So we’ve reached the minorities-flee-the-country stage.
That was fast. It’s getting Nazier by the minute in this motherfucker…
I sometimes wonder if this is the source of the phrase “slippery slope” as an idiom.
Because once you start silencing public figures from having any ability to speak out against the administration, and you can viably see that there’s no real backlash against the responsible parties (usually the government) to doing so, then it’s easier to rally against nonconformists. Or doesn’t matter who isn’t conforming, just that they don’t.
So anyone who is specifically a minority of the population, like the LGBTQIA+ community; there’s a lot of you, but there’s a fuckton more cis/straight people… You all are different and therefore being branded as enemies of the state. They’re just starting with trans people. Make no mistake that they’re going to come after the rest of the rainbow, if they’re left unchecked.
This is the reason why the LGBTQIA+ community and it’s supporters exist, and everyone needs to realize that. When they come after one group, the rest of you aren’t far behind. So you all need to stand up and protest this shit, as much and as loudly as you can. I’m not excluded from this, despite being cis/straight. I am an ally of the community and I’ll fight shoulder to shoulder with all of you.
They’ve silenced or cancelled dissenting speech already. Now they’re coming for the trans people. This needs to stop or America is just going to get more and more authoritarian over the next few years.
I’m not American, but I welcome any of our American friends who are fleeing and looking for asylum. I live in Canada and I want you all to be safe and happy. Whether that’s fixing this shit in the USA, or vacating the states so it can become an inbred authoritarian hellscape. I promise that we have very similar amenities up here, without as many bigots. They still exist here, but not in the same qualities that are there.
At the same time, if you want us to help you fix your own country, you need only tell us what we can do to help.
I’m here for all of you. You’re all valuable humans deserving of respect, life, liberty, and the freedom to be who you are. Whatever needs to happen to achieve that, I’m happy to help in any way I can.
I always thought the idiom “slippery slope” came from a muddy hill, possibly right after a fresh rain
Originally, that’s probably how they started putting those words together in that order.
I’m talking about the idiom of it being applied to anything that isn’t a literal slope that’s slippery. Like using it to describe that doing thing a will very easily create a situation where another thing is likely to happen.
Eg: smoking weed is a slippery slope to using harder drugs.
(It’s not, but I’m sure we’ve all heard some version of the above before.)
The Heritage Foundation is a terrorist organization.
Someone in the EU needs to file a petition to classify the Heritage Foundation as a terrorist organization, maybe take the ADF and CitizenGo into it too.
And Fox news is a propaganda machine.
Most people can’t afford to flee. There isn’t anywhere that doesn’t have a growing fascism threat at best right now.
These are just fantasies for the slim few with plane ticket money.
I really thought I would see more general solidarity here in the comments from other minorities or general populace, but no…
Also, it wasn’t that fast to everyone who’s been paying attention the last 10-20 years. It was called ‘being paranoid.’
Anyway. Do I have to say it? Once they gays and the browns are all in the trafficking sector, people who thought they could beg, borrow, or negotiate with fascism will start to get disappointed to death.
None of those treaties ever worked out for the indigenous tribes.
Years of systemic job discrimination - almost every trans person will end up being a denied a job because they’re trans at some point - means that most trans people especially can’t afford to flee.
I don’t think any country would recognize us as refugees, yet or ever. So the only option is immigration, which is insanely expensive and complicated.
There isn’t anywhere that doesn’t have a growing fascism threat at best right now.
China, Vietnam, Laos, Bolivia, last I checked Colombia. I’d include Mexico and Venezuela, but their growing fascist threat is called “America”
The US passport is still incredibly strong.
The system we learn says we’re equal under law
But the streets are reality, the weak and poor will fall
Let’s tip the power balance and tear down their crown
Educate the masses, we’ll burn the White House downQueensryche - Speak
Fight or flight. If not afforded flight then options become limited.
I know of people of all kinds, queer and trans, who have been fleeing the country as quietly as possible for several years now.
Again, for now, one of the critical differences between any other authoritarian government and the US is we have access to firearms. Don’t allow the jackboots take you without a fight.
