Trans people existing is subversive because it is an extremely high expression of freedom and challenges fundamental concepts about our world. If someone can change their gender, what else can we change? Capitalism? Politicians?
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Nah. They're just a boogeyman conservatives use to scare WASPs. If it wasn't them it'd be some other group
It's also an excuse to go after the lgbt community and other subjagated groups
Hard disagree. The Nazis did it too and they already had their boogeypeople. Its about control.
Sounds like trans people are an indicator species.
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i am anti american (i see the us system and current us gov as very bad)
i am radically pro transgender (i think people should have the freedom to disobey religion and control their body, and am willing to fight hard)
i am transgender (recognize in myself that i am not what people forced me to be)
anarchism is among the ideologies i mostly agree with (alongside socialism and communism)
i am a terrorist >:3
fight me, pigs
Right there with ya comrade
well then
fight us, pigs
I'm pro-America, but anti-American establishment, anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist, and...well fuck, I might as well be anti-American at this point by their definition.
Be gay do crimes.
Do gay be crimes, apparently
i like doing gays :3
and if im a crime, might as well commit some more crimes as i have no hope of not being targeted either way
Go to the general and save some time!
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anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.
Yup, that's Lemmy, all right!
Counterterrorism used to mean stopping crazies from blowing shit up or killing innocent people in the United States. Now it means targeting minorities. Which gives actual terrorists free reign to attack on US soil.
Even if Trump is a Russian agent he couldn't do more damage than he's already doing.
It never really did. It always meant crushing any opposition.
It's literally always been about targeting minorities...
Jesus that man looks like he was invited to NO parties and he is going to attack the people he thinks are responsible for that.
He also committed firearm charges and needs to go to prison.
It's like Nazism and McCarthyism fucked and had a creepy, evil, disgusting baby.
That's what incest tends to produce.
Or you know, just Nazism. Trans people were some of the first victims in the Holocaust.
Berlin of the 20s was probably the most liberal place for queer people in the west. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and wrote the first paper on trans identities, gave people counseling, hormones and recommended surgeons.
He was able to decriminalise homosexuality and have trans people allowed to present "sex non-conforming" in public if they had a slip from him.
The Nazis used this for culture wars and promise a return to the golden time of tradition and morality.
His institute was raided in the first book burning, thousand of scientific papers are lost forever, his patients hunted down. He managed to flee to France.
It's important to treat his persona critically though, because as a scientist of his time, he also adopted some problematic stances on eugenics and racial teachings. On the other hand, he was also one of the few that criticised the rigor of the science behind those teachings from time to time.
I think i love you
"Terrorizing people now counter-terrorism."
On our way to a more, well, final solution.
THANK YOU. That is where this shit ends if you don't fucking stop it
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