either from Kara herself or from counsel.)”
The title and call to action are from the video description, there is more information about this there.
It’s time to abolish prisons.
Think that ship sailed, at least for a good long while, last november :(
Lol as if prison abolition could have been won at the ballot box in 2024
Seriously… Getting really sick of this latest form of gaslighting “you’d have been fine under Kamala!!!11”, “if only you people voted to stop fascism!!1”. Yeah, no.
It’s the height of fucking privilege and wilful ignorance to think fascism can be voted away, and combination “I don’t care about or have paid any attention to your continued oppression” and “you’re to blame for me being slightly uncomfortable right now, not the people openly trying to kill you”. (E: the angry downvotes are a great demonstration of that last point especially, thanks!)
Fuck that.
I mean, yeah. It has been war for a long time now. The fact that the war is one sided, and the group being targeted are our fellow citizens doesn’t change the ugly fact that nobody in real power has done a damned thing to stop it, beyond giving lip service when it’s convenient.
All trans folk want to do is live life with equal protection under the law like everyone is supposed to have. What the enemy wants is eradication. It’s that simple. People can call it whatever they want, but that’s a fucking war. It’s just not something that is explosive and inconvenient to the majority.
It should be. That which is done to the “least” of us is done to all of us. The crime committed against our neighbors and before citizens is a crime against everyone.
But I’ll repeat the mantra again. Get armed. Get trained. Be ready.
Blahaj zone doesn’t have downvotes, so if you’re seeing replies to this community downvoted, it means they’ve most likely come from someone on your own instance who saw the post in “all” rather than being an angry downvotes from within this community.
Oh, sorry if I wasn’t clear - the downvotes are clearly coming from (almost certainly) cis people who are more uncomfortable being confronted with the fact that they can’t vote fascism away (and are happy to scapegoat those oppressed by it most), than they are with the ongoing oppression of trans people (which definitely didn’t start with trump, and definitely wouldn’t have stopped if Kamala had been elected).
Definitely wasn’t thinking it was folks from within the community.
It’s just possible that the downvotes aren’t just from “cis people concerned you can’t vote fascism away”, but that there’s one or two from other trans people who are concerned with the vitriolic hatred you seem to hold. With complete sincerity, it’s going to be incredibly difficult for the trans community to survive this if you keep alienating us from the scant few allies we already have.
Hey, I see I’ll preface this with: I saw this scrolling through All, I’m not from America so have no skin in the game, and for all intents and purposes you’d look at me and see a cis dude.
I see a lot of posts with opinions like this and really don’t understand the point of view because I come from a totally different world. Before reading this (and like 100 other posts of the same nature) I would have said “y’all were stupid for not voting dems in. It was clear what republicans were going to do, and are doing. Voting against them was the only option.”
I’m just trying to learn, not wanting to start shit, but what was the alternative here? From where I sit, again in another country altogether, y’all had two options and chose to either vote the shittiest, vote 3rd party (never going to win) or not at all. What’s the purpose? I saw someone mention George Carlin talking about why he doesn’t vote (says there’s no point so he jerks off at home rather than jerk off by going to the polls and pretending he made a difference). I’ve seen a lot of “you can’t expect me to vote for genocide” comments which I agree with. Idk, I guess I saw someone talking passionately and just wanted to understand what the plan was?
I’d really like to hear from someone with the point of view im asking about, as I said, I’ve already got an opinion based on where I’m from, I don’t need someone telling me what others think and why they’re wrong.
And yet here you are, demanding emotional labour from people who very much do have skin in the game and are hurting and have better things to do than to spoon feed you information you’ve already admitted to not being open to hear.
Take this as a learning opportunity - open a search engine of your choice, and start doing your own work. The people you want to hear from have and continue to speak up (E: hell, you could even scroll maybe a page or two through my profile, as a person whose opinions you seem interested in, but not interested enough to lift a finger, and find plenty of places to get you started). You not wanting to make any effort to listen is a you problem, not a lack of available information problem.
I dont know how to respond to that to be honest.
I had a whole thing in my head of just asking what you felt so that I could hear you out. I have a different opinion but I change my mind on things frequently.
You posted two other things so I took that to mean A) you didn’t mind talking about your opinion and B) might have wanted to say your peice. I wanted to hear what you had to say, why you felt the way you did. I can see you thought I was being disingenuous but I really meant that in good faith. I’m not great at this whole internet convo stuff so I’ll take it as my bad but I really did just want to talk. Sorry.
The election that handed the country over to fascists was the Democratic primary in 2020. Democrats had a chance to change and doubled down on third-way neoliberal bullshit. Neoliberalism has never been an effective counter to a rising fascist movement.
Democrats made the mistake of thinking that Trump was the root of the problem and that defeating him in 2020 would somehow turn back the clock to the late 90s / early 2000s. All they did is put us right back into the cycle that spawned this fascist movement in the first place. In the process they lost the youth which is going to haunt this country and the world for many decades.
lol former prosecutor Kamala was very pro-prison
Yes, but given that trump is actively seizing totalitarian control of our government, it could perhaps be argued that any attempt at prison abolition will be a teeny bit more difficult to get traction on than if, say, the country wasn’t actively being destroyed around us.
Yep, violently and with extreme force because the legal processes certainly won’t. They have proven that time and time again, so we must make them disappear.
Time to put the real criminals in the prisons
Is the white house like a new kind of prison?