It’s almost like the “You’re just panicking, Transpeople aren’t really being erased.” crowd were full of fucking shit.
Reminder that the “LGB Alliance” in the UK literally worked with the Heritage Foundation and described it as “the only possible course of action.” It was an op with most of the supporters being straight transphobes trying to sow division. This move has the Heritage Foundation written all over it, they love that tactic, divide and conquer.
Fuck trump. Fuck musk. Fuck this administration. Fuck Republicans. Fuck conservatives. Fuck anyone who voted for a single republican. And fuck most democrats who haven’t done shit for us.
Ok, so fuck the system. Just a question though? Is it fucking in a sensual way?
(just want to head off some awkward scenarios)
Remember article 5 of NATO, an attack on a member is an attack on all members! We must show support for the trans and gender nonbinary communities while we organize with the hope of flipping the legislature in the midterms two years from now.
an attack on a member is an attack on all members!
Yes!
organize with the hope of flipping the legislature in the midterms two years from now.
Jfc, no…
What the fuck more will it take for people to understand that you can’t vote fascism away???!!!
Surely if we ask politely they’ll go away right? I mean, happened with hitler, mussolini, and also with franco! Specially with him!
Lemmy is for some reason overcome with peak electoralism brainrot and thinks that instead of being the barest fucking minimum of effort, voting is actually the peak of political praxis. Frankly, it’s bizarre.
Since you can’t say guillotines, or the law would persecute Lemmy itself. If it happens, it won’t be televised, that’s for sure.
There’s no law against saying things like, “we should all get together on courthouse squares across the country for collective action next weekend” that would persecute Lemmy. But people are no longer interested in collective action, it seems.
It’s hard to take action if you’re just one MAGA shithead with a gun (or oversized truck) away from either death or life-destroying debt. Even worse, your police force is badly trained and known to be full of shit. Civil disobedience blocking roads or doing similar, peaceful options come with an immediate threat to life and limb. And picking up a gun yourself to potentially defend yourself against the state is whole other caliber of action, you’re basically forced into an insurrection.
Without these fears I’m sure there would be more action. I’ve just witnessed my city of Hamburg, Germany, basically blocking the whole center with up to 80.000 people as a reaction to the so-called “christian democrats” and neolibs working together with the AfD nazis in Berlin (who failed). Because the only thing we have to fear are crazy truck drivers and another nazi regime. Hell, we can even blockade streets without previous permission without the police getting out guns or batons (they will use ‘pain compliance holds’ though; not everything is perfect).
I really hope that, after this deep dark nightmare you’re descending into, you’ll get better and go above and beyond with democracy and FAIR economics, learning from your past mistakes and enshrining safeguards into a newly reformed constitution. Like Germany did.
More? I haven’t seen any.
There will be no more fair voting in the US with Elon controlling the US IT infrastructure
Republicans control all three branches of government. There is not a chance they will give any of that up voluntarily. And people still think elections will be in any way fair and free.
Yes. Please don’t vote. Send the dems a message! It’ll surely make everything better
Trump vote with a MAJORITY of votes this time.
This is a divide and conquer tactic, trying to turn lesbians into TERFs and gays into whatever the gay man equivalent of that is (TERG?). Don’t let it work.
Speaking of NATO, when do they, I dunno, wanna get involved in removing an obvious bad actor? Actors? I don’t see anyone else bothering, or even coming close to being able to.
My only question starting today is " when are we going to do a massive protest? "
I’m not saying 3 fat people walking around with copier paper sized art work. I’m talking, millions and millions of people Carrying helicopter readable banners and crates of water bottles to every single downtown.
When is this fuckening? I want to be there. I want it to be a general strike where everything stops. No planes, no cars, no trains. We walk (after a normal commute maybe) and we stay until orange fuck boy gets the boot so hard that he goes flying past the helicopter and into the sunset with pretty boy Vance in his mouth and Elno in his ass.
When???
When people remember that Transpeople are neither their enemies nor where this ends.
Google 50501
50 states, 50 protests, 1 day.
Feb 5th at your state capitol.
I searched “50501 protest” and got a lot of facebbok, instagram, and forum links. I can’t really find a single site listing all official information.
Now we’re talking!
Random people online call for general strikes all the time but there’s no coordination or planning so nothing comes from them. However, there is one with real potential in the works being coordinated by an established union, United Auto Workers, with support from unions in several other industries. The date will be May 1, 2028, when many unions contracts with no-strike clauses have been coordinated to expire at once, and they are taking time to prepare, organize, and spread the word.
I don’t know, what about next sunday ?
Fine. I’m Here near Seattle on the north side. Its bitter cold and dry. It’s supposed to snow. But if I hear even 3 fat people going downtown, I’m joining! I’m fucking fat too.
