Oh man, if she put that arm holding the sign down it would barely extend past her torso. Proportions are not kind.
DrivebyHaiku
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The weird thing is a lot of them believe that Satan can essentially win and knock God off the top spot and take his job.
Isn't that kind of not the point of God?
Actually yes. Nazis had a very anti-intellectualist slant and they used a lot of verbal imagery and bunk beliefs that in period would have seemed kind of like listening to flat earthers or Q-anon conspiracy theories.
Maybe not Trump levels of crass baby diction but close enough.
They made her feel bad when they told her she was being mean?
That's basically it. She just got informed what she had done hurt some people DARVOed into the sun and just kept doubling down.
They all just pulling a Judge Frollo. Singing Hellfire and putting Esmeralda on the pyre are not exclusive.
Transphobic in the sense it implies that trans women or non-gender conforming people are the result something "wrong" with their upbringing. In this case the lack of a Father figure / broken home. Also potentially implies that a male authority figure presence didn't "set them to rights" by supplying adequate threat.
Yeah. Kinda shit.
There is no real "defending ourselves" in that regard. Not in the face of this. No cavalry is coming. Violence will solve nothing for us by way of defense. If we become violent it will be because we have very much given up.
As part of the trans community in Canada it's devastating watching our American kinfolk suffer. Because of the Safe Third Country Agreement American citizens cannot claim refugee status here. I have been writing to every politician I can to try and punch out an exception. The minute I can I am opening up my home to as many folk as I can.
Maybe not? If you do a break down of gun violence stats and adjust for the population difference to account for the smaller number of trans people there are statistically significant fewer gunners. Enough to potentially posit that being trans actively correlates with being less violent as a whole.
The right trying to spin that this is a problem with the left or trans people generally is dangerous. Shooters from the right murdered democratic politicians and made attempts on their own candidates and people. It's not the left. The entire damn country right, left and center is at a flash point because of the policies that are getting enacted by this government and the relief that isn't coming and they are using the rhetoric of a trans person, who was only tangentially involved, for calls to persecute all trans people as terrorists or imprison them in mental institutions. Laws are coming into effect so that a trans person posting a fully clothed picture of themselves online could be considered porn. They are creating a class of "non person" who cannot be seen or heard or walk free simply because they are exercising their freedom to exist as they choose to. Wear clothes that they want and find happiness in their own way.
The Government is censoring media, calling for people's dismissal and vowing direct personal vengeance on private citizens who criticize this influencer. This is what a real collapse of freedom of speech looks like. If you have any claim to care about free speech some trans person with a violent roommate reacting on behalf of their misery in ways they likey didn't even ask for isn't your priority.
I feel validated in an opinion I have had for ages : that in all the talk about 2nd Amendment rights Americans do guns are nothing but a security blanket they clutch to make them feel like Democracy will be saved or be maintained as long as they clutch their emotional support weapon. They will watch rights be stripped from them, their neighbours carted off in wagons and none of them will shoot even if they have the weapon on their person while this is happening. They will protest, they will write and verbalize their dissent and they will appeal to authority and band together democratically but the ownership of the weapons themselves are useless. Realistically if someone from the government comes for them they will likely go quietly because no one is coming to save them. At that point it's basically over. The system is too big to fight.
The real resistance is in numbers not armaments. It doesn't matter what you are wielding if you have solidarity and organization and the bravery to misbehave. Resistance can be in attacking the gears that make things run by not doing your job or doing it poorly. Refusing to comply in a multitude of ways like sending things to the wrong place or making 'mistakes' that cost time and effort to fix. A government can only force compliance so much and at the end of the day runs on good faith. Guns are a distraction to jingle in your face so you stay isolated. Building walls between you and other humans with dreams you will defend your own little fort against the tides of tyranny.
Being an anecdotal case with extenuating circumstances does not invalidate the criticism of an overall societal trend.
You are not being an absentee father. You are actively trying to be a part of your children's lives. This trend does not describe you.
It is best not to borrow offense when it isn't aimed in your direction. It's better overall for your mental health and allows you to understand better other points of veiw without unnecessarily feeling attacked.