Abdul expressed frustration that Trump’s focus on divisive issues, rather than economic policies, is making it harder for Black supporters to defend him.
Big "he's not hurting the people he's supposed to hurt" energy.
Also, really hard to feel any sympathy and respond with anything other than
Because we all fucking knew this is what he was going to do. Anyone who supported him and is surprised doesn't necessarily need to be laughed at, but I'm not exactly going to be very sympathetic to them getting the shit we knew was coming. They're just mad that it wasn't chocolate ice cream they opened up for...
Yep. The 13th amendment didn't abolish slavery like we're taught in schools, but made it so you could be legally enslaved as a punishment for committing crimes. They then just happened to make shit like "walking around at night while black" or "being unemployed and black" crimes that they could imprison you for and make you a slave again.
If you're not out yet, it's not necessarily an issue, but masking hurts them a lot mentally after a while. Those who are already out but haven't changed their documents have to go back to masking (assuming they're willing to) to move forward with getting updated documents. And gods forbid you've started the process but it's not completed, because they might straight up take your docs and tell you to fuck off.
I only see an issue with it if you are in-between getting the identification modified as the gears of beaucrarcy grind very slow
Or, you know, you live in a red state that fights tooth and nail to not update that information, all in the hopes that this day would eventually come.
Updating your vital records is a state level item, and the process will vary by state, and that's a requirement to get it changed on your Federal passport. Please don't forget that a large amount of states have been trying to pretend these people don't exist, and now the federal government is trying to help make that a reality. For an example of the difficulties as reported 3 years ago:
States requiring proof of surgery, court order or altered birth certificate to change gender marker on driver’s licenses
Georgia.
Guam (U.S. Territory).
Iowa.
Kentucky.
Louisiana.
Northern Mariana Islands (U.S. Territory).
South Carolina.
Tennessee.
Texas.
States requiring proof of surgery, court order or altered birth certificate to change gender marker on birth certificates
Alabama.
Arizona.
Arkansas.
Georgia.
Guam (U.S. Territory).
Iowa.
Kentucky.
Louisiana.
Missouri.
Nebraska.
New Hampshire.
North Carolina.
North Dakota.
Wisconsin.
States barring residents from amending their gender designation on official documents
Montana.
Oklahoma.
Tennessee.
West Virginia
I'll note again that this was 3 years ago, before the massive wave of anti-trans legislation in the last couple of years.
Thanks to Verizon/TMobile/AT&T being the swiss cheese fort Knox, I'd be surprised if Felon Skum didn't have it.
Companies have played fast and loose with our PII for so long that it's at a point where we need something else to act as that value so it's actually secret. But with this administration, that would end up being a wrist tattoo....
The irony of using one fascist billionaires platform to organize against another fascist billionaire and his platform, but also the government.
Yeah, like the creator of my app for one.
And guess who was one of the conspirator? Big daddy (Prescott) Bush.
Gods, in the span of 20 years we've gone from a president descended from an attempted fascist overthrow to watching the fascist overthrow happen through "legal" means.
You would think the right of all people would know that trying to ban terms will just result in new euphemisms and jargon being created.
The right thinks that if they clamp down hard enough that it will just go away, much like LGBTQ people were forced to mask and hide themselves like they had to back in the day, otherwise they ended up like Matthew Shepard. I don't know that they even consider the euphemism treadmill aspect of things, they just don't want these people to feel like they can be themselves and feel safe.
he supports trump cause he’ll “run the country the country like a business”
THIS MOTHERFUCKER BANKRUPTED A CASINO.
People say they want him to run the country like a business, but that man bankrupted a money printing machine, probably because he was doing all kinds of illegal shit and didn't actually run his business like a business. Why would he run a money printing country any different than his money printing business.
My dumbass uncle feels the same way as yours, and I have to bite my tongue so after to remind him that he and trump have something in common: they both embezzled from their company until it died.
I'm really not surprised, these people didn't seem super honest from the start. I'm just at the point where I call people on bullshit and block when they try to justify accelerationist or cryptofascist shit.
E: LOL mfer is tried to tone police the conversation when you called them out. Good on you for keeping on these people and showing just how unserious and obviously trolling they are.
So far, everything done has been legal. It
Fuck legality.
Slavery? Legal.
The Holocaust? Legal.
Legality is what fascists use to keep the population in line, because if it's legal, what can we do, right?
So, 10 Nazis.
If you're not fighting against it and just going along, you're still a Nazi. Not every German was walking around in Hugo boss uniforms rounding up Jews. Plenty we're just keeping their heads down and trying to to get through the unpleasantness.
Call me in 6 months to let me know how many of those are still on track vs how many suddenly had no money or all their workers stopped showing up.
Yes, you are. It's fine to take them to task, but don't minimize the shit that's going on now with that dismissive and objectively incorrect bullshit. It makes you look ignorant and uninformed about things when you incorrectly say they're the same when they're clearly much worse.
But whatever, I'm sick of arguing with BoTh SiDeS bullshit people. Bye.
i'm no trump apologist
Yes you are. Anytime you say 'both sides are the same', you're just excusing the ways this administration is making things so much worse.
The Democrats suck, but saying they're both the same despite drastic differences in magnitude is carrying water for trump to minimize the changes they're making.
It's to waste water so California is hurting come summertime