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"I will end the war in Ukraine. I will stop the chaos in the Middle East, and I will prevent, I promise, World War III."
Oh god he's gonna start World War III.
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My mom (who rarely ever makes any political statements) said this the last time he was elected. I hope she's wrong a second time.
people can barely live due to low wages
"tHeRe wILL oFFicIALy bE tWO gENdeRS!" -🤡
What a fucking joke
And people eat it up. It's sick how many people would rather focus on bringing others down than pull themselves out of despair, let alone anyone else.
The UK doesn't recognise more than two genders either so applying for assylum in the UK if somebody isn't a man or woman won't make any difference to them being recognised.
It is called TERF island for a reason.
Germany does recognise this, however we won't give you guys Asyl, since that would mean that the USA is absolutely fucked and we can't admit that(sadly).
Germany is also moving further right so I am mentally preparing to flee or fight when shit hits the fan
theres literally no federal law allowing a third gender option.
hes just a fucking idiot talking about something that isnt happening for a cult crowd.
I would prefer it if gender was just left out of official documents and policies, and rules would just focus on medical situations. This would leave space for everyone to be who they are while still allowing for specific care for people who menstruate, get pregnant, have a prostate etc.
We don't have separate rules or bathrooms for people who wear glasses or are redheads, but somehow this archaic binary distinction is so ingrained in our society that people feel the need to categorize them in almost every domain of our lives.
I say this as a cis man so if my opinion sounds stupid I am willing to learn. I do have some close trans friends and what I feel is that they just want to be allowed to be themselves. Like, their search and discovery of their identity is of course super important to them, but at the same time they are just people. I discuss them now because of the topic, but in my head they are no different from any other person I know. Just let people be themselves and don't force boxes where they aren't needed.
just focus on medical situations
Well, there is this "transgender lunacy"... bet he wants to "cure" people.
Let's remember some reasons used in the past to cure people:
Also, I looked up that list you posted, as some of the entries seemed very strange to me, even for the time.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/reasons-admission-insane-asylum-1800s/
In general, this document might be more accurately described as "a list of some reasons why people were believed to have eventually developed illnesses that led to their being admitted to the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane" and not a list of "symptoms" or "reasons" why people were admitted to that hospital.
It's an extremely funny list, but shows more that psychoanalysis in that time was pretty stupid, not that people were being put in an asylum for showing these behaviors.
"Psychoanalysis" is a word coined by Freud in 1896, just after the period on that list.
The problem with the fact-check, is that back then, they didn't care much about what was a "symptom" vs a "cause", they called everything an "illness". To be fair, there also was little in the means of therapy; for reference, some "therapies" that were invented afterwards to try to fix that: Incandescent light therapy (1893), Psychoanalysis (1896), Lobotomy (1935), Electroshock (1938). Instead, in the 19th century they used stuff like: moral therapy, hydrotherapy, abstinence, opium... and simply confinement.
"Lunacy" is a very dangerous word when used by a politician towards any group of people.
Lunacy
Awoo.
It really shouldn't be. Yes we've been raised on slasher cinema in which madness justified the bogey man's capacity to kill in grisly or creative ways, but in reality victims of mental illness who are dangerous are extremely rare, and most of us are more likely to get gunned down by law enforcement for failure to understand conflicting orders.
Curiously, the precursor to slashers, the whodunnit presupposed that anyone could kill if motivated enough to do so. In reality about 20% of soldiers make around 80% of the kills, with the remaining troopers unable to do so, even when faced with a mortal threat. In the old days, such soldiers were branded or executed for cowardice. Modern armies move them into the immense supply line that keeps our front lines running.
These days, politicians discrediting lunatics are the same ones that can't tell the difference between trans folk, drag queens and furries, and are simply capitalizing on fear and hatred for social media likes. Whilst unfortunately, they are seizing power from more reasonable candidates, they will just as quickly target the sane when it suits them, based on race, religion, counter-culture or even the inability to keep up with labor requirements while malnourished.
Before NSDAP came for the communists, socialists and trade unionists, they cleaned out the crazies, including the gays and trans folk. Ultimately they would feed everyone to the fire if the Allies didnt overrun Berlin.
True.
Just a correction: the NSDAP first went for internal political oppositors Night of the Long Knives, what in modern US they're calling "RINO" Republican In Name Only... I've already seen literal calls to kill them! (on X)
The new poem might as well go like "First they came for the RINO, but I wasn't even Republican and didn't like them anyway..."
Ah yes, trans people who need to piss, or just go about their lives. That’s who’s really oppressing us. Not the billionaires, not the CEOs, or the genocidal maniacs, not the weapons manufacturers, or corrupt judges, or the prisons, or the police.
It’s all trans people, people with brown skin, people who have been made homeless due to stagnant wages and an extortionate health care system. They’re who we really need to go after.
First they came for the trans folks...
No, they didn't. The fact is that they are coming after trans folk now, but they were definitely not the first on the list, just the latest.
It is clear that enough Americans are OK with the fascist track we are on. Otherwise Trump would have been defeated in a landslide.
Stay safe out there, and keep those you care about safe. This ain't gonna be pretty.
The US population is just struggling too much to care, that's part of the playbook: keep people poor and the rich rich, so that the economy will be the main driver of votes, and of course the sitting party is always to blame for the bad (or perceived bad) economy, so people vote for the other party no matter what. The same thing is brewing in east germany with AfD stemming basically from the same economic problems, and you'd think they know a thing or two about fascism there.
As horrifying as it is, wars are good for the economy because governments are printing money like they're no tomorrow to build weapons and ammunition, it creates tons of jobs. It'll come at the cost of a depression when tomorrow finally comes, but that'll be the next party's problem, and people on average can't see much further than the tip of their nose. Then they'll vote the fascists back in to "fix" the economy again, just in time for the economy to start turning and take credit from the previous administration's policies. People don't want progress because progress involves compromises while they're hurting right now, they don't want to compromise for the right thing.
Nobody would care about trans people, immigrants, green energy, electric cars, etc if the lower middle class was wealthy. People care because of the perception it's taking away things from them in a time of need where they can't afford it. For trans people that's DEI being perceived as favoring against them, for green energy that's going the more expensive route they can't afford/it's cheaper to set their trucks to run coal and not have to put AdBlue in or replace a clogged up DPF. They want regulations gone not because they don't care about the environment, but because they hurting right now financially and it's costing them right now.
it's a reference to a poem about the rise of the nazi party in the 1930s
India federally recognizes more than two genders.
Probably the most progressive destination in terms of gender recognition TBH
More progressive than Nordic countries or Israel?
Please teach me.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/lgbt-rights-by-country
Nordics are all high up on this list and every other comparison of this kind. They are highly progressive countries with strong democratic institutions.
While Israel isn't that high up (still slightly ahead of India though), I mentioned it, because Tel Aviv in particular is widely considered one of the most gay-friendly cities in the world (and certainly centuries ahead of the rest of the region). A gay friend of mine even called it the "gay capital of the world" once - and while that's hardly authoritative, if you search for this term, it'll usually come up. This sparked a bit of a debate among us whether Berlin and Amsterdam were gayer, but we didn't come to a definitive conclusion.
Thank you
Finland has only dropped their sterilization requirement for gender recognition a couple years ago, in 2023 (!)
Buenos Aires is the real gay capital of the world thank you very much :P
Wow, that's late. Was this still enforced in 2023?