Yeah… Too bad the guys with the guns are the fascists.
They may be gun nuts but they aren’t the only ones with interest in firearms. Plenty of non-right leaning folk are well trained in my experience.
It sure as hell is taking them a whole lot of time to shoot the pumpkin.
Not all of them… in fact from my experience, very few of them.
Too bad the dems convinced everyone left-of-center to disarm themselves and allow the police to arbitraily deny gun permits in blue jurisdictions. Oh, isn’t it convienient that most non-whites live in democratic jurisdictions. A racist-ass white cop can deny a law abiding black man from getting a permit so thay he can defend his small store from potential nazis trying to attack his store, thanks a lot, democrats.
Dems should just drop the guns issue ffs, literally lost texas gubernatorial election over Beto’s “We’ll take your guns” rhetoric. And leftists (and liberals too) should’ve gotten armed a long time ago.
It’s quite entertaining when I read your post, and you talk about how Dems should “drop the gun issue”, and I have no idea what you mean by that. It could really go either way.
I mean, stop trying to do “gun control” when we have other issues to worry about like making life more affordable, universal socialized healthcare like many European Countries have, free college, fix voting rights, stop gerrymandering, and to combat the automation issue: Universal Basic Income that is tied to inflation (more inflation = increase UBI).
Fix all this, and gun violence ends.
The willful ignorance among you people used to be astounding.
Now, I’ve just come to expect it.
See no evil, hear no evil, etc.
There are rumblings from the administration to expand gun restrictions to trans individuals for mental health reasons. The second amendment is for everyone (2A4E). Get to know neighbors and be that Militia the Founding Fathers expected for a free State. If they can take guns from trans people, they can take guns from anyone.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Absolutely. I saw this headline and was rather surprised. Note the “for now” in my post. Trans people have been targeted the entire time during this administration. I said on Lemmy for trans people need to arm themselves, and I mean carry outside when they are interacting with society, because the gays were some of the first people snatched and put into concentration camps, the trans groups seem to be the first target this time.
Because I’m not some MAGAt I am personally concerned about my safety when out in public now, although my immediate area is pretty mixed racially and politically, I still live in a Trump state. How long until some kind of martial law is declared where I live? How long until some kind of political litmus test is given to be able to purchase goods? Have a job? Etc.
Honestly, I think it would make more sense to restrict access to guns for transpeople on the grounds that they might kill themselves.
Everyone who is anti-gun loves to say that gun owners are more likely to use it on themselves than a threat. Transpeople commit suicide at significantly higher rates than the rest of the population.
It’s interesting how stances change when they suit an agenda.
Recently talked to a scientist in Germany who said the job market has gotten more competitive because of all the american scientists who fled the US and came here.
Why do we accept the slippery slope fallacy here without question?
I can’t help but think it’s another tactic by a certain group to recruit as much support as possible. They don’t argue in good faith, ever.
all four children have autism
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Must be all the vaccines.
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Oh for petes sake. Step outside your moms basement and touch grass you massive bellend.
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I do actually! Thanks for asking and being interested! Also yes, you are correct, my reaction was very rational to your utterly awful comments. 👍
In my work capacity I’ve supported very lonely permanently online clusterfucks like yourself so can recognise your bullshit.
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Ahh. Thanks again for the kind comments. 😇 Always great to receive that sort of thing from trolls, always impressed they can work a keyboard and spell.
Would you kindly share with us what your point is?
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Literally the first thing about what you’re trying to say. Like, I’m not following at all, can you explain what youre trying to say with the above comment?
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Why would Syria et al. provide asylum to trans people fleeing the US?
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Am I understanding correctly that you’re saying nobody gets to feel unsafe as long as there’s someone who’s even more unsafe? Or are you saying something else?
I thought I understood what your point was and was ready to call you an idiot for it, and then I read this and I no longer understand what your point was. What exactly is wrong with queer people supporting Palestine in the active genocide being committed? What does that have to do with prosecution?
People like him pretend something doesn’t make sense when they don’t like what’s being said.
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Are you really this stupid or just ragebaiting?
He’s clearly a troll, he’s pretty racist too
Jump up your own ass loser, kick rocks back to Russia Seen this shit out in the open, fuck you
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Stop glazing me
you should seek asylum in russia, I think you would like it there
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bro who says get in the hellhole wants to throw hands when told to get in the hellhole
Other Americans not giving a fuck.
Everybody should give a fuck because, sadly, America has an outsized influence on the rest of the world.
If Luxemburg or Lichtenstein started oppressing trans people, nobody would give a fuck outside of Luxemburg and Lichtenstein. But when America does it, a lot of neo-Nazi fascist-adjacent ultra-religious nationalist crazies the world over feel empowered to try pushing the same shit in their own corner of the world.
I’m in Malaysia, am the person you’re replying to, and I agree. Americans, though…
Trans people are a very small percentage of the population. Just the mere thought of “waging war” because that 1% of the population is scary to them should ring everyone’s alarm bells. But americans seem so love to wage wars on people that scare them.
The picture here looks exactly like a kind, gentle person I’d never want to piss off. Speaking from fully in the red-zone of stereotyping, this person looks like someone who could, with a pleasant face, willfully vanish into a spirit realm and make my life miserable or straight up end it. This is not a person I want to piss off or Obi-Wan into becoming more powerful than I could possibly imagine.
Thebfolls referred tonin the article wont gwtt into Australia, we currently use concentration camps for refugees , off shore them onnMarinand forget about them .
You definetly won’t get in as immigrants either.
Sorry to say we’re arseholes and it’s supported by the majoirty of politcans and the majority of voters.
Thebfolls referred tonin the article wont gwtt into Australia
Do you smell toast?
As she waits for a decision in the Ter Apel asylum seekers’ center in the Netherlands, Arc is pessimistic about her chances. She says Dutch government employees have told her they don’t want to “p*** off” the U.S. by branding it an unsafe country.
She expects to be deported, and when that happens, she fears that the Trump administration will find some pretext to imprison her with men.
“I don’t want to be the person that makes the Netherlands decide it’s not safe for trans people [in the U.S.], and change their policy,” she says. “But I suspect that one of us would have to get killed for that to change.
“Which one of us will get to be that person?”
The Netherlands, the country where Anne Frank famously hid from the Nazis. Which they now big up as a tourist attraction and evidence of their resistance to fascism. Now, likely going to bend the knee to fascism by sending modern-day Anne Frank back to the modern-day Nazis.
Fucking pathetic. No backbone, no courage, no morals.
The same, of course, can be said of my country as well.
Money, ignorance, ego, cruelty, hate, and idiocy rule the roost. Europe is not standing up to fascism as it should, but rather, embracing it. Forgetting all the lessons that were learned from the 1930s to 1945.
Netherlanders may have resisted, but their police were very compliant. (top of the wiki page)
Good luck finding a country with cops that wouldn’t turn a minority person over for torture.
The Netherlands elected a far right clown who let the coalition implode because -like a dog chasing a firetruck- he had no idea what to do but he had to come up with an excuse to blame others. Despite that, he’s still wildly popular.
The Netherlands had an anti immigration protest yesterday where shit was set on fire, so yeah. I don’t think it’s very safe.
But what if you go to an EU country, then go to the US embassy, and renounce US Citizenship? Can you then try asylum? I mean they can’t deport you back to the US if you have no citizenship, right?
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No. It doesnt work that way. Firstly to renounce US citizenship costs money (several thousand) and takes an onerous amount of paperwork including proof of tax returns. Then it takes the appropriate bureaucracies months to process the paperwork
Edit I forgot the secondly.
Secondly the US under current laws wont allow you to renounce until you prove you have a second citizenship
Seek asylum where? Canada? They’re also slowly becoming more right wing and cracking down on immigration iirc. Which is unfortunate, since I might be forced to become a criminal to support my sister’s right to exist
since I might be forced to become a criminal to support my sister’s right to exist
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