Good morning! uwu

Alright, imma post this one last time in this thread, I swear:
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

Also: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/ gonna stop spamming this link now, but MAN it’s infuriating that noone even considers this. They’ve been doing voter suppression for decades, how hard is it to connect the dots?

They didn’t need to use computers. https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

From a reporter who’s been doing this shit since the 80s at least: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

The evidence is in plain sight already: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

Can confirm.

P.S. This community has the best profile pic (is that the word?) ever. ngl that’s gotta be hard to live up to

Ignore me:

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PS: There’s !poetry@lemmy.world if you like having your mind 'sploded on the daily

That is not what the second tweet said. What it said was: “He just ordered the government to call you <deadname>.”

Replace <deadname> with the N-word. Does your logic still hold up? If not, why are you OK with one slur, but not another?

I’m sorry, I’m really trying my best not to add to the collective rage and negativity on this site, but this is deeply disingenuous. The second tweet is the kind of nonsense that edgy hack comedians do when they want to get away with bigoted “jokes”. Wrap the offensive bit in layers of irony and detachment and rhetoricals, to distract from the fact that they are still saying the offensive bit.

There is currently an ongoing genocide against trans people in the United States. I am begging you to take this seriously, even if you’re going to joke about it. Especially if you’re going to joke about it, because humor is powerful and words have consequences.

Hyprland’s community has a history of toxicity: https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

Not a detransitioner specifically, but I am stuck in the closet for the forseeable future, so we might have some things in common 🥲

While I am not exactly a shining example of happiness and success, I have at least managed not to die by my own hand so far, which is not nothing, I guess.

There are basically two things that keep me going:

1. As long as I’m still here, I can fight.

The systems that keep me in the closet do not just oppress me, they oppress most of the world. Which means that there will always be people to fight alongside. Even if trans liberation isn’t their direct goal. Even if I have to hide my transness from them.

I may never become who I’m meant to be. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t still things worth doing. Everything counts.

2. I still have hope.

Consider that people during the Cold War lived in very justified fear of global nuclear armageddon. If I had lived through those times, I would never have believed that despite decades of fingers hovering over self-destruct buttons, the world would still survive. And yet, here we are.

I don’t know how, but maybe we’ll survive this apocalypse. Maybe someday it’ll be safe for me to transition. I intend to stick around to find out.

Good luck, and I wish you the best, fellow traveller. I’ve written on a similar note in another thread, maybe you’ll find it helpful: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21727800/12811429

Holy heck, I’m going to be reading the shit out of that blog for the forseeable future. An experienced anarchist transfem writer? In MY dystopia?!?!?

Do we have concrete proof of this happening now or in the near future? Does the video provide any? I need to know whether to sound the alarm now, or wait till there’s something concrete to show people. (You can probably understand my hesitation to share a scarily titled YT video as my only proof)