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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 25 points 18 hours ago

It's almost like the "You're just panicking, Transpeople aren't really being erased." crowd were full of fucking shit.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

My only question starting today is " when are we going to do a massive protest? "

I'm not saying 3 fat people walking around with copier paper sized art work. I'm talking, millions and millions of people Carrying helicopter readable banners and crates of water bottles to every single downtown.

When is this fuckening? I want to be there. I want it to be a general strike where everything stops. No planes, no cars, no trains. We walk (after a normal commute maybe) and we stay until orange fuck boy gets the boot so hard that he goes flying past the helicopter and into the sunset with pretty boy Vance in his mouth and Elno in his ass.

When????

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Random people online call for general strikes all the time but there's no coordination or planning so nothing comes from them. However, there is one with real potential in the works being coordinated by an established union, United Auto Workers, with support from unions in several other industries. The date will be May 1, 2028, when many unions contracts with no-strike clauses have been coordinated to expire at once, and they are taking time to prepare, organize, and spread the word.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 12 points 18 hours ago

When people remember that Transpeople are neither their enemies nor where this ends.

[–] Yppm@lemy.lol 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Google 50501

50 states, 50 protests, 1 day.

Feb 5th at your state capitol.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I searched "50501 protest" and got a lot of facebbok, instagram, and forum links. I can't really find a single site listing all official information.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Now we're talking!

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know, what about next sunday ?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Fine. I'm Here near Seattle on the north side. Its bitter cold and dry. It's supposed to snow. But if I hear even 3 fat people going downtown, I'm joining! I'm fucking fat too.

[–] TheoWasHere@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Any trans people reading this comment, who are around 18- 25 years old. Germany and some other countries offer a social year, where you work over here for a year. You get to live here, have healthcare etc. Only cache is that you gotta work in a social sector job. Sometimes people can manage to make it two years. So if you are looking for a temporary way out, check it out. There is nothing you can lose by trying to do that year.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Edit: For anyone checking this out, it's called FSJ, or Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr. Some info here: https://bak-fsj.de/ (German) https://en.life-in-germany.de/voluntary-year-in-germany/ (some general information)

Sincerely, correct me if I'm wrong, but reading through info on this it looks like you're not cleared to do paid employment on the necessary visa for this. If someone opts for this (it does look like a cool program, and I have some people in mind where it'd be an excellent fit if they can swing it), you're going to need funds for self-support in advance (similar to other programs like this - WOOFing etc.)

If you have the means to do this, definitely looks worth exploring though. Obviously gonna have to learn German (what I'm seeing suggests at a B1 level, though noting some roles may accept a lower level of fluency).

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 17 hours ago

Fuck anything less than LGBTQIA+. Throw those nazis under some cybertruck abomination.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I'm sorry... this just reeks of "weird, salty old person" to me, like a great grandpa on an incoherent rant from some other time.

I was born in the 90s, just learned that "LGB" used to be a thing, and now can only picture some really racist, old relative of mine using it. Like, can we please not go back to the 1950s, when Trump was raised?

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

LGB is the most ridiculous thing I've seen.

I'm not THAT young (born in the 90s) and even I've never ever seen LGB as an initialism without the T.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Born in the 70s here. I do remember LGB without the T in the 1990s and early 2000s, you probably were too young to pick up on the term. In any case, trans rights came into the spotlight much later than LGB rights.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

A great leap backwards :(

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This sort of thing is exactly why I say "queer" instead of using initials. Because you can keep adding more initials all day and you're still going to be leaving people out that should be counted and you can take initials away like those people never counted to begin with. And it's very easy for cishet people to ignore any of those letters individually and still act like they're an ally.

"Queer" may have negative roots, but it seems to be generally accepted as an inoffensive term today and, I think, more reflective of sexuality as a spectrum. I wouldn't mind a better word to use without those negative roots, but I just can't think of one.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This does seem rather practical as a catch-all term. LGBTQ+ is much too cumbersome

I've already heard a bunch of queer people around the internet use "queer", so I guess it just needs more adoption

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Queer is so much easier to say and is becoming safer to use without someone assuming you're using it negatively.

[–] franklin@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

For people who are so against transgender folk they sure do like to take advantage of gender affirming care.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Elon's hair plugs and plastic surgery on his face

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Please keep telling me there's no genocide of queer people in America. I hear that on Lemmy regularly these days.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Any gender-affirming care for teenagers have been canceled, so the (non-tracked) suicide rate will already skyrocket. However right now the camps are only for "immigrants" and those who get caught by ICE as collateral damage of their hunt; trans people are in second place though. I assume first they'll come for teenagers as well, ripping them out of their families who'll get accused of child abuse (for trying to protect their trans kids), then the camps for everyone else will be build.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Any gender-affirming care for teenagers have been canceled

Yeah, I doubt this... cis-boys getting their man-boobs removed, and cis-girls getting breast augmentations aren't going to have any trouble.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

You know gender affirming care isn't just surgery, right?

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[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck trump. Fuck musk. Fuck this administration. Fuck Republicans. Fuck conservatives. Fuck anyone who voted for a single republican. And fuck most democrats who haven't done shit for us.

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[–] medsal15@lemmy.blahaj.zone 134 points 1 day ago
[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

I think this was done by elon as reveange from the woke brain virus for killing his son

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 173 points 1 day ago (7 children)

First they came for the Trans people, but I didn't speak up, because I wasn't Trans.

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First they came for the T...

Then the LGB...

Then the T again...

...then the rest of the ATCG

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I fucking warned people that there was going to be a kind of trans genocide. I got told to shut up because "Gaza is a real genocide happening right now"

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 88 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Next up, they're going to erase the remaining letters

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[–] WiseWoodchuck@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Remember article 5 of NATO, an attack on a member is an attack on all members! We must show support for the trans and gender nonbinary communities while we organize with the hope of flipping the legislature in the midterms two years from now.

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

an attack on a member is an attack on all members!

Yes!

organize with the hope of flipping the legislature in the midterms two years from now.

Jfc, no..

What the fuck more will it take for people to understand that you can't vote fascism away???!!!

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemmy is for some reason overcome with peak electoralism brainrot and thinks that instead of being the barest fucking minimum of effort, voting is actually the peak of political praxis. Frankly, it's bizarre.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Since you can't say guillotines, or the law would persecute Lemmy itself. If it happens, it won't be televised, that's for sure.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

There's no law against saying things like, "we should all get together on courthouse squares across the country for collective action next weekend" that would persecute Lemmy. But people are no longer interested in collective action, it seems.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's hard to take action if you're just one MAGA shithead with a gun (or oversized truck) away from either death or life-destroying debt. Even worse, your police force is badly trained and known to be full of shit. Civil disobedience blocking roads or doing similar, peaceful options come with an immediate threat to life and limb. And picking up a gun yourself to potentially defend yourself against the state is whole other caliber of action, you're basically forced into an insurrection.

Without these fears I'm sure there would be more action. I've just witnessed my city of Hamburg, Germany, basically blocking the whole center with up to 80.000 people as a reaction to the so-called "christian democrats" and neolibs working together with the AfD nazis in Berlin (who failed). Because the only thing we have to fear are crazy truck drivers and another nazi regime. Hell, we can even blockade streets without previous permission without the police getting out guns or batons (they will use 'pain compliance holds' though; not everything is perfect).

I really hope that, after this deep dark nightmare you're descending into, you'll get better and go above and beyond with democracy and FAIR economics, learning from your past mistakes and enshrining safeguards into a newly reformed constitution. Like Germany did.

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There will be no more fair voting in the US with Elon controlling the US IT infrastructure

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Republicans control all three branches of government. There is not a chance they will give any of that up voluntarily. And people still think elections will be in any way fair and free.

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 71 points 1 day ago

Reminder that the "LGB Alliance" in the UK literally worked with the Heritage Foundation and described it as "the only possible course of action." It was an op with most of the supporters being straight transphobes trying to sow division. This move has the Heritage Foundation written all over it, they love that tactic, divide and conquer.

[–] galanthus@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Many countries do not recognise the X gender marker"

Yeah, guess which country also doesn't do that?

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