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Vance's boss sincerely thought (probably still thinks) that scientists were doing gender affirming surgery on MICE! and millions of yahoos who refuse to be educated about transness believe him! They'll believe anything that makes transgender people look stupid!
They don't merely want to strip gender affirming care, they want to stop transgender people getting medical treatment for anything.
They want transgender people dead.
THAT'S GENOCIDE
Correct.
The people demand DOJ investigate the child rapist sitting in the oval office and every last one of its co-conspirators and protectors... oh wait.
Will they just fuck off and leave us alone already.
It’s like…
No one fucking cares what you have to say about other people’s lives and how they live them.
Mind you god damn business.
Unfortunately, some people care. Bigots and transphobes care. Those are the people they are courting.
They've failed at everything they said they would do. They've broken every promise about the things most of their supporters cared about. The economy is shit, prices are high, they started a pointless war and fucked that up.
The only things they have succeeded with are hurting the people that their most racist, transphobic, homophobic, and nationalist-Christian supporters hate. It's the only thing they don't have to lie about doing. Of course they are going to push harder.
I demand they search JD Vance’s couch with UV-spectrum light.
I demand Trump and Vance be led out of the Whitehouse in handcuffs
I have heard he has moved on to end tables. It might just be a rumor though.
This administration is chock full of monsters that want to prey on children.
Careful Shady Vance, next it'll be interracial couples, unless that's your goal.
Pretty sure that Kirk woman is already his side piece… well if you disregard the couches. So he’s good…
“healthcare” and “privacy” are imaginary words to these fascists huh?
We don't have privacy in Healthcare since Roe was overturned. Because while abortion was the vehicle for it, the verdict was that you had privacy in medical decisions. After dobs, notice how they then came after gender affirming care?
yep. that was their plan all along. :(
I swear; losing to Obama and losing their war on Teh Gheyz over the gay marriage thing broke their fucking brains.
Always punching down, though. This is the conservative agenda.
All that is happening and this shit is what they focus on.
Lets just ban Viagra - as it affirms your 'masculinity'
Oh, fuck you, vance!
To discover….what? That they are doing exactly what nobody is surprised about?
Yes. That’s…a wise use of taxpayer money this election cycle. By all means, continue.
tbh I forgot he existed recently
Yeah, well, fuck JD Vance. So there.
But seriously.
As long as you mean fuck JD Vance and not fuck JD Vance. Just saying you might want to couch your statement.
couch
Oh no
lol, I have to restrain myself from making that joke a lot, so I'm glad to see it being made <3
Why restrain yourself?
Because I make a lot of silly jokes and I pay attention to voting - didn't care about score but downvotes generally indicate the community didn't like something.
As long as they are paying until they are broke for healthcare like everyone else can't we leave them alone?
Part of me wants to let the fascists do whatever the fuck because whatever they want to do is clearly a waste of time and resources persecuting a tiny minority of population that have little consequences in the lives of the fascists to begin with. Wasting time and resources means they will eventually and quickly run out of those and therefore lose power. They run on emotions rather than with reason. But on the one hand, a lot of innocent will get hurt in the process.
You really think the trans-hate is only going to affect people who are trans?
Any man or woman who aren’t sufficiently cookie-cutter cisgendered are going to be affected. Including people who simply work in fields that are typically gendered and not their gender. Women who are doctors or scientists, men who are nurses or stay-at-home.
People who just don’t look masculine or feminine enough. Women who don’t dress like couch cushions to let Vance creep out on them.
Pretty much anyone who doesn’t present themselves as they want are going to be “trans”.
And that’s ignoring creepy ass men checking a child’s genitals.
And of course, trans people are worth protecting, same as any other person.
You really think the trans-hate is only going to affect people who are trans?
Yeah, that's why I said let the fascists fo whatever the fuck they want. That's what the Nazis did-- hurt everyone but in the process actually led to their own demise. Maybe I am anchoring myself too much to the analysis of Hanna Arendt but reading her book on the banality of evil, the Nazis are actually inefficient. They either dismissed or killed so many people, many of whom have talents that could have been utilised otherwise. Not utilising talent is a waste and that led to Nazis own downfall.
Moreover, fascism is all about emotions (hence the rejection of reason and the anti-expertism). They have a latent angst that want to let out. We tell people to "get it out the system" so similarly we'll let the fascists get it out their system. People could die sure, but we have to make sure more fascists die than the anti-fascists. It sounds grim and cynical but the Pandora's box is open and it's naive to think that there won't a potential armed conflict. This is what the American founding fathers have put contingencies for with the second amendment.
That’s what the Nazis did-- hurt everyone but in the process actually led to their own demise. Maybe I am anchoring myself too much to the analysis of Hanna Arendt but reading her book on the banality of evil,
The fuck you smoking?
The Nazis weren't stopped until the allies stopped them. Until that happened the genocidal campaign kept accelerating. Most of the German citizens either didn't know, pretended they didn't know or were actively part of it. Some were part of the resistance.
Guess what? that's HAPPENING NOW. you're living in Nazis America, and you're being like "yeah, well, uh. Just let them keep on keeping on. What's a little fucking genocide.
This kind of accelerationist thinking is exactly how we got here; and I wouldn't exactly be looking at Hannah Arrendt for wisdom here- she was a Zionist who helped enable the modern era of Israeli genocide of Palestinians by assisting jews flooding British Palestinian mandate (when it was going to be turned over to an Arab/Jewish state... subsequently resulting in the '47-48 war in Mandatory Palestine and subsequent 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
yeah, she subsequently distanced herself from that official Zionism- weakly advocating for a secular Arab/Israeli state (like what was supposed to be), but you can see the stupidity of thinking fascists will just stop in her own history.
The question isn't whether or not fascism is a stable political philosophy- it's not. it will inevitably collapse. The question is how much pure, unadulterated evil are you willing to accept before you start making it collapse?
The Nazis weren't stopped until the allies stopped them.
Yeah, why do you think I advocated for an armed resistance? Because if it has to come to violence-- and I say, if--then I am unapologetically accelerationist with respect to this. It's in human nature to "get out it of your system". You can't vote away fascism and they are not going away that easily (it will take a miracle for that to happen). Fascism did not come from a vaccum, it came from the pent up anger and that Pandora's box has been opened.
Arendt's view of Zionism doesn't matter to this, it's her research and observation on the undertaking of the Holocaust that would make someone think "yeah, the Nazis wasted so much resources killing people who could have otherwise helped them if the Nazis actually think". Because that's what Nazis are, they don't think. Germany actually was on a brink of another economic collapse but Hitler invaded Poland to use the plunder to stave off that impending collapse. Heck, they did not even have enough resources to actually wage a war and Hitler was shock that the Allies declared war on them. Many Nazi officials after the war admitted that had the French pressed on with their offensive in Saar in 1939, the war could have ended quickly and saved millions. Because Germany actually only had enough resources to last them weeks at the start of the war.
This kind of accelerationist thinking is exactly how we got here
No, it's not. It's precisely the "moderates" love of money and the elitist dismissal of the socioeconomic anxiety of the working class that led to where we are. The American political establishment had one chance to fix the underlying issue that led to Trump in the first place. And yet, the neoliberals did the exact same errors that led to Trump yet again for the second time.
I would say that's definitely not the case, this is pretty textbook as far as fascism is concerned to keep the Party distracted with purity tests. It's also a lot easier at the beginning to obfuscate all of your dastardly plans by saying it's to marginalize demonized outgroup x so people don't ask too many questions about why they're doing obviously unrelated thing y
Obviously the end result of this is more and more infighting and more and more drastic "No True Scotsman" purity tests as more distraction outgroups are deleted by the government leaving larger groups affected over time but it's still in the beginning/mid stages in the US and they still have plenty of time for larger amounts of mass persecution :)
I also want to add that you are very naive if you think at some point the people in charge (or at the very least policy setters) didn't sit around a table and specifically and intentionally pick trans people as a target because they're very easy to demonize to their base and they also occupy a relatively small portion relative to the population size of the US
Like all the people in this post who are like "all the bad things happening in the US and they focus on this"
Yes they focus on this - that's the entire point of doing this to begin with