Fuck this. She shouldn’t just be complying. She’s trying to take the high road and that’s not what’s needed. She should be fighting because it’s not just about her but all the trans staffers that exist in the capital. This fucking sucks and makes me worry about whether she’ll even fight for trans peoples rights in the country.

Edit: MTG and Nancy Mace are literally saying her using the woman’s spaces is assault. She should be fighting this not just letting them walk all over her.

Nope, I’m expecting it to be alphabetical by author like all other places that I go to. They’re just a mishmash of authors and I’ll often find the same authors books be in different places in the same section. It sucks.

At the Barnes and Noble by me, the books aren’t in alphabetical order, and it pisses me off. It’s good to have more actual book stores but I wish my local one fucking alphabetized their books.

I’ve been wondering if those videos I’ve been seeing on my subscription page were good or bad. Fucking sucks they’re turning that direction esepcially because they’ve done some amazing reporting on a lot of different things but the stuff that has really stuck with me is their trans reporting and this sounds like they’re taking a 180 and it’s only a matter of time before they put out a video saying something like “Here’s why trans people are dangerous”. Time to unsubscribe.

Infiltrating makes it sound like it’s something that is being done in secret and no one expected as opposed to being the plan from the beginning.

Anyone who said that Project 2025 wasn’t something to be afraid of, that it was simply a boogeyman that they made you be afraid of but is nothing important, should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

This is something that really bothers me. You can’t be liberal on the issues of abortion and climate change and also be supportive of conservative politicians who are completely opposed to those two things being important. You’re basically just a liar.

Edit because of some comments: I agree that some aren’t lying. Most are definitely convinced by the propaganda. But there’s also people who are lying to themselves about it. That last one is what I was talking about. I’m gonna leave the original phrasing though because of the people directly addressing it.

There’s definitely more ways to talk about the threat to Democracy but I still think we should call a fascist a fascist. Its frustrating because there are definitely other aspects to Democracy being under threat in this country and I 100% agree that she should have also talked about those threats. But you should still say Trump is a threat to Democracy because he is. And him being elected might literally mean the end to Democracy in the US.

“This is why we can’t catastrophize at this moment, because catastrophization is white supremacy,” they said. “All the things that White people fear, Black people, Indigenous folks, migrants have been facing for centuries.”

I understand this sentiment. Many in the community in my red state are catastrophizing though and telling us that “well others are already facing that” to make us feel better doesn’t work. And to be honest, it’s also bs. Trans people in those communities aren’t being tracked like the possible worst case scenario. Trans people in those communities aren’t criminalized and being put in camps. Trans people in those communities aren’t being told their meds are now illegal. And all Trans folk are under threat of being beaten up in bathrooms, of being killed for being who we are. Are those communities more likely for those things to happen? Yes. But to say that white trans folk being worried about that and the other worst case scenarios happening too is white supremacy doesn’t really help any Trans person. There’s ways to say we can’t catastrophize without calling it white supremacy.

“Hey, your hate isn’t welcome in our city! Now take it to DC so you can govern the country!”

“What could Trump do to lower grocery prices?”

Apparently either increase oil production which biden has already done and Harris also talked about continuing, or do two other things that Harris promised to do.

So essentially Trump could have done one thing to lower prices. Lose the fucking election.

Ah yes, because we all know someone worth at least 30 million is a “working person.”

People say they care about climate change but don’t vote to help mitigate it. People say they want the rich to pay more in taxes but they don’t vote to implement it. People say they support queer rights but they don’t vote to protect them. People say they support abortion rights but they don’t vote to protect them federally. People say they want social security to have payments increased but they don’t vote for people that want to do that. People say they want to lower medication costs but they don’t vote for people that are actively doing it. People say they want a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants but they don’t vote to provide it. People say they support weed legalization but they don’t vote for someone who wants to do that federally. People say they want lower grocery store prices but they don’t vote for the person who would help break up the megacorporations driving up prices or who is also talking about punishing price gouging. People say they want help with housing costs but don’t vote for the person who wants to put limits on rent increases and punish landlords who have been driving up the prices. People say they want net neutrality but they don’t vote for the person who would defend it. People say they want better broadband but they don’t vote for the person who could actually fight for it.

If People don’t vote for their beliefs or for the person closest to their beliefs who actually has a chance at winning and instead vote based on propaganda and against the very policies they claim to support then things will never get done and all that will happen is economic collapse and fascism.

All people had to do was vote for Harris. Was go out and do their civic duty for living in a society and vote for the person who would at least fight to implement or provide so many of the policies above.

It’s absolutely terrifying. I’m in a red state and every single trans person I know has been devastated and wanting to at least leave the state. My partner and I are intending on moving to a blue state as soon as possible. Can’t really leave the country since no place will likely take us since we are both disabled.

It’s incredibly hard and depressing to realize that the vast majority of people might care about us as trans folk and believe we deserve our rights to exist and be ourselves and even support trans kids, but that enough of those people either were willing to sacrifice our rights for the price of eggs, or stayed home or voted third party for some bs reason that they wanted to “punish the democrats” for. Enough people caring about us doesn’t matter anymore if they don’t vote to protect our rights.

It’s really fucking hard to exist right now.

Absolutely. But didn’t ya hear? Abortion rights are now also identity politics. So running on protecting them isn’t okay and is running on identity politics, but running on restricting them or banning them isn’t running on identity politics as long as you lie about your true goal.

Anyone who didn’t vote for Harris but would have if one reason or another was different and who will soon lose their right to an abortion nationwide, if we have a next time you better fucking vote so shit like what’s about to happen doesn’t happen again/continue to happen.

But I was informed by some Lemmy users that Project 2025 was nothing to worry about and that if we were worried about it we were believing the propaganda that it was a boogeyman. And that Project 2025 was Harris’s plan if she came into office too. And that it had also already been partially implemented under Biden as well. Is it possible that maybe that was wrong? That the Lemmy users saying that were actually the ones spouting the propaganda to not be scared about it? The propaganda that says that it’s just a new iteration of the Mandate for Leadership and nothing to worry about?

No that can’t be true.

I mean. It’s a stupid fucking suggestion so in this one singular case, I don’t see a problem with people making fun of it on CNN

Fair. We really need compulsory voting. No one should not be voting. Obviously it has to come with a bunch of other voting reforms but still.

The 4B movement does have some issues with transphobia from what I’ve heard, so hopefully with more people joining, it’ll make it better.

No no no. You don’t understand. What that means is that aliens are actually hexagonal and they’re just sending a message that they are that shape. For some reason.

Dunno where that picture is from, it makes it look much more like a human construction, here’s a more recent pic. If you want to learn more about this rock wall, here’s a link.

TL;DR It’s sandstone that fractured (something sandstone does all the time) but happened to fracture into a pattern that looks like stacked stones. This apparently happens a lot to rock that is underground and while there were legends of arches and hallways and even “metal tools” there is no actual evidence to say those existed and the “metal tools” where simply iron deposit in the earth which happens all the time.