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Mark my words- queer people will be next.
100%. If you look at the language they're using to describe trans people in their EOs it's clear as day where they're heading and considering they've begun holding trans people's passports indefinitely- they don't want us escaping.
Someone in another thread is literally telling me queer people have nothing to fear because, according to them, nothing serious has happened yet.
And they and others give me shit for getting my gay daughter out of the country because I'm supposed to put Palestinians (who I work my ass off to help) ahead of my own child. Which, and I'm not sure they understand this, is neglect and generally frowned upon by child protective services.
I don't get it, what does you moving to the UK have to do with helping Palestinians?
Apparently you should care more about Palestinians than your own queer child because there is no genocide of queer people in America even though it's literally already started... but it's not like those people actually give a shit about Palestinians. They're just a pawn in their need to berate strangers on the internet.
I pointedly ask them what they are doing about the genocide since I work my ass off contacting politicians. It's very clear that not only have most of them not done shit, most of them have never even talked to a Palestinian.
They also don't seem to realize (or maybe care) that there are queer Palestinians. In America. At risk right now. Also in Palestine. But I guess they'll be just fine.
Ah, the usual bad faith crap where some people decide that one particular tragedy out of the thousands happening all over the world right now is all you should care about. They're just like the single-issue voters that helped Trump get elected.
Very much that, yes.
There are definitely others that seem to participate in these discussions with the sole goal of upsetting people wearing a veneer of of leftist politics while lacking any seeming empathy. I tend to doubt their motives when they seem to only have compassion for some and not all
How did you get out of the country if you don't mind me asking? I have no idea where I would start if I needed to leave. I'd prefer to go to a blue state if I could but of course that might not be an option. Also do you miss living in the US?
I am lucky because of this: https://www.gov.uk/apply-citizenship-british-parent/born-before-1983
However, we are living on my savings until I get a job and my wife had to stay behind for now. My daughter can be here on a travel visa for six months and we will be out of money in three. I need a job that makes at least £29,000 a year to get a family visa for the two of them.
We've also only been here since the inauguration, so I am not all that homesick so far (I miss my wife and our dogs). Also I am just in awe of how nice and helpful people are here. I really didn't realize the exact extent of American self-entitlement asshole culture until we got here and everyone has been friendly and helpful. Even the drunks.
That does sound nice. Hopefully you're able to find some work and you're able to get the rest of your family soon!!
I hope so, thanks!
~~Homosexuality~~ Queerdom is a ~~Jewish~~ immigrant plot against ~~Germany~~ the US.
It's practically fascist mad libs.
The path to that easier than you might think. Just get the propaganda mill talking about Thai ladyboys and black-market hormones a bit. They love little talking points that are are rooted in preconceptions and tiny slivers of half-truths that they can contort to fit their agenda...to expand on and then justify their actions.
They are fun to pick out. The other day Trump claimed that the ominous "they" were sending water directly to the ocean to save an endangered fish instead of to LA to fight fires.
That endangered fish is called a Delta Smelt. "Delta", as in a river delta, as found at the end of a river....you know, that thing that carries said water to the ocean.
Trans women specifically, the others are safe for a few more years then it will be their turn.
😢 I'd guess trans women and all unhoused people could be the first casualties, potentially involving cheap prison labour within the US to replace externally detained migrants. Why is it so easy to think of worst case scenarios but so hard to think of ways to stop this?
Democrats could actually campaign on healthcare for all, living wages and stop trying to restrict gun ownership for the working class. But here we are. But then they'd have to actually help poor people instead of trapping them in cycles of dependency, and tax the rich. There's a reason they shut Bernie down. Their owners don't like those things.
I meant before elections come (and that's assuming they don't find a way to undermine those as well). All I can think of is how Michelle Obama quoted MLK Jr. and said to honour his legacy by getting involved in local community, honouring the other important day of the year that it was, rather than commenting on the inauguration directly.
Some of us are able to keep more than one concern in our heads at a time.
So no, I'm not going to ignore the oppression of queer people just because you don't want their existence brought up.
Also, you do know that some of those immigrants are queer, right? Did you assume they were all cishet?