First they came for the T…
Then the LGB…
Then the T again…
…then the rest of the ATCG
LGB is the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen.
I’m not THAT young (born in the 90s) and even I’ve never ever seen LGB as an initialism without the T.
Born in the 70s here. I do remember LGB without the T in the 1990s and early 2000s, you probably were too young to pick up on the term. In any case, trans rights came into the spotlight much later than LGB rights.
A great leap backwards :(
This sort of thing is exactly why I say “queer” instead of using initials. Because you can keep adding more initials all day and you’re still going to be leaving people out that should be counted and you can take initials away like those people never counted to begin with. And it’s very easy for cishet people to ignore any of those letters individually and still act like they’re an ally.
“Queer” may have negative roots, but it seems to be generally accepted as an inoffensive term today and, I think, more reflective of sexuality as a spectrum. I wouldn’t mind a better word to use without those negative roots, but I just can’t think of one.
This does seem rather practical as a catch-all term. LGBTQ+ is much too cumbersome
I’ve already heard a bunch of queer people around the internet use “queer”, so I guess it just needs more adoption
Queer is so much easier to say and is becoming safer to use without someone assuming you’re using it negatively.
UK here, we have the LGB alliance, no surprises that it’s a bunch of bigots. Transphobia is our chief export after all.
that’s terf island, no surprises there. the US is now trying to beat you at it though. it’s almost guaranteed the laws will be worse and it’s going to be more misogynistic general as well. transphobia is an extension of misogyny.
Any trans people reading this comment, who are around 18- 25 years old. Germany and some other countries offer a social year, where you work over here for a year. You get to live here, have healthcare etc. Only cache is that you gotta work in a social sector job. Sometimes people can manage to make it two years. So if you are looking for a temporary way out, check it out. There is nothing you can lose by trying to do that year.
Edit: For anyone checking this out, it’s called FSJ, or Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr. Some info here: https://bak-fsj.de/ (German) https://en.life-in-germany.de/voluntary-year-in-germany/ (some general information)
Sincerely, correct me if I’m wrong, but reading through info on this it looks like you’re not cleared to do paid employment on the necessary visa for this. If someone opts for this (it does look like a cool program, and I have some people in mind where it’d be an excellent fit if they can swing it), you’re going to need funds for self-support in advance (similar to other programs like this - WOOFing etc.)
If you have the means to do this, definitely looks worth exploring though. Obviously gonna have to learn German (what I’m seeing suggests at a B1 level, though noting some roles may accept a lower level of fluency).
I fucking warned people that there was going to be a kind of trans genocide. I got told to shut up because “Gaza is a real genocide happening right now”
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Its not the dems. Its that broken two party shithole of a system. Its designed to pin partys against each other and make a show of it.
Neither party has any interest in the people, a third option has never been viable afaik and everyone and their mom was manipulating the shit out of everyone.
The spread of disinformation was so bad I had to ban everything that was related to the elections.
People need to organize, get orange man out and take out that whole election system in one fell swoop. Direct vote counts, multiparty system, then take out the ability to donate more than 1000$ to a party, then take out the billionaires who own the media and the huge conglomerates.
The whole situation is directly explainable through absence of any actual left wing politics. No social net, no housing, no healthcare, nothing.
The US is a perfect example of 30 years of toxic positivity and ignorance of spreading problems.
T stands for “travelers,” right?
donno, i mean it could mean transformers, i’ve seen the movies, the trilogy, they are great and have big guns.
“About 70 countries still consider consensual same-sex relations a crime. That list is growing by one more country, hopefully in the next months. Please stay tuned to our new and exciting developments regarding your collective and the hate we profess to it!!”
Looks like I’m waiting 4 years to come out
I made the unfortunate “choice” (ie suffering from a mental breakdown from repressing it) to come out the week before the election. It was less than ideal. But also, fuck these people, I’m not going back to fucking hiding so some rich shitstain can pretend he cares about anything other than greed.
Please keep telling me there’s no genocide of queer people in America. I hear that on Lemmy regularly these days.
Any gender-affirming care for teenagers have been canceled, so the (non-tracked) suicide rate will already skyrocket. However right now the camps are only for “immigrants” and those who get caught by ICE as collateral damage of their hunt; trans people are in second place though. I assume first they’ll come for teenagers as well, ripping them out of their families who’ll get accused of child abuse (for trying to protect their trans kids), then the camps for everyone else will be build.
Any gender-affirming care for teenagers have been canceled
Yeah, I doubt this… cis-boys getting their man-boobs removed, and cis-girls getting breast augmentations aren’t going to have any trouble.
You know gender affirming care isn’t just surgery, right?
I know. I think you missed the point of my comment.
My point is that it’s still going to happen, it’s just being cancelled for trans people.
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Fuck anything less than LGBTQIA+. Throw those nazis under some cybertruck abomination.
