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Proposed legislation behind the impending US government shutdown contains provisions that would ban federal funding for transgender adults, as well as youngsters.

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[–] catarina@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck this ridiculous man and his supporters. We should offer asylum in Europe for the people he's basically persecuting and denying basic rights to.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Great that we in Europe also like to piss on the rights of trans people. Just take a look at terf island or Hungary. If I remember right Poland also introduced some shit regulations on trans people, but dont count me on that.

And no I dont want to say, that the situation across Europe is the same as in the USA, but we better be careful, that the same shit doesn't happen here too.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I fear the US is just ahead of the curve. This trend is slowly getting everywhere.

The Bell Riots were apparently a decade or so off.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Gotta love that freedom and small government

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Shut down the government because of 1% of the population. What a loser.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm actually for that, but a different 1%, that's actually hurting everyone.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Let's stop all healthcare for that 1% yeah.

Oh i can think of a couple procedures I'd like them to have access to.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Do it, fash.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well, sure, but remember that Harris was so terribly transphobic many people just plain didn’t vote at all! Which is obviously the Democrats’ fault for running such a terribly transphobic candidate.

And yes, this option that we have here, this - ban transgender federal funds, make trans people terrorists - was the only other choice available. But that still means it’s the Democrats’ fault because otherwise you’d have to blame people who didn’t do the one most important thing they could to prevent this and obviously we can’t blame them.

Look, we’ll call it even and should we somehow make it to the midterms next year we’ll all decide to protest by not voting again. Then the Democrats will really start paying attention to us! Pretty soon after that, bang-zoom! Workers will seize the means of production and . . do something with chains. Ride bikes maybe? Anyway, sounds fun.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

On the one hand I agree, on the other I'm so angry and tired of either hearing that my issues aren't important enough to do something about (the line told to Millennials during pretty much every election - presidential and otherwise - from Bush onward outside of Biden and Obama on things like housing prices and student loan debt/price of college) or that as a transgender person, we need to let the Republicans do a little genocide and removal of our rights and freedoms as a treat or else the "moderate Republicans" won't vote for the Democratic candidate (are the "moderate Republicans" in the room with us right now?). And then we get blamed for the Dems losing one way or another regardless. Either the Millennials didn't vote hard enough, or our demands of things like affordable housing and protection of minorities' rights were "too radical and lost the Dems the moderate vote."

I still voted for Harris because it was either the Dems rein in the fascists to some extent at the federal level or the only safe places being Democrat run states, but the Dems absolutely threw us under the bus as a "worthy sacrifice" to court a mythological voting base that hasn't existed in decades - if it ever did at all - and I can't really blame people for being sick and tired of it.

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[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 13 points 2 days ago (11 children)

With coalition building and solidarity like this, I can't imagine how they lost.

No point in electing dems if they dont fix anything, prosecute crimes against humanity or coups, etc. They haven't shown willingness so far.

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[–] BattleGrown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Kraznov doing civil war stuff again, ignore